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American democracy is not a static, unchanging phenomenon, but rather an ongoing argument said Sean Wilentz, this years Phi Beta Kappa orator.

Joy Seth Hurd IV speaks fluent Latin. Martin Spencer Bell has his sights set on being a trial lawyer. Liz Carlisle is a country singer/songwriter with an album on record store shelves. Though these graduating Harvard students may seem very different, they all have something in common: On Commencement Day, each will take the stage…

A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 8). In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the countrys oldest university – and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study – this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square…

Cy Devery caught up with two old friends June 6 when he visited the Collings Foundation in Stow, Mass. – the AT-6F Texan and the T-33 Shooting Star.

Linda Greenhouse, longtime Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times and graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard College, will receive the 2006 Radcliffe Institute Medal.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named 12 recipients of its annual alumnae awards. Among others, this years honorees include Susan Faludi 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Amy Gutmann 76, president of the University of Pennsylvania and Elaine Pagels 70, author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas…

More than 70 undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19. The prize winners, including their advisers, are as follows:

A special kind of leadership, embodied in the selfless service of five Harvard Business School (HBS) students – Michael Arlotto and Jill Szuchmacher, Kathleen Cassie Kearney, Avichai Avi Kremer, Yael Gayle Tzemach – is being recognized this week with the 2006 Deans Award, one of HBSs highest honors.

Stefan Behnisch, principal of Behnisch Architekten and the lead architect for Harvards Allston science complex, will be developing a preliminary design concept for the building over the next several months. With this first Allston project, Behnisch, working in conjunction with Harvards master planning team, will help launch the beginning of a process to define how…

Susan L. Graham 64, the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2006-07. She will succeed Patti B. Saris 73, J.D. 76 following Commencement. Paul Buttenwieser 60, M.D. 64, a psychiatrist and novelist, will become vice…

When Fung Hon Chu asked sons Victor Ph.D. 71 and William M.B.A. 72 to apply their Harvard training to the family company as if it were a case study, he may not have imagined how their educations would help transform Li & Fung into the success that it is today. Li & Fung is a…

Commencement represents a time for both departing and returning. Just at the moment when seniors graduate, alumni gather for reunions – and the opportunity to assist the College. Each class is unique, demonstrating its support in different ways.

Maria Polinsky, a linguist who combines careful empirical work with a subtle appreciation of linguistic theory, has been named professor of linguistics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of now-incurable conditions afflicting…

Seven men and two women received honorary degrees at this morning’s 355th Commencement Exercises. Biographical sketches of the honorands appear below.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Harvard University Wednesday (June 7) announced a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract with 470 Dining Services workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 26. Members of Local 26 are expected to vote on ratification of the agreement in the coming days. If ratified, the new contract would be in effect until June 19, 2011.…

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: •…

After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of now-incurable conditions afflicting…

In 1952, Roger Marshutz was a young Army recruit from Los Angeles assigned to the Pusan Military Post in Korea. Before being drafted, he had studied air-conditioning engineering at California Polytechnic State University expecting to enter the family business, but in his last semester before entering the military he decided to switch to photography. Fortunately,…

The ivory-billed woodpecker, with its tall crest and black and white markings, is a dramatic bird.

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures has announced its 2005 – 06 award winners. Prizes to undergraduate and graduate students total more than $6,000.

Ph.D. candidate named Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has selected Japa Pallikkathayil, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, as one of its 30 Charlotte W. Newcombe…

In honor of the four black men of the class of 1952 – dubbed the pioneers – the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard Black Mens Forum held a tribute and reception earlier this spring. Walter C. Carrington 52, James M. Harkless 52, Herbert S. Hughes 52, and William M. Simmons 52 were presented with the…