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Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, who finds joy in “discovering the sublime in the mundane,” has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

William Robert Hutchison, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Emeritus, died on December 16, 2005, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in the presence of his immediate family. He was 75.

In the 1930s, years before man landed on the moon or even orbited the Earth, a very young Frederick I. Ordway III ’49 took an interest in space travel. One day Ordway returned home from school to find a copy of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories left by the family maid on a dining room…

Tozzer Library reached a milestone in its 140-year history last month with the acquisition of the quarter-millionth volume to its collection of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology materials. To mark the occasion, the library is hosting “Codices, Chimpanzees, and Curanderas: From the Field to the Shelf,” an exhibition to celebrate the literature of anthropology and to…

Fourteen tribal governments were recently honored and celebrated as examples of excellence by Harvard’s Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations (Honoring Nations) awards program. Based at the Kennedy School of Government, Honoring Nations is administered by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. The project’s goal is to understand the conditions…

Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, recently announced that Michael Gerson, former speechwriter and adviser to President George W. Bush, and Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will serve as IOP Visiting Fellows in October and December,…

Reginald Henry Phelps ’30, Ph.D. ’47, former associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), director of University Extension, and lecturer on German, died Sept. 28 in a nursing home in Westfield, Mass. He was 97.

Heading into Saturday’s game (Oct. 7) against the host Harvard football team, Cornell’s Big Red led all of Division I-AA in protecting its quarterback, giving up just 0.3 sacks per game. After Harvard’s defense amassed seven sacks en route to a 33-23 Crimson win – the team’s fourth straight to stay unbeaten on the season…

Orchestra auditions for ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ The Lowell House Opera will commence open orchestra auditions this weekend for its March 2007 production of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier.” Established in 1938, the…

The preliminary proposal, released by the task force Oct. 3 for discussion by the FAS, is intended as a series of suggestions for how most effectively to replace the college’s present “core curriculum.”

Twenty years after winning the Nobel Prize in literature (the first African to be so honored), Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka continues to use his fame as a bully pulpit, and his magical turns of phrase as weapons. For decades, he has employed a polymath’s blend of plays, poems, novels, and memoirs to bring art to…

Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright, an internationally renowned writer and theologian, will deliver this year’s William Belden Noble Lectures – “The Gospel and Our Culture” – on three consecutive evenings, Oct. 23-25, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

At its third meeting of the year on Oct. 11, the Faculty Council discussed Dean Jeremy R. Knowles’ Letter to the Faculty on FAS finances and was joined by the…

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. did it. Conan O’Brien did it. So did John Lithgow and Stockard Channing.

Scorpions, spiders, beetles, and their leggy kin are front and creepy-crawly center in the first new permanent exhibit in 20 years in the biological galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH).

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, has announced the names of seven resident scholars participating in the Warren Center’s 2006-07 workshop, “Cultural Reverberations of Modern War.” Leading the workshop are Nancy Cott, the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, and Carol…

“The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions,” an exhibition showcasing the Harvard University Art Museums’ most important contemporary Chinese acquisitions to date, is on display through Nov. 12 at the Sackler.

Until Oct. 7, Harvard faculty and staff may purchase a subscription for the 2006-07 season at half the regular price when they select all eight productions. For each production, Harvard faculty and staff may purchase tickets for any performance during the first week of the run at half the regular single-ticket price.

During spring semester 2007, Harvard College students will have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad at the University of Havana, Cuba. Developed by the Harvard College Office of International Programs and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the Harvard College Program in Cuba was formed as a result of discussions between…

The Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) recently announced that 10 midcareer professionals have been awarded fellowships to participate in one year of independent study in fields related to the built and natural environment.

Top Olympic and world ice skaters will join in the battle against cancer this weekend as they gather at Harvard for the annual “An Evening With Champions” exhibition Oct. 6-7 at Bright Hockey Center. Friday’s show (Oct. 6) begins at 8 p.m. and Saturday’s show (Oct. 7) starts at 7 p.m.

For close to a half-century, Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) in Washington, D.C., has sponsored conferences and publications and hosted research fellows from all over the world. In September, the center officially opened its first branch overseas – an office in Nafplion, a Greek seacoast city that dates to the Bronze Age.

Rookie standout heads Crimson comeback Freshman striker Andre Akpan netted a pair of goals against Yale this past Saturday (Sept. 30) at Ohiri Field, including the eventual game-winner in the…

Winless away and repeatedly defeated at home, it seems the woes of Harvard’s field hockey team know no bounds. Still, final tallies and records aside (0-9 overall heading into Wednesday evening’s [Oct. 4] battle against Northeastern), tiny victories continue to surface here and there for the struggling Crimson.

Hans-Olov Adami, professor of cancer epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, will become chair of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Department of Epidemiology on Feb. 1, 2007.