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Robin Abrahams is living her dream. I always wanted to be an advice columnist, she said. As a young girl, I was always very attracted to the character of Lucy from Peanuts with her booth of psychiatric advice for five cents. I wasnt quite sure what psychiatric advice was, but I was quite sure I…

Harvard College has created the Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) to establish a stimulating, collegial, and diverse residential community for Harvard undergraduates engaged in summer research in life science, physical science, applied science, mathematics, and engineering.

With thousands of foreign scholars coming to Cambridge and Boston to study and to pursue careers in research or teaching, Harvard has long been a global university. Increasingly, in addition to being a global destination, Harvard has been extending itself to locations around the world, either in partnerships with governments and institutions or through physical…

Harvard University Monday (Dec. 12) announced the creation of a University-wide program on Islamic studies, made possible by a $20 million gift from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. The new program will build on Harvards strong commitment to the study of the religious traditions of the world. It will also augment Harvards existing…

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. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Dec. 3, 1954 – During Radcliffe’s 75th Anniversary ceremony, Radcliffe President Wilbur Kitchener Jordan presents Ada Louise Comstock (Notestein, since her 1943 marriage), his immediate predecessor, with a citation hailing…

At its seventh meeting of the year on Dec. 14, the Faculty Council received a report from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resources Committee and from the dean for development.

Just over 800 students were admitted to Harvard Colleges Class of 2010 under the Early Action program this week (Dec. 14-15), the smallest number since the Class of 1999. While the exact numbers were not available by press time as the Admissions Committee finished its final deliberations, it appears that there will be 80 or…

The Faculty Committee on Education Abroad and the Harvard College Office of International Programs have announced the winners of the first funding cycle of the International Innovation Fund grant program, which supports University faculty-sponsored initiatives in education abroad for undergraduates.

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) recognized Clinical Professor of Developmental Biology Donald B. Giddon for his contribution to the Defining the Future of Dental Medicine campaign by naming a conference room and adjoining office space in his honor at a Dec. 6 ceremony. The Professor Donald B. Giddon, DMD, Ph.D., Behavioral Science Research…

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…