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2008

May 1: Barbara Grosz named dean of Radcliffe Institute
April 24: Ghent Altarpiece is window into history of art
April 17: Going for the green at Harvard
April 10: Jeremy R. Knowles, 1935 - 2008
April 3: Partners In Health in Haiti
March 20: Symposium held on ‘Olympic’ architecture
March 13: President testifies for increase in NIH funding
March 6: Hammonds named dean of College
February 28: Reduce, reuse, recycle
February 21: Impact of global warming debated
Februay 14: Security chief cautions against complacency
Februay 7: Harvard adopts coordinated academic calendar

2007

December 13: Brandt appointed dean of GSAS

December 6: Galbreth ’08 named Marshall Scholar

November 29: Responding to Congo’s epidemic of violence

November 15: Beta-carotene use reduces dementia risk in men

November 8: Task force to examine state of arts at Harvard

November 1: Scientists image vivid ‘brainbows’

October 25: Field school brings students to Borneo

October 18: Drew Faust’s inauguration: Ceremony, speeches, videos

October 11: Harvey Mansfield on politics, the humanities, and science

October 4: City board gives approval to Allston Science Complex plans

September 27: Harvard researchers find longevity, restricted diet link

September 20: Nine win NIH’s Pioneer, Innovator Awards

September 13: El-Erian steps down; Taylor wins Shaw Prize

August 23: A cure for Parkinson’s?

July 19: Flier named next HMS dean

June 14: Oceans are back on Mars

June 7: Commencement week: Bill Gates, Bill Clinton

May 31: Gene variants significantly increase risk for breast cancer

May 24: Robert Darnton named Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of University Library

May 17: Barbara J. Grosz named interim dean of Radcliffe

May 10: Five honored as Harvard College Professors

May 3: Security vs. civil rights

April 26: Athey wins John Bates Clark Medal

April 19: Scanning history in Copán, Honduras

April 12: Albert Einstein, Civil Rights activist

April 5: President Clinton to deliver Class Day address

March 22: Bill Gates to speak at Commencement

March 15: Idonesia's bird flu fight runs afoul of reality

March 8: Fergusson and Lee elected senior officers of Board of Overseers for 2007-08

March 1: Medieval Islamic architecture presages 20th century mathematics

February 22: Roast World: Woman of the Year Johansson charms all

February 15: Harvard names Drew G. Faust as its 28th president

February 8: Lene Hau unites light and matter

February 1: Former Arboretum director Ashton wins Japan Prize

2006

December 14: Second Harvard senior wins Marshall
December 7: Lowell House senior is Marshall Scholar
November 30: Seven named Rhodes Scholars; senior wins Mitchell Scholarship
November 16: Sensitivity to pain explained
November 9: Mottahedeh is inaugural Islamic studies director; growth of spinal nerves is improved
November 2: The gulag in retrospect; suicide cells
October 26: Gates named Fletcher University Professor; Altshuler to step down
October 19: Chertoff charts tactics and initiatives in war on terror
October 12: Suggestions on general education offered; Forgetting childhood sexual abuse
October 5: Medical School's Martin to step down; Important signal uncovered in brain development
September 28: Sidney Verba to retire; childhood cancer survivors consider suicide
September 21: MacArthur Foundation honors Harvard faculty members, Radcliffe fellow; Szostak wins Lasker Award
September 14: Harvard College to eliminate early admission; Behnisch Arkitekten submit design ideas
August 24: Women far behind in patent awards; how Darwin's finches got their beaks
July 20: Science committee issues preliminary report; muscle cells grown into working heart cells
June 15: Harvard releases inaugural report from newly created Office for Faculty Development and Diversity
June 8: Special Commencement issue; President Summers retrospective
June 1: John Kenneth Galbraith remembered as giant
May 25: Jeremy R. Knowles named interim dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Harvard proposes to transform Engineering Division into a school
May 18: Kathleen McCartney named HGSE dean
May 11: The Class of 2010 reaps 80 percent yield; Bad times makes for more accurate memories
May 4: John Kenneth Galbraith dies at 97; Rudenstine portrait unveiled
April 27: Light is new HBS dean; Robert Stone dies at 83
April 20: Pulitzers for Elkins and Brooks; Trans fats feed heart attack
April 13: Special Humanities section; Wintering at the South Pole
April 6: College Class of 2010 is the most diverse in Harvard history; Jim Lehrer to speak at Commencement
March 23: Suzuki's passionate plea for change; Statement on Sinopec divestment
March 16: Researchers uncover cause of asthma; First video of gene expression in live cells
March 9: Vitamin D critical to human TB response; Depression is bad for the heart
March 2: Transplanted cells regenerate muscles; Whites more likely to die than blacks soon after a spouse's death
February 23: Summers to step down at end of academic year
February 16: Professorship Challenge Fund set into motion; Three from Harvard receive Gates Cambridge Scholarships
February 9: Applications to College remain near record levels
February 2: Dean Kirby steps down; Jay Butler named Bermuda's Rhodes Scholar

2005

December 15: Harvard receives $20M for Islamic Studies; Narwhal's tooth explained
December 8: Patricia King to join Harvard Corporation
December 1: Philanthropists Eli & Edythe Broad announce $100M gift to Harvard for research at the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute
November 17: HSPH find AIDS drugs work well in Botswana
November 10: Letter from President Summers; Caffeine doesn't raise blood pressure
November 3: Iraq's ambassador to U.N. and Pakistan's ambassador to U.S. each visit Harvard; China seeks presence in space
October 27: Leon Kass on the ethics of stem cell research; HapMap gives first look at 'order of variety' in human genome
October 20: Mohamed A. El-Erian named president and CEO of Harvard Management Company
October 13: Professor Emeritus Thomas Schelling, game theorist, wins Nobel in economics
October 6: Roy J. Glauber wins Nobel Prize in Physics
September 29: KSG faculty examine Katrina response; New cancer detector developed
September 22: Sue Goldie wins MacArthur; Div School marks 50 years of women
September 15: Allston planning advances; Berman to step down
August 25: Adult cells transformed into stem cells; Gates Foundation awards Harvard investigators $26 million
July 21: Hammonds named senior vice provost; Dinosaurs had birdlike pulmonary system
June 16: More sights and stories from Commencement; New way to identify cancers
June 9: Special Commencement issue
June 2: Special section: Allston Interim Report; Dean Venky to step down in 2006
May 26: GSD students win tsunami design award; Exercise shown to promote breast cancer survival
May 19: Task Forces on Women release findings; Kudzu cuts alcohol consumption
May 12: College's yield rises to nearly 80 percent
May 5: Pigeons saved by rump feathers; Kennedy School receives $15 million gift
April 28: Task force makes University science recommendations; Lazy eyes aid artists
April 21: TB susceptibility gene identified
April 14: Human skull found to be 7 million years old; Harvard College Professors named
April 7: John Lithgow to speak at Afternoon Exercises; First U.S.-led Iran dig in decades; Class of 2009 chosen from record 22,796
March 24: Howard Hughes investigators named; Lagemann steps down; Light detected from alien planets
March 17: Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research; Simple test predicts heart attacks
March 10: Summers announces new funds to 'green campus'; Hearing loss tied to heart disease
March 3: Terror online, and how to combat it; Why good doctors do bad things
Februrary 24: Pudding Pot goes to Tim Robbins; New Parkinson's drug
February 17: Cool brown dwarf may give birth to planets; Zeta-Jones catches Pudding Pot
February 10: Harvard community gives $553,132 for tsunami relief; Ernst Mayr dies at 100
February 3: Robbins, Zeta-Jones are Hasty Pudding's Man and Woman of Year

2004

December 16: Harvard and Google join forces to digitize books

December 9: Nan Keohane joins Harvard Corporation

December 2: Weatherheads give $30 million; six named Rhodes Scholars

November 18: Dispatches from Iraq's feminist front

November 11: Barreira, Gharib appointments mark new integrated health approach

November 4: Political freedom squelches terrorist violence

October 28: Overworked interns prone to mistakes; reversing ecocide of Iraqi marshes

October 21: Summers announces groundbreaking Mexican partnership

October 14: Sustainability principles adopted on campus

October 7: Sensor detects single viruses

September 30: Mootha named MacArthur Fellow

September 23: Appetite hormone restores fertility; charter schools get good marks

September 16: Movement gene identified; endowment posts positive return

August 26 Day-care exposure may reduce Hodgkin's disease incidence

July 22 Genocide in Sudan; protein extends life

June 17 Kofi Annan urges multilateralism; brain starts aging at 40

June 10 Tribe, Whitesides named University Professors

June 3 Melton to chair Life Sciences Council; cutting calories cuts breast cancer risk

May 27 What's on our minds at birth

May 20 Special Allston section; Alcock to lead CfA

May 13 One-third of Americans pray for their health

May 6 Armitage rebuts Bush critics at KSG; James Earl Jones feted

April 29 Mucus plays key role in cancer; Stem Cell Institute holds inaugural symposium

April 22 Special stem cell supplement; Ellwood to become dean of Kennedy School

April 15 Downloading music doesn't hurt CD sales

April 8 High-dose drugs prevent heart deaths; women outnumber men in Class of '08

March 25 Drug limits spinal cord damage; neuroscientists get a new nerve center

March 18 Pill to calm traumatic memories tested; hormone ties diet to heart health

March 11 Water makes a splash on Mars; helping devastated Iraqi libraries

March 4 New initiative aimed at economic barriers to college

February 26 HSPH gets $107 million grant; passport out of poverty

February 19 Reporting atrocity; artificial retina comes into view

February 12 Hasty Pudding picks Sandra Bullock and Robert Downey Jr.

February 5 SARS-blocking antibody found

January 29 Residential segregation in metro Boston goes beyond affordability

January 22 Brain scanner lifts depression; monkeys unable to master grammar

January 15 Scientists pursue happiness; vitamin D reduces MS risk

January 8 Scorpion venom blocks bone loss; the veiled humor of Tissa Hami

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