Featured series 
Year: 2008
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Campus & Community
Crimson tune up for Tigers
Even with the Ivy League North Division championship all wrapped up, the Harvard softball team (which clinched the title on April 20) has hardly been taking it easy. Before kicking off a pair of nonbinding doubleheaders at home and away against Dartmouth on Saturday and Sunday (April 26-27), the Ancient Eight-leading Crimson took on another…
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Nation & World
Excellence in teaching is recognized
Allan M. Brandt acknowledged the pedagogical achievements of Harvard’s graduate students, as well as preceptors, lecturers, and undergraduate course assistants at the biannual Teaching Excellence Awards Reception last Thursday (April 24).
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Nation & World
HKS students present ideas to City Hall
On Tuesday (April 29), students from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) met with the mayor of Boston to discuss several projects they hope might help make the city a better place.
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Campus & Community
SEAS tackles Cambridge/ Allston links in design class
Fifteen undergraduates reported on “Bridging the Gap: Connecting Harvard’s Allston and Cambridge Communities.” Their semester-long mission: devising a plan to keep the campus together even as it expands across the Charles River, while finding a way to preserve what they viewed as the essential characteristic of everyday student life — serendipity.
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Health
SEAS initiative supported by up to $20 million in BASF funding
The official opening of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard was celebrated with an inaugural two-day symposium (April 29-30) on biofilms.
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Health
Hormone therapy linked to increased risk of stroke
Postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy appear to have an increased risk of stroke regardless of when they started treatment, according to a report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Health
Recent study: Better to be fit and thin than fit and fat
The risk of heart disease in women associated with being overweight or obese is reduced but not eliminated by higher levels of physical activity, according to a report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Health
Animal interaction behind ‘Cambrian Explosion’?
Harvard Professor of Biology and of Geology Charles Marshall presented his Tuesday (April 29), suggesting that it was an increase in interactions between species, such as predation, that drove an escalating evolutionary process that led to the development of teeth and claws and the wide variety of characteristics that we see among Earth’s animals today.
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Health
HMS Health Care Policy Department marks 20th anniversary
There have been many changes in the health care landscape over the two decades since Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) Department of Health Care Policy was inaugurated, but much work remains to ensure equitable, effective health care for all. That was the message of speakers at the 20th Anniversary Symposium of Harvard Medical School’s Department of…
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Health
Molecular analysis of T. rex protein shows shared avian ancestry
Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs’ closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein — along with that of 21 modern species — confirms that dinosaurs share common ancestry with chickens, ostriches, and to a lesser extent, alligators.
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Nation & World
Mexican energy controversy addressed
Raymundo Riva Palacio, editorial director of El Universal, a leading Mexican newspaper, discussed the details and the political ramifications of Mexico’s energy reform proposal designed to encourage private investment in the oil industry at the Center for Government and International Studies.
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Campus & Community
National Academy of Sciences elects eight Harvard professors
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the election of eight Harvard faculty members among its new field of members.
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Campus & Community
Zipser named Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean for faculty affairs
Nina Zipser, Harvard’s director of institutional research, has been named dean for faculty affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective May 27.
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Health
Paul Farmer: One patient at a time
Paul Farmer remembers his patients and the lessons they’ve taught him, even the hard ones.
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Nation & World
Faux terrorist exercise proves fruitful
At Harvard, the half-day terrorist attack exercise played out in a truncated version for 90 tense minutes Monday evening (April 28) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the chief public venue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Stephen Greenblatt to be honored
Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt will join seven other distinguished artists and writers to be inducted into the 250-member American Academy of Arts and Letters next month.
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Campus & Community
Memorial services for Meyers, Knowles
GRAD STUDENT ISAAC MEYERS MEMORIAL SERVICE SET FOR MAY 7; JEREMY KNOWLES TO BE REMEMBERED AT SERVICE ON MAY 30
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Arts & Culture
From breaking to Brahms: Everything under the sun to shine at Arts First
For the 16th year in a row, Arts First will color the Harvard campus next weekend (May 1-4) with more than 200 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events and performances.
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Arts & Culture
Fourteen awarded fellowships to further artistic development
The Office for the Arts (OfA) at Harvard and the Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2007-08 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship.
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Arts & Culture
Ghent Altarpiece is window into history of art
To Hugo van der Velden, professor of history of art and architecture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Ghent Altarpiece is more than a landmark — it’s also an excellent teaching tool. The painting is the focus of Van der Velden’s History of Art and Architecture course, “Jan van Eyck and the Rise…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
April 23, 1949 — For the eighth consecutive time, the Harvard Varsity Crew wins the Compton Cup Race on the Charles, outrowing teams from Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers. “All of the races were rowed under miserable conditions — wind, rough water, rain, and, in the varsity race, semi-darkness,” notes Athletics Director William J. Bingham ’16.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
AAPT to honor mazur for contributions to teaching
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has named Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Eric Mazur its Robert A. Millikan Medal recipient.
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Campus & Community
Kagan joins American Indian Empowerment Fund
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has been named an advisory board member of the American Indian Empowerment Fund (AIEF).
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Campus & Community
Portrait of a master
Rulan C. Pian (right) watches at Cabot House as S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, and foundation intern Marisol Pineda-Conde unveil Pian’s portrait.
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Campus & Community
Cash Receipts closes May 9, re-opens May 12 at 1033 Mass. Ave.
Next month, the Cash Receipts Office will move to its new home on the mezzanine level at 1033 Massachusetts Ave.
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Campus & Community
HDS names new associates for 2008-09
The Women’s Studies in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School recently announced its selection of five scholars as 2008-09 research associates and visiting faculty.
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Campus & Community
Panels, lectures to mark Asia Center anniversary
The Harvard University Asia Center, which celebrated its official opening in March 1998, will commemorate its 10th anniversary May 1-2.
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Campus & Community
Kleinman named next director of Asia Center
Arthur Kleinman has been appointed the next director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He succeeds Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and the first Victor and William Fung Asia Center Director.