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The Peabody Museums Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration is always a spirited affair – with its live marimba music, bouquets of flowers, and powerful images. But last weeks event, hosted by the museum and the Consulate General of Mexico, was particularly dynamic, featuring two inspirational altar installations created by artist Eric…

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Publishers recently hosted the 11th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the tenth annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies.

Maybe it wasnt quite the end of history that Richard Fisher described during the Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy last week (Nov. 3).

Salman Rushdie was at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Monday (Nov. 7), to read from his new novel, Shalimar the Clown, and to discuss the challenges facing a storyteller in a politically troubled and morally perplexing world.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study recently celebrated the life and legacy of Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith (1910 – 1998), known to the Harvard-Radcliffe community as Polly Bunting, president of Radcliffe College from 1960 to 1972. The event included remarks by Elaine Yaffe, author of Mary Ingraham Bunting: Her Two Lives (Frederic C. Beil, 2005), the…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 17, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Geraldine Brooks recalled lying on a Kurdish rooftop in 1991, looking down at a tank below and hearing rifle and rifle-propelled-grenade fire. She was with a group of male reporters, who were excitedly talking about getting to the lines where Kurds were engaging Saddam Husseins government troops.

FAS forum open to students, faculty on Nov. 16 Students and faculty are invited to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Forum on General Education and Concentrations Wednesday (Nov. 16)…

Herzlinger named one of health care’s most powerful people Modern Healthcare magazine has named Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, one of the 100 most…

With a ceremony last Friday (Nov. 4) to mark the occasion and to honor generous contributors, Harvard University has formally completed its new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), a 249,000-square-foot complex that will provide a spacious and airy home for dozens of researchers affiliated with Harvards Department of Government and various centers devoted…

Joel Spicer, currently on leave from the Canadian International Development Agency, has been named a 2005 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Student, a prestigious title reserved for a select few in Canada and the United States. As a Fulbrighter, Spicer will pursue a masters degree in public health/international health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

This is the first in a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities that Harvard affiliates can support through this months Community Gifts through Harvard campaign.

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 (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

In the Memorial Room of the Memorial Church, Nancy Lloyd, objects conservator for the Straus Center for Conservation, works on The Sacrifice, a sculpture dedicated to the Harvard men who died in World War I.

Nov. 7, 1947 – The Fogg Museum hosts a conference on new methods of using soft X-rays in analyzing works of art. The event draws curators and museum directors from…

Kelsey Wilcox 09 has a couple of pumpkins for company as she waits for her lunch date outside of Annenberg Hall.

The Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received another supply of flu vaccine and will resume scheduled flu vaccination clinics on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday…

It looks like the stuff any gardener might find while turning over a new tomato bed: rusty nails, chunks of old brick, shards of glass, maybe a sprinkler head or two. But to the students of Anthropology 1130: The Archaeology of Harvard Yard, it is a potential gold mine of information. Stored in plastic bags,…

November 7, 2005 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I write to share with you some thoughts and hopes for the months ahead and to invite your engagement on the…