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Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has awarded its highest honor for the promotion of high public health standards among vulnerable populations to William H. Foege, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Balancing work and family life requires compromise between caring spouses, as well as flexibility and clarity about life, career, and family goals.

With winter around the corner, the recent digitization of Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s (HRO) recorded oeuvre ought to make fans of Verdi and viola players alike quite content over the dark, cold, long haul. Going back over 30 years, the newly completed archive – spearheaded by longtime HRO conductor James Yannatos – includes every available performance by…

From the looks of Brown’s dominating 9-4 win in the first day of action at this past weekend’s Northern Championships (Oct. 28-29) at Blodgett Pool, it appears the Bears were taking no chances against the host water polo club. It was the Crimson, after all, who edged Brown, 8-7, with 54 seconds remaining in triple…

Ash Institute receives Mexican Presidential Award President Vicente Fox of Mexico presented the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) with a Presidential…

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2006-07 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, four are visiting fellows and four are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…

You would not expect someone being honored with an award named for the first woman tenured in the Harvard Faculty of Education to be even a bit down on education for women.

Harvard University has launched the Harvard China Fund, a new University-wide initiative under the direction of William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

Rodney Gove Dennis, who died on Oct. 12 after a short illness, wrote poetry and made music while curating manuscripts at Harvard’s Houghton Library. In his retirement he reconnected with the study of Latin using his poetic skills to translate the works of Catullus, Tibullus, and the Medieval Latin poet Giovanni Pontano. His life was…

Strengthening African governance is the goal of a new ranking system in development at the Kennedy School of Government. Drawing heavily on the pioneering work of the director of the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Conflict Robert I. Rotberg and generations of his students, a team of researchers under his direction will create an annual…

Julia Sweeney, Grammy-nominated former star of “Saturday Night Live,” went looking for God – and found out there was no God. “And that’s the good news,” she said.

Hellenic Studies receives Onassis International Prize The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University has been awarded a 2006 Onassis International Prize for its ongoing commitment to the promotion of…

Ethics center accepting fellowship applications for 2007-08 The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University is currently accepting applications from graduate students who are writing dissertations or…

Harvard postdoctoral scholar in English Laura Thiemann Scales is among seven scholars recently awarded fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

For 39 Harvard students, summer vacation this year wasn’t a vacation at all. It was up to 12 weeks of full-time work in a variety of countries – the requirement for being in the Weissman International Internship Program.

Jennifer Arcila ’08 (Russian studies) traveled to Moscow to intern with the Carnegie Moscow Center. She translated the center’s online newsletters and publications from Russian to English, and assisted scholars…

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in those regions of the world with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. For this reason, the program awards fellowships to enable individuals from Southeastern and…

Harvard, Radcliffe crew have legs at Head of the Charles Radcliffe rowing grabbed a pair of fifth-place finishes in collegiate and lightweight eights at the 42nd annual Head of the…

Out of the dozens of club offerings annually pitched and promoted to Harvard’s freshman class, what would possess Cambridge’s newest residents to sign up for rugby – that brutal pastime favored on the other side of the pond? More perplexing still, why are some of Harvard’s newest female students clamoring to join the scrum (and…

U.S. News & World Report announced on Monday (Oct. 23) its 2006 listing of “America’s Best Leaders,” and Eric Lander, the director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is among those recognized.

“OOOOHhhh!” the audience of high school students gasped as one when the emaciated image of Joseph, a poor Haitian stricken with both AIDS and tuberculosis, flashed onto the screen at Cambridge Rindge & Latin Friday morning (Oct. 20).

A former Israeli air force pilot and a former Palestinian guerilla brought a message of peace to the John F. Kennedy School of Government Tuesday (Oct. 24), saying both sides must abandon violence if the conflict is to be resolved.

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has announced its 2006-07 class of postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting fellows. Each year, a small but distinguished group of scholars are named to spend an academic year at the center revising their dissertation manuscripts for publication (postdoctoral fellows) or giving seminars and consulting with…

A drug being tested now may kick off a new heart health revolution by raising levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol, in the body, much as statins used today lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, according to a prominent cardiologist at one of the nation’s top heart hospitals.

Despite the 13th Amendment and the United Nations’ prohibition of slavery in 1949, millions of people continue to work under forced conditions. To help broadcast their plight to a wider audience and promote awareness of the crisis, Zoe Trodd and the group Free the Slaves have helped the slaves themselves speak out loud and clear.

The John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School announced Oct. 17 a $1.25 million gift from the George Family Foundation that will provide 15 fellowships to students pursuing concurrent degrees at the Schools. The gift will also expand the Kennedy School’s leadership development programs.