The Harvard University Gazette: February 2, 2006

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February 2, 2006

Kirby to step down as Dean of FAS
To conclude service at the end of academic year

Two University Professors appointed
Laurel Ulrich and Peter Galison recognized as 'individuals of distinction'

Harvard senior among international Rhodes Scholars
Jay Butler named Bermuda's Rhodes Scholar

Gift from Jordans advances FAS, health research
Repeat donors give $10 million gift to enrich FAS, science

Meditation found to increase brain size
Mental calisthenics bulk up some layers

Computer use deleted as carpal tunnel syndrome cause
More common in assembly line work

Long-term memory controlled by molecular pathway at synapses
In fruit flies, pathway differentiates between remembering for an hour or for a day


Squirts and mites	Seeing the flaws	'Melquiades' premieres

Kirby to step down
William C. Kirby, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Geisinger Professor of History, will step down from the deanship at the end of the academic year. He will return to scholarship and teaching, as well as take on a university-wide role in guiding Harvard's expanding array of academic initiatives focused on China, while serving as director of Harvard's John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. (Staff file photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office.)
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	Nouns and verbs: why birds sing but sings don't bird
	Overseer, HAA Elected Director candidates announced
	Greenblatt named editor of Norton Anthology
	Berry, Gere Hasty's Woman and Man of Year

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February 2, 2006