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The color! The glitter! The hot sizzle of skates on ice! Top Olympic and world skaters will continue to fight cancer this fall as they gather once more at America’s…

Edward O. Wilson has learned a great deal about life by studying ant societies. In this knowledge, he finds parallels between the social interactions of insects and those of birds, lions, monkeys, apes, and even humans. The last parallel got him into trouble in the late 1970s, but he now enjoys credit for establishing a…

Harvard and six other universities filed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court last week (Sept. 21), challenging a law that requires universities to provide military recruiters access to campus that is equal in quality and scope to other recruiters.

Hannah Peters has been named the associate dean for external relations at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Dean Alan Altshuler recently announced. The appointment became effective Sept. 9. Peters comes to GSD from the Harvard Business School (HBS), where, since 1999, she has served as a member of the development leadership team working on…

The mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina response was as much a failure of emergency systems as it was of leadership and may have been avoided had a new management system, originally created to fight forest fires, been fully implemented nationally, Kennedy School experts said Friday (Sept. 23).

Meir Stampfer, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Walter Willett, chair of the Schools Department of Nutrition, were recently ranked the No. 1 and No. 2 most-cited scientists, respectively, in clinical medicine for the past decade.

Dr. Philip S. Holzman, a preeminent figure in the world of schizophrenia research and one of the countrys leading schizophrenia researchers, died on June 1, 2004, at the age of 82. Dr. Holzman is survived by Ann Holzman, his wife of 58 years his children Natalie Bernardoni, Carl Holzman and Paul Holzman his son-in-law Gene…

Divinity School lecturer and evangelical Christian leader Jim Wallis said the time has come to end the religious rights monologue on national moral values and begin a new, broader-based dialogue that goes beyond a fixation on gay marriage and abortion.

With the Oct. 1 arrival of Brenda Bernier as senior photograph conservator in the Weissman Preservation Center (WPC), the Harvard University Library will officially launch a University-wide photograph preservation program. The Universitys photographic holdings, estimated at more than 7.5 million items in 48 Harvard repositories, date to the emergence of photography in the 1840s.

A reproduction could never do justice to Rudolf de Crignis 1999 painting Untitled. The most any photographic process could possibly show would be a blue square. But walk up close to the painting and you realize there is more to it than that. The Swiss-born painter has covered his canvas with about 40 layers of…

This past week, Harvard reverberated with some of the greatest music ever composed, performed by some of its finest interpreters.

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winners will be announced and showered with applause and paper airplanes at Harvards Sanders Theatre on Oct. 6. Organized by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research in cooperation with several Harvard student groups, the Igs honor achievements in science that make people laugh and think.

Law School Dean Elena Kagan (above left) moderates a discussion among The Right Honourable The Lord Scott of Foscote (above center), Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (above right), Justice Antonin Scalia (below right), and The Right Honourable The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (below, second from right). The jurists talked about The Practice of Judging: Comparative…

Christopher M. Gordon, director of Capital Programs and Logan Modernization for the Massachusetts Port Authority, has been named chief operating officer (COO) for Harvards Allston development, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Thursday (Sept. 22). Gordon will oversee the creation of a new Harvard organization that will implement Harvards evolving plans for an extended campus in…

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital received one of three inaugural grants from the National Institutes of Health meant to bring cell-based therapy for heart, lung, and blood diseases out of the lab and into doctors medical arsenal for treating patients.

Visits to emergency rooms at Boston area hospitals plummet when the Red Sox play championship games.

Mens soccer rolled to its third straight win of the season this past Sunday (Sept. 25) blanking cross-state rival University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2-0, on the road. And though the Ivy season has yet to commence, this weekends victory – which came two days after Harvards 2-1 decision over visiting Fairfield on Sept. 23 -…

Junior running back Clifton Dawson rushed for 189 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-tying tally with 15 seconds left in regulation, as 15th-ranked Harvard took a thrilling 38-35 double-overtime decision – the first in Crimson football history – against visiting Brown this past Saturday (Sept. 24).

The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provosts Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to…

RMO workshop to cover electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The…

Sandel delivers Korean lectures on democracy Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel traveled to Korea earlier this month to deliver the ninth annual Dasan…

Playing is important, too. And a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plan ensures that more space will be devoted to recreational, social, and, of course, study areas for…

Daniel Lord Smail, a cultural historian who studies social and legal transformations in the later Middle Ages, has been named professor of history in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2006.

Ambivalence is such a common condition in our complex and uncertain times that it is astonishing to learn that the word has existed for less than a century. It was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 to describe a condition in which a person holds contradictory feelings toward someone or something.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

September 1930 – The Class of 1934 enters with 897 members. Dunster and Lowell – the first of the seven original undergraduate Houses – are ready for occupancy. September 1936…

For doctors Miriam Baron and Jennifer Moye, the money couldnt have come at a better time.

In celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and the majesty of the Charles River Parklands, the Charles River Conservancy and the Revels called neighbors from Cambridge and Allston to the second annual RiverSing on Sept. 22. With massed choruses in the hundreds on either side of the Charles, traditional river songs were shared from shore to…