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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced the election of 196 new fellows and 17 new foreign honorary members. Among this latest class of leaders in scholarship, business,…

Center court took center stage in first round NCAA womens tennis action against Maryland this past Friday (May 13). With the doubles point up in the air following host Harvards 8-1 thrashing of the Terrapins in court 1 and Marylands 8-4 win in the far court, the tiebreaker pitting the Crimson duo of Elsa ORiain…

On May 18, Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) honored its more than 1,000 volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2004-05 academic year at a reception hosted by the University at the Faculty Club. Together, these volunteers have provided more than 60,000 hours of individualized academic services…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 1943 – Shortly before Commencement, the Qing (Ch’ing) Dynasty stone dragon just west of Widener Library is set on a new base. The dragon had been a Tercentenary (1936)…

Seven Harvard faculty members were recently elected as members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). The nations oldest learned society, APS is devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.

This is the time of year when students try to squeeze a term¹s work into a week or two.

Harvard’s Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering, appointed three months ago to address concerns of women faculty and women in science throughout the University, today released reports calling for large-scale changes in the way the University recruits faculty and supports women and underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers.

In April you can go to New Orleans for a celebration of jazz, and in August you can head to Edinburgh for a nonstop multiweek theater fix. Lincoln Center has dance all summer. But all those art forms and more fuse with dazzling effects during the annual four-day celebration of the arts at Harvard. The…

Seven members of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR), all recent nonagenarians, were honored by University Marshal Jackie ONeill for their dedication to lifelong learning. The April 29 ceremony at the Harvard Faculty Club was attended by friends and family of the honorees, and by Dean Michael Shinagel of the Division of Continuing…

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its fourth annual Public Service Celebration, titled 100 Years of Service in honor of the associations centennial, on May 6. The event included a reception and an awards dinner to honor graduating seniors with Stride Rite Senior Recognition Awards, Stride Rite Post-Grad Fellowships, and Houston-Moreland Awards.

Tennis takes Ivy honors, set to battle Terrapins Women’s tennis recently swept the league’s top two honors with senior Susanna Lingman earning player of the year accolades and Celia Durkin…

The Harvard community is invited to a performance of The Witness Cantata, composed by Swanee Hunt, former ambassador to Austria (1993-97) and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government. Coro Allegro – Bostons acclaimed chorus for members and friends of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities, directed…

Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-06 academic year are John A. La Rue 07 and Elizabeth S. Widdicombe 06. The two were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers applications.

For the past 12 years, the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 225 sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The Weissman Program enables students to develop a…

The third McDonald Conference on Evangelical Theology began Friday night (May 6) with a keynote speech by Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton University professor of sociology and the director of the Princeton Center for the Study of Religion. Wuthnow has studied religion from the perspective of many disciplines, including economics, politics, arts, and psychology, and has…

Six Harvard professors joined nearly 200 scholars nationwide to be named recipients of a total of $7.4 million in fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The fellowships, announced this past February, are intended for individual research in the humanities.

The Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced the selection of 18 undergraduate students, chosen from a pool of 185 candidates, for prestigious paid summer political internships. These students will meet and learn from leading academics, policy-makers, and politicians at high-profile organizations, furthering their understanding of and interest in politics and public…

Can a roomful of Harvard students meeting for three hours on a Friday afternoon help to ease the deep historical tensions between China and Japan? Ronald Heifetz thinks so.

Glenn Patton Pat Wright, teacher, editor, and mentor, died of cancer in his Cambridge, Mass., home on May 4. He was 58 years old.

They could be called the above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty prizes.

If laughter is the best medicine, then Harvard Divinity School student Zachary Warren is hoping that for Afghan children, performance will help the medicine go down.

Lecturer on social medicine Carola Eisenberg, one of the five founding members of Physicians for Human Rights (an organization that shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to the campaign for banning land mines), and her husband, Leon Eisenberg, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine Emeritus in the Department of…

Last weekends stormy weather turned up roses for Harvard baseball, as the host Crimson swept two games from Cornell in Mondays (May 9) rescheduled Ivy League Championship, handing the home team its first league title in three years. Harvards pitching crew – well rested after Saturdays and Sundays rainouts – limited Cornell to two runs…