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...School, which closed temporarily after detecting its first case. At the end of last school year, UHS refrained from testing patients for H1N1 unless they were at risk for complications, but suggested that the Harvard community forgo “the traditional handshakes and embraces that accompany graduation ceremonies?? because of an uptick in the number of students presenting flu-like symptoms. Fall semester brought a significant increase in the number of students with "influenza-like illnesses" and ill students were quarantined in Stillman Infirmary, their own single bedrooms, or other unoccupied dorm rooms. UHS?...
Harvard University Health Services is suggesting that the Harvard community forgo “the traditional handshakes and embraces that accompany graduation ceremonies?? in light of a recent uptick in the number of students presenting flu symptoms. Donna Campbell, a UHS nurse practitioner and infection control surveillance officer, said that while there have been no recently-confirmed H1N1—“swine flu”—cases at Harvard, “you make a presumptive diagnosis based on symptoms.” She said she could not give a precise number...
...least one other of Harvard’s leading men managed to stay dry during the ceremonies??even without divine assistance. Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60, one of the Harvard Corporation members who elected Faust as president, did not appear to be in attendance. The 69-year-old Citigroup chairman has made a habit of missing ceremonies in Cambridge...
...unable to apply for the H-1B visas required to seek employment in the United States because they did not receive the necessary proof of graduation until after the visa quota was filled.Previously, the annual quota had not filled up until long after Harvard’s June Commencement ceremonies??students in the class of 2005 faced a deadline of Aug. 10. But last year, U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency that adjudicates visa petitions, announced that the quota was filled on May 26—the same day finals period ended. That left some...
Despite the program's historically rocky relationship with the Harvard campus, Summers welcomed ROTC with open arms. In his short tenure as president, Summers spoke out in support of the program's role and appeared at its annual commissioning ceremonies??acts that did not go unnoticed by the Pentagon...