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Indigenous rights group and nonprofit organization Cultural Survival will celebrate 25 years of bringing indigenous art and crafts to the public with its annual bazaar in Pound Hall on Dec. 4 and 5.

Can women stop war? That was one of the provocative questions posed by the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPP) and the Institute of Politics in the sixth annual Kennedy School of Government (KSG) symposium to explore womens roles in peace. The answer, according to the five panelists who participated in a discussion Wednesday night…

A new Web site for the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) program went live earlier this month, providing a single electronic portal for those interested in graduate study of any field of biology at Harvard. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the site is located at http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/hils.

The Harvard Alumni Association invites members of the Harvard community to participate in a live neuroscience videoconference via satellite on Dec. 1 at Hawes Hall, room 201, Harvard Business School, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. has added yet another prestigious award to what is surely a long list. The New York Public Library, at a recent ceremony in New York, named Gates a Library Lion, one of its highest honors. The W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of African and…

Two Harvard faculty members were among eight noted investigators recently awarded the prestigious Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences. Associate Professor of Surgery Jeffrey Macklis at the Medical School and Andrew P. McMahon, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, were honored for their research. The prize provides for up…

Although Harvards reputation for academic excellence extends around the world, its reputation for fun has a far more limited reach.

Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an influential expert in strategic marketing who was a pioneer in the application of statistical methods to marketing issues, died on Nov. 6 at a hospice near his home in Alexandria, Va., from complications related to amyotrophic…

As if playing for a share of the Ivy League title wasnt enough pressure, the Harvard football team entered this past Saturdays game (Nov. 13) against fellow unbeaten Penn with the stigma of a 24-year losing streak at Franklin Field weighing on their shoulder-pads. Not a team to shy away from adversity, apparently, the Crimson…

First-year mens hockey coach Ted Donato 91 will likely never forget his victorious Bright Hockey Center debut over rival Yale this past Friday (Nov. 12). Since adding a pair of wins against Princeton and top-rated Boston College, the rookie mentor is also certain to keep in mind a thing or two about the teams winning…

Bringing an unprecedented level of automation to microscopy, scientists at Harvard University have developed a powerful new method of visualizing drugs multifaceted impact on cells. A method dubbed cytological profiling trains computers to recognize cell status and health from cellular images, virtually automating microscopic scanning for various types of abnormalities.The technique, which could eventually become…

As medical editor for ABC News and an associate of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Timothy Johnson has found professional success and some level of fame throughout his career.

A new program on the global demography of aging led by David Bloom, chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has received funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out research on important themes related…

Luis M. Viceira wins Silver Scroll Prize Harvard Business School Associate Professor Luis M. Viceira has won the Silver Scroll Prize for Innovation from the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research…

To Joshua Sanes, the synapse where a nerve delivers messages to a target cell is a marvel of nature.

For Harvard faculty and staff who want their Community Gifts donations to have an impact that stays close to home, Harvards Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) might fill the bill. PBHA, a student-led nonprofit at Harvard College, oversees 77 public service programs that engage 1,800 student volunteers in serving nearly 10,000 people in the Cambridge…

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will hold a celebration of the life and science of Fred Whipple on Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Science Center, Hall B. Whipple, the Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, died on Aug. 30 at the age of 97.

A remembrance gathering for friends and family of Professor of Geology Emeritus Raymond Siever will be held in the Hoffman Laboratory (20 Oxford St.), fourth-floor faculty lounge, on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m.

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

It all started with pigs on a treadmill.

Nawal was 9 when she repeated something she had heard at home to some classmates on the playground. Iran wasnt so bad, she said, which prompted a boy to run to the teacher. Soon Iraqi government agents arrived to interrogate Nawal. Then she – and her whole family – just disappeared. We all knew that…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences October 19, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

As the annual Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign gets under way toward its goal of raising $1 million, many Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees will no doubt direct their gifts toward the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB), which consistently receives more than half the donations from Community Gifts.

Harvard School of Public Health nutrition experts are looking to bring their fight for healthier eating to restaurants, cafeterias, and other food service establishments through an annual retreat with food service industry leaders.

In a gathering marked by friendly exchanges of thanks and praise, the first recipients of the Ashford Dissertation Fellowship and Ashford Graduate Fellowship in the Sciences met the family that made their awards possible. A luncheon at the Harvard Faculty Club on Nov. 1 celebrated the occasion.

Daniel Kahne is not so much a self-made man as a mentor-made man.

The sun shines through an arched window in the Memorial Church, silhouetting a figure climbing the stairs.

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

A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Saturday (Nov. 13) at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London.…