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Nation & World
Gamelan rings out at Harvard
The hypnotic, orotund tones of Gamelan, a venerable musical tradition from Indonesia that employs gongs, drums and metallophones, now resonates in University seminar rooms.
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Memorial Church
The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes talks about the Memorial Church, a place for “trouble, sorrow and celebration.”
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Gates receives European Culture of Peace Award
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been awarded the European Science and Culture Award from the City for the Cultures of Peace in Berlin. The award is given in recognition of his fight against the abuse of human rights, racism, and discrimination, and efforts on behalf of the victims of oppression. Gates, the Alphonse…
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Blodgett Pool school seeks novice swimmers, divers
Each fall and spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults. Held at Blodgett Pool, the Saturday morning lessons will commence Sept. 22 and run through Oct. 27 (lessons will be suspended during the week of Oct. 13). For more information, contact Keith Miller at (617) 496-8790, or visit http://www.athletics.harvard.edu/swimschool/.
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Double dose of good green news
Harvard and City of Cambridge officials on Tuesday (June 19) used the penultimate day of spring to celebrate a double dose of sunny news.
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Harvard’s Farmers’ Market set to reopen June 19
Beginning (Tuesday) June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held between the Science Center and Memorial…
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Crimson Summer Academy celebrates first graduating class at Commencement
Harvard students weren’t the only ones commencing in Harvard Yard on Commencement Day (June 7) 2007. It was all smiles and cheers, and a few tears, at the afternoon exercises for the Crimson Summer Academy’s inaugural graduating class. The 30 Crimson Scholars, joined by their families, enjoyed the festivities of Commencement with a graduation ceremony…
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Committee on African Studies awards grants
The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded 13 research grants for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students to travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2007. The undergraduates are juniors who will be doing research for their senior honors theses. The graduate students will be conducting research for their doctoral dissertations.
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Sandra Ullman: Dialogue between the head and the heart
Sandra Ullman was pining for her younger brother and sister as she ambled around an extracurricular activities fair at the beginning of her freshman year at Harvard four years ago.
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‘Extraordinary strides’ made in Allston planning
The University made extraordinary strides this year in planning for physical and academic growth in Allston. In addition to filing an Allston Institutional Master Plan with the city of Boston, outlining its 50-year vision for Harvard in Allston, the University also made significant advancements in the design and public approval processes for the first buildings…
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John Kenneth Galbraith, remembered
People came to Harvard from near and far to pay tribute to a man who was probably the most famous as well as the tallest economist of the second half of the 20th century.
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Digging into Harvard Yard
It looks like the stuff any gardener might find while turning over a new tomato bed: rusty nails, chunks of glass, maybe a sprinkler head or two. But to these Harvard anthropology students, it is a potential gold mine of information.
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Judah M. Folkman, MD
In the early 1970s Folkman refined his theory that tumors have the capability to grow their own blood vessels, thereby obtaining the nourishment they need to keep growing in a body. Folkman never quit thinking about why this happens and how he might use that information to treat cancer patients.
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FDR slept here
The toilet runs, there’s graffiti on the windows and a former resident left behind some belongings in this historic Harvard dormitory.