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Whats Maya Lin been up to since she won a national competition with her design for the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale?

The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others…

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who as young reporters broke the Watergate scandal wide open, came together again Monday night (Dec. 5) for a Kennedy School Forum discussion on anonymous sources and journalistic integrity. Described by moderator Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, as the most celebrated and admired reporting team in history, both…

Sever Hall, a National Historic Landmark widely regarded as an architectural gem, has emerged radiant and refreshed from its three-month restoration and remodeling. The façade of the 1880 building, designed by master architect Henry Hobson Richardson, was painstakingly preserved with upgrades to bricks, mortar, brownstone, terra-cotta roof tiles, and windows. Inside the building, the fourth…

The Harvard Scholars at Risk program connects the University to a national network that defends the human rights of scholars worldwide. Each year, the program (sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies [UCHRS]) awards one or more fellowships to scholars facing persecution.

Leveraging the resources of the private sector, local nonprofits, and universities was the focus of discussion Friday morning (Dec. 2) during the final day of the 16th biennial seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly Elected Mayors held at the Kennedy School of Government.

Accomplished architect Sinisha Brdar has been named a 2005 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Student, a prestigious title reserved for a select few in Canada and the United States. Brdar, who was working as an urban designer and architect for Workshop – Architecture + Design, is currently studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

While Divinity School student Zachary Warren drives his unicycle, what is driving him? A love of laughter, says the juggler, trick cyclist, and entertainer known as the Jolly Juggler. In fact, last summer Warrens love of laughter drove him all the way to Afghanistan.

U2 lead singer Bono (center), co-founder of Debt AIDS Trade Africa (DATA), meets with Harvard students and faculty on Tuesday (Dec. 6) to discuss the impact of AIDS and poverty in Africa. Over lunch, the singer, who was invited to the University by President Summers, discusses a cluster of issues with, among others, Summers (left)…

On September 27, 2004 John Mack was struck and killed by a car in London, a vehicle operated by a man under the influence of alcohol. He would have turned 75 years-old the following week, an event which friends, colleagues, and students were eagerly anticipating to celebrate. His tragic and unanticipated death, at a time…

David Roy Shackleton Bailey, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, died at 9:45 a.m. on Nov. 28, at the age of 87. Since his retirement from Harvard in 1988 he had been a resident of Ann Arbor, Mich., where he had taught and continued to write as an adjunct professor…

Lee Breuer remembers visiting an ancient theater in Turkey where Greek tragedies were performed and asking the guide the purpose of a particular stone.

William H. Bond, who served for nearly two decades as librarian of Houghton Library, died Nov. 18, at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., following a brief illness. He was 90.

You may not have noticed, but the smallest revolution in world history is under way. Laboratories and factories have begun to make medical sensors and computer-chip components smaller than a single blood cell or the periods on this page.

The defining mark of narrative journalism is the personality of the writer, the voice of the knowing ally – whole, candid, not speaking on behalf of any institution, corporation, government, ideology, chamber of commerce, or travel destination. … The genres power is the strength of its voice, writes Mark Kramer, organizer of the Nieman Narrative…

Men, women icers stand ground in poll On the strength of a three-game win streak, the Harvard women’s hockey team moved up a spot in this week’s U.S. College Hockey…

Speed beat out size in a big way this past Saturday (Dec. 3) at Lavietes Pavilion, as the visiting Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) mens basketball team served Harvard hoops its first setback of the season by a tally of 87-79. The loss snapped a five-game win streak for the Crimson club, who were off…

In honor of the 80th birthday of Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Jack Strominger, Harvards Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is holding a major scientific symposium this Saturday (Dec. 10) at the New Research Building Conference Center (77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston).

PBH gift drive under way Through Dec. 15, the Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will be accepting donations for its annual holiday gift drive. Members of the Harvard community are invited…

Two juniors awarded Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize Harvard College junior Nitipat Pholchai and senior Carly Cohen have recently been named co-recipients of the 2005-06 Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize. Given annually,…

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a three-day conference at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building (1730 Cambridge St.), Dec. 9-11. The conference, titled Studying Modern China: Past, Present, and Future, will feature distinguished scholars from Harvard and other institutions in academic panels and…

Two fellows at Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet and Society – Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman – were recently awarded Best Journalistic Blog in English by Deutsche Welle for Global Voices Online, the nonprofit media project they co-founded and run (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/). The award recognizes the tremendous contribution made to citizens media in the…

Belva Brown Jordan has a passion for Volkswagen Beetles. It all started about 15 years ago: I was sitting on an airplane one day, said Jordan, and I opened up one of those airplane magazines where you can order stuff and there was this picture of a Franklin Mint Volkswagen Beetle, a classic Beetle, and…

The following seniors, listed below by their Houses, were nominated to Phi Beta Kappa in the latest round of elections on Nov. 14.

At a party hosted by President Lawrence H. Summers at his Elmwood Avenue home, he talks to some of his 80 guests – students studying at Harvard University after their schools were closed because of Hurricane Katrina.

A weeklong stay in a French villa, lunch with the lieutenant governor, a tour of the San Francisco mayors office, and four tickets to a Chicago Cubs baseball game are among the items up for bid at the 20th annual Student Internship Fund (SIF) auction at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The auction will…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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

Dec. 29, 1627 – John Harvard enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. Dec. 20, 1672 – Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, is formally installed as Harvard’s third President and the…

Although there have not yet been any reports anywhere of human-to-human transmission of avian influenza, administrators from across the University gathered at Maxwell-Dworkin on Monday (Dec. 5) for a two-hour presentation by the Universitys Incident Support Team (IST) to further planning for dealing with a possible pandemic of the bird flu.