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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation recently named Assistant Professor of Geochemistry Ann Pearson of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as one of its 16 new Packard Fellowship recipients for science and engineering. Each fellow will receive an unrestricted research grant of $625,000 over five years.

Douglas Melton has been named one of Scientific Americans 50 national leaders in science and technology for 2004. The Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences was recognized for his work over the past year in developing 17 new lines of human embryonic stem cells, part of a long career researching the pancreas and its…

Women’s b-ball poll sets pick for Crimson Members of the media recently voted the Harvard women’s basketball team second in the annual Ivy League preseason poll. The Crimson, which garnered…

Harvard field hockey blanked visiting Columbia, 2-0, on Saturday (Nov. 6) to close out the Crimson’s regular season and improve the squad to 11-6 (6-1 Ivy). With the win, Harvard splits the league title — the stickwomen’s first in 13 years — with Penn (13-4; 6-1 Ivy).

Following the Harvard football teams 38-0 blanking of Columbia this past Saturday (Nov. 6) at the stadium, running back Clifton Dawson 05 might feel right at home aboard a roving parade of Duck Boats. The sophomore sensation put the Crimson up 6-0 on a 2-yard run to collect his 96th point of the season, breaking…

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will hold a celebration of the life and science of Fred Whipple on Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Science Center, Hall B. Whipple, the Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, died on Aug. 30 at the age of 97.

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, recently announced the names of undergraduate and graduate students awarded Warren Center grants for the current academic year. Established in 1964, the mission of the center is to further the study of American history at…

REAI panel to examine rising interest rates The Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at Harvard University will host a panel discussion on “Real Estate Investing in a Climate of Rising…

Kleinman receives Doubleday Award Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology Arthur Kleinman was awarded the Doubleday Award at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, on Oct. 21. As the…

Stephen G. Breyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, will deliver this years Tanner Lectures on Human Values Nov. 17, 18, and 19.

Elliott Carter has been called the worlds greatest living composer. It is no slight to Carters artistic achievement to note that this distinction is in part due to his remarkable longevity. At age 95, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner is not only healthy and active but still composing orchestral music of outstanding brilliance.

Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvards Longwood campus have a chance to make a dent in global climate change and air pollution by going cold turkey with their on-campus energy use over Thanksgiving weekend. By participating in Go Cold Turkey 2004, students, staff, and faculty at FAS, Harvard Medical School,…

At the Nov. 9 groundbreaking for the new Arsenal Center for the Arts, John Airasian (left), co-chair of the capital campaign for the Arsenal Center for the Arts, presents Jim Gray from Harvard Planning and Real Estate with a $1 bill, the cost of Harvards 99-year lease of the property to Watertown, part of an…

Harvard has named Isaac T. Kohlberg associate provost and chief technology development officer to oversee the development of new technologies based on discoveries made at Harvard.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Nov. 7, 1898 – “The Harvard Bulletin” (predecessor of “Harvard Magazine”) publishes its first (four-page) issue. Cost: 8 cents. Nov. 10, 1903 – In the now-demolished Rogers Building (or Old…

At its fourth meeting of the year (Nov. 10) the Faculty Council met with members of the FAS Standing Committee on Women to discuss the recruitment of women to the Faculty. Committee members present for this discussion included Professors Marjorie Garber (English and VES), Drew Faust (history), Susan Pharr (government), and Ann Rowland (English). Nina…

If youve walked or driven along Quincy Street recently, you might have noticed something strange lurking beneath the Carpenter Center – something huge and vaguely oval-shaped, gleaming white but starting to acquire a patina of bright green.

As Harvards director of University Counseling, Academic Support, Mental Health, and Alcohol & Substance Abuse Services since May 2004, Paul Barreira has a very full plate.

The Danish professor of medicine Ole Worm (1588-1654) believed, as did his more enlightened contemporaries, that learning comes about through the observation of nature – through empiricism and experiment – and not just through the study of texts. Worm firmly believed that vision was the most trustworthy sense for natural history investigations.

Its a stunning late-October day in Bostons Jamaica Plain neighborhood, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is putting on a show. Alive with walkers, joggers, cyclists, and pups straining at leashes, even on a weekday, the Arboretum dazzles visitors with an explosion of fiery foliage and a myriad of scenic vistas that showcase the…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – the worlds largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science – has awarded five Harvard professors the distinction of AAAS fellow. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed on society members by their peers.

Ruth Sager should be remembered above all as a gifted, original and imaginative scientist who loved her life of exploring nature and in her later years brought her gifts and passion to investigating the scourge of breast cancer.

In 1607, about a year after Shakespeares Macbeth premiered in London, poet Alessandro Striggio and composer Claudio Monteverdi presented a new play at the court of Mantua in Italy.

Harvard Law School (HLS) will kick off four performances of David Auburns Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof on Friday (Nov. 5). Professor of Law Bruce Hay will direct a cast of four in the play that tells the story of a young woman who drops out of school to care for her father, a once-brilliant mathematician…

At the Dia de los Muertos performance at the Peabody Museum on Nov. 2, Ciria Gomez plays the part of Death with a frightening plausibility.

Among the most ambitious of the eight ambitious goals adopted at the United Nations Millennium Summit was the establishment of universal primary education for all children by 2015. The initiative currently has the support of 182 countries, yet its implementation faces numerous obstacles, particularly in developing countries.

In the keynote speech to the annual College Board Forum in Chicago on Monday (Nov. 1), Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers issued a call to action to educational leaders to help restore education to its proper role as a pathway to equal opportunity and excellence in our society.

HGSEs Fisher Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot speaks with Cambridge school leaders and city officials about her research, which investigates the culture of schools, socialization within families and communities, and the relationship between culture and learning styles. The seminar was hosted by the Office of Community Affairs and took place at the Faculty Club.