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Mayr memorial service on April 29 A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held Friday (April 29) at…

Law School student Jonathan Bashford works on his laptop on the lawn outside the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

April 17, 1953 – West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits Harvard. April 1954 – Inspired by the success of a 1953 loan exhibition of French drawings, the Fogg Museum presents…

Harvard Extension School students 1st Lt. Kendrick Harris, deputy chief of advanced systems and technology at Hanscom Air Force Base, and Grace Greenwich, who commutes to Cambridge from New York, where she is associate director of alumni relations at New York University, initially seem like an odd pairing. He, in worn jeans and an unconstructed…

Nine students from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have been selected as 2005-06 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Honoring the legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer by committing to a year of service with a community agency, each Schweitzer Fellow will devote more than 200 hours of service to local communities lacking…

A standing-room-only crowd packed Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall on Tuesday (April 26) for the premiere of Acting on Faith: Women and New Religious Activism in America, a documentary film produced by Rachel Antell M.T.S. 92, a Pluralism Project research affiliate. Diana L. Eck, director of the Pluralism Project and professor of comparative religion and…

The Gaesatae were a tribe of ancient Celtic warriors who went into battle stark naked, the better to impress their enemies with their fearlessness. In order to appear even more terrifying many of them spiked their hair, stiffening it with lime. Would the lime have made their hair white? Dan Meagher wanted to know. After…

The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) will welcome author, theater critic, writer, teacher, and its founding director, Robert Brustein, for an evening of readings from his new book, “Letters to a…

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

At its 14th meeting of the year on April 27, the Faculty Council discussed proposed changes to the Handbook for Students and the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships.

Hypnotic, energetic, vital, moving, amusing, and gravity-defying are just a few of the adjectives that need to precede the premier word describing a recent University dance premiere – original. Harvard Dance Programs Spring 2005 Dancers Viewpointe V made the stage look like a trampoline last Thursday (April 14) as works of talented local and national…

Established in 1986, the annual Reischauer Lecture series is sponsored this year by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Renowned international scholar Takeshi Hamashita will present the two remaining lectures.

Medical historian and Japanologist Shigehisa Kuriyama, who has brought an unusually broad perspective to the study of world medical history, has been appointed Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Alexis Martire 05 plays number three doubles against Boston College on April 19 at home. The Crimson, ranked 19th in the nation, downed the Eagles, 6-1, to capture their sixth consecutive victory.

Golf struggles at Ivy champs Harvard’s men’s and women’s golf teams finished eighth and sixth, respectively, in Ivy League championship action this past weekend (April 16-17). The men turned in…

To anyone whose idea of a documentary film is an investigation of a specific subject using original footage, interviews, and archival images, the films of Ross McElwee may seem quirky, to say the least.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences March 15, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Participants on an independent bipartisan panel examining energy reform discussed recommendations to Congress Thursday (April 14) that would see caps on greenhouse gas emissions, new investments in nuclear and renewable technology, and financial support for clean coal plants.

Arts First, Harvards annual weekend festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 13th anniversary May 5-8. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students in presenting some 200 concerts, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, public artwork, and theatrical and dance productions.

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds seven out of 10 of Americas college students are concerned Social Security will not pay out benefits when they retire, with students significantly more likely to support investment of Social Security taxes in private…

Failed Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought his positive populism back to the Kennedy School on April 13, sounding a call to eradicate poverty in the United States. Terming it his new cause, Edwards told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that citizens and government working together have a lot…