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Following a nationwide search, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today that he has appointed William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion, as the next dean of the Harvard Divinity School, effective immediately. Graham has served as Acting Dean of the School since January 2002.

Forty years after their forerunners took to the lunch counters and streets of the American South, 21 young activists are putting their own spin on civil rights: by dancing, teaching, praying, and learning. The future leaders are honing their advocacy and activism skills at the second annual Civil Rights Summer (CRS), a fellowship program sponsored…

Seven months after a Harvard committee recommended changes to improve wages and working conditions for the University’s lowest-paid workers, wages have been raised and a parity policy enacted to ensure that contracted employees receive compensation equivalent to their Harvard counterparts. These measures implement the core recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies…

At Harvard, academic success is measured in many ways. We look at things such as admissions yield, research breakthroughs, alumni achievements, Rhodes scholarships, global name recognition, and yes, rankings in US News and World Report to tell us how were doing. But when it comes to measuring Harvard as an employer, the markers are less…

A new study, co-authored by Kennedy School of Government researcher James Quane, concludes that housing subsidies can significantly lessen the financial strain on low-income families and assist in the transition from welfare to work. The report is based on data collected from low-income African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white families with children in poor and near-poor…

Eyes may be a window to the soul, but Donna Mager prefers looking into a mouth. She sees it as a mirror that reflects the body’s health.

While studying a rare genetic disease, scientists have unexpectedly found a new way to detect a variety of inherited cancers.

Swimming. Crafts. Field trips. Public service.

Each fall, wide-eyed freshmen arrive in Cambridge in droves, brimming with excitement as they consider all the possibilities for a major. Aspiring attorneys turn up to learn the lay of the law. The business school welcomes soon-to-be CEOs, CFOs, and other corporate VIPs. But Harvard also has programs that play host to an impressive assembly…

Harvard doctoral candidates Daniel Fried and Curie Virag have been named winners of the 2002 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship competition by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Fried and Virag join 31 doctoral candidates from 17 universities nationwide to receive the award, which supports original and significant study of ethical or religious values…

Emily Allen, a first-year student at Harvard Law School, and Eloise Pasachoff, a second-year student in the four-year joint degree program at the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), have been selected to serve as 2002 Rappaport Fellows in the Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law…

As an electrical engineer in the aerospace industry, Ksenia Kolcio spends her time designing satellites. Knowing that her handiwork is in orbit thousands of miles above the Earths surface is a source of satisfaction, but Kolcio has always yearned for more.

Robert Dorfman, emeritus professor of political economy, died June 24 in his home in Belmont after a long illness. He was 85.

Physicist Costas D. Papaliolios, professor of physics emeritus at Harvard University, died June 6. He was 71.

Donald Oliver, a professor of education who delighted in debate and developed a curriculum to stimlate discussion of social issues in junior and senior high schools, died June 28 at the age of 73.

It is early morning and a single scull glides over the rivers surface. Propelled by the rowers rhythmic strokes, it seems one with the water as it whispers past a family of geese or threads needle-like through the bridges arc.

A new report by a National Academy of Sciences panel co-chaired by Harvard Emeritus Professor Lewis M. Branscomb calls for the United States to take immediate steps, such as better protection of nuclear weapons and materials, to reduce its vulnerability to terror attacks. The report also outlines urgent areas for future research.

Researchers have identified a protein that may help to explain why the brains cerebral cortex is disproportionately larger in humans than in other species, a finding that appears in the July 19 issue of Science and adds an important piece to the developing blueprint of the part of the brain responsible for the intellectual abilities…

Think of Paul Gauguin, working as a stockbroker in Paris and painting on weekends. Or of Maurice de Vlaminck, supporting his family as a violin teacher while creating his incandescent landscapes.

They werent playing around while playing a round, because they were golfing for a serious cause.

Capping off a tremendous 2002 season, Harvards heavyweight crew captured three championship titles – a new school record – at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta, which concluded July 7 on the Thames River in Oxfordshire, England.

Forty years after their forerunners took to the lunch counters and streets of the American South, 21 young activists are putting their own spin on civil rights: by dancing, teaching, praying, and learning.

As of June 13, the University and its three principal service unions completed negotiations resulting in significant wage increases for workers employed directly by the University and by outside contractors. Members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU, Local 254), representing custodians, the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees International Union (HEREIU, Local 26), representing dining hall…

Seven months after a Harvard committee recommended changes to improve wages and working conditions for the Universitys lowest-paid workers, wages have been raised and a parity policy enacted to ensure that contracted employees receive compensation equivalent to their Harvard counterparts.

July 18, 2002