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Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who after six years in office oversaw Mexicos first peaceful transfer of power after 71 years of single-party rule, will be Harvards 2003 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises.

Mira Nair 79, internationally acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding and other feature films and documentaries, will receive the ninth annual Harvard Arts Medal.

No one in her right mind would associate a lot of TV watching with a healthy lifestyle. Now a new study of more than 50,000 women over a period of six years backs common sense with scientific support.

Two former White House economic advisers engaged in a spirited debate on the merits of President Bushs tax-cut plan Thursday night (April 3) at the Kennedy School Forum.

Coming off a bumpy 5-9 road trip and a rained out home opener against Rhode Island (a 3-0 five-inning loss), the Harvard baseball team opened the Ivy League portion of its season this past weekend with some promising spring in its step. The visiting Crimson split a pair of doubleheaders against Pennsylvania and Columbia to…

On Monday (April 14), the main entrance and first floor of Widener Library will reopen – renovated and refurbished.

After more than 12 years of service, Murray Forbes Somerville will depart from his office as Gund University Organist and Choirmaster, and Curator of the University Organs in the Memorial Church and take up a new appointment as director of music at St. Georges Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tenn.

Kevin Cullen, a member of the current Nieman class, was one of the team of reporters for the Boston Globe that won the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its coverage of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Cullen had been an international correspondent for the Globe, based in England and Ireland, until he…

The Passion According to St. John by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed on April 18 in the Memorial Church. The music, based on St. Johns Passion, will be conducted by Gund University Organist and Choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville and performed by the Harvard University Choir, the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (directed by Robert Mealy),…

Inner Jerk vs. Mr. Sparkle Mr. Sparkle, CW, and Inner Jerk – three rock bands from Harvard’s graduate schools – will battle it out this evening (April 10) at the…

Beginning next fall, Harvard College will return to its longstanding policy of requiring that early action applicants not apply early elsewhere. As always, early admission at Harvard will remain nonbinding, meaning that students admitted early to Harvard are free to apply to other institutions during the regular admissions cycle and need only reply to a…

Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy at Harvards Kennedy School of Government, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which examines U.S. foreign policy toward genocide in the 20th century.

Co-authors claim Samuelson Award Assistant Professor of Business Administration Luis M. Viceira and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell have been named co-winners of the seventh annual…

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has appointed Benedict H. Gross, dean for Undergraduate Education at Harvard, as dean of Harvard College. Gross will head the consolidated offices of the dean of Harvard College and the dean for Undergraduate Education, effective July 1.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The Harvard Medical School flag is at half-staff this morning in memory of Brian A. McGovern, assistant professor of medicine, who was killed in his Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) office on April 8.

April 1910 – The Andover-Harvard Theological Library formally comes into existence. Owen S. Gates, former Librarian of the Andover Theological Seminary, becomes the first librarian of the combined collections. April…

Professor of Law Elena Kagan will be the next dean of Harvard Law School, President Lawrence H. Summers announced last week.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former Harvard professor of government and a lifelong public servant, died March 26 at age 76. News reports said he developed an infection after undergoing an appendectomy on March 11. Moynihan died in Washington, the city in which he served four terms as a U.S. senator.

Ernest Dudley Chase enjoyed making pictorial maps it was his hobby. A hobby that spanned over three decades, became a small business, produced more than 50 unique, artlike maps, and is now on display at the Harvard Map Collection. The new exhibit, Greetings From Winchester: The Pictorial Maps of Ernest Dudley Chase, explores the creative,…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 11, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have linked elevated blood levels of antibodies that fight Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens with the future development of multiple sclerosis (MS). The findings appear as a Brief Report in the March 26 issue of The Journal of the American…

Nathan Heller, a Harvard College freshman, will investigate the effects of post-Sept. 11 legislation on Harvard University through a fellowship awarded by the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Heller covers federal and state legislation as a member of The Harvard Crimson staff.

In her last extended visit to Harvard, filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt chronicled the research of Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich by creating a documentary film that brought to life Ulrichs Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwifes Tale.

On the last day of March, this difficult winter made one of its last gasps, spritzing snow showers over the area. And its not over yet – cold and wet is the forecast for the first week of the so far aptly named cruelest month.

The room held all the elements of a typical high school biology lab – students perched around lab tables in front of microscopes, teachers circulating, a presentation about what to look for, and chatter as the exercise proceeded. But after the students chopped up lily anthers, stained the slides, and observed, it was clear that…

U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, a high school dropout who grew up among New Yorks urban poor, used his own rags-to-riches story Monday (March 31) to illustrate that a troubled start to life need not limit ones ambitions.