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In addition to food, shelter, and medical care, many victims of Hurricane Katrina are in dire need of legal advice. Twenty-five Harvard Law School (HLS) students volunteered a week of their winter break to provide free legal and humanitarian assistance to area residents and community organizations in southeast Louisiana. Additionally, eight HLS students worked throughout…

Fourteen Harvard-affliated students are among the 30 graduate students nationwide recently named Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2006. Fellows receive a stipend of up to $20,000 plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.

The Fromm Foundation and the Harvard University Department of Music are proud to present this years Fromm Festival, a free concert series running March 10-12 in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Curated by composer Hans Tutschku, the concerts are part of an impetus to program work that would otherwise not be seen in the…

Down 2-0 with 57 seconds remaining in Tuesdays (Feb. 14) Beanpot championship bout versus Boston College at Bright Hockey Center, the Crimsons Jennifer Sifers 07 was whistled for roughing. Specifically, she was called for bowling over Eagle goaltender Alison Quandt while in pursuit of the puck. Though hardly a cheap shot, Sifers overzealous efforts reflected…

Hasty Woman of the Year feted today, beginning with parade Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year Halle Berry will lead the celebrated group’s traditional parade through the streets of…

Peter Godfrey-Smith, whose work at the intersection of philosophy and biology has provided striking philosophical analysis of the nature of genetics and evolution, has been appointed professor of philosophy in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1.

Elliot Forbes memorial set for Feb. 25 A memorial service for Elliot Forbes, the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. at the…

Ca. February 1963 – In the latest of a long series of skirmishes with Harvard, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci proposes that the Lampoon Castle be converted into a…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences September 27, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Cherishing Our Hearts and Souls (COHS), a Roxbury-based, community-centered coalition affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has received funding from the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) and the networks founding partner, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), to implement a community-wide effort to raise public awareness and improve access to…

As recent debates over the teaching of intelligent design in our nations classrooms show, the teaching of religion in public schools remains a controversial topic. The First Amendment to the Constitution, as well as the concept of the separation of church and state, cause many educators to shy away from religion in the classroom. Yet…

In October 2006, the sixth annual contingent of new Gates Scholars, selected from countries around the world, will begin graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, England. Recently, 40 successful candidates from the United States, including three Harvard affiliates, were among the latest round of recipients.

In its first-ever capital campaign, the Harvard Business School (HBS) has surpassed the record for the most money raised by a business school, nearly $600 million. This amount far exceeds the goal of $500 million set at the campaigns launch.

Looking at the courses Francesco Erspamer is teaching his first year at Harvard, one is struck by their historical breadth. There is a course on the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, one on the writers of the decadent period at the turn of the 20th century, and two that examine the Italy of today,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The 10th and 11th meetings of the Faculty Council for 2005-06 were extra sessions held on Feb. 8 and 15 to discuss the process by which the next dean of…

Harvard University announced today (Feb. 16) the establishment of a $50 million Professorship Challenge Fund. The group of generous donors who created the fund hopes to encourage gifts from alumni and friends to endow named professorships across the University and provide other critically needed faculty support.

Harvard lost one of its greatest teachers and quintessential biologists with the death of Claude Alvin Villee Jr. on August 7, 2003, at age 86, after a long illness with Parkinsons disease.

After three years of minimal increases in market rents (0 percent in 2003, 0.7 percent in 2004, 0.7 percent decrease in 2005), research for this year suggests a recovery is under way in the local rental market, thereby supporting an increase in Harvard residential housing rents.

In a suite of newly remodeled offices in the basement of Pierce Hall, a group of undergraduates huddles near a whiteboard besmirched with diagrams. Laptops glow. Uncompleted circuit boards lay scattered across tables like abandoned blue books. A blur of voices doesnt make the scene any less puzzling: We have something here, and we have…

The shadow knows, and so does Zuleika Velazquez.

Provost Steven E. Hyman and the Chair of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies Professor John Coatsworth have announced the appointment of Stephen P. Marks as the first Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. His responsibilities will include working with the committee to expand undergraduate education opportunities in human rights,…

After a 15 percent increase last year, applications to the College kept pace, remaining near record levels. Applications for the Class of 2010 number 22,719, compared to last years record 22,796.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize Committee is now seeking nominations for this years prize, which recognizes the outstanding performance of members of FASs administrative and professional staff.

Susan Athey, an economic theorist who has made significant contributions to the study of industrial organization, has been named professor of economics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

They are very different.

The Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal currently encircling the United States Congress is the worst case of corruption to hit Washington in a long time, according to experts taking part in a Kennedy School of Government forum Tuesday night (Feb. 7).

When the busload of Harvard undergraduates arrived at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in New Orleans, one of the citys first schools to reopen after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the back yard was a debris-clogged mess.