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Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History, has announced the names of 51 women and men selected as 2005 – 06 Radcliffe Institute fellows. While at the institute, the fellows – among them creative artists, humanists, social scientists, and scientists working on projects ranging from cancer…

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and internships for the 2005-06 academic year. The center will support the projects of 52 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $320,000. In addition to funding research conducted abroad, CES has been working with Harvard alumni clubs…

Michelle Whites love of animals has shown her a way to reach out to others and is leading to a possible lifetimes work as a veterinarian.

Having an identity crisis is not uncommon for college students. Who am I? Where do I belong? What is my purpose in life? These are questions that haunt many a young person preparing for the plunge into adulthood.

Aaron Holzapfel looks about as youd imagine the captain of Harvards championship heavyweight crew would look – 6 foot 3, 220 pounds, with a trim beard and longish, wavy blond hair.

Nobodys perfect, not even Harvard students, Alicia Menendez 05 will tell graduates and their families today.

Harvard alumni celebrating their 50th reunion have been out of school more than twice as long as most graduating seniors have been alive. What have they learned in all that time? What do they remember of their student days? How does life look from the perspective of 50 years out? We talked to some members…

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will honor, among others, writer and editor Ann Fadiman 75, pianist Ursula Oppens 65, and biologist Susan Lindquist Ph.D. 76 at its annual Radcliffe Day celebration on Friday (June 10). The awards will be presented and the recipients will speak at the Radcliffe Awards Symposium, Discovering…

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 of the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Professor Felton Earls, director of the Harvard South African Fellowship Program, recently awarded special certificates signed by President Lawrence H. Summers to eight South African Fellows who studied in various programs throughout the University this past year. The Harvard South African Fellowship Program is funded by the Presidents Office and the individual Schools that the…

…in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing….

PBHA and Class of ’55 fete 100 years of service More than 100 members from the Class of 1955 kicked off their 50th reunion at a June 5 dinner reception…

Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark announced Monday (June 6) that he will step down on July 31, in order to accept the role of president of Brigham Young University, Idaho, shortly thereafter. Clark was named dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1995 he is the eighth dean in the Schools 97-year history.

Mary Ellen Avery Doctor of Science Mary Ellen Avery, recipient of an honorary doctor of science degree, received the National Medal of Science in 1991 for her discovery of the…

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

So much happens at Harvard University during the year, its quite a task to winnow all thats worth noting into a two-page summary.

This year, the Harvard University Extension Schools Commencement Speaker Award will go to Monica Antoinette Brooker A.L.B., cum laude. Brooker will speak on the topic Commencement as Perfection this afternoon (June 9).

Today the University awarded a total of 6,580 degrees and 224 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,590 degrees.

The committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) at Harvard has announced the recipients of the award for the 2004-05 academic year.

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has announced the recipients of its 2005-06 fellowships, prizes, research travel grants, and internships. A total of eight postdoctoral and senior fellowships have…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) recently presented five outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships. The awards, which were given…

The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded 11 research grants for undergraduate and graduate students to travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2005.

Nathaniel Fogg, graduating from Harvard Business School this year, is something not often found on an Ivy League campus in this age of an all-voluntary military: a veteran of the United States Navy.

The Afghan province of Badakhshan has the highest maternal death rate ever recorded, with 6,500 women dying in childbirth out of every 100,000 births.

In the Indian state of Orissa, Dharitri Patnaik has loomed large, fighting for the rights of poor women and children.

Mathematicians have a reputation for being a bit detached from the concerns of ordinary mortals. Living in a realm of abstract ideas, of seductive puzzles and tantalizing conundrums, they tend to regard the ordinary physical world as so much clutter, annoyances to be perfunctorily dealt with before returning to their equations and proofs.

Since 1994, Tucker McCravy has made Sri Lanka his second home, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and then as the catalyst for several educational ventures there. So when areas of the nation were devastated by the December tsunami, McCravy knew just what children in refugee camps needed.

Few things please fiction writers more than having readers tell them that the fictional worlds theyve created possess the ring of truth.