APRIL 27

A Harvard Medical School professor. Albert M. Galaburda researching brain abnormalities makes nationwide headlines when he requests the brain of suspected murderer-rapist, who had died two weeks earlier of a self inflicted gunshot wound.

Galabruda, who works at Harvard affiliated. Beth Israel Hospital, said he had become interested in the brain because of the "very dramatically abnormal behavior" the criminal had exihibited.

MAY 17

Making another move to enlarge its computer facilities. Harvard announces an agreement with the Digital Electronics Corporation to make three of the company's best selling personal computers available to students and staff at cut-rate prices.

The Rainbow 100, the DECMate II and the Professional 350 all became available for approximately 30 to 40 percent off the standard retail values.

JUNE 28

A team of scientists in Geneva, headed by Professor of Physics Carlo Rubbia, finds evidence of a sixth kind of quark, one of the three most-sought-after discoveries in modern physics.

Quarks are believed to be the basic building blocks of all larger atomic particles. Three of them are bound together to form each proton and neutron in the neuclei of atoms.

JULY 10

Despite a several-month delay, Harvard's first large scale computer network linking several on campus locations became fully operational. The system marked the first step in what administrators described as the University's march towards a larger, more comprehensive computer system to speed on-campus communications.

The several hundred thousand dollar system is similar to but less extensive than, networks at schools such as Brown and MIT.

SEPT. 17

Harvard announces a plan to construct an approximately $1 million high technology greenhouse to accommodate a newly tenured plant ecologist. The greenhouse is also part of the Biology departments larger effort to expand its experimental botany programs.

The department originally conceptualized the plan to help here Professor of Botany Fakhri A. Bazenz and his ten-member lab team away from the University of litigants.