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In response to a peeping incident report involving an unknown male looking into the shower stall at Dane Hall taken by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) on Nov. 29, HUPD would like to remind members of the University community to take the following precautions to keep yourself and your valuables safe:

A remembrance gathering for friends and family of Professor of Geology Emeritus Raymond Siever will be held in the Hoffman Laboratory (20 Oxford St.), fourth-floor faculty lounge, on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m.

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

Dec. 29, 1627 – John Harvard enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. Dec. 20, 1672 – Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, is formally installed as Harvard’s third President and the…

Four Harvard undergraduates, a recent graduate, and a graduate student have been named Rhodes Scholars this year. The scholarship trust made the announcement on Nov. 21. The winners of this prestigious award are Peter Buttigieg 04, South Bend, Ind. seniors Melissa L. Dell, Enid, Okla., and Sarah J. Hill, Bismarck, N.D. graduate student Rachel Y.…

A new report titled Innovation and Opportunity: Harvard Universitys Impact on the Boston Area Economy describes Harvards broad economic impact, generating more than 48,000 jobs at many levels, from the service industry to construction to highly skilled scientific research positions.

As an early autumn dusk approaches, the Memorial Church glows warmly in Tercentenary Theatre.

The ivory-billed woodpecker could be the poster child for the worlds dwindling biodiversity: Found across the South in the 1800s, its American habitat shrank steadily to a single tract in Louisiana and eventually one last individual, a female killed when her nest was blown apart in a 1944 storm. Small numbers of the birds hobbled…

Susette Kelo is about to get her day in court.

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will welcome Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of The Polar Express, on Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Fogg Art Museum. The focus of the event, held in collaboration with the Cambridge Public Library and students and teachers of the Cambridge Public School District,…

Dean Kim B. Clark presided over ceremonies on campus recently celebrating Gayle and Robert F. Greenhill M.B.A 62, and their family, who established a $15 million endowment last June supporting the Schools extensive global research efforts.

It was a question Nora Nercessian couldnt answer, and like any good researcher, she made it her business to fill in the blank.

Take the Cold Turkey pledge to better the environment

Pedestrians and bicyclists enjoy the chilling, changing weather as they make their way across the Weeks Memorial Bridge to the Cambridge side of the Charles. (Staff photo Phoebe Sexton/Harvard News Office)

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Nov. 4, 1953 – Led by an escort of 27 Boston and Cambridge police motorcycles, Greece’s King Paul I and Queen Frederika arrive at Harvard. The royal couple meet President…

On Nov. 15 at approximately 9:10 p.m., a male undergraduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was the victim of an armed robbery while walking on Harvard Street near Ware Street. The victim stated that he was approached by two males who robbed him of his money and cellular phone.…

Louisiana State Rep. Karen Carter, author of a controversial law to reform New Orleans failing public schools, and Wendy Kopp, who dreamed up Teach for America in her Princeton dorm room, are the first recipients of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards, announced the Institute of Politics (IOP) and the John F. Kennedy Library…

Indigenous rights group and nonprofit organization Cultural Survival will celebrate 25 years of bringing indigenous art and crafts to the public with its annual bazaar in Pound Hall on Dec. 4 and 5.

Can women stop war? That was one of the provocative questions posed by the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPP) and the Institute of Politics in the sixth annual Kennedy School of Government (KSG) symposium to explore womens roles in peace. The answer, according to the five panelists who participated in a discussion Wednesday night…

A new Web site for the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) program went live earlier this month, providing a single electronic portal for those interested in graduate study of any field of biology at Harvard. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the site is located at http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/hils.

The Harvard Alumni Association invites members of the Harvard community to participate in a live neuroscience videoconference via satellite on Dec. 1 at Hawes Hall, room 201, Harvard Business School, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. has added yet another prestigious award to what is surely a long list. The New York Public Library, at a recent ceremony in New York, named Gates a Library Lion, one of its highest honors. The W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of African and…

Two Harvard faculty members were among eight noted investigators recently awarded the prestigious Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences. Associate Professor of Surgery Jeffrey Macklis at the Medical School and Andrew P. McMahon, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, were honored for their research. The prize provides for up…

Although Harvards reputation for academic excellence extends around the world, its reputation for fun has a far more limited reach.

Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an influential expert in strategic marketing who was a pioneer in the application of statistical methods to marketing issues, died on Nov. 6 at a hospice near his home in Alexandria, Va., from complications related to amyotrophic…

As if playing for a share of the Ivy League title wasnt enough pressure, the Harvard football team entered this past Saturdays game (Nov. 13) against fellow unbeaten Penn with the stigma of a 24-year losing streak at Franklin Field weighing on their shoulder-pads. Not a team to shy away from adversity, apparently, the Crimson…