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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. Individuals who become fellows at the program are usually experienced activists or scholars with a…

The American Society for Landscape Architects (ASLA) honored faculty and students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) with its highest awards at the society’s annual meeting last month in Minneapolis.

Community violence and poverty are not the only aspects of neighborhoods that predict adolescent crime, according to Harvard University sociologist Patrick Sharkey. In a study released in the latest issue of the American Sociological Review, Sharkey finds that community organization, familial relations, and personal attributes all shape an adolescent’s decision to engage in or refrain…

A cross-faculty effort to understand life’s most basic mystery – how complex chemicals can become the simplest organisms – kicked off Wednesday (Nov. 8) with a symposium at the Gutman Conference Center.

The Leon Levy Foundation has established the Philip J. King Professorship to support an outstanding scholar of the ancient world, Harvard University announced today (Nov. 9). The gift underscores the foundation’s commitment to fostering a cross-cultural academic environment that aims to understand ancient civilizations such as those in the Near East and the Mediterranean basin.

Cancer researcher, geneticist, and social activist Mary-Claire King will deliver the 2006-07 Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

World War II, with its influx of multiracial colonial volunteers and billeted American troops, was the caldron that created Great Britain as a state in which race became an instrument of policy and a tool of cultural division.

The evolution of this year’s Harvard men’s soccer team – from 3-1 losers to Penn in their Ivy opener back in September to recent winners of the Ivy League championship – was hardly a smooth and steady progression. On the contrary, the 2006 Crimson, who downed visiting Columbia 3-1 this past Saturday (Nov. 4) to…

Career fair to have European flair The European Commission is partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) European Club to organize a science and technology space at MIT’s upcoming…

Three Harvard faculty members – a geneticist, an economist, and a stem cell biologist – are on the 2006 “Scientific American 50,” Scientific American magazine’s annual list of science and technology leaders.

Eight additional Harvard affiliates have recently been named Visiting Fulbright Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year. The initial group of Harvard Fulbright Scholars – composed of nine recent Harvard College graduates and 14 current and former students of the University – was announced in the Aug. 24 issue of the Harvard Gazette (available online at…

When Susan Athey was a junior at Duke University in 1990, her adviser suggested she do a thesis on government timber auctions, a subject she agreed to only reluctantly because she thought the topic would be too tedious.

On Nov. 3 at approximately 2:30 a.m., a male undergraduate reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was robbed at the corner of Garden and Sheppard streets. Three unidentified males, one of whom was armed with what appeared to be a handgun, approached the victim. The armed suspect then threw the victim…

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…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Symonds memorial service on Nov. 13 at Agassiz Theatre A memorial service for Alan Symonds, technical director for Harvard College Theatre Programs under the Office for the Arts at Harvard,…

At its fifth meeting of the year on Nov. 8, the Faculty Council discussed general education, and received a report from Dean Theda Skocpol on the activities of the Task…

With the decline in hormone replacement therapy in women, dermatologists like Sandy Tsao are seeing more patients with skin complaints.

Alan J. Stone, the University’s Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs since 2001, announced today (Nov. 8) that he will step down at the end of the 2006-07 academic year.

The Little Lulu papers have found a home at the Schlesinger Library.

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced the appointment of Helen Molesworth as its new curator of contemporary art, effective Feb. 5, 2007. Molesworth becomes the first full curator of contemporary art since HUAM established the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in 1997.

Laurie Glimcher remembers going into her father’s laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as a child, seeing beakers full of liquids being stirred automatically, and wondering not just what was in them, but what her father would learn from them.

Questions surrounding North Korea and its nascent nuclear weapons program took center stage Monday night (Oct. 30) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Just hours before the North Koreans announced they would return to the six-party talks, a panel of defense experts and analysts discussed the range of policy options available to the United…

As political and social repression of blacks raged across the Jim Crow South of the early 1900s, black merchants and entrepreneurs quietly prospered in business, cracking the door to future civil rights.

With the Bay of Bengal in sight, they’re retyping 18th-century letters from the Adams family, which begot two American presidents. And they’re keying in diary entries written almost 400 years ago by John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For both Harvard and the historical society, the joint digitization project is the…

The Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Initiative at Harvard Law School (HLS) is a new partnership between the School’s Human Rights Program and its Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Promoting academic research (as well as engagement in practical measures related to that research) for the purpose of bringing…

Football bounces Big Green, stays alive in title hunt The Harvard football team earned its first shutout since the 2004 season this past Saturday (Oct. 28) with a 28-0 blanking…