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Effective Feb. 1, 2005, Jennifer Leaning, professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be affiliated with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as a senior adviser in international and policy studies. Leaning will retain her positions at HSPH and…

Like the amorphous Chinese monster Taowu, whose 5,000-year history has been marked by shape-shifting and reinventions, Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature David Der-Wei Wang has undergone transformations and permutations throughout his academic career.

Once again, the staff of the University is pulling together to embark on a succesful campaign to help surrounding communities. This November, as in Novembers past, the Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign is being launched with an ambitious objective. This years campaign has set its sights on a fundraising goal of $1 million. Harvards campaign…

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 Nov. 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 13 at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London. He…

Nov. 6, 1770 – Rumblings of Revolution: Joseph Avery, Class of 1771, orates on “Oppression and Tyranny” before the Speaking Club. Nov. 1791 – A writer in the Boston press…

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) transferred 2,000 doses of the flu vaccine Fluzone to the Boston Public Health Commission Friday (Oct. 29), announced HUHS Director David Rosenthal. The additional doses will help local communities ensure that their most at-risk residents are vaccinated against influenza.

A voter passes in front of other participants in the democratic process at Gund Hall, which served as a polling location for the city of Cambridge during the presidential election on Tuesday (Nov. 2).

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is revealing deep spaces globular clusters, nebulas, and galaxies to the general public, opening the galactic skies with a new 25-inch outreach telescope that promises to bring smaller instruments distant blurs into astonishing clarity.

Atoms do weird things when they crowd together and get very cold.

Kenneth John Ryan, M.D. was born the son of a wealthy industrialist in New York City in 1926 into some comfort and good fortune. Severe financial reverses during the Depression and his mothers death when he was ten resulted in the dissolution of his family. Thrust into the foster care system of his time, Ken…

William Vincent McDermott, Jr., was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1917, son of Mary Feenan and William V. McDermott. Dr. McDermott died at his home in Dedham, on July 19, 2001, surrounded by his family and loved ones.

Israels elder statesman and Nobel laureate, Shimon Peres, told a rapt audience at the Kennedy School of Governments John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that terrorism – a swamp made of desperation – will not prevail, and that a peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians is possible in our lifetime.

History graduate student Ben Waterhouse is working on a research paper about the building of Bostons Prudential Center in the early 1960s. He plans to examine the influence of corporations in bringing the massive building project to fruition and the reaction of ordinary people to that corporate influence.

Here’s the problem. You’ve just been offered the job of your dreams, but congratulations are not yet in order. Up next is the salary negotiation, and if you happen to be a woman, you are – statistically speaking – in trouble. You will end up with a lot less than your male counterpart. You’ll also…

The Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes in Japanese Studies for the best graduate and undergraduate essays on a Japan-related topic were awarded on Oct. 15, at the 10th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium. The Reischauer Institute of Japanese studies hosted the event.

A new exhibition organized by students in a Harvard seminar on the history of printmaking challenges viewers to approach printmaking as a language with its own vocabulary, grammar, syntax, poetry, and prose. On view at Harvards Fogg Art Museum through Jan. 30, Prints: System, Style, and Subject includes 53 works from the Harvard University Art…

Americans have more places to turn for news coverage than ever, but its the quality of the content that concerns ABC News President David Westin. Westin told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum Monday night (Oct. 25) that an explosion of opinions on the airwaves is beginning to drown out reporting of the facts.

Attention must be paid.

The Fogg Art Museum will host Bridging the Gaps: African American Art Conference 2004 – a two-day symposium sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research – on Nov. 5-7. Presenters are invited to explore the generational, methodological, and ideological gaps that exist within the field of African-American art, and…

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2004-05 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department…

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP) finds exceptionally high interest in the presidential campaign on college campuses, and turnout among college students is expected to rise dramatically. Nearly 72 percent of college students report that they are certain they are registered to vote and definitely plan on voting this November.…

As Americans prepare to elect a president next month, most of them can be confident in one thing: Each vote, whether cast by pulling a lever or checking a box or touching a computer screen, will be veiled in complete anonymity. For the most part, no one but the individual voter will ever know whether…

Yaa Bruce 05 conducted biomedical research in Beijing Katherine Jarvis-Shean 05 learned the ins and outs of running an organic farm in Oliveto, Italy and Andréa Mayrose 06 worked in a pediatrics ward at a hospital in Ngaoundéé, Cameroon – just a sampling of the variety of internships that 31 Harvard students arranged, secured, and…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, is the recipient of this years Carl Sandburg Award. Given annually by the Chicago Public Library (CPL), the award honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the publics awareness of the written word and reflects…

Tailback Clifton Dawson ’07 tallied three touchdowns to lead 19th-ranked Crimson to a 39-14 win against host Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 23). In the process, the sophomore set a…

Harvard midfielder Alisha Moran 05 (left) tries to tame a bouncing ball and simultaneously outrace her University of Connecticut opponent on Wednesday (Oct. 27). The Crimson squeaked past the visiting Huskies, 1-0, to improve to 7-5-2.

A crowd of 200,000 braved gusty conditions to take in the 40th annual Head of the Charles Regatta this past weekend (Oct. 23-24). Meanwhile, between the banks of the river, the choppy water on the famously windy course with six bridges tested boats from Harvard, Radcliffe, and across North America and Europe.