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Harvard Monthly

An electronic newsletter for Harvard alumni and alumnae
Volume 6, Number 2, February 2004
(© 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Dear Mr. Thomas F. Giordano,

We hope you enjoy this edition of Harvard Monthly, an online newsletter from the Harvard Alumni Association. This newsletter provides current news and information about the University, alumni activities, and Web-based resources.

 

HARVARD@HOME

ARTS FIRST Celebration: An Annual Celebration of Arts at Harvard

From classical Indian dance to the Harvard Pops Orchestra, Arts First, Harvard's annual festival of the arts, presents more than 200 music, theater, dance, and visual arts events. Celebrating student performances in all fields of creative activity, Arts First features performances at venues large and small, indoors and out, including Sanders Theatre and Harvard Yard.

This program presents video vignettes of a cross-section of student performances, insightful interviews with artists and the organizers behind Arts First, and offers historical and documentary footage chronicling this campus-wide celebration of the arts. Also featured is an excerpt from a conversation between actor John Lithgow '67 and international filmmaker Mira Nair '79, recipient of the ninth annual Harvard Arts Medal.

http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/haf.html
IBM

Harvard Alumni Can Take Advantage of Savings on IBM Computers

Harvard alumni can save up to 32 percent on select ThinkCentre desktop or wireless ThinkPad notebook computers, thanks to an agreement between Harvard University and IBM. For each purchase of select IBM PCs, the Harvard Alumni Association will also make a contribution in the purchaser's honor to the University Fund for Graduate Student Aid.
Check out www.post.harvard.edu/ibm for full details about this exclusive offer for Harvard alumni.


UNIVERSITY NEWS

Alumni College: Living Healthier, Living Longer
The Harvard Alumni Association, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, presents a program highlighting men's and women's health topics, panels on lifestyle, and cancer research.
https://www.aad.harvard.edu/alumni/html/jalumnicollege.html

KSG on Leadership: Four Views from the Balcony
Kennedy School faculty members Ron Heifetz, Barbara Kellerman, Miles Shore, and David Gergen will each take a session of this four-part series on leadership (March 2, 9, 16 & 23; 7:30-8:45 a.m. [eastern standard time]). Through interactive videoconferencing, the faculty member and Cambridge participants will be connected with others meeting in sites at the World Bank (DC), the United Nations Secretariat (NY), McKinsey & Company (London), and Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris). The Harvard community is invited to participate at $75 for the series. For more information and to register, go to:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/alum/videoconference/index.html

No Child Left Behind? The First Year
New research from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard examines the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, as well as its intended and unintended consequences, how the various levels of government work together to implement it, and how it works for low-income and minority students.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/orfield02092004.html

Decision 2004: What Is at Stake at Home and Abroad?
On April 30 & May 1, participants will join Dean Joseph Nye and other distinguished faculty members, journalists, and policymakers for in-depth discussions about the upcoming U.S. elections. Among the list of notable experts speaking are Lamar Alexander, Robert Blackwill, Tom Brokaw, Judy Woodruff, Richard Haas, Charlie Rose, and John Sununu. This conference is a $1,500 value for external constituencies; but it is being offered to the Harvard community at the discounted rate of $380. For more information and to register, go to:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/conference/decision2004/

Close to 20,000 Apply to the College
Nearly 20,000 students have applied for entrance next September to the Class of 2008, the second-largest pool in Harvard's history.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/05-admissions.html

Civil Rights Activists Pass the Torch at Harvard Medical School
Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, delivers the keynote address "2004: A Race Odyssey" at the New Research Center at Harvard Medical School.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.12/03-blackhist.html

Bullock Feted and Roasted by Hasty Hosts
Woman of the Year rises to challenges posed by Pudding
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/01-woy.html

Internet Law 2004
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is pleased to offer the Internet Law Program on May 13-15, 2004. This dynamic, innovative three-day seminar will bring together the leading experts in the field with participants from all over the world to explore today's most pressing Internet issues and foster new ways of thinking about the future of the Internet. Please contact Robyn Mintz at mintz@cyber.law.harvard.edu with any questions.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw

RESEARCH

Electric Eye Under Development
Severely blind people have been able to temporarily see patterns of light with the help of an electric device developed by a Harvard-M.I.T. research team.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/01-retina.html

Possible Mechanism for Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's
For some time, researchers have known that people with diabetes have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia than those without diabetes, but the exact cause of this link has not been known.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/12-diabetes.html

Man's Smartest Friend
Domesticated dogs are more adept at reading human signals than our close relative, the chimpanzee.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/05-dog.html

Reining in Free Radicals
Harvard scientists have found a mechanism that helps cells resist the toxic effects of free radicals, agents to which humans are constantly exposed and which have been strongly implicated in cancer and aging.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.12/01-radical.html

HAA

Classes and Reunions
Return to Harvard Day, Wednesday, April 14, offers alumni/ae of all College classes, and particularly the 2004 reunion classes, their spouses, and high school-aged children the opportunity to visit the College when the academic year is in full swing. The highlight of the day is the chance to join Harvard students in class and meet members of the faculty. A Return to Harvard Day brochure is sent by the Harvard Alumni Association to reunion classes in the greater Boston area.

If you do not receive a copy and would like to participate in this event, write or call Blake Walsh, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, 6th Floor, Cambridge MA 02138, 617-495-2555, fax 617-496-0338, or email: blake_walsh@harvard.edu.

Upcoming Spring Reunions:
Class of 1999 5th Reunion - June 10-13, 2004
Class of 1994 10th Reunion - June 11-13, 2004
Class of 1989 15th Reunion - June 11-13, 2004
Class of 1984 20th Reunion - June 11-13, 2004
Class of 1979 25th Reunion - June 9-13, 2004
Class of 1969 35th Reunion - June 9-13, 2004
Class of 1954 50th Reunion - June 7-10, 2004
Class of 1949 55th Reunion - June 7-10, 2004
Class of 1944 60th Reunion - June 7-10, 2004
Class of 1939 65th Reunion - June 7-10, 2004
Class of 1934 70th Reunion - June 9-10, 2004

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