May 06, 1999
Survey: Older High Schoolers More Likely To
Carry Guns
Male high school students who are older than their classmates are
more likely to carry guns, according to a survey of more than 3,000
male and female teenagers.
Report: Diabetes Is 'Epidemic'
About 200,000 people will die from diabetes this year, more than
double the toll from breast and prostate cancer combined. As many
as 750,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed.
Restructuring Supports Community
Policing
Harvard University this week announced that it is taking the next
steps to implement "community policing" by expanding
on a successful pilot program begun in 1997 aimed at increasing
positive police interaction with the community and enhancing crime
prevention.
Girls Steer Toward Self-Esteem
McCorvey, a master's degree student at the Graduate School
of Education, and Berrouet, a 7th-grader from the Longfellow School
in Cambridge, are part of a unique mentoring program called Project
Athena, involving the Graduate School of Education, the Longfellow
School, and a Wellesley-based private, nonprofit organization called
the Center for Ventures in Girls' Education.
Five Seniors Win Recognition for Work in the Arts
Five seniors have been awarded the 1999 prize for outstanding
accomplishments in the arts by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and
Radcliffe and the Harvard Council on the Arts.
Shleifer Wins Economics Award
Economics Professor Andrei Shleifer has been awarded the John
Bates Clark Medal, one of the most prestigious prizes in economics,
by the American Economic Association.
Craving Clarity
Etienne Benson '99, a concentrator in psychology and
biology, is studying the effect of cocaine addiction on information-
processing. With support from the Harvard College Research Program
(HCRP), he has conducted an experiment that he hopes will help to
clarify the relationship between craving and cognition.
Talk To Examine Roots of European
Domination
Why didn't Mexico's Aztecs or Peru's Incas
expand across the Atlantic and conquer Spain, instead of vice versa?
Why, in case after case, were European colonizers victorious over
local peoples?
Those questions have dogged researchers for centuries, sometimes
leading to racist "genetic superiority" or "master
race" answers.
25 Years of Service Recognized
One hundred twenty-four people will be honored on Tuesday, May
11, for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University.
A Family Racket
It's no great surprise that senior Kunj Majmudar grew up to
become one of the nation's leading college tennis players. Nor is
it surprising that come June he will graduate with an honors degree
in engineering sciences and an impressive 3.5 G.P.A.
Scholars Profit by Association at the Warren
Center
Levine, who teaches history at East Carolina University in
Greenville, N.C., is one of six scholars spending the 1998-99 academic
year at Harvard as resident fellows of the Charles Warren Center for
Studies in American History.
Russian Studies Day Gives Seniors Chance To
Show Research
Last Friday, April 30, the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis
Center for Russian Studies, in conjunction with the Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures, offered graduating seniors a
chance to speak publicly about the research projects they have
worked so hard to complete.
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1999 President and Fellows of Harvard College
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