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...Houses were intended to recapture that lost community, providing hubs around which College life could organize—places to eat and socialize, build teams to vie for the Straus Cup, pursue scholarship with tutors, at lectures, and in libraries...

Author: By Drew G. Faust, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Michael D. Smith | Title: Renewing a Venerable Experiment | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...research on Jack the Ripper, Cornwell used Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, where the new position will be established. She traveled with a team of scientists, including Harvard conservator Anne Driesse, in the fall of 2005 to study papers and inks in England...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

That person will join a team of several experts in the analytical lab of the Straus Center. The new researcher will continue work currently being done at the center, which focuses on the close examination of art materials to determine artistic techniques and conservation methods. This conservation work is key to preserving the museum’s collections, said Daron J. Manoogian, a museum spokesman...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...novelist has also given to other universities, including $1 million to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City to open a “Crime Scene Academy,” which will train students and law enforcement officials in forensics. Established in 1928, the Straus Center is the oldest facility of its kind in the United States, Manoogian said. Past projects at the center have included the study of the sculptural characteristics of Mondrian paintings with ex-radiology, Lie said...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Novelist Funds Scientist Position | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The National Book Awards | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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