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Daniel Lord Smail, a cultural historian who studies social and legal transformations in the later Middle Ages, has been named professor of history in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2006.

Ambivalence is such a common condition in our complex and uncertain times that it is astonishing to learn that the word has existed for less than a century. It was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 to describe a condition in which a person holds contradictory feelings toward someone or something.

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 Sept. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

September 1930 – The Class of 1934 enters with 897 members. Dunster and Lowell – the first of the seven original undergraduate Houses – are ready for occupancy. September 1936…

For doctors Miriam Baron and Jennifer Moye, the money couldnt have come at a better time.

In celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and the majesty of the Charles River Parklands, the Charles River Conservancy and the Revels called neighbors from Cambridge and Allston to the second annual RiverSing on Sept. 22. With massed choruses in the hundreds on either side of the Charles, traditional river songs were shared from shore to…

In Harvard Yard, first-years took time off from gobbling down hot dogs, hamburgers, and doughnuts to wait patiently in a long line and get a chance to shoot the breeze with the president. On this warm September day, President Lawrence H. Summers and a bunch of upperclassmen hung out in the Yard and extended a…

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has selected six graduate fellows in ethics for the 2005-06 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in law, political science, philosophy, and medicine, were chosen from a pool of outstanding Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics…

This fall, Harvard will host its first Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender (LBGT) Film Series. This inaugural event seeks to examine and celebrate representations of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender life and culture in cinema during the four decades since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York Citys Greenwich Village ignited the modern gay rights…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine December 15, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Newly elected Serbian President Boris Tadic said a democratic Serbia and Montenegro could be a regional force for stability and economic growth, but warned that moves to further fragment the nation would work against those goals.

Eleven leading academics and practitioners whose expertise ranges from health policy to Latin American studies have been named new faculty members at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced.

Former Google Chief Operations Engineer Jim Reese will share the secrets of how he helped the search engine grow from 300 servers when he joined the company in 1999 to 10,000 today in a talk scheduled for Wednesday (Sept. 28).

Dockery named new chair of Dept. of Environmental Health Harvard Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Douglas Dockery has been named chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School…

Former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp will deliver the seventh annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, An American Renaissance for the Gulf Coast, on Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Graduate School of Designs Piper Auditorium. A reception will be held at 7 p.m. in Stubbins Room, Gund…

Team HMS reaches beach among top 30 finishers A dozen Harvard Medical School students placed 23rd overall out of 285 running clubs in the seventh annual Reach the Beach Relay…

Du Bois Institute to present Katznelson Author Ira Katznelson will read from his new book, “When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America,”…

Education and thrills combined as tentative little fingers stretched out to caress the baby American alligator and the red rat snake under the eyes of watchful parents at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) recently. Other creatures featured at the Harvard Museums annual Community Day, drawing oohs and aahs from children and adults alike,…

More than 700 students will participate in 27 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at Harvard University this fall, sponsored in part through the grant program of the Office for the Arts (OfA). These grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is sponsoring an art and design competition this fall with $10,000 in cash prizes for the best visions of a sustainable Harvard campus.

Harvard Business School (HBS) formally reopened Baker Library – the historic building capped with a bell tower that has been the symbol of the School for over 75 years – marking the conclusion of an extensive two-year, $53.4 million renovation and expansion project.

Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations recently selected 17 fellows for the 2005-06 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology has been awarded a $110,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB). The grant will help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness. Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology Joan W. Miller, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical…