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Joshua Reyes 05 of Leverett House and Navin Kumar 06 of Kirkland House have been named this years David Aloian Memorial Scholars. The two will be honored at the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) fall dinner in October.

Saying that each generation has a chance to be the greatest generation, NBC News Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert urged members of Harvards Class of 2005 Wednesday (June 8) to seize their opportunity to make the world a better place.

Seven Harvard College seniors began their service to the nation yesterday (June 8) at the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. Smaller but no less traditional than todays Commencement Exercises, the commissioning ceremony featured remarks by President Lawrence H. Summers and reflections from Harvard alumni on their lives as scholars and…

Former CIA Director John M. Deutch, institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that the United States is not making progress toward key objectives in Iraq and called for American troops to pull out as soon as possible during a speech Tuesday (June 7) at Harvards Sanders Theatre.

In his Baccalaureate address, Lawrence H. Summers spoke to the graduating seniors less as Harvards president and more as an honorary member of the Class of 2005, which, in a manner of speaking, he is.

The Class of 2005 recipients of this years Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will be serving others in locales from Arizona to India, and in fields ranging from mentoring young women to helping refugees.

Four Harvard-affiliated researchers were recently elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The May election was held during the academys 142nd annual meeting.

Eliot Canter 35 remembers going to the New England Brick Co. in North Cambridge to pick out bricks for the new Hemenway Gymnasium, whose construction he was overseeing.

Denise Scott Brown, an architect and planner and principal of the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, will receive the 2005 Radcliffe Institute Medal tomorrow (June 10) at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the yearly Radcliffe Day luncheon.

A record nine members of the Business Schools M.B.A. Class of 2005 are being honored this week with the Deans Award – and these recipients are as diverse as they are outstanding in their commitment to service. Given annually since 1998 by Dean Kim B. Clark to students who have demonstrated unusually strong leadership during…

Harvards Department of Music has announced its 2004-05 fellowship and award recipients. Close to $190,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the departments graduate and undergraduate students.

Creating new opportunities for generations of students to engage in rigorous study of the principles of economics and finance, Moise Y. Safra has established the Moise Y. Safra Professorship of Economics. Safras $3.5 million gift to fund the new chair is a significant step toward Harvards goal of increasing the size of the Faculty of…

Ethan Gray 05, former president and associate principal cellist of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, is the first recipient of the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award.

A mathematician who has forged new paths in algebra and algebraic geometry, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose work may lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of deadly diseases, a scholar of religion whose best-selling books explore the diversity of belief in early Christianity, and an economist whose groundbreaking study of markets was rewarded with the…

Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George Whitesides is this years recipient of the prestigious Welch Foundation award for scientific achievement, the foundation announced on June 2. A pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, Whitesides, in winning the Welch award joins other distinguished Harvard scientists, including Jeremy Knowles (1995), Wm. Von Eggers Doering (1990), Frank…

As the academic year comes to its traditional triumphant conclusion, many graduates, students, and faculty are already getting their summer plans under way – if not in fact, certainly in their imaginations. Following are some of the summer plans of faculty members of the University, and also an intimate, if brief, glimpse into their summers…

Federal Judge Patti B. Saris 73, J.D.76 has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2005-06. M. Lee Pelton Ph.D. 84, the president of Willamette University, will serve as vice chair of the boards executive committee.

Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development and academic dean, will serve as acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (June 6). Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, the current dean, announced her intention in March to step down at…

Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, effective July 1.

Restrooms: Restrooms for the general public are located in Weld, Thayer, and Sever halls. These restrooms are wheelchair accessible. First aid stations: First aid stations are situated in the following…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

June 1904 – Helen Keller, who had lost sight and hearing in early childhood, earns her A.B. (with honors) from Radcliffe. Dorothy Elia Howells recalls the memorable moment in “A…

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2005 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2005 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

Harvard University seniors Christopher D. Golden, an environmental conservation concentrator Liora Russman Halperin, a history and Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator and Peter McMurray, a Slavic studies and classics concentrator, are the winners of the 2005 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, which is awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew…

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 9). For the 17th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the City of Cambridge and of Harvards 354th Commencement Exercises.

In some corners of Las Vegas, Harvard chemist David Liu is viewed as a dangerous man.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

June 19, 1638 – Shortly before this date, Nathaniel Eaton, first Master of the College, moves with his family from Charlestown into a house in the Yard. By Sept. 17,…

When Bryan Richardson signed up for a lecture course on public finance at the Kennedy School of Government last fall, he never expected to be earning his grade by hobnobbing with urban police officers. This material can be kind of dry in the classroom, the 26-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., recalled. We all hoped to apply…

A month of rain has rendered the Yard a glowing paradise of greenery.