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In an effort to inspire a new wave of dialogue, action, and service among youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS, students from the Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF), the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC), the Harvard African Students Association (HASA), and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) will be co-hosting, for the first time, the Unite Against…

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Harvard faculty members James Hanken and Edward O. Wilson will deliver tributes. They will be joined by Walter Bock, professor of evolutionary biology at Columbia University Jared…

April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the “S.S. Radcliffe Victory,” one of several wartime Victory…

As many as one out of three people in the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, public health experts estimate. That could lead to a global plague were it not for the fact that only one out of 10 infected people actually develops the disease.

In these uncertain meteorological times, an intrepid cyclist takes the chance that this blooming magnolia tree will not be covered with frost by the time she makes the first circult.

During an April 13 Capitol Hill breakfast for Harvard¹s congressional alumni and current members of the Massachusetts delegation, President Summers (right) spoke with attendees about a range of issues from student financial aid and Harvard¹s low-income student initiative to the importance of federal-university partnership in research. He chats above with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and…

More than 400 cyclists from dozens of Northeastern colleges and universities churned up the country roads and concrete jungles of Grafton and Somerville this past weekend as part of the third annual Beanpot Cycling Classic collegiate race.

During the summer months, the Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – offers citizenship classes. But during the academic year, the Bridges efforts continue, with students working one-on-one with Faculty of Arts and Sciences tutors to prepare for their citizenship test. These tutors -…

Mathematician Horng-Tzer Yau, who has harnessed the power of mathematics to analyze and explain physical processes from atomic behavior to the stability of stars, has been named professor of mathematics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Stanley J. Korsmeyer, a scientific leader at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose landmark discoveries about why cancer cells survive opened a promising new avenue for cancer treatment, died March 31. A nonsmoker, he died of lung cancer at 54.

Melanie Li Green, advanced-level conservation intern in the Paper Lab of the Straus Center for Conservation, died March 31 after being involved in a motorcycle accident. Li Green, 32, had worked at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) since Sept. 1, 2004, and was to complete her internship at the end of June 2005. She…

The Association of Black Harvard Women will kick off its 30th year by honoring renowned journalist and broadcaster Ed Gordon as its Outstanding Man of the Year at the annual 2005 Tribute to Black Men to be held on April 16.

A miniature book is just that – a diminutive text, generally less than 3 inches tall. A few of these books can be read fairly easily, some with effort and eyestrain, and others only with high-powered magnification. Houghton Librarys upcoming exhibition A Miniature Lesson in the History of the Book, opening today (April 14), will…

Carla A. Harris, managing director, head of Equity Private Placements, Financial Sponsors and Retail Capital Markets Coverage for Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley in New York, has been named the recipient of the 2005 Harvard College Womens Professional Achievement Award.

What traits will help the next generation of women scientists succeed? According to top female scientists from the nations universities, corporations, hospitals, research journals, and museums who spoke at a symposium held last week at Harvard, they include: zealous guarding of personal time, the ability to juggle numerous life tasks, and the willingness to sacrifice…

Harvard Universitys Navin Khaneja, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

The Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health has announced the launch of a Spanish-language version of its popular risk assessment Web site, Your Disease Risk. The new site, Cuidar de su Salud (Take Care of Your Health), provides tailored prevention messages and health information for Hispanic/Latino Americans, as well…

The U.S. Latino population has grown exponentially today Latinos are the fastest-growing group in the United States. U.S. Census Bureau estimates put the Latino population at more than 37 million. For the first time in this countrys history, Latinos are now the largest minority group. The census bureau estimates that by 2050, a full quarter…

It may be presumptuous for a university that is a mere 369 years old to tell a 5,000-year-old city, Job well done. Nevertheless, that is what Harvard has said to the city of Aleppo, Syria, by awarding it the Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.

Harvard softball continued its pattern of extreme highs and lows with a pair of losses on Tuesday afternoon (April 12) against a hot-swinging Boston College club in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The non-conference setbacks – a 5-1 loss followed by a 12-2 thumping in five innings in game two – amounts to a three-game losing streak…

Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has begun construction of the Northwest Science Building at the north end of the Cambridge campus, laying a cornerstone for faculty growth in the coming years. Upon its completion late in 2007, the low-slung glass and wood structure is expected to house up to 30 faculty and…

KSG fellow named chair of New York Stock Exchange Marshall N. Carter, a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was recently elected chairman of the New York Stock…