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2007
- 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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