Anton S. Troianovski

Lowell Bells Get Russian Farewell

MOSCOW—Lowell House's new bells got quite a send-off on Tuesday as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated them

For Historian, A New Focus

For two hours early one October morning in a mostly empty Science Center lecture hall, the tall dean of the

Similar Structure, Different Mission—Real-World Philosophy Sets Plan Apart

Now that the General Education task force has lost its faith in religion, the long-anticipated Gen Ed overhaul looks more

For Critical Faculty, New Voice in Search

Six years ago, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sent some advice to the nine people entrusted with

Ink Spilled Over Penn Chief's Photo Faux Pas

Israel’s oldest English-language newspaper put it bluntly: “The president of one of the leading universities in the United States last

Crimson Cuts Columnist for Lifting Material

The Crimson last night retracted an Oct. 16 column published on its editorial page after determining that the writer had

Female Tenure Rate Crashes

Women comprised only 21 percent of the academics who accepted tenure-track offers to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Bok: Core Is Faculty Priority

Welcomed by a standing-room only crowd of professors and a teary dean, Derek C. Bok yesterday presided over his first

Dean Sounds New Warning on FAS Deficit

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences still faces a projected $75 million deficit for Fiscal Year 2010, interim FAS Dean

University Science Plans Face Faculty Criticism

A handful of professors yesterday ripped into a proposal for modernizing science research and instruction at Harvard, betraying a lingering

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This bell, along with 17 others, will be installed in the Lowell House belltower and the Business School's Baker Library in the summer of 2008.

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Lowell House Co-Master Diana L. Eck gives an interview to the Moscow news media. Russia's state television channels covered the ceremony in the evening news.

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Tuesday's ceremony was attended by a crowd of worshippers, news media, and Russian Orthodox clergy.

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Orthodox worshippers strain to catch a glimpse of their spiritual leader, Patriarch Alexy II, as he blesses the new bells that will call Lowell House home beginning next summer.

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Crowds of worshippers watch the consecration of Lowell House's new bells in Moscow on Tuesday. The Danilov Monastery's belltower, the past and future home of the 17 bells that have hung in Lowell since 1930, is in the background.

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Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles will step down from his post and be replaced by David Pilbeam, a senior adviser to the dean of Harvard College, sources said.

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Jessica E. Stern, a Kennedy School lecturer and former National Security Council advisor, has navigated Jordanian prisons and Indonesian alleys to meet terrorists and learn how they think.

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Lincoln Professor of History Drew Gilpin Faust appears as a guest of honor at the unveiling of former University president Neil L. Rudenstine's official portrait on May 2, 2006. Rudenstine was Harvard's 26th president. If approved this weekend, Faust will

Jeremy R. Knowles, the once and future Faculty dean, sits in his Wadsworth House office today.

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