Campus & Community

Two untenured members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named this years Roslyn Abramson Award winners for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood and Princeton University President Shirley Caldwell Tilghman are among the speakers who will participate in The Deans Lecture Series, sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The Murray Research Center at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will hold a day of activities in celebration of its 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 28, in Radcliffe Yard. Dedicated to the study of lives over time, the Murray Center promotes the use of social science data to explore human development and social change.

Forget about summer enrichment courses, insiders guides, or college counselors.

The photograph is titled Amis des espagnoles (French for friends of the Spanish). It was taken in 1968 by Malick Sidib&eacute, and there is something oddly familiar about it.

When Saif Shah Mohammed came to Harvard as a freshman three years ago, it was the first time he had been in the United States. A native of Bangladesh who grew up in Kuwait, now a senior concentrating in economics, Shah Mohammed says that living in America has affected him profoundly.

More than 1,500 people packed a Memorial Church remembrance service on Friday, Sept. 14, capping a week in which the University community mourned the victims and struggled to make sense of the tragic crashes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.

September 19, 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community: The shocking events of last week leave all of us with a profound and enduring sense of loss. We grieve together…

The following letter was emailed to the Harvard community today by Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers

Harvard University Health Services (UHS) is providing buses for members of the Harvard community to get to blood donation centers at Brigham and Women’s and Children’s hospitals in the Longwood…

Responding to calls from students of various cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will remain open to provide a place for students to gather and talk about the terrorism tragedy, according to Foundation Director S. Allan Counter Jr.

All Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals are on alert. Childrens and Brigham and Womens hospitals have cancelled elective surgery and in-patient visits to conserve resources, especially blood. These facilities, as well as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are collecting blood. At noon on Wednesday, Susan Craig of Childrens noted that donor lines are stretching out the door.

The reception to welcome the new Nieman Fellows, scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, has been canceled due to the tragic events of Tuesday. No alternative reception is scheduled at this time. Call (617) 495-2346 if you have questions.

As the bell of the Memorial Church called the Harvard community to a vigil in Tercentenary Theatre Tuesday evening, its inscription – “In memory of voices that are hushed” –…

As the horrendous images of devastation at New York’s World Trade Center and destruction at the Pentagon blanketed the airwaves Tuesday, Harvard absorbed the awful news, shook off the shock,…

“It felt like a movie.” Two students from New York City, Madeleine Elfenbein ’04 and Luke Stein ’02, described their dazed reactions to yesterday’s tragedy the same way. Katy Brodsky…

Counseling and support University Health Services (UHS) is providing mental health outreach and support throughout the Harvard community. Groups are being set up throughout the campus. Group Sessions HUHS Holyoke…

Infectious bacteria that have developed resistance to even the most potent antibiotics are making hospital stays increasingly hazardous. Take the drug vancomycin, for example, which used to be a last line of defense against virulent strains of enterococci and staphylococci that can be life-threatening. These bacteria continually develop new ways to beat vancomycin.

Researchers at Harvard-afilliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, and other institutions have pinpointed a region on human Chromosome 4 that is likely to contain a gene or genes associated with extraordinary life expectancy. Their findings, reported in the Aug. 28 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may lead to a better understanding of the aging process.

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).

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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 other scientists studying such clusters. Chan made the unexpected discovery in late June. He used a variation of a well-known mathematical technique to discover that 78 neutral atoms can theoretically settle into the shape of a particular double icosahedron. Icosahedrons – whether clusters of atoms or baseballs glued together – are 20-sided objects.

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 Africana Encyclopedia, and his exploration of African civilization in the BBC program and book Wonders of the African World.

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…

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.