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A memorial service for Dennis N. Skiotis, director of undergraduate studies at Harvards Department of History from 1985 to 1998, and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1976 to 1985, will be held May 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Adams House, 26 Plympton St. Skiotis passed away Oct. 19…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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…

This August, the Harvard University Art Museums will present Degas at Harvard, an exhibition examining Harvard Universitys distinguished holdings by Edgar Degas – one of the most important collections of the artists work in the United States. The exhibition will draw together more than 60 works by Degas from the collection of the Fogg Art…

The choice of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to lead the Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI served as the springboard for a lively panel discussion on the future of religion in global politics at the Kennedy School Forum Wednesday night.

Harvardwood, the organization for Harvard alumni and students in the arts, media, and entertainment, is accepting applications through the end of April for its third annual summer internship program. The 2005 Harvardwood Summer Internship Program (HSIP) will match between 40 and 50 current Harvard students seeking experience with internship opportunities with media and entertainment companies.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences April 12, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Shows from the Sopranos to Celebrity Poker may soon be plucked right out of the air thanks to wireless (wi-fi) technology and the ingenuity of a Harvard senior.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA] into law in 1965, one of the biggest education challenges facing the nation was the difference in the quality of education provided to children from white households and those from nonwhite households. Today, the racial gap persists. How much of the gap…

Feminist author Susan Faludi once said, My goal is to be accused of being strident. In person she seems anything but. Slender, soft-spoken, with a habit of lowering her eyes as she speaks as though consulting some inner source of authority, Faludi drives home her arguments not with assertive rhetoric but, in accord with her…

Widener Library has been selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) to receive the 2005 AIA/ALA Library Building Award.

Three-term New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) has selected 12 young scientists working in a wide range of research to be its first seed grant recipients.

A University of Michigan historian and outspoken foe of Bush administration Middle East policy painted a decidedly pessimistic picture of the future of Iraq in a public address on Friday (April 22), arguing that sub-nationalisms along ethnic and religious lines are proving to be as durable in Iraq as the idea of Iraqi national identity.

Trustees of the Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation recently named Scott V. Edwards, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, as one three recipients for its 2004 Australia-Harvard Fellowship. Edwards, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, will collaborate on comparative genomics research with Jennifer Graves, head of Australian National…

Baseball crowned Beantown’s best, splits doubleheader with Brown Harvard baseball captured its first outright Beanpot title since the 1991 season with a 7-3 win over Northeastern on April 21 at…

The visiting University of Massachusetts Minutemen lived up to their nickname in a big way against Harvard lacrosse on Tuesday afternoon (April 26), at one point tallying five straight goals over a two minute and 47 second span. Harvard, meanwhile – which fell to 5-6 with the eventual 8-5 loss – simply turned crimson.

The Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies has announced the recipients of the 2005-06 Third Millennium Fellowships. The program, launched by the Third Millennium Foundation in 2004, enables students from the University to bring human rights theory and practice together, to make a valuable contribution to human rights, to gain firsthand experience abroad in…

Lagemann presentation to accompany PDK ceremony Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann will speak to members of Harvard’s Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) chapter on May 19 at…

Merage Fellows announced Harvard students Svetlana Meyerzon ’05 and Onyi Offor ’05 recently joined 12 other college seniors nationwide to be named 2005 American Dream Fellows by the Merage Foundation.…

Harvard students Loren Bienvenu 07 and Brian Distelberg 05 have both been awarded first prize in this years Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. Finding overwhelming merit in both Bienvenus entry, Shining Through the Ashes: A Collection of Beat Literature, and Distelbergs entry, An Interesting Trio of Writers: Books By and About Edward Everett…

Michael J. Hopkins, whose work linking algebraic topology to other branches of mathematics and physics has earned him a reputation as the worlds pre-eminent algebraic topologist, has been appointed professor of mathematics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (April 25). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.