Campus & Community

Theres no praise sweeter than that from ones colleagues, says Frank Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemsitry Emeritus. After a lifetime of research, Westheimer, 90, has gotten this kind of sweet thrill to add to his many other laurels.

With a brilliant outing from backup quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick 05, the Harvard football team overcame a 12-point deficit to edge Brown, 26-24, this past Saturday (Sept. 28) at Brown Stadium. The win improved the Crimson to 2-0 on the season, while keeping the overall streak alive and well at 11 straight.

Walter H. Annenberg, businessman, statesman, philanthropist, and Harvard benefactor whose donations helped finance undergraduate scholarships and the renovation of Annenberg Hall, died Tuesday (Oct. 1) at his home near Philadelphia from complications due to pneumonia. He was 94.

Academic performance is a key benchmark in our society. Success or failure in this area can profoundly affect future opportunity, how we are perceived by others, and the way we see ourselves. Using 15 years of his own research to identify the unseen pressures affecting the academic performance of particular groups, Claude Steele, the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, will discuss this knotty subject at the Agassiz House Theatre in the Radcliffe Yard on Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.

Thesis fellowship available from CSWR The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) invites students enrolled in any Harvard doctoral program whose research involves the substantive study of religious…

A huge electronic resource of materials on architecture, urbanism, landscape design, and related issues of concern to the Muslim world – and people interested in it – went online Sept. 27 when the presidents of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) came together with His Highness the Aga Khan to launch http://www.ArchNet.org.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a consortium of investigators and health care organizations for a national bioterrorism syndromic surveillance demonstration program, a kind of computer early warning system that initially will sweep, in real time, 20 million patient records in all 50 states for clusters of symptoms associated with bioterror agents.

An old joke asks the question, What do you call a 200-pound black man with a gun? The answer, of course, is Sir, the subtext being that it is only by physical intimidation that blacks can gain respect in the white world.

The first publisher of the signed Declaration of Independence was a woman.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced that more than 700 Harvard students will participate in over 25 creative projects ranging from music and theater to literature and the cultural arts this fall semester. Sponsored in part through funding from the OFA, the grants, which range from $75 to $700, aim to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.

Im pretty fragile as a human being, Mandy Patinkin told a group of undergraduates who had come to hear him speak last Friday (Sept. 27) as part of the Office for the Arts Learning From Performers Series. Its ironic because I often play parts that are rather big – tough, strong. I do that to make believe.

The 50th Anniversary Program for Scholars in Medicine was established in 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to the Medical School, to acknowledge the important contributions of women to the School, and to enhance the quality and diversity of the Faculty of Medicine at all ranks.

Theyre quite a bit uglier than Darwins celebrated Galapagos Islands finches. Uglier than a canary in a coal mine too.

Photo by Ruby Arguilla During the first annual ‘Commute Another Way Fall Fun Fair,’ Holly Bogle, manager of the Commuter Choice Program, demonstrates the new easy-to-use bicycle racks that will…

The disappearance of a prominent Bostonian. Dismembered body parts in the bowels of Harvard Medical College. A trial that pitted a Harvard professor deeply in debt against a grave-digging janitor.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on May 29, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The outer core is liquid, the inner core is solid. That’s the way Earth has been depicted in textbooks for the past 66 years. But the work of Adam Dziewonski,…

Oct. 26, 1912 – The Boston Elevated Railway Co. opens Stadium Station on lower Boylston (now Kennedy) St. for the convenience of Saturday Harvard football crowds. Oct. 7, 1915 –…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

President Lawrence H. Summers offers Mary Yacubian a birthday greeting. Yacubian, who celebrated her 87th birthday on Oct. 1, has worked at Harvard since 1959. The former Massachusetts Hall receptionist now helps with filing for the president and the provost.

Its the largest collection of brains in the world. No, not Harvard University, but a small room at McLean Hospital where row upon row of plain metal shelves with Tupperware containers that hold more than 5,000 brains.

Russian Academy elects Lamberg-Karlovsky C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, the Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences and conferred an honorary doctorate of science on…

The Harvard mens tennis team played host to a crowd of racketeers this past weekend (Sept. 27-29) at the Beren Tennis Center. The three-day Harvard Fall Invitational gave teams from as far away as Alabama, Notre Dame, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (not to mention Ivy neighbors Brown and Princeton), an opportunity to test out their singles lineups and doubles combinations in the early going of the season. Though, even as the schools served up some serious competition, only the results from individual singles and doubles counted toward national and regional rankings.

‘Celebrating Community Spirit,’ the Fourth Annual Benefit Concert for the Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF), was held on Sept. 27 at Sanders Theatre. Kansas City blues singer (left) Paul Broadnax belts one out with Grammy nominee and nine-time Boston Music Award winner Rebecca Parris. Parris, who was the headliner at this fundraiser for the homeless, was accompanied by the 16-piece Kenny Hadley Big Band. CHAF’s first three concerts raised over $300,000 to assist more than 270 homeless and near-homeless families with the start-up costs of renting an apartment.

Charlie Connor was at home one night about a month ago when a call came in from Harvards Operations Center, saying that a racket coming from Coolidge Hall had prompted a neighbor to complain.

Though much of the inequity in world health stems from differences in wealth – both within and between countries – several experts say that health disparities could be reduced through wise government policies even as income disparities persist.

As he conducted a search for a new dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), President Lawrence H. Summers was fond of describing the School as uniquely central to the mission of the University: Although Harvard trains doctors and lawyers and managers, the business of the University is not medicine or law or business. Harvard exists for education.

The John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the third grant cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With generous support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.

A month into the fall term in the houses, the new paint smell has dissipated and shoes, posters, and CDs have found suitable resting places. But for residents of five houses, freshness remains, as new Allston Burr Senior Tutors in Cabot, Currier, Dunster, Kirkland, and Lowell houses acquaint themselves with their new jobs and with the students they serve.

An assistant Secretary General of the UN (on sabbatical), the most recent U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and President Kennedys advisor and speechwriter, are among those who have been chosen for fellowships this fall at the Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics (IOP). In all, six leading professionals have been selected to spend the fall semester at IOP as resident fellows. Two visiting fellows, Susan Hirschmann, recently departed chief-of-staff to U.S. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, and Jim Wallis, co-founder of Sojourners magazine, which focuses on religion, politics, and culture, will lead short-term discussion groups with students.