Year: 2005

Art historian Frank Fehrenbach, a prolific and expansive scholar who is one of the worlds leading intellects in the field of Renaissance art, has been named professor of the history of art and architecture in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 1879 – The committee on women’s education (chaired by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz) announces its first course offerings (51) in the following subjects: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish,…

The Kennedy School of Government has presented the 2005 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership to the FedEx-Environmental Defense Future Vehicle Project. The Future Vehicle Project – a public/private collaboration of Environmental Defense, FedEx Express, and the Eaton Corporation –  has introduced a hybrid delivery truck that increases fuel efficiency by over 50 percent and…

At its 15th meeting of the year on May 11, the Faculty Council received a report on the Allston Initiative from Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser, Dean Alan Altshuler of the Graduate School of Design, and David MacGregor, project manager for Cooper, Robertson & Partners.

Nearly 80 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2009 will enter Harvard in September. The current yield is 78.5 percent, slightly above last years 77.6 percent.

They were turning away people at the door as President Lawrence H. Summers and S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, unveiled six portraits as part of the Harvard Foundation Minority Portraiture Project, an initiative to recognize faculty members and administrators of color who have served Harvard with distinction…

After neuroscientist John Dowling presented his last lecture at the Science Center on Tuesday (May 10), he was treated to a surprise party in honor of three decades of exemplary teaching. Provost Steven E. Hyman praised Dowling, who was then presented with a cake decorated with a picture of a brain, the Harvard veritas symbol,…

Since the theaters beginnings in ancient Greece, playwrights have used the stage to explore complex ethical issues and portray disturbing current events. It is a practice that continues into the present day with works like Athol Fugards Master Harold … and the Boys and Tony Kushners Angels in America.

The conference title was Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has named Christl A. Donnelly of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, the recipient of its 2005 Distinguished Alum Award. Donnelly will deliver a lecture June 1 at Harvard.

After clawing their way back for a pair of impressive single-run victories against visiting Dartmouth on Sunday (May 1), the Harvard baseball team didnt fool around much when the four-game series resumed on Monday (May 2) in Hanover, N.H. Actually, the Crimson clamped down just long enough to lock up the first game of Mondays…

Seventy-five trees have just been planted along North Harvard Street in an effort to improve the look and feel around Harvard property in Allston. Located at 175 to 210 North Harvard Street (in the area traditionally referred to as Barrys Corner) and at Brighton Mills Shopping Center, the trees, shrubs, and other landscape improvements are…

While some students were taking a wild ride on the Whirly Bird and others were facing off in gladiatorial bouts, and still others rocked and bopped to the sound of Blanks, they all shared one thing: They were wet. At first, just intermittently wet, then as annual Springfest partied on, pretty darn wet, then in…

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its latest group of fellows at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C., on April 10. Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, was among the group of five fellows.

While waiting to take a tour, 8-year-old Brian Mareau of Salem, N.H., peers out the door of the Harvard Museum of Natural History at the rain coming down.