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Robert G. Stone, Jr., AB ’45, LLD ’03, a preeminent 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 Tuesday (April 18).

He was trusted and admired by colleagues in each discipline. They and his students regarded him with deep affection. Freed was one of few faculty members in Social Relations who had moral authority derived from his colleagues’ recognition that he placed the welfare of the department above personal motives.

Sitting in a swivel chair in his basement office, Robert Levin can barely keep his agile pianists fingers off the telephone. He has just learned that his friend Yehudi Wyner won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for musical composition with his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano, and he wants to be the first to call the…

Continuing its tradition of contributing to public service projects, the Harvard Coop recently awarded nearly $10,000 in grants to 21 student-led public service organizations for spring and summer 2006. These grants help students to upgrade equipment, design new materials, provide summer services, and launch new projects and special initiatives. The Coop held a grant reception ceremony…

JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine and co-director of the Connors Center for Womens Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2006 Harvard College Womens Professional Achievement Award.

Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society.

The Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School (HLS) is frequently home to mock trials as law students sharpen their skills. On April 12, however, it was the real thing setting up shop at Ames as the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation heard arguments in an actual case.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the winners of the annual undergraduate arts prizes presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2005-06 academic year.

Princetons jumping second half upends womens lacrosse The No. 10 Princeton women’s lacrosse team fired off 20 second-half shots en route to a 14-8 win over the Crimson this past…

Although the Harvard womens basketball team didnt quite make an appearance in the 2006 Final Four tournament (the Crimson, for the record, finished the season 12-15, 8-6 Ivy), the University wasnt entirely unrepresented in the Big Show. In fact, as one of the official hosts and partners for the 25th annual womens Final Four, Harvard…

M.P.H. candidate elected AMA student section chair Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) M.P.H. candidate Benjamin Galper ’02 has recently been elected national chair of the American Medical Association (AMA)…

Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced appointments that carry two University cross-disciplinary science initiatives to the next level of their development:

Musical theorist V. Kofi Agawu, a scholar whose research and writing span musical traditions from Gustav Mahler to the Ewe people of Ghana, has been appointed professor of music and African and African-American studies in Harvard Universitys 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: Today, April 20, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up…

April 5, 1931 – Easter Sunday. The Russian bells of Lowell House ring out for the first time in Cambridge. April 10, 1950 – Ralph J. Bunche – AM ’28,…

What film would you least like to see with your tasty feet dangling in the deep and your nervous hands treading water, not to mention the complete exposure of one of your most important assets protuding from an inner tube? The answer is self-evident. On April 13, the fearless undergraduates of this fair University showed…

As the first psychologist, indeed the first non-physician from any discipline, to receive full clinical as well as research psychoanalytic training in America, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, PhD, broke ground for and inspired so many who came after her. Having accomplished this as a woman only confirmed the conviction she conveyed that doors would, indeed must, open…

As June 30 approaches, offices throughout the University will be closing the books and the files on the 2005-06 academic year. To help staff in charge of keeping the Universitys files in order, the Records Management Office (RMO) is offering two important workshops in May and June.

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) invites University faculty, staff, students, and alumni to its upcoming conference, titled Harvard Vision 2020: A Bridge to Campus Sustainability, to contribute their thoughts on how Harvard can address the demands of environmental sustainability in its future campus design, development, and operations. The three-day conference, which kicks off April…

The I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL) has received a grant of $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue producing bilingual editions of important Latin writings from the 14th to the 16th centuries. The series, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti near Florence, is published by…

Ronold Wyeth Percival King, mentor to 100 doctoral students in the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, died peacefully in his home in Winchester, Mass., on April 10 at the age of 100. King was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1905. He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in physics from the University…

Arts First, Harvards annual festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 14th anniversary May 4 – 7. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students presenting over 200 concerts, theatrical and dance productions, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, and public artworks. The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA),…

Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2006-07 academic year will be Casey N. Cep 06 and Emma M. Lind 09. The two were selected from a competitive evaluation of 20 student writers applications for the position. The fellows will join the editorial staff during the year, contributing to the magazine as undergraduate…

Harvard scientists have solved the puzzle of how to generate a special form of wave in small electronic devices, allowing the electrical equivalent of the pulses of light that carry signals through optical cables.

Fifty students from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) climbed out onto Gund Halls stepped roof this week (April 19 and 20) to strew sedum on the rectangles of gravel ballast. The project is a pilot study to see if Gund will become Harvards first building to be retrofitted with a green roof.

Career resiliency is the ability to remain employable in the midst of the constant changes in todays job market, said Devin Ryder, senior consultant for career management at Harvards Office of Human Resources. Its a persons ability to adapt and change in the workplace as needed, including a willingness to keep updating ones skills, she…

Walkers wanted: University to back Walk for Hunger The Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a contributing donor on behalf of Harvard faculty,…