February 11, 1999

Key Gene Found for Female Development
Professor Andrew McMahon and his research group discovered that the gene Wnt-4 helps control normal female sexual development.

Gene Boosts Muscle Strength
Mighty mice raise hopes for a stronger life.

A Heart Doctor With an Extra Big Heart
Bernard Lown, who developed the DC defibrillator, recalls early cardiac cases that led to breakthrough

Sundial Exhibit Finds Time Through the Ages
An exhibition at the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, "The Art and Science of Finding Time," highlights the pursuit of an accurate means to find and measure time with a display of sundials.

Bringing Graduate Students Together Is Goal of Council
The Harvard Graduate Council (HGC) plans to restructure itself this term as well as offer a roster of activities

Faculty Council
Proceedings of the Faculty Council's eleventh meeting of the year.

Hitchhiker's Guide to Success
Psychologist Gilbert explores the workings of our emotional 'immune system'

Hans Küng To Deliver Paul Tillich Lecture
Hans Küng, one-time Vatican adviser whose views questioning the teachings of the Catholic Church led to a Vatican censure in 1979, will deliver the Sunday, Feb. 14, sermon in the Memorial Church and the Paul Tillich Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 16.

Russian-Jewish Life Examined At Conference
At a conference this weekend, scholars from around the world will share information and insights about a community that is changing more rapidly perhaps than at any time in its history -- the Jews of the former Soviet Union.

Nobelist and Economist Wassily Leontif Dies
Wassily W. Leontief, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics Emeritus and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics, died on Feb. 5 at New York University Medical Center.

Women's Hockey Squad Brings Home All the Beans
There was no stopping the red hot Crimson skaters as the Harvard women's hockey team routed Boston College 9-0 in the Beanpot final on Tuesday, Feb 9.

Creating A Curriculum To Help Girls Battle Eating Disorders
Harvard Eating Disorder Center strives to raise awareness of 'weightism' in our culture

Countway: Building the Library of the Future
The Countway's $26 million renovation got under way in March 1998, but library staffers have another objective besides facilitating the work of contractors sprucing up and updating the place. They have to stay in business.

Rendering Nature's Elegance and Beauty on Paper
Learning scientific illustration at Harvard's Museum of Natural History.

Former President Gerald Ford To Be Among IOP Fellows
Institute of Politics to welcome 1999 spring fellows, including a former governor, U.S. senator, and others

A Lecture Series on Scientific Illustration
Starting Feb. 23, members of the Harvard community can learn more about Audubon and other masters of scientific illustration through the Harvard Museum of Natural History's lecture series, The Primrose, Parrots, and Painters: A Visual Review of the History of Natural Science Illustration.

Beetles on Parade
Exhibition to highlight the diversity of beetle species with more than 5,000 individual specimens on display