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Friends and colleagues of Costas Papaliolios, professor of physics emeritus, are invited to attend a memorial service at the Faculty Club on Sunday (Nov. 10) at 2 p.m.

A memorial service for David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Riesman, best known for his influential study of post-World War II American society, The Lonely Crowd, passed away on May 10, 2002.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Nov. 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…

Its been known for a while that babies enjoy a dramatic increase in their ability to remember people and things between 8 and 12 months of age. But this is short-term memory, the kind that loses a telephone number in a minute or less if you dont write it down.

A bird¹s-eye view from the Maxwell-Dworkin building shows the warmly colored carpetlike patterns of its plaza contrasting with the slash of a rough stone bench, evoking ancient textiles, ancient structures.

Is nature good or evil?

What comes to mind when you think of Halloween? Pumpkins? Witches? Black cats? Five-year-olds in Spiderman masks proffering open shopping bags while their mothers lurk anxiously in the shadows?

Oct. 16, 1948 – The World War II Memorial Committee formally presents its report to the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The Committee makes a similar presentation for the…

Most of the beginners in the Ninth Annual Beginners competition, hosted by the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, looked like anything but as they expertly swirled and strutted their hour upon the dance floor last Saturday (Oct. 26). The competition began as the Harvard-Yale Challenge in 1992, when the Yale team would come and dance against…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 15, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Gerda Lerner, the Robinson-Edwards Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and past president of the Organization of American Historians, will discuss and sign her new book, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (Critical Perspectives on the Past) [Temple University Press, 2002], on Monday (Nov. 4). Sponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe…

First-years get started on their pumpkins during their study break at the Freshman Pumpkin Carving Contest, hosted by the Prefect Program. The resulting jack-o-lanterns will be judged on Halloween. Free pizza will be awarded to individual entries for most original, most Harvard, funniest, scariest, and best overall. At Weld Hall, Tasha Bartch 06 (left) carves…

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the School of Public Health (SPH) have shown that regular, frequent consumption of painkillers containing acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like ibuprofen, increased the risk of hypertension in a large group of women studied.

When Nietzsche said, “What does not destroy me makes me stronger,” he might have been speaking about bonsai trees.

Brian D. Farrell is a man with many props. He bounds around his sunny corner office at the Museum of Comparative Zoology showing off his finds: a pile of 60-year-old lantern slides of Cuba, an ancient projector, the dog-eared 1938 field journal of P.J. Darlington Jr., a well-known zoogeographer and one of Farrells predecessors at…

Women who have lived through economic hardship as a child or adult are likely to start perimenopause (the period leading up to menopause) earlier than affluent women, suggests research in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

The idea that history has something valuable and useful to teach us has been seriously questioned by academic historians in recent years, and a new and often bewildering set of theories justifying the historical enterprise has been proposed in its stead.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and reigning Miss America Erika Harold joined Harvard School of Public Health faculty and students from Bostons Mission Hill School to mark a National Day of Concern about youth gun violence Thursday (Oct. 24).

Susan Clancys research has taken her into alien territory.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and intrastate conflict prevention and resolution studies.

FAS curriculum crux of upcoming symposia As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education will be sponsoring two public…

A host of athletes from the East Coast wrapped up play at the Omni Hotels Intercollegiate Tennis Associations Eastern Region Tournament this past Tuesday (Oct. 29) at the Murr Tennis Center. The four-day tournament is the qualifying event for the foremost indoor tournament in the nation – the National Indoor Championships – to be held…

With two highly capable quarterbacks in the Crimson mix, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy has been in a bit of a bind over the past few Saturdays. But given the big playmaking going on between senior captain Neil Rose and sophomore marvel Ryan Fitzpatrick, the coachs conundrum has become Harvards blessing. And in a somewhat…