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The American Australian Association (AAA) recently announced that it is sponsoring its second year of United States to Australia Fellowships. The program will provide up to four awards totaling $80,000 to outstanding American students to pursue graduate and postdoctoral studies and research in life and ocean sciences, medicine, engineering, or mining at top Australian universities…

Wayne Streilein once quoted a Zen proverb: A garden is never complete until there is nothing left to remove. In that statement, one can appreciate Waynes view of his own lifes work. His career was dedicated to spirited inquiry, and driven by novel insights. Waynes impact on science extends far beyond the discipline of immunology,…

To help Harvard staff improve the organization of their files, the Universitys Records Management Office (RMO) is offering workshops on electronic record keeping. These workshops provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. This year, a new section will cover such issues as version control and naming conventions, and…

Kenneth R. Andrews, who began his academic career as an authority on Mark Twain and went on to become a renowned professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), a founder of the field of corporate strategy, editor of the Harvard Business Review, and a beloved master of Leverett House, died on Sept. 4 at his home…

Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs John Ruggie was appointed as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annans special representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises this past month. Ruggie served as UN assistant secretary-general and adviser to Annan on strategic planning from 1997 to 2001.

A stubborn Harvard football team made do without its marquee player from last season – Ivy League Player of the Year Ryan Fitzpatrick 05 – to earn a come-from-behind win in their season opener opposite host Holy Cross this past Saturday afternoon (Sept. 17). The 31-21 victory extended the Crimsons winning ways to a dozen…

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) held its convocation Sept. 20, marking the 50th anniversary of the Schools admission of women.

Meselson named NYAS honorary life member Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew Meselson was recently named an honorary life member of the New York Academy of Sciences…

Harvard Police Officer Jack OKane got his first tattoo on a visit to Ireland from a guy named Danny Bullman, someone he says hell never forget.

Donald Howard Shively, an authority on Japanese urban life and popular culture in the Tokugawa period and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, where he also served as director of the Japan Institute (now the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies), died on Aug. 13 in a nursing facility near…

Mikhail Lukin thinks that devices based on quantum science are at the same stage as radios were about 100 years ago. To catch up, the recently tenured professor of physics is stopping and storing light, making artificial atoms behave in new ways, and doing engineering with superconductivity. When quantum does overtake kilowatts, you can expect…

Homi K. Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Languages in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, 2004 – 05 Radcliffe Institute fellow, and faculty associate at the institute for the past three years, is now also affiliated with the Radcliffe Institute…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Sept. 19. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The fourth annual Movie Time at Harvard – a free, outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sunday (Sept. 25) at 7:15 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre (between Memorial Church and Widener Library). This years event will be a double feature. Movie Time is open to the entire University community…

September 1902 – More than 600 undergraduates arrive in the Class of 1906. Until just before World War I, entering Classes stabilize around this size. September 1906 – The Medical…

Fundraising receipts for the University totaled $590 million in fiscal year 2005, a $50 million increase over fiscal year 2004, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier announced today (Sept. 22).

Tercentenary Theatre will take on the look and feel of a state fair this Friday evening (Sept. 23) as students get the chance to ride a mechanical bull, dunk their deans and House masters, and milk a mock cow. Presented by the College Deans Office, the event – the first-ever campus-wide, welcome-back celebration – will…

At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 21, the Faculty Council discussed the recommendations of the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering.

Two events at Harvard Law School (HLS) last week (Sept 15-18) focused attention on civil rights and economic equality and included a call to action from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.

Public health researcher Sue Goldie, associate professor of health decision science at Harvard School of Public Health, has been awarded a $500,000 MacArthur grant for genius and creativity in applying the tools of decision science to evaluate the clinical benefits, public health impact, and cost-effectiveness of alternative preventive and treatment interventions for viruses that are…

With the goal of opening the Harvard classroom to distance learners, Harvard alumni, and possibly an international audience, all 26 lectures of Moral Reasoning 22: Justice, taught by Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel, will be filmed in high-definition video this fall.

Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Technology Review magazine recently named four Harvard researchers to its 2005 list of top technology innovators under the age of 35. According to the magazine, the TR35 will shape our world for decades to come.

Sevcenko gets honorary degree Ihor Sevcenko, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature Emeritus in the Department of the Classics, was awarded an honorary doctorate of liberal arts from…