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...campus, like the Science Center and the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Lab. Each month of the competition will focus on a different aspect of energy conservation, such as turning off computers, closing blinds, and lowering thermostats. The contest will end on Earth Day, March 20, and the initiative will bestow its highest honors on the building with the largest percentage decrease in monthly energy consumption. A technical upgrade in an energy conservation feature is the top prize. “We wanted to reengage and recharge the community when it comes to reducing energy consumption,” said Gosia...
...American Society of Landscape Architects yesterday awarded two Graduate School of Design faculty members with Excellence in General Design, the highest award the society bestows. Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh and Design Critic in Landscape Architectire Michael J. Blier each coordinated projects with their design firms to win the two awards of excellence. The recipients were selected from a pool of 500 nominees. Van Valkenburgh and his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, are receiving the award for a seven-year landscaping plan at Wellesley College. The firm is in the midst of redesigning 13.5 acres...
...packed audience crowded Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium yesterday to watch four graduates receive honors at the annual Alumni Achievement Awards Forum. Jay Light, Dean of Harvard Business School, presided. “These Awards are the most important honor the school can bestow upon its graduates,” said HBS Dean Jay O. Light, who presided over the event. “These people personify what this school stands for.” Since 1968, the awards have been presented to alumni who have led outstanding careers while making meaningful contributions to the world...
NICE OF POTUS TO NOTICE President Bush interrupts his Rose Garden press conference to bestow an unexpected compliment, telling NBC's David Gregory (who recently tussled with a microphone cord), "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." Oh, Mr. President, you big flirt...
...system began congratulating everyone on the Twelfth Imam's birthday. The voice launched into an excited sermon, detailing how God concealed the Mahdi -- the last in a line of Shi`ite imams descended from the Prophet Mohammad -- and would only bring him back at the end of time to bestow justice to mankind. Soon you couldn't even hear the phone ring in my apartment. I began text messaging my friends that my party was postponed until next week. Sharing a birthday with the Twelfth Imam, it turns out, is like being born on Christmas. You just can't compete...