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They met dinosaurs and tigers, marched in a parade, sailed a boat, and traveled to an island.

Beginning Sunday, Aug. 19, the HOLLIS Portal, a gateway to Harvard libraries electronic resources such as Lexis-Nexis, MEDLINE, OED, and all electronic journals, will institute a University-wide authentication system – the University personal identification number (PIN) service.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has awarded the prestigious Hassenfeld Public Service Fellowship for Rhode Island to Providence resident Caroline Benedict-Drew. The award carries a years tuition and stipend to study at the KSGs internationally acclaimed masters program in public administration.

The English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was a great fan of the United States. A lifelong admirer of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, he once said that he envied the explorers Lewis and Clark and wished that he could see American Indians.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers led a contingent of University faculty and officials to Washington, D.C., July 11 and 12 for a day-and-a-half effort to call attention to the importance of federal funding for basic scientific research.

The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting visionary, action-oriented leaders, is accepting applications for the ELP Fellowship Class of 2002-04. The program provides training and project support to 25 talented individuals each year from nonprofits, business, government, and higher education.

Davíd Carrasco will join the Faculty of Divinity in September as the inaugural Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. Carrasco, who has been professor of the history of religions at Princeton University since 1993, is a world-renowned scholar of Mesoamerican religions with an array of interests in the contemporary and historical…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, was made commander of the National Order of Benin by the president of Benin, Mathieu Kerekou, in a June ceremony in Cotonou. President Kerekou also conferred honorary citizenship upon Gates. These honors recognized his work in editing the Encarta Africana CD-ROM and The…

This September, Kevin Chan 04 will have an interesting answer to the essay question, What did you do on your summer vacation? While working on a summer project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), 18-year-old Chan used one of the centers supercomputers to discover a novel arrangement of atoms that had been missed by…

Nafha – its you! exclaims Ali Bustamante, a Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School senior who is also, this summer, a photography intern at the News Office.

Fun works at HUDS Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), the nation’s oldest collegiate food-service operation, is featured in best-selling author Leslie Yerkes’ latest book, “Fun Works.” In the book and accompanying “Fun Works” video, HUDS is depicted as an example of Yerkes’ “Challenge Your Bias” principle, in which fun and innovation are successfully incorporated into…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for July 16 through Aug. 11. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. July 16: Money was reported stolen from Perkins and Vanderbilt halls. A purse was reported stolen at Chase Hall. July 18: An officer responded…

Burns, served Harvard for 43 years, dies at 79 Robert Burns, retired Harvard parking director, died July 30 in Boston. He was 79. Burns began his career at the University in 1946 working for Professor Howard Aiken on the Mark 1, an IBM sequenced contact calculator. He continued in the Department of Engineering and Applied…

Aug. 11, 1637 – John Harvard formally becomes a “Townsman” of Charlestown. He and his wife are given land on Gravel Lane. The town contains about 150 houses.  August 1819 – After two years of preparatory study in Europe, George Ticknor takes up duties as Harvard’s first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages.…

Fata Nhail reaches up and hooks his fingers around a water pipe near the ceiling of the basement room in Grays Hall, one of those being used for evening classes by the Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment Program (RYSE).

Four from Harvard are included in Time magazine’s select list of America’s Best in science and medicine.