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Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, has been named the new academic dean at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bane will succeed Stephen M. Walt, who served in the role over the past four years. The appointment began July 1.

In honor of Harvard Universitys military veterans (including the more than 1,000 individuals who have died in armed conflict since the founding of the College, the Harvard Veterans Alumni Organization (HVAO) is now formalizing their group. Apolitical in purpose, HVAO is looking to earn recognition as a shared interest group and as an adjunct to…

It could be your chance to spot the next Matt Damon, the next Traci Bingham, the next Aerosmith, the next New Kids on the Block.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology Brendan N. Lilley one of its 18 postdoc fellowship recipients at its May scientific advisory committee review. According to the foundation, the recipients of this award are outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research that is relevant to the study…

Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Levitt, a monumental and iconoclastic figure in the field of marketing and former editor of Harvard Business Review, who influenced generations of both scholars and practitioners with his groundbreaking, always provocative, and often controversial books and articles, died June 28 at his home in Belmont, Mass., after a…

Harvard University undergraduate students Pierpaolo Barbieri 09 and Samuel Chang 09 were recently accepted as 2006-07 undergraduate fellows with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in Washington, D.C. – a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to educate Americans about the terrorist threat to democracies worldwide. As foundation fellows, Barbieri and Chang will…

The Belfer Centers Managing the Atom Project has produced two new publications on resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis. Senior research associate Matthew Bunn has written Placing Irans Enrichment Activities in Standby, an examination of warm and cold standby options for the suspension of Irans 164-centrifuge cascade at Natanz. Warm and cold standby approaches offer options…

On July 7 at approximately 2:45 a.m., two Harvard University Summer School students reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that they were robbed while walking on Shepard Street. The victims reported that four males (one of whom was armed with a knife) approached them and demanded that they hand over their belongings.  The…

Peabody, Natural History Museums announce price increase Effective July 1, the admission price at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History has increased.…

Free University of Berlin awards Kirby honorary doctorate The department for the history of science and cultural sciences of the Free University of Berlin awarded an honorary doctorate on June…

It’s one thing to theorize about an exploding star the size of our sun, it’s another to look up in the sky and watch one getting ready to blow.

A committee of 24 leading scientists from across Harvard University – five department chairs and one dean – have produced a preliminary set of proposals for ‘enhancing science and engineering at Harvard’ that range from continuing to invest in traditional ‘core disciplines’ to transforming the teaching of science by implementing ‘hands-on learning as a cornerstone…

Harvard researchers have identified a protein that helps regulate bone growth and may lead to new drug targets to fight osteoporosis, the bone loss condition that the National Institutes of Health terms ‘a major public health threat’ to more than half of people age 50 or older.

Alan Symonds, technical director for Harvard College Theatre Programs under the Office for the Arts at Harvard, died of heart failure on June 20 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 59.

Outgoing Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers has been named Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University effective July 1, 2006.

Experts seeking to explain the amazing diversity of the tropical rain forest have typically done so in two ways, viewing forests as either

Here’s a story to cool you off on a hot summer day. One of the major mysteries of ice ages may have been solved by a Harvard climatologist.

College science instructors from around the country met at Harvard June 15 to see how technology can help retain freshmen interested in science, many of whom switch majors before completing introductory courses.

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2006 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2006 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

Betsy Lincoln felt pregnant all the time. Loss of muscle tone in her face, arms, and legs made her look so bad, she didn’t want to leave her apartment. She had little strength or endurance. Lifting one of her children or climbing a flight of stairs exhausted her.

One might have expected Linda Greenhouse 68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times and recipient of the 2006 Radcliffe Institute Medal, to devote her keynote address at the annual Radcliffe luncheon June 9 to an analysis of recent court decisions or predictions about the courts future course under its…

Education, Irene Maxwell told her five daughters, is the only thing that you can take all you want and theres plenty left for everyone else. So make sure you take your share.

Harvard University announced on June 13 that it will enter into an agreement with the town of Hulls municipal light department to purchase the renewable energy credits (RECs) generated by the 1.8 megawatt Hull wind turbine for a 10-year period.

The Class of 2006 recipients of this years Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will be serving others in locations from Massachusetts to the Middle East, and in areas ranging from assisting immigrants to advocating for human rights.

With the goals of making Harvard the leading center of Chinese studies in the United States, supporting China-related activities University-wide, and supporting University activities in China, Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced the launch of the Harvard China Fund (HCF), to begin operation July 1. William C. Kirby, currently dean of the Faculty of Arts…