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Campus & Community
Flu continues, shots do too
With influenza activity in the Boston area continuing to increase, the Harvard community is reminded that free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS). The flu shots will be given on the third floor of HUHS in Holyoke Center during regular weekly office hours. Similarly,…
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Campus & Community
Center for European Studies names spring fellows
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, culture, and society, has recently announced the arrival of its 2009 spring fellows.
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Campus & Community
Get new Harvard IDs in Holyoke Center
Harvard has a new, high-technology ID card, and those who have not yet picked up their card should do so at the final card swap event, March 2-6, at the Holyoke Information Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass.
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Campus & Community
Business School’s Marshall dies at 86
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Martin V. Marshall, a driving force in the development of the School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM) for entrepreneurs and a marketing and advertising expert whose practice-oriented approach to teaching and course development left a lasting impact on countless Harvard M.B.A. students and business leaders, died on Feb. 16 in…
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Campus & Community
Australia-Harvard Fellowships announced
An acclaimed physics educator, an honored researcher in regenerative biology, and an Alzheimer’s-focused pathologist are among six winners of the 2009 Australia-Harvard Fellowships recently announced by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation (HCAF).
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Campus & Community
Nicholas and Erika Christakis new master, co-master of Pforzheimer
Nicholas and Erika Christakis have been appointed as master and co-master of Pforzheimer House.
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Campus & Community
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards of up to $2,500 for relevant research projects.
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Campus & Community
Carr Center receives gift to support LGBT research
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now offering the Traub-Dicker-HKS Summer Research Fellowship to support research by HKS students interested in human rights issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Ca. February 1963 — In the latest of a long series of skirmishes with Harvard, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci proposes that the Lampoon Castle be converted into a public restroom.
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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 Feb. 23. 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
Allston update letter
Dear Colleagues, Friends and Neighbors: I am writing today to update you on our plans for development in Allston.
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Campus & Community
James Franco well-done at Hasty roast
On the most superstitious day of the year, James Franco got lucky. With his roguish grin and trademark James Dean looks, the actor appeared stunned but happy during his Friday the 13th roast as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year, rubbing his Pudding Pot and declaring, “Now I’ve made it.”
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Campus & Community
Flu shots still available
Free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS). The flu shots will be given on the third floor of HUHS in Holyoke Center during regular weekly office hours. Similarly, faculty and staff may also receive flu shots at satellite HUHS offices at the Longwood Medical…
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Campus & Community
Voluntary early retirement offered
Harvard is offering an early retirement incentive package to staff across the University as one of many steps toward managing the challenges of the economic downturn.
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Arts & Culture
Woodberry curator named Bynner Fellow
Woodberry Poetry Room Curator Christina Davis has been awarded one of two 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. Davis and the other recipient, Mary Szybist, from Portland, Ore., will each receive a $10,000 fellowship, and both will read from their works in a public event at the Library of Congress on Feb.…
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Campus & Community
Elliot Forbes
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 9, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Elliot Forbes, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Forbes is well known for his revision and critical annotations of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven.
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Campus & Community
Flu shots still available
Free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).
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Campus & Community
Kuwait Program research funds now available
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced the spring 2009 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.
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Campus & Community
M-RCBG names spring fellows, scholars
A Korean Trade official, a member of the Northern Ireland civil service, a founder of AllWorld Network, and a British public policy scholar are among the incoming visitors being welcomed this spring at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School’s Ash Institute welcomes Asia Programs fellows
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced 11 new fellows for the spring 2009 term. As representatives from academic, government, and business sectors in Asia, the fellows will pursue independent research at the Ash Institute’s Asia Programs.
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Campus & Community
Gazette conducts first readership survey
In an attempt to gauge how well the Harvard Gazette addresses the needs, tastes, and desires of its readers, the paper is conducting its first-ever readership survey.
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Arts & Culture
Student work lights up Mass Hall corridor
These days Mass Hall’s ground-floor main corridor looks more like a contemporary art gallery than simply a prestigious passageway — and that’s exactly how University President Drew Faust likes it.
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Campus & Community
Cancer Society’s daffodils can drive away winter blues
With months until spring’s anticipated return comes a beacon of yellow hope. Daffodils are an invigorating component in the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) efforts, and Harvard is again a key participant in Daffodil Days, the ACS’s annual flowery fight to help patients and eradicate cancer.
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Health
Kou is shaking up the world of statistics
Harvard statistics professor Samuel Kou, now 34, grew up in Lanzhou, a city in China’s mountainous northwest near the border with Inner Mongolia. The altitude there is higher than Denver’s storied mile, and earthquakes rumble through town several times a year.
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Campus & Community
HAA announces Overseers, Elected Directors candidates
Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) candidates for the 2009 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Feb. 20-March 8, 1901 —French literary critic Gaston Deschamps gives a series of eight Sanders Theatre lectures in French on “Modern French Drama,” sponsored by the Cercle Français (French Club).
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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 Feb. 9. 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
Newsmakers
THREE HMS PROFESSORS ELECTED TO MICROBIOLOGY ACADEMY; STONE ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING; KLEINMAN HONORED BY SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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Campus & Community
In brief
JOINT CENTER ACCEPTING GRAMLICH FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS; ISRAELITE BREAD-MAKING DISCUSSION AT THE SEMITIC MUSEUM; KISSEL GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE
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Arts & Culture
VES film features city on the move
Maxim Pozdorovkin and Joe Bender, graduate students in Harvard’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, respectively, have captured Kazakhstan’s dramatic emergence in a documentary film titled “Capital.”