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At the Barker Center, a student is dwarfed by John Singer Sargents painting of Maj. Henry Lee Higginson. Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Civil War soldier, fellow of Harvard College – Higginson held a deep and passionate wish that we should live according to our highest ideals.

Both the patients and psychiatrists were startled. Manic-depressives undergoing brain scans, not a really pleasant experience, came out of the machine happier than when they went in.

The wind across Harvard Yard blew numbingly cold, but the scene inside Annenberg Hall Wednesday night (Jan. 7) was toasty and congenial at the second annual Freshman Study Break hosted by President Lawrence H. Summers. Nearly 1,200 members of the class of 07 were lured from their desks and library carrels by the irresistible trio…

Minjung Son, left, and her mother Niokjung, visisting from South Korea, were prepared for the arctic cold that descended on the Northeast this week. The Sons took a walking tour of the Harvard University campus Wednesday morning with the temperature at -2 degrees Farenheit.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 18, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

This illustration from the title page of a rare Dutch songbook is featured in the exhibition, Res Gestae: Libri Manent A Curators Choice, which opened Jan. 12 in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library. The exhibition includes 89 other rare books acquired by Roger E. Stoddard, curator of rare books in the Harvard…

By curating the exhibition Life as Art: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie, Theodore Stebbins Jr. has brought about a reconciliation of sorts, albeit a melancholy one.

It was weird, it was squirming around, said Baldwin School fourth-grader Taylor Vandick. It had three antennas or fangs or whatever and it was squirming around.

Karl Haglund (right), author of the recently released Inventing the Charles River, a pictorial history of the Charles River Basin – known as Bostons Central Park – was a guest last week at an event sponsored by Harvard Planning and the Allston Initiative. Along with Renata von Tscharner (second from left), president of the Charles…

Inspired by the spirit of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), and The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University are jointly commissioning research on Southeast Asian Educational Opportunity. The studies, funded by…

The need for a stable, dedicated funding source for the Universitys expansion into Allston has prompted Harvards Corporation to extend the life of the Strategic Infrastructure Fund through the 25-year first phase of development.

Albert Alcalay is a survivor. Born to Jewish parents in Serbia in 1917, he and his family were forced to flee when the Nazis took over in 1941. They ended up in a concentration camp in Calabria, Italy, populated primarily by Jewish artists and intellectuals, and it was in that unlikely setting that Alcalay began…

Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) in partnership with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help eliminate health disparities in rural and urban communities.

Esteemed Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton died Dec. 30 of complications from leukemia. She was 46.

It was more for lack of hustlers than hustle that the Harvard mens track and field team fell to cross-town rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 10) at Gordon Track. Short-manned due to injuries, the mens team failed to enter a single sprinter in any race under 500 meters, eventually falling, 82-62, in their first…

Rugby club seeks grad student-players The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rugby Football Club seeks players from across Harvard’s graduate schools for training, matches, tours, tournaments, and social events. Rugby players…

In the first prospective study to assess the relationship between vitamin D intake in women and the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that women with the highest intake of vitamin D through supplement use had a 40 percent lower risk of developing MS as compared…

Carolyn MacLeod might be the least likely person to head a championship curling team.

Vacation program seeks experienced teachers The Harvard School Vacation Program is looking for experienced teachers or teacher assistants. The program, which enrolls 25 children of Harvard faculty and staff in…

A celebration of the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held Monday (Jan. 19) at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, will deliver the keynote address: Dont Just Activate – Celebrate!

Just in time for New Years resolutions, a new book, Free Expression, details more than 100 possibilities for writers seeking contests, competitions, and other opportunities. And unlike programs that charge reading fees or processing fees, this books listings are fee-free, according to author Erika Dreifus, who currently teaches in the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.

President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday (Jan. 14) that longtime veteran of the Harvard administration Jackie ONeill has agreed to be the next University marshal.

The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and the social advocacy nonprofit Generations Policy Initiative have launched a new journal that aims to highlight problems related to the aging of Americas baby boom population.

HUPD would like to remind students, faculty, and staff of the University to be aware of your surroundings, particularly when walking alone after dark. The College Safety Committee encourages members of the University community to walk in groups along designated, well-lit pathways. A map of designated safety pathways is located in the Student Telephone Directory.

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Jan. 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

January 1767 – In a major curriculum reform, the College abolishes the ancient one-tutor-for-all-subjects system and introduces instructional specialization. A different tutor now teaches in each of the following four…

On Jan. 13 at approximately 5:40 p.m., a female undergraduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street in the area of Claverly Hall when a male approached her in the opposite direction and groped her. The suspect continued walking on Mt. Auburn Street. Officers from both the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge…

Young children receive an enormous volume of information – from the identity of their biological parents to names for animals to facts about the world around them – by testimony: Someone tells them that the family pooch is called a dog and that Mom and Dad are, indeed, Mom and Dad.