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Each year, the Ashford family supports four exceptional incoming graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) with fellowships.

Boston legend Kip Tiernan, founder of Rosie’s Place and the Boston Food Bank and co-founder of the Poor People’s United Fund, the Boston Women’s Fund, Health Care for the Homeless, and Community Works, has given the first installment of her papers to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America…

For the oil-rich Russian Federation, the future will look a lot like its Soviet past: autocratic, politically repressed, and rapacious for empire.

Emma Dench, a classical historian whose interdisciplinary approach to ancient history has provided new insights into the Roman past and its contemporary relevance, has been appointed professor of history and classics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective Jan. 1.

You never know who you’ll meet in life and what effect certain relationships will have on you – or how they will affect those around you.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Clausens’ memorial service scheduled for Dec. 15 Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died Oct. 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 and had…

The founding director of Harvard’s University-wide ethics center, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, is stepping down at the end of this academic year, after 20 years of leading the institution’s efforts in education and scholarship in ethics.

The annual Día de los Muertos festivities at the Peabody Museum and Geological Lecture Hall were, as usual, full of life. Frightening and amusing puppet theater, music, and Mexican food made for a whirl of sights, sounds, and aromas to please all ages.

Scientists visiting Harvard this month gave an audience of 180 a glimpse into the future of medicine – a world of implantable arteries, “bioartificial” organs, and replacement cells for failing hearts.

The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of Kent M. French as the second Archie C. Epps Fellow to Harvard College.

Kelly Stone, co-founder with her sister, actress Sharon Stone, of the philanthropic agency Planet Hope, visited Harvard last week as a guest of the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard public service organization Phillips Brooks House Association.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents the first solo show of the photographs of the late Michael Rockefeller in the highlands of New Guinea from March to August 1961.

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Kathleen McCartney recently named nine recipients of the School’s new Urban Scholar Fellowship program. By providing tuition and health insurance fees, the fellowship makes attending graduate school a reality for a select group of educators from urban school systems.

St. Lawrence sweeps hockey, men nab first win A balanced St. Lawrence attack lifted the fifth-ranked Saints past No. 6 Harvard, 4-2, in women’s hockey action this past Saturday (Nov.…

Committing 14 penalties for a loss of nearly 100 yards against a team playing their best football of the season is hardly a formula for success. Luckily for the only recently careless Crimson, the team’s defensive corps stuck to the script – shut down the running game – with spectacular results. And for that (along…

College sophomore named top entrepreneur by Business Week Harvard sophomore Allan Sahagun was recently named one of Business Week magazine’s “Best Entrepreneurs Under 25” for his social networking Web site…

Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) will once again present a check for $12,000 to the “Hasty Pudding Theatricals Cultural Endowment Fund” to support Cambridge public schools and their arts programs. Launched four years ago, the fund allows Cambridge public school students to pursue experiences in theater, dance, and the visual arts that would otherwise be closed…

The Harvard University Music Department will present a concert of competition-winning orchestral works by graduate students Ulrlich Kreppein, Hannah Lash, and Bert Van Herck Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. The works will be performed by a 45-piece professional orchestra and conducted by New York-based contemporary music specialist Jeffrey Milarsky.

Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed inaugural director of the new Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

Xiaowei Zhuang, whose creative and daring application of chemistry and physics to key questions in biology has enabled observation of single molecules and the creation of pioneering “molecular movies,” has been appointed professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective Jan. 1, 2007.

The University’s employee drive for charities, Community Gifts Through Harvard, is an open-choice campaign that runs throughout the month of November.

Changes that will impact the 5,400 employees at Harvard who currently purchase monthly MBTA passes are scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1. To learn more: • Visit CommuterChoice at…

Nov. 5, 1948 – The Law School Forum makes radio history, broadcasting the first program on “American Sex Standards.” Held in the auditorium of Cambridge’s Rindge Technical High School (now…

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.

The Harvard Ceramics Studio hosted an exciting day of events Saturday (Nov. 4) featuring a slide lecture and demonstrations from potters, tile painters, and ceramicists from around the world, with an emphasis on Asian, Islamic, and Renaissance influences. Workshops, mariachi bands, and even a poetry reading rounded out the day. Attending were students from the…