Campus & Community

With barely a week of summer vacation behind them, about 40 Boston Public School teachers and administrators returned to work, rolling up their sleeves June 28 and 29 at the Boston-Harvard Leadership Development Initiative summer institute at the Faculty Club.

Political scientist Louise Richardson, an associate professor of government at Harvard University and the head tutor in the Universitys department of government, has been appointed executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Richardson assumed her new responsibilities on July 2.

Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet &amp Society has announced a new project to create public policies that support digital entrepreneurship. The project, Open Economies, will support developing nations seeking to embrace digital technology and digitally enabled entrepreneurship as a means to economic development.

They stand in mammoth clusters along the streets of nearly every major city they loom like glistening monoliths at the edge of suburban highways they are omnipresent – the huge glass boxes in which the worlds business is transacted.

The NCAA Division I Womens Basketball Committee has selected Indianapolis, Boston, and Cleveland as the sites for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 NCAA Womens Final Fours, respectively.

The crimson Veritas banner flew alongside the black, gold, and red German flag when summer arrived in downtown Dresden this June, as more than 150 U.S. and German scholars celebrated 35 years of the study of Germany and Europe at Harvards Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).

Five students in the Graduate School of Design (GSD) received Fulbright Cultural Exchange Grants. The 2000-01 winners were announced at the GSD Commencement in June. The following list of grant recipients, which includes their nation of study and project title, reflects this years diversity of interests, skills, and backgrounds.

Richard P. Rogers, director of the Film Study Center and senior lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), died Saturday, July 14, in his home in Wainscott, N.Y. The cause of death was metastasized melanoma. Rogers was 57.

Almost a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and inherently unequal, a new study from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard shows that segregation continued to intensify throughout the 1990s. The study, Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation, by Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary Orfield with teaching fellow Nora Gordon, analyzes statistics from the 1998-99 school year, the latest data available from the National Center of Education Statistics Common Core of Education Statistics.

The State of the Nations Housing: 2001, released last month by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies, found that despite the weakening economy, home sales entered the year at near record levels prices and rents continued to climb and residential fixed investment in 2000 was off a mere half percent.

In preparation for Phase 2 of the Widener Library renovation project, scheduled to begin this fall, scaffolding has been erected temporarily in the librarys lobby to aid architects in gathering preliminary information pertaining to the original structure of the building.

Carl Hagen regretted that he had but one life to give for his – butterfly. George Washington regretted that his pheasants didnt last longer, and Mugger, well, Mugger was an enormous saltwater crocodile and if he regretted anything at all, it was probably eating the horse that brought about his doom.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) has announced a $3.6 million dollar grant to LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas to administer a new program – the Leadership Fellowship Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. The five-year grant is designed to train up to 50 fellows through short-term, masters, and doctoral degree programs in key thematic areas critical to the overarching WKKF goal in the region, which is to implement and disseminate models to break the cycle of poverty.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology welcomed the Kush Club Summer Program on Tuesday, July 10. A youth organization established in 1989, the Kush Club is dedicated to studying and promoting public awareness about the history, culture, and artistic achievements of Africa in antiquity.

Last Thursday, on a day as beautiful as any this summer has offered, 14 Boston-area high school science teachers sat in the dark learning about mechanisms of cholesterol homeostasis. Later that day, they watched blood clot.

Harvard Law School (HLS) has received a $500,000 gift to establish the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights. The fund will support teaching and research at HLS in the emerging field of animal rights law. The income generated by the gift will fund periodic courses and seminars at HLS on animal rights taught by visiting scholars having a wide range of views and perspectives. In addition to classroom instruction, the gift will assist visiting and permanent faculty members in conducting research in this growing discipline.

In an effort to encourage fairness in newspaper journalism and honor an exemplary example of fairness in news coverage, the former managers of The Boston Globe have announced the establishment of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will administer the award.

The Kuwait Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) held its first Executive Program in Kuwait on Global Challenges and Security in the Gulf from June 11-13. The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, the sponsor of KSGs Kuwait Program, hosted the three-day seminar. Twenty-nine senior executives from the government, military, and private sectors of Kuwait and the Gulf participated in the program.

Under the artistic direction of Thomas Everett, the Harvard Summer Pops Band will present its annual concert at the Hatch Shell on Saturday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m. Bassoonist Dale Clark will be the guest soloist. The Harvard Summer Pops Band will also perform in Harvard Yard on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 4 p.m.

Since summers lease hath all too short a date, why not make the most of it by catching a performance of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, staged in the open air of Adams House courtyard?

A century after it was given to Harvard by railroad tycoon Edward Harriman, the Tlingit totem pole that formerly stood guard in the Peabody Museums Hall of the North American Indian is returning to its original home on the coast of Alaska.

In July 2, 1641 – President Henry Dunster marries Elizabeth Glover, widow of Cambridge clergyman Jose Glover, who owned the English colonies first printing press. (In 1640, this machine had produced the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published by English colonists in America.) By 1646, the press is installed in the Presidents Lodging. Sometime before Dec. 1654, Dunster gives or sells the press to the College.

Haley Surti 01, died in a bus accident in Peru, on June 12. Haley was a resident of Mather House, a concentrator in biochemistry, a writer/researcher for Lets Go, and a member of the South Asian Association (choreographer and dancer), the Mather House Chamber Music Society (violinist), Kuumba, and the womens lacrosse team. She was also the fundraising director for Project Baby at the Boston Medical Center (2000-01), a teacher in Costa Rica for Worldteach (1999), a tutor at the Bureau of Study Counsel, a volunteer for the Mission Hill Afterschool Program, and the editor of Sanskar, an anthology of South Asian poems and short stories. After graduation, Haley had planned to spend the summer in Peru and Bolivia, and the fall in India.

Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

Photos from the 350th Commencement ceremonies at Harard University

Having ridden his political fortunes from the Holbrook Town Planning Board to the Massachusetts state legislature to Washington, D.C., White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card knows a thing or two about public service. Card shared many of those lessons during an inspirational Class Day address to Kennedy School graduates and their parents on Wednesday, June 6.

At the Radcliffe Associations annual luncheon on Friday, June 8, Madeleine Albright provided the star-power, but she shared the spotlight with womens education, womens advancement, and the new role of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 350th Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Harold Hongju Koh, 20,519 Susan Graham Harrison, 19,406 Paul A. Buttenwieser, 18,099 Bruce M. Alberts, 17,941 Deborah C. Wright, 17,913 and the candidate who received the sixth-highest number of votes, 15,913.

One week he dodged grizzly bears another time it was an attack by raccoons on yet another day he found evidence of wild bobcats inside the Chicago city limits. That all happened to Richard Forman as part of a project to visit the most remote areas in the contiguous United States.

Former Harvard coach Robert L. Scalise has been named Harvard’s Nichols Family Director of Athletics, announced Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at a press conference on Monday, July 16.