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Bradley Welch to play Harvard Organ Society’s celebrity series In association with Harvard University Art Museums and the Memorial Church, the Harvard Organ Society will present a recital by world-renowned…

Chen wins Weintraub Award Irene A. Chen, an M.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Harvard Medical School, has been named one of 15 graduate students nationwide selected…

In a long-awaited clinical trial conducted among nearly 40,000 initially healthy middle-aged American women, regular use of low-dose aspirin over a 10-year period was found to reduce the risk of stroke 17 percent. However, among the same population, researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) also found that low-dose aspirin did not benefit most…

The tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on Dec. 26 created one of the largest swaths of destruction meted out by a natural disaster in historical memory. This catastrophe galvanized an unprecedented outpouring of international aid in terms of funds and organizational efforts, providing an opportunity to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of international humanitarian…

Film and television actor Sharon Stone will receive the Harvard Foundations 2005 Humanitarian Award when she delivers the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture at the Memorial Church on Monday (March 14) at 7 p.m.

Drawing a line between areas where people use the term hoagie rather than po boy or water fountain instead of bubbler is the kind of problem that concerns linguists who study regional speech differences.

Democratic institutions are gaining a foothold in parts of the Middle East, according to U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. But only time will tell if the institutions flourish and if so, how those democracies will look compared with ours, Feith told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum March 3.

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 for the week ending March 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Widely considered the worlds most eminent evolutionary biologist, Mayr joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953 and led Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has recently announced the availability of predoctoral fellowships for the 2005-06 academic year. The center supports research in areas relating to leadership and the dynamics of progress and change. This fellowship is intended to expose the successful applicant to the academic literature on leadership…

The Holyoke Center Arcade looks open for business as night falls.

March 1925 – The Harvard-Boston (Egyptian) Expedition discovers, intact, the secret tomb of Queen Hetep-heres I, mother of King Cheops (a.k.a. Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid). This spectacular find…

At its 10th meeting of the year on March 9, the Faculty Council heard a report from the Harvard College Curricular Review Committee on General Education. Committee members present included Professors Charles Maier and Michael Sandel, and student representative Matthew Mahan 05. Council member Alison Simmons also serves on the General Education Committee.

Harvard University Art Museums will host the Tanglewood Marionettes as part of its upcoming Sackler Saturday event on March 12. The performance, titled Perseus and Medusa – A Tale From Ancient Greece, tells the classic Greek myth of Perseus and his quest to defeat the snaky-haired Gorgon Medusa. The show begins at 11:30 a.m., and…

An Institute of Politics student policy group got some expert advice about legislative redistricting Monday (Feb. 28) from a veteran on the front lines: an incumbent congressman voted out of his seat after a round of redistricting before the 2004 election.

Moira Whelan, who most recently served on the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives as communications director for the minority, has joined Harvards Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as the director of communications and outreach. Whelan will coordinate the centers outreach to the media and Capitol Hill.

Under the baton of music director and conductor Jonathan McPhee, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will present the Weilerstein Trio on March 12 at 8 p.m. at the New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall. Featuring conservatory faculty members Donald Weilerstein (on violin) and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein (on piano), and their 21-year-old daughter Alisa Weilerstein (on cello),…

Harvard senior Mike Blumberg (in rear) prepares to return a shot from Cornells Mike Delaney during first-round action of the mens College Squash Associations Championship at the Murr Center this past weekend. Blumberg won the contest, 3-0, as Harvard went on to blank the Big Red, 9-0. The Crimson later downed Yale, 8-1, before falling…

Detur Book Prize winners of the Class of 2007 were honored at a Feb.7 reception in the Faculty Room in University Hall. One of the oldest prizes at Harvard College, the prize is intended to honor and congratulate sophomores on the high GPAs earned their first year at the College.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences February 15, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. issued a call to arms for Americans, in particular African Americans, to reject the status quo in American politics and consider new options for moving forward. Speaking Feb. 23 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Ogletree noted that in modern history African Americans have been largely loyal…

In February, the Harvard Archive of World Music at Loeb Music Library, a unit of Harvard College Library, and the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Sound Directions: Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage, a project to create best practices and test…

The Harvard Film Archive will welcome the father of Korean cinema, renowned director Im Kwon-Taek to the University on March 4 for a screening of Chunhyang at 7 p.m. The next evening (March 5), a reception in Ims honor will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Sert Gallery Café, and will be…