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Dancers leaping into the air, potters spinning their wheels, musicians playing religious to rock, and many other performance and visual artists representing the Harvard arts scene will soon take over various venues in and around campus, marking the arrival of Arts First, Harvards 14th annual arts festival.

Bulldog track and fielders get past hosts A visiting Yale women’s track and field team captured 10 of 18 events this past Saturday (April 22) to take an 86-77 win…

The pressures of pride served a visiting Brown baseball team well in game two of Mondays (April 24) doubleheader. Facing elimination in the Red Rolfe Division title race – and carrying the fresh sting of dropping three straight against the Crimson by scores of 1-0, 8-4, and 5-2 – the Bears bucked the series trend…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2006 Harvard Medal: Chase N. Peterson 52, M.D. 56, Chet Stone III, and Sidney R. Knafel 52, M.B.A. 54.

April 9, 1968 – Assassinated civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is buried in Atlanta. At Harvard, Lowell Lecture Hall is the scene of a daylong program of speeches and…

At its 16th meeting of the year on April 26, the Faculty Council discussed scholarly publishing and a proposal to rename and establish new degrees in the Extension School. The…

Joan Reede surveyed the scene as busload after busload of middle schoolers made their way into Harvard Medical Schools gleaming New Research Building. A staff member approached, leading a young girl. Id like to introduce you to someone, the staffer began, but Reede quickly said, Oh, I know her already. She wants to be a…

It was late and dark and dangerous in the Mexican city of Altar.

World-class professional tennis team the Boston Lobsters is gearing up for another season at Harvards Bright Hockey Center, scheduled for July 6-26. The home of the Lobsters has been modified to include a new cooling system and improved sight lines for a more intimate seating venue than seasons past. This season, special guests and live…

The Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library will be closed for extensive renovations from May 29 to Sept. 10, during which time the collection will not be available for use. The room will reopen Sept. 11 at 9 a.m. Please contact curator Don Share (via e-mail at share@fas.harvard.edu or phone at 617-495-2454) with any questions…

Harvard Assistant Professor of the History of Science Marwa Elshakry joined 19 other scholars nationwide to be named Carnegie Scholars this week by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Geraldine Brooks, the Vera M. Schuyler Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, had been scheduled for several months to present her work-in-progress on April 19 to other fellows, the Harvard community, and the public. Then two days before her presentation, Brooks learned she had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel…

Nancy Bean dreamed of leaving the antiseptic middle-class suburb where she lived with her husband and three children and returning to the small Texas town of Tulia where she was raised. She wanted her kids to experience the slower, simpler life of home canning and quilting bees that she remembered from childhood, to know what…

Out of more than 1,000 students in the Harvard class of 1952, four were African American. Contrast this with the 150 or so African-American students in the recently admitted class of 2010.

PBHA auction to benefit summer youth camps The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) will hold its third annual auction to benefit its Summer Urban Program on May 3 from 5:30…

William James Foundation awards student-led plan The William James Foundation recently named the Harvard student-led Fair Market Financial (FMF) business plan as one of its outstanding merit award winners in…

In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, six Harvard professors recently joined 66 other U.S. scientists and engineers to be elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The election, held this week during the academys 142nd annual meeting, brings the total number of active members to 2,013.

Three Harvard faculty members were recently named among the honorees of YWCA Bostons upcoming womens leadership event. Instructor of Public Health Practice in the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health Linda Clayton will be inducted to the Ys prestigious Academy of Women Achievers, while Edwin J. Furshpan, the Robert…

Michael Rosen, a scholar of European political philosophy with a consummate command of continental political thought from the 18th century to the present, has been appointed professor of government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up begins one hour earlier unless…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

A memorial service for retired Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Professor William Robert Hutchison will be held at the Memorial Church tomorrow (April 28) at 2 p.m. An honorary associate and…

At 2 in the morning of April 25, a female student (not affiliated with the University) met an unknown male in the fourth- floor lounge of a Lesley University dormitory. After a brief conversation with the individual, the student reported that the individual sexually assaulted her. The suspect is described as a light-skinned Hispanic male,…

Robert G. Stone Jr. 45, LL.D. 03, a pre-eminent and beloved figure in the Harvard community who served as trusted adviser and friend to three Harvard presidents as well as countless faculty, staff, and students for more than four decades, died on April 18. He was 83. The cause was complications following a stroke, according…

Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management and the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be the Schools next dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (April 24).

Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management and the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr., Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be the School’s next Dean.