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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a consortium of investigators and health care organizations for a national bioterrorism syndromic surveillance demonstration program, a kind of computer early warning system that initially will sweep, in real time, 20 million patient records in all 50 states for clusters…

A huge electronic resource of materials on architecture, urbanism, landscape design, and related issues of concern to the Muslim world – and people interested in it – went online Sept. 27 when the presidents of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) came together with His Highness the Aga Khan to launch http://www.ArchNet.org.

Thesis fellowship available from CSWR The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) invites students enrolled in any Harvard doctoral program whose research involves the substantive study of religious…

Academic performance is a key benchmark in our society. Success or failure in this area can profoundly affect future opportunity, how we are perceived by others, and the way we see ourselves. Using 15 years of his own research to identify the unseen pressures affecting the academic performance of particular groups, Claude Steele, the Lucie…

Walter H. Annenberg, businessman, statesman, philanthropist, and Harvard benefactor whose donations helped finance undergraduate scholarships and the renovation of Annenberg Hall, died Tuesday (Oct. 1) at his home near Philadelphia from complications due to pneumonia. He was 94.

With a brilliant outing from backup quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick 05, the Harvard football team overcame a 12-point deficit to edge Brown, 26-24, this past Saturday (Sept. 28) at Brown Stadium. The win improved the Crimson to 2-0 on the season, while keeping the overall streak alive and well at 11 straight.

Theres no praise sweeter than that from ones colleagues, says Frank Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemsitry Emeritus. After a lifetime of research, Westheimer, 90, has gotten this kind of sweet thrill to add to his many other laurels.

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:

Robert Dorfman A memorial service for Robert Dorfman, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. The…

Senior adviser to the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Ann Berman has agreed to serve as acting vice president for finance while the search for a permanent successor to Elizabeth Beppie Huidekoper proceeds. Berman will assume her new role on Oct. 10.

An economist who has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, and applied econometrics, and a music scholar whose studies of Bach and Mozart have incorporated research in architecture, theology, medicine, and economics have both been named University Professors.

An odd, previously unknown sphere, some 360 miles in diameter, has been found at the bottom of the Earth. It was detected by a Harvard professor and a graduate student who patiently examined records of hundreds of thousands of earthquake waves that passed through the center of the planet in the past 30 years.

Walter H. Annenberg, businessman, statesman, philanthropist, and Harvard benefactor whose donations helped finance undergraduate scholarships and the renovation of Annenberg Hall, died Tuesday (Oct. 1) at his home near Philadelphia from complications due to pneumonia. He was 94.

As the 2002-03 academic year begins, returning students and faculty are finding that a new, Web-based version of the HOLLIS catalog is now in use. Users can connect to the new HOLLIS through the Harvard Libraries site at http://lib.harvard.edu.

When the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declared the phrase under God in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional last June because it violated the separation of church and state, the ruling touched off angry protests across the nation, including a spontaneous pledge-in by members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol building.

With her characteristic candor and wit, the popular former first lady Barbara Bush provided glimpses of her famous family and offered up a few of Lifes Lessons to an admiring crowd at the ARCO Forum Thursday (Sept. 19) night.

An old joke asks the question, “What do you call a 200-pound black man with a gun?” The answer, of course, is “Sir,” the subtext being that it is only…

More than 3,000 members, family, and friends of the Harvard community gathered in a festive mood in Tercentenary Theatre on Sunday evening (Sept. 22) for President Lawrence H. Summers Its Movie Time at Harvard, a free screening of the high school-rebel classic comedy Ferris Buellers Day Off.

Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations was founded in 1980 on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face urgently require their cooperation. The program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of…

The University Center for Ethics and the Professions has selected five Harvard graduate students to be named Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows in Ethics. Under the direction of Arthur Applbaum, professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the new fellows will devote their time to an approved course of…

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Divinity School will host 27 fellows during the 2002-03 academic year. Established in 1958, CSWR fosters excellence in the study of world religions on the broadest scale and from many perspectives. International in composition and subject matter, CSWR facilitates the exchange of ideas growing…

Writers as far back as Sophocles have referred to the nation as a ship of state. In his talk at the Kennedy Schools ARCO Forum Friday (Sept. 20), Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic gave that metaphor a new twist. He compared his country to a bicycle.

Harvard Medical Schools Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP), established in 1990 to increase minority faculty development, recruitment, and retention – as well as to expand the local pool of minority students seeking careers in science and medicine from grade school to graduate school – has received the prestigious Center of Excellence in Minority Health designation…

This fall the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will return with a second year of the Sackler Saturdays program for families and children. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are again invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands in Asia, Europe, and this year, Africa. The program takes place in the…