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Nation & World
The ripple effect
Public service at Harvard increasingly reaches well beyond its gates, as student and alumni volunteers journey far to do good works.
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Campus & Community
A historic year for Harvard admissions
Harvard admits 2,110 out of more than 30,000 applicants to the Class of 2014, a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. More than 60 percent of the new students will receive need-based scholarships averaging $40,000.
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Campus & Community
Looking ahead
On Junior Parents Weekend, students’ mothers and fathers began to ponder what life might be like after graduation from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Allston-Brighton’s ice capades
Harvard extends temporary public ice rink through March, and opens Bright Center to community. University issues grants to Allston-Brighton neighborhood groups.
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Campus & Community
Bottom line gets a touch of green
In a University-wide race to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases, Harvard Business School shares its strategies for technology and behavior.
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Nation & World
Reforming public education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for critical reforms to the nation’s public education system, during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Campus & Community
$100,000 more for Allston-Brighton
Boston Mayor Menino and Harvard President Faust award $100,000 in second round of Harvard community partnership grants to nine local organizations.
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Campus & Community
A service for Haiti’s sadness
More than 200 attend Harvard memorial service for those killed in and affected by the Haitian earthquake.
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Nation & World
The Haitian partnership
Speakers, including Paul Farmer, discuss how Harvard offshoots can collaborate with Haitians to try to build some stability in the earthquake-battered nation.
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Campus & Community
Art for students’ sake
With an assist from the Graduate School of Design, student art exhibit brightens Mass Hall corridor.
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Campus & Community
Arts Medalist named
Kicking off the Arts First festivities, visual artist, writer, and curator Catherine Lord ’70 will receive the 2010 Harvard Arts Medal.
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Campus & Community
Corporation search committee invites nominations and advice
Members of the Harvard community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing board.
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Campus & Community
Taming the energy beast
Greenhouse gas emissions drop 10 percent as Harvard eyes 2016 goal.
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Nation & World
A bell tolls for bravery
On Veterans Day, Harvard President Drew Faust and Gen. George W. Casey Jr. dedicate a plaque to the University’s Medal of Honor winners.
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Campus & Community
‘Harvard lifts aspirations’
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig spoke before a Harvard Alumni Association audience about institutional ethics and alumna Linda Greenhouse interviewed President Faust about Harvard’s future during a Paine Hall event.
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Campus & Community
Giving the gift of time
Twenty-eight Harvard staffers sorted 9,000 pounds of food at the Greater Boston Food Bank. The volunteer effort kicked off a University-wide commitment to the food bank.
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Health
Breast cancer: Scourge of developing world
Three-day symposium opens, focusing attention on the rise of breast cancer in developing nations, even as resources are scarce to contain it.
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Arts & Culture
Treasures unearthed
Students display results from a semester-long dig in Harvard Yard, including a musket ball, a slate pencil, and a piece of print type with the letter “o.”
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Campus & Community
Administrative Fellowship Program names nine fellows
Continuing the legacy of a flagship leadership development fellowship for high-potential academic administrators of color, nine new fellows have been selected for the 2009-10 class of the Administrative Fellowship Program.
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Campus & Community
Harvard may alter some expansion plans
Harvard president Drew Faust indicated yesterday that there is a strong possibility the design of its much-anticipated $1 billion science complex, at the heart of the university’s expansion into Allston, may be scaled back as Harvard grapples with new financial realities….
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Nation & World
Making a difference
Harvard President Drew Faust shares her thoughts on public service work with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.
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Campus & Community
Faust takes the long view
President Drew Faust addresses the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, discusses tough economic times, recommitment to expansion, and ties with Allston neighborhood.
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Campus & Community
President Faust on ‘Charlie Rose’
Harvard President Drew Faust was interviewed by broadcast journalist Charlie Rose on Oct. 14.
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Nation & World
Faust hosts African students
Harvard President Drew Faust hosts students from African countries to solicit their input and advice in advance of her November trip to South Africa and Botswana.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University spotlights hunger as it kicks off Public Service Week
Harvard President Drew Faust says the University will begin a yearlong commitment to volunteer support of The Greater Boston Food Bank. The announcement comes on the eve of World Hunger Day and as Harvard prepares to launch its Public Service Week, Oct. 19 -25.
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Campus & Community
Faculty and staff to be honored for 25 years of service
On Oct. 15, Harvard will hold the 55th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony in historic Sanders Theatre, honoring faculty and staff from across the University who have served Harvard for 25 years.
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Nation & World
‘Call of Service’
Harvard will begin a week of events and activities relating to service and outreach and involving Schools across the University community. The programs will help to highlight the richness of the public service landscape at Harvard and will introduce students to the many varieties and pathways into service around the University.
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Arts & Culture
Radcliffe redux, at 10
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study launched a yearlong celebration of its first decade with an interdisciplinary symposium, “Crossing Boundaries.”
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Campus & Community
Service of Thanksgiving for Drew Faust
As the clouds cleared, the rain ceased and the sun began to break through, a new day in Harvard history dawned as the University’s first woman president, Drew Faust, was honored at a Service of Thanksgiving at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
University Presidents Panel: Higher Ed after the Crash
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, on a panel with three other university presidents at the First Draft of History conference, noted that the crash has occasioned a moment of stocktaking, in which universities have been reminded the importance of keeping focus on the “the long view.” Universities, unlike corporations, should not be focused on the…