FEBRUARY 2

Doctors at the Harvard-alliterated Brigham and Women's. Hospital perform the first successful heart transplant operation in New England.

In a three-and-one-half-hour operation a South Hadley. Mass. resident received the heart of a Connection nurse who had died two days earlier in a highway accident. The transplant has been heralded as a key step in paying the way for future transplants with immunostippressant drugs which increase the rate of recovery.

FEBRUARY 10

Doctors at Brigham and Women's hospital perform the second successful heart transplant in New England only eight days after the first one.

The recipient was a 16-year-old resident of Bolton. Mass who had been suffering for seven months from a terminal disease involving deterioration of the heart muscles.

FEB 14

Four Harvard professors, including. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson and professor of Physics David Nelson, were named as recipients of MacArthur Fellow ships, one of the most prestigious academic awards granted in the United States.

Meselson was honored for his ground breaking research in molecular biology and his manipulation of DNA for genetic engineering. Nelson was recognized as a leader in the field of condensed matter and glass, and is dealing with the question of the transition from solid to liquid matter.

FEBRUARY 16

Harvard officials announce a plan to prevent the emergence of a black market in cut-rate computers which were provided to students by the Apple Computer Corporation.

Fearing that students would resell the computers for a profit, the administration, in conjunction with the Apple Company, said that students would be allowed only to lease the computers for the first year, and that students caught reselling the computers would be liable for disciplinary action.

Since then, no black market has emerged, administrators said.

FEBRUARY 26

Harvard announces that it would receive a $1.2 million federal government grant aimed to make the University one of the nation's leading developers of futuristic materials, such as solar cells and metallic glasses.