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John Fitzgerald Gates, a senior adviser to the president and the provost of the University of Vermont, has been named associate dean of Harvard College for administration and finance. Gates will report to Deputy Dean Patricia OBrien. The appointment is effective July 1, 2005.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting its seventh annual career forum on June 14. This years event will be held at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 3 to 7 p.m.

For 30 years, Learning From Performers has been bringing artists to Harvard to lecture, teach, and interact with students. Just a partial list of the performers who have spent anywhere from a day to a week at Harvard under the auspices of the program is enough to widen the eyes of even the moderately starstruck…

Sitting forward and big-eyed in their seats, or leaning back with eyes closed and only their ears open, a recent Sanders Theatre audience let the sounds of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms inspire them, amuse them, thrill them, bring them a momentary moment of peace. Nothing unusual about that – except in this case the audience…

Thirty Harvard undergraduates have been named recipients of the second annual Herchel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. After seven pilot projects were awarded last year, 2005 marks the first year of a full cohort of fellows. The program is designed to support promising undergraduate scientists in a formative, self-designed laboratory experience at the early…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences April 12, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The 2005 Kennedy School Spring Conference culminated Saturday afternoon (May 14) with a plenary panel on the issue of global poverty.

The 2005 Kennedy School Spring Conference opened Friday (May 13) with a thoughtful discussion of the top challenges facing both the global community in general and the academic community in particular.

The principal objective of the awarding of the Harvard Medal is to recognize extraordinary service to Harvard University. Extraordinary service can be in as many different areas of University life as can be imagined, including teaching, fundraising, administration, management, generosity, leadership, innovation, or labors in the vineyards.

Eugene Demler is a long way from the high school art student he was when he lived in the Siberian Russian town of Novosibirsk.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced the election of 196 new fellows and 17 new foreign honorary members. Among this latest class of leaders in scholarship, business,…

Center court took center stage in first round NCAA womens tennis action against Maryland this past Friday (May 13). With the doubles point up in the air following host Harvards 8-1 thrashing of the Terrapins in court 1 and Marylands 8-4 win in the far court, the tiebreaker pitting the Crimson duo of Elsa ORiain…

On May 18, Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) honored its more than 1,000 volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2004-05 academic year at a reception hosted by the University at the Faculty Club. Together, these volunteers have provided more than 60,000 hours of individualized academic services…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 1943 – Shortly before Commencement, the Qing (Ch’ing) Dynasty stone dragon just west of Widener Library is set on a new base. The dragon had been a Tercentenary (1936)…

Seven Harvard faculty members were recently elected as members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). The nations oldest learned society, APS is devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.

This is the time of year when students try to squeeze a term¹s work into a week or two.

Harvard’s Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering, appointed three months ago to address concerns of women faculty and women in science throughout the University, today released reports calling for large-scale changes in the way the University recruits faculty and supports women and underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers.

In April you can go to New Orleans for a celebration of jazz, and in August you can head to Edinburgh for a nonstop multiweek theater fix. Lincoln Center has dance all summer. But all those art forms and more fuse with dazzling effects during the annual four-day celebration of the arts at Harvard. The…

Seven members of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR), all recent nonagenarians, were honored by University Marshal Jackie ONeill for their dedication to lifelong learning. The April 29 ceremony at the Harvard Faculty Club was attended by friends and family of the honorees, and by Dean Michael Shinagel of the Division of Continuing…

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its fourth annual Public Service Celebration, titled 100 Years of Service in honor of the associations centennial, on May 6. The event included a reception and an awards dinner to honor graduating seniors with Stride Rite Senior Recognition Awards, Stride Rite Post-Grad Fellowships, and Houston-Moreland Awards.

Tennis takes Ivy honors, set to battle Terrapins Women’s tennis recently swept the league’s top two honors with senior Susanna Lingman earning player of the year accolades and Celia Durkin…

The Harvard community is invited to a performance of The Witness Cantata, composed by Swanee Hunt, former ambassador to Austria (1993-97) and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government. Coro Allegro – Bostons acclaimed chorus for members and friends of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities, directed…

Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-06 academic year are John A. La Rue 07 and Elizabeth S. Widdicombe 06. The two were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers applications.