Campus & Community

At its 14th meeting of the year the Faculty Council considered a proposed merger of the departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Sanskrit & Indian Studies with Professor Peter Bol (chair, E.A.L.C.) and Professor Leonard van der Kuijp (chair, Sanskrit and Indian Studies).

May 12, 1638 – By order of the Great and General Court, Newetowne is renamed Cambrige (Cambridge).

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

With globalization linking their fates, the developed world cannot afford to leave the developing world behind, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday (April 24), urging support for African efforts to help themselves.

President Lawrence H. Summers and seven Harvard professors are among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced Tuesday (April 30). Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 1,907. With its eight new members, Harvard tied the University of California system for the highest number of electees this year.

Dibner Institute appoints Cavicchi for second year

Youve heard of the Cambridge folk renaissance? Well, Lenny Solomon was there.

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2002 Harvard Medal: Peter A. Brooke 52, M.B.A. 54, Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. 65, Ph.D. 72, John A. Lithgow 67 and Daniel C. Tosteson 46, M.D. 48. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Lawrence H. Summers will present the medals during the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement, Thursday (June 6).

Harvard seniors Erica Levy, Christopher Papagianis, and Marc Wallenstein have been awarded the George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship for 2002. The fellowship, available to graduating seniors who are concentrators (or joint concentrators) in the Departments of Visual and Environmental Studies, Anthropology, English, History and Literature, Literature, or Philosophy, is awarded to students who demonstrate a curiosity about the history and customs of cultures other than their own. The award includes a stipend for a year of travel and study.

Up until the month of showers, success for the Harvard baseball team appeared to be postponed indefinitely. The Crimson notched just three victories in 14 outings during their opening month of play, dropping their first six games of the season. Yet ever since a doubleheader sweep over reigning Ivy champion Princeton in early April, Harvard has continued to pour it on, winning 12 out of their last 22 games, while improving to 15-21 overall (11-5 Ivy).

The events of Sept. 11 have changed the way America responds to disasters, Daniel A. Craig, regional director (Region One) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told a Harvard audience last month. FEMA needs to lead the charge in implementing these changes.

An article by Les Gura of the Hartford Courant about an instructor at Yale University who became the focus of stories that unfairly cast him as a murder suspect, is the inaugural winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of The Boston Globe and the Taylor family, and administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, carries a $10,000 prize.

Harvard Business School (HBS) students Matthew Mugo Fields 02 and Lucas Klein 02 and their business partner Jason Green like to begin their business plan presentations with a question: How does the U.S. Government forecast prison growth?

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., have named François Bovon as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2002-03. Bovon, the Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at the Divinity School, was named a fellow in the category of Bible and the Church, and will write on the topic of The New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies, a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government, has named masters degree candidates Connie Chung and Alastair Smith as its 2002 Emerging Leaders Fellowship recipients. Both Chung, an urban planning candidate at the Graduate School of Design, and Smith, a masters degree candidate in the Public Policy and Urban Planning Program at the Kennedy School of Government, have several years of experience in community development.

Paid family leave is where the rubber of two of Americas most cherished private institutions – the family and business – meets the road of public government.

Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures, will join 24 students in being honored at the annual David Aloian Dinner and Student/Faculty Award Ceremony to be held at the end of the semester in the Quincy House Dining Hall. For the past 20 years, the director of the Harvard Foundation and the dean of Harvard College have presented Harvard Foundation Awards to students who have made significant contributions to intercultural and interracial understanding and harmony at Harvard College.

The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into Harvards scholarly expertise last Friday (April 26) when about 100 government officials attended a seminar in Washington titled Islamic Finance 101.

Two people who have spent much of their lives working to challenge and correct social injustice were recognized this past Tuesday (April 30) at an award ceremony organized by the Kennedy Schools Center for Public Leadership.

Daniel R. Glickman, who has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government by Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Glickman will succeed Sen. David Pryor, who will be leaving the directors post in June after two years at the Kennedy School.

Donna Haraway, the prominent cultural theorist, has shifted her focus from genetic engineering, primatology, and cyborgs to dogs.

Its Saturday morning and 6-year-old Desean Watson is hugging his Big Buddy, Harvard senior Nikhil Dutta.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nations pre-eminent learned society and research institution, announced earlier this week its newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members. Members of this years class – composed of 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary members – were honored for their achievements in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine, from computer science to literary criticism, and from public affairs to the performing arts. Thirteen members of Harvards faculty have been elected to join the 2002 class.

Rodney A. Hawes (MBA 69), reflected in a video monitor, speaks at the dedication of the new Harvard Business School building that bears his name at a ceremony Friday (April 26). Hawes Halls eight classrooms are equipped with advanced technology to facilitate the dynamic interchange between faculty and students in the Schools hallmark case teaching method. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, members of the Hawes family, and architects from the firm Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C. also attended the dedication.

Claire Mallardi, lecturer on dramatic arts and artistic director Emerita, Radcliffe College, has been named the recipient of the 2001-02 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. Administered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, the award carries an honorarium of $10,000.

Gordon Randolph Willey died of heart failure on the morning of April 28, in Cambridge. He was 89.

Add parades, a cappella, and fan dancing to the seven livelies and youve got some small notion of the astonishing array of arts and entertainment that will be offered up to the Harvard Community and friends over the upcoming week known as Arts First. This 10th anniversary of the annual event features concerts, poetry readings, dance recitals, childrens Shakespeare, Christian a cappella, and a musical about a homicidal barber whose victims end up in pies.

Springfest this year bloomed into a bigger, better event that included the entire Harvard College community, thanks to co-sponsorship from President Lawrence H. Summers.