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Come September, Sasha Rush, a Harvard junior, can tell his friends he spent his summer in a Harvard bio lab, breeding bacteria, manipulating them, and working with other undergraduates to create a biological machine that can transmit a signal from one point to another.

Harvard University has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to pay $26.5 million to settle a $120 million civil lawsuit arising out of a project awarded to the former Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID).

Conrad K. Harper has decided to conclude his service on the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.

Nobody believed Judah Folkman when, in the 1960s, he claimed that the growth of cancers could be stopped, even reversed, by blocking the tiny vessels that feed them blood. Over the years, however, he has survived peer rejection of his theory, and gone on to develop drugs that did what he predicted they would do.

Jay O. Light, the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, has agreed to serve as Acting Dean of Harvard Business School starting August 1, President Lawrence H. Summers announced June 30, 2005.

From 42 Native nations, high school students learn the ropes at Harvard

Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Phan Van Khai visited Harvard University today (June 24) to talk about higher education in his country. Khai met privately with Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers this morning and briefly visited the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard. In the afternoon, Khai participated in a panel presentation…

Evelynn Hammonds, professor of the history of science and of African and African American Studies, has been named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (July 20).

Four Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty will serve in leadership roles within the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), a consortium of universities and academic medical centers established today (July 14) by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD). The center’s goal will be to solve major problems in HIV vaccine development and…

HMNH seeks ‘gallery guides’ The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) seeks volunteers who wish to share their enthusiasm for natural history with museum visitors of all ages. The museum seeks “gallery guides” who are able to commit one morning or afternoon per weekend. For information, call Dominique Rampton at (617) 384-7180 or e-mail drampton@oeb.harvard.edu.

Postdoc named Runyon Fellow The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named Yifeng Zhang, postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology, one of its 10 postdoctoral fellowship recipients at its May scientific advisory committee review. According to the foundation, these fellowships are awarded to “outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research that is relevant to…

The Women’s Health Study (WHS) – the largest randomized clinical trial to investigate the impact of aspirin and vitamin E on the primary prevention of cardiovascular and cancer risk – has helped shape some of clinical medicine’s basic understanding of disease prevention and women’s health. Now, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), where the…

Corriero nominated for ESPY Harvard’s Nicole Corriero ’05, the ECAC Hockey League and Ivy League Player of the Year, was recently nominated for an ESPY Award by ESPN in the category of Best Female College Athlete. Corriero joined Louisiana State University basketball star Simone Augustus; University of California, Los Angeles, gymnast Kristen Maloney; Notre Dame…

President Lawrence H. Summers throws out the first pitch at Fenway Park on July 15 the Red Sox went on to defeat the New York Yankees that evening, 17-1. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office)

Dean of Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby announced on July 13 that Lisa Martin, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government, has been appointed senior adviser to the dean, with responsibility for advising him, the divisional deans, and the Faculty as a whole on matters related to…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and economists Jeffrey Liebman and Alberto Abadie have been named professors at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

James J. Healy, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), died at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., on June 6 at the age of 88. A member of the Harvard University and HBS faculties for more than four decades, he was a leading authority on labor relations as…

Walking up the ramp of the Carpenter Center, Julie Buck smiles as she sees a poster of a pretty, dark-haired woman in a white, one-piece bathing suit lying on a red leather recliner with a color test strip balanced on her bare thigh.

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) earlier this month announced its acquisition of the Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection, one of the most important groups of Fluxus materials in North America. The acquisition is a partial gift from Barbara Moore, and a partial purchase made through the museums Margaret Fisher Fund.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of Marilyn Dunn as the new executive director of the library and Radcliffe Institute librarian. She will assume her duties on July 18. Currently the college librarian and director of information…

The Memorial Church undergoes top-to-bottom renovations this summer, including new slates for the 73-year-old roof, insulation for the attic, and state-of-the-art heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. The church will reopen for Freshman Sunday, Sept. 11. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)