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Wind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists interested in playing with the Harvard Summer Pops Band are invited to attend open rehearsals (no audition required) beginning June 29 through Aug. 7 from 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. Interested individuals should bring their instrument and, if possible, a folding music stand to Lowell Hall at the above-mentioned times. Directed…

Denise Scott Brown said that when she was a young student, people would tell her she looked like a Radcliffe girl.

The Asia Center, the South Asia Initiative, the Fairbank Center, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute have announced their award recipients for this summer and the upcoming academic year.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it has awarded 59 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $190,000 for the 2005-06 academic year. Twenty-four grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, and 35 will support graduate students. In recent years, the center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students, both increasing…

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has announced that 31 Harvard students have received DRCLAS certificates in Latin American studies.

Not exactly in disguise, but nicely dressed and well-behaved, a couple of intrepid Gazette reporters mingled unobtrusively in the lively, vibrant 354th Commencement of Harvard University. They were on the lookout, as they are every year, for what is known in the trade as color. This year, under friendly skies and surrounded by movement, noise,…

Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) is currently seeking volunteers interested in public art education for its museum docent program. The program consists of approximately 35 volunteer guides who give tours…

Rapping, stepping, and sidewalk-chalking are hardly customary modes of communication at Harvard Medical School (HMS). But such youth-focused expressions were the media of the day Monday (June 13) at HMSs second annual Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities event.

Allison Gerrity (from left), 15, her father Steve and sister Erin, 13 – all in town to see brother Michael 05 graduate – cool off at Widener Library during Class Day.

Emily Abrams was fact-checking Aaron Coplands tenure as Norton Professor at Harvard as part of her research on a forthcoming book on the composer edited by her professor, Carol Oja. The official lectures from his visit (there were six) were published in the volume Music and Imagination in 1952. Abrams, a second-year musicology graduate student,…

Art historian Benjamin Buchloh, recognized internationally as one of todays most important contributors to the study of post-1945 art, has been named Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2005.

Harvard co-sponsored diversity forum approaching Members of the University community are invited to join the M.B.A. Diversity Forum at the Hult International Business School (One Education St., Cambridge, Mass.) on…

Doctoral student accepts Horowitz Foundation grant The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has named Jeremy Tobacman, a Harvard doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics, as a 2004 grant co-recipient.…

The Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge, Mass., that merged with Harvard in 2002, has announced its selection of two new junior fellows. These researchers have been chosen to perform independent experimental research for five years, with full institutional support and access to the institutes technical and scientific resources.

The University will soon launch a new set of tools for accessing and searching electronic resources on the Harvard Libraries Web site (also known as the portal) located at http://lib. harvard.edu. Known as E-Research @ Harvard Libraries, the tools – set to launch June 30 – will replace the portals current E-Resources menu.

On June 14, troops muster on Cambridge Common in advance of historical re-enactments that commemorate the 230th birthday of the U.S. Army. The establishment of a Continental Army was approved by Congress on June 14, 1775.

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association has announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 354th Commencement (June 9).

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

June 11, 1776 – The Provincial Congress grants the College permission to reoccupy its buildings, and Harvard prepares to return from Concord.

Ryan Travia, coordinator of alcohol and drug education programs at Dartmouth College, will become director of alcohol and substance abuse services at Harvard University, announced Paul Barreira, director of the Department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling. In this new position, Travia will lead the University in addressing issues of alcohol and health among students…

At Afternoon Exercises of this years Commencement (June 9), the Class of 2005 was delighted to hear a childrens story and a song about a manatee. Actor and arts activist John Lithgow 67 charmed the large Tercentenary Theatre crowd with his disarming address offering lighthearted advice and self-deprecating wisdom along the way.