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In speeches delivered during afternoon Commencement Exercises (June 8), Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and journalist Jim Lehrer called for change at Harvard and across the nation.

Daniel Steiner, who had a long and distinguished career as vice president and general counsel at Harvard University, and later became president of the New England Conservatory of Music, has died at age 72.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded a record number of grants for research and internships in Latin America for summer 2006. DRCLAS made a total of 193 awards that resulted in support for 160 Harvard students from across the University.

David Rockefeller 36, who recently returned to Cambridge to join classmates for his 70th Harvard reunion, has designated $1 million of his recent $10 million gift to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies to create a doctoral fellowship program in honor of the centers founding director, John H. Coatsworth, the Monroe Gutman Professor…

Omeljan Pritsak, co-founder and longtime director of Harvards Ukrainian Research Institute, died May 29. He was 87.

Summer orchestra, pops seek players The Harvard Summer School Orchestra is open to classical musicians from both Harvard and the Greater Boston area. Composed of approximately 60 players, the orchestra…

Slavic Languages awards essays on Russian literature The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded Hui En Joanna Yeo ’06 and graduate student Emily van Buskirk the V.M. Setchkarev…

A little over a year ago, students petitioned the Harvard Medical School (HMS) administration requesting a student lounge that would give Ph.D. and M.D. students and postdocs a place to mix, mingle, and share ideas. On June 6, the Joseph Martin Student Lounge, the renovated and repurposed common room of Vanderbilt Hall, was officially commemorated…

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association announced on June 8 the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 355th Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers are as follows:

Less than a month after the 203rd anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emersons birth, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) have announced the completion of funding for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Professorship of Divinity at HDS. In recognition of the historical importance of Harvard Divinity School in preparing ministers…

In the coming weeks, more than 3,500 Harvard employees – including most of the Universitys Central Administration – will change their e-mail and calendaring services to Microsoft Outlook. Because e-mail is such a vital aspect of University records, the planned rollover to Microsoft Outlook is an important reason to think about managing e-mail and reducing…

Despite all the destruction of forests, pollution, overpopulation, and overfishing, Edward O. Wilson is optimistic about the future of life on Earth. Science, prudent actions, and moral courage are showing some signs of making a difference, says one of the worlds most influential naturalists, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at…

June 1913 – Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school. June 16,…

News and information about Harvard will be delivered digitally to the community beginning in July, including two summer issues of the Harvard Gazette (http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette). Paper publication of the Gazette will…

As public health authorities monitor the global spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, Harvard officials continue to plan how the University would respond to the various needs of students, faculty, staff, and their families in the event of a human pandemic.

Harvard University today (June 13) released the inaugural report of its newly created Office for Faculty Development and Diversity, along with the announcement of $7.5 million in enhancements to its work-life programs. These enhancements are designed to better support faculty, doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff as they balance the demands of work and family.

These days, every year seems packed more full of incident than the last. Around the world and here at Harvard, the academic year of 2005-06 was no exception. Now, as we celebrate the culmination of the academic calendar, it’s an ideal time to pause a moment to take a look at some of the high…

If the purpose of art is to challenge and disturb, to push viewers beyond the borders of their comfort zone, then Jane Van Cleef is certainly an artist. The odd thing is that she manages to be unsettling using the most domesticated of materials – fabric and thread.

Only a handful of architects get to be celebrities. Danny Forster has gone them one better. Hes a celebrity architecture student.

In her junior year at Brown University, Julie Herlihy volunteered to teach children in a remote part of Africa. But when she got to Zimbabwe, no one wanted her. Following an orientation session, the person who was to take her to her assigned village never showed up.

Melissa Goldman is passionate about set design. Its a subject to which she brings such infectious enthusiasm and obvious energy that even on a gray day, she can light up a black box – the empty hall of the Loeb Experimental Theater, venue for her latest production, Alice in Wonderland.

At first glance, Peter Brooks story sounds stereotypical: Like his two older brothers, he attended Philips Exeter Academy, then continued on to Harvard, following in the footsteps not only of his brothers, but also his father, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and five uncles. Just a normal white preppy from Massachusetts, he says.

Harvard senior Prashant Sharma thought he wanted to study molecular and cellular biology when he arrived at Harvard four years ago, but the mysteries of evolutionary biology drew him away.

With evolution under attack, policymakers blind to scientific consensus on global warming, and faith-based terrorists roiling international peace, Harvards graduating seniors must make their voices heard as people of reason, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said Tuesday (June 6).

Who would have thought the purchase of six Chinese silk handkerchiefs would change Harvard’s athletic history? Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Class of 1858, kept a journal through his junior and senior years at Harvard and it demonstrates two diverse truths about life – that “the more things change, the more they stay the same” and “you…

Continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research in Europe, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced that 40 undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships on the continent this summer, while more than two dozen graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations over the coming year.

The Universitys plans for a 21st century extension of its campus in Allston took more definite shape this year with the selection of a site and architect for a half-million-square-foot science complex, as well as the announcement of plans for new arts and culture facilities.

With their Commencement, students will go forth to press on to higher and better things – at all events, to other things, as Nathaniel Hawthorne once put it. But students arent the only ones planning new projects or looking forward to relaxing in a shady hammock – or both, simultaneously. Professors, too, are embarking on…