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Bower memorial service Dec. 3 A memorial service for Nancy Milender Bower ’61, former research assistant to Professor Emeritus James Duesenberry (economics), the Littauer Center, and the Murray Center at…

Nov. 18, 1986 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to establish an honors concentration in Women’s Studies by fall 1987. Nov. 19, 1986 – The city of Cambridge, local…

At its sixth meeting of the year on Nov. 29, the Faculty Council held further discussions on general education and considered a proposal from Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti to change the…

A new map of human genetic diversity provides a powerful tool for understanding how each person is unique

The board of directors of Charlesview Inc., the nonprofit owner of Charlesview Apartments in Allston’s Barry’s Corner, has taken a significant step toward the possible relocation of the Charlesview Apartments by voting to pursue a land swap with Harvard University. Under the proposal, Charlesview would exchange its land at the intersection of Western Avenue and…

Harvard students and a recent graduate won seven of 32 Rhodes Scholarships awarded to Americans for 2007. The scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, worth an average of about $45,000 a year. The 32 winners from the United States will join an international…

Elizabeth Mora, the University’s acting vice president for finance since April 1, has been named Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, interim President Derek Bok announced today (Nov.20).

A sharp Yale football team took advantage of seven costly Crimson penalties and five turnovers (three fumbles and a pair of interceptions) to overwhelm the hosts, 34-13, in the 123rd playing of The Game Saturday afternoon (Nov. 18) at Harvard Stadium. The Bulldog defense limited league-leading rusher Clifton Dawson ’07 to 60 yards and a…

The executive director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Eric Belsky, opened a national summit on rental housing policy Tuesday morning (Nov. 14) with a sobering assessment of America’s rental properties as increasingly unaffordable, rundown, and concentrated in blighted neighborhoods.

Dawson slips past Marinaro in Penn loss In a 22-13 losing effort at Penn, senior running back Clifton Dawson picked up 119 yards on 16 carries to topple the Ivy…

United Ministry at Harvard to sponsor lunchtime talks An umbrella organization of nearly 40 chaplains representing 26 of the world’s religious traditions, the United Ministry at Harvard is committed to…

TED Prize awards Wilson a wish Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, has recently been named a recipient of the TED Prize, which awards $100,000 to the winner…

When Julie Freischlag was in grade school, her grandfather, a coal miner, told her that she was smart enough to become anything she wanted and not to let anyone tell her otherwise.

World-renowned scientist and author Jane Goodall will receive the 2007 Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Goodall will deliver the Peterson Memorial Lecture March 18 at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. A book signing at the museum (26 Oxford St.) will follow the lecture.

Free flu shots are now available to all Harvard ID holders and HUGHP health plan members at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) every Monday and Tuesday through Dec. 19, and at a range of times and days at additional Harvard locations in Cambridge and Boston.

Nairobi’s Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding violence to Kibera’s toxic stew of poverty, AIDS, and despair.

Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…

November 1956 – The Soviet invasion of Hungary prompts Harvard students to form the Committee for Free Hungary. Similar groups also quickly form at Radcliffe, M.I.T., and Yale. The Harvard…

Was Abraham Lincoln, who drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, a racial egalitarian – or a bigot?

Through its visiting fellowships program, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Human Rights Program seeks to give thoughtful individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to step back and conduct a serious inquiry in the human rights field.

The president of the international assembly turns to the delegates gathered before her and appeals for calm. Word has just come in of a tsunami that has struck India. Global support for reconstruction must be mobilized at once.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) senior lecturer Richard Cash, credited with saving millions of lives by promoting the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat cholera and other diarrheal diseases, has been named a joint recipient of the 2006 Prince Mahidol Award for “exemplary contributions in the field of public health.” An HSPH faculty…

On a beautiful Indian summer afternoon this past Saturday (Nov. 11), the sounds of bagpipes echoed across Ohiri Field as the Harvard men’s soccer team warmed up to the score from “Braveheart” before their first-round match in the 2006 NCAA tournament.

From the English country estate of the Duke of Beaufort that bears its name, to the diversion of choice for countless summer barbecues, the sport of badminton enjoys (or is that suffers from?) a wide range of connotations. Here on campus, though, the sport is revered and practiced without much fuss by the Harvard Badminton…

London-based ArtReview magazine recently ranked Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty members Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, David Adjaye, and Rem Koolhaas in its 2006 annual “Power 100” list of the most influential people and organizations in the arts world.