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Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) recently honored more than 1,000 of its volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools during the 2005-06 academic year at a reception hosted by the University at the Harvard Faculty Club. Together, these volunteers provided more than 60,000 hours of individualized academic services to Cambridge…

Finding a job can be tough for anyone. For residents of the Palestinian Territories, political tensions have placed extra impediments in the way of both job seekers and potential employers.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) announced Tuesday (May 23) that it has signed a multimillion-dollar license agreement with Merck & Co. Inc. to develop potential therapies for macular degeneration, an eye disease that affects older people and can lead to blindness.

Men’s heavies pick up Rowe Cup, 2V’s claim gold The Harvard men’s heavyweight crew captured the Rowe Cup at the EARC Sprints this past Sunday (May 21) at Lake Quinsigamond…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) presented two outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on May 19. The awards, which were given by HGSE Dean Kathleen McCartney, the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, and Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, provide a…

Richard G. Schneider Jr. Ph.D. 81 has been chosen as this years recipient of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) Intellectual Innovator Award.

Gates is editor in chief of Oxford African American Studies Center W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. is serving as editor in chief of the…

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirby has announced that Joyce E. Chaplin, Caroline M. Elkins, Jill Lepore, David Roxburgh, Susan R. Suleiman, and Gordon L. Teskey are the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for the current academic year. The fellowships are awarded annually to selected faculty members in recognition of their achievements and…

Randy Buckner tries to predict what you will remember. The newly tenured professor of psychology and his Harvard colleagues have been able to anticipate which words students will remember and have also been able to improve the memories of older people.

Susanna Siegel remembers staring up at the ceiling as a young girl and wondering whether the marks she saw on the white surface were tiny holes or tiny dots.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

May 19, 1959 – To mark the 50th anniversary of A. Lawrence Lowells election to the Harvard presidency, the Harvard Corporation renames the New Lecture Hall (1902), henceforth to be…

A memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been scheduled for Wednesday (May 31) in the Memorial Church at 2 p.m. Galbraith,…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: n…

Harvard University today (May 23) announced a proposal to transform its Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) into the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 2002, has agreed to serve as Interim Dean of the Faculty beginning July 1, the University announced today. Named by incoming Interim President Derek Bok, Knowles will serve until the selection of a permanent dean by the next president of Harvard.

What happens when the Kyoto Protocols first commitment period comes to an end after 2012? Twenty-five leading scholars, including economists, political scientists, legal scholars, and natural scientists, recently asked – and tried to answer – that question, examining alternative international strategies to address the pressing problem of global climate change after 2012.

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute at Harvard is now accepting submissions for its 2006 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate student with the best essays on Japan-related topics. The undergraduate award is $2,000 and the graduate award is $3,000. The deadline for submission is June 30. Papers written this academic…

Six Harvard College students have been awarded the first annual Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on subjects ranging from Indias market in human organs to the role of luck in legal responsibility. The students will use the grants to conduct research in the United States or abroad, and to…

Stavins co-editing new Journal of Wine Economics The Journal of Wine Economics, a new scholarly periodical published earlier this month for the first time, is co-edited by Robert Stavins, the…

Undergraduate education at Harvard has improved significantly in recent years. The reason? A growing number of students are spending time away from Harvard.

Discrimination and racial injustice led James Sidanius to leave the United States for Sweden in the early 1970s. But instead of putting discrimination behind him, the move changed his perspective and prompted him to make the study of discrimination and group oppression his lifes work.

The Universitys Presidential Search Committee, comprising the six members of the Corporation other than the president along with three members of the Board of Overseers, announced the membership of both the faculty advisory group and the student advisory group for the search on Friday (May 12).

Poised to become the worlds most populous nation by 2040, India faces daunting challenges: huge burdens of disease, lack of needed medical care in many regions, and a dearth of public health professionals. In an attempt to deter a looming crisis, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has collaborated with the Indian government, the…

Fred S. Rosen, M.D., a world leader in pediatric immunology and the first James L. Gamble Professor of Pediatrics, died on May 21, 2005, a few days short of his 75th birthday. His career was marked by his devotion to his patients, by his talent for converging seemingly disparate scientific and clinical information in developing…