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The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently named a new endowed professorship in global leadership and public policy in memory of Anna Lindh, the late foreign minister of Sweden, who was murdered one year ago. The Anna Lindh Professorship will promote advanced scholarship, teaching, research, and outreach from a leading member of KSGs faculty.

On Sept. 30 at Sanders Theatre, good and bad science will take center stage at the 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Showered with applause and paper airplanes, this years class of winners will be honored for scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then think. Genuine Nobel laureates will be on-hand to present…

A new class of fellows whose work extends from Iraq to Rwanda will join the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Center for Human Rights Policy for the 2004-05 academic year. The class of fellows includes experts and activists from various disciplines including anthropology, law, and journalism, and will focus on topics ranging from democratization within…

At its first meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard a report on the Harvard College Curricular Review from Deans William Kirby (history and FAS) and Benedict Gross (mathematics and Harvard College). The Council also considered, with Dean Peter Ellison (anthropology and GSAS), a proposed Ph.D. program in Systems Biology. Professor Marc Kirschner, chair…

International efforts to combat tuberculosis may inadvertently be aiding the emergence of deadly, drug-resistant strains of the disease, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found.

Elissa Poorman ’06, and her mother, Jeanne Poorman recycle boxes together while moving into Eliot House this fall.

A chance to gaze eye-to-eye with a chuckwalla lizard, a couple of stolen minutes drawing centuries-old ritual bells, discovering the contours of an ancient stone – these are just a few moments captured by neighbors and visitors at the Harvard Museums second Community Day.

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 nine scholars participating in the centers 2004-05 workshop: The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment. This years Warren Fellows were selected from a pool of more than 75 applicants…

A BBC senior producer, a political journalist, and an international scholar of political campaigning are among the recently named fellows and visiting faculty at the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy this semester.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) recently announced its Graduate Fellows in Ethics for the 2004-05 academic year. The fellows are Harvard-enrolled graduate students and professional students who focus on ethics topics in their research. During the fellowship year, they will pursue philosophical topics relevant…

Declaring that Africa is winning the battle against violent conflicts, Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano brought his vision of hope, prosperity, and peace to a packed forum at the Kennedy School on Sunday (Sept. 19).

With a $2.1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard University Library will establish a comprehensive, Universitywide preservation program for Harvards holdings of more than 7.5 million photographs. The Mellon Foundation is providing a $1.25 million matching grant to endow the position of senior photograph conservator in the librarys Weissman Preservation Center…

Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plans to outfit all of its student housing for wireless Internet access over the next 12 to 18 months, making the University one of just a handful of institutions nationwide that have announced plans to offer full wireless coverage in most dormitories.

Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Peter G. Rowe have been named Harvard University Distinguished Service Professors, President Lawrence H. Summers has announced.

At the Harvard Divinity Schools (HDS) annual convocation Monday (Sept. 20), the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes took full advantage of his first time speaking at the occasion by delivering a lengthy and impassioned plea for the school to rekindle the intellectual excitement and institutional vigor he encountered when he arrived at HDS as a…

The Kennedy School of Governments Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has announced the appointment of Fernande Raine as its new executive director.

Top Olympic and world skaters will continue their battle against cancer this fall as they again gather at Harvard to participate in An Evening With Champions – Americas premier figure skating exhibition.

Two polls this month from the John F. Kennedy School of Government show that a sizeable minority of universities are failing their obligation to help register collegiate voters and, despite that, young voter interest in the 2004 election is higher than four years ago.

For many parents, educators, and policy-makers in the United States, charter schools – innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must compete for students in order to retain their charters – have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools. So when the American Federation of Teachers…

Though the rain may have fallen indiscriminately upon the Harvard and Holy Cross football teams this past Saturday (Sept. 18) at the stadium, it was the Crusaders alone who felt the sting of a different kind of storm: sophomore running back Clifton Dawson. The second-year unleashed a torrent of offense against the Crusaders, amassing 184…

Its not often that you can get a group of high school students out of bed before 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, but when its for an event such as the 4th Youth Leadership Forum, some motivated students will forgo their usual weekend sleep-in. Despite the torrential rain that fell this past Saturday, more…

Modern Greek Studies seeks submissions for conference Harvard’s Modern Greek Studies Program invites graduate students in modern Greek studies or in related fields to participate in a grad student conference…

Scientists create way to turn gene on and off as needed Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have created a novel, elegant, and safer system for controlling…

For the second year in a row, Working Mother magazine has chosen Harvard as one of the 100 best places to work for women who juggle a career with raising children. Whats more, Harvard is the only university recognized this year and one of only three Massachusetts employers chosen for the distinction.

One of Steven Shapins current research projects is a study of the way science is conducted in the for-profit, high-tech sector. He is trying to understand how venture capitalists decide which research and which researchers to put their money on. He has discovered that the process is a surprisingly familiar one.

Cheryl Knott named an inaugural Emerging Explorer The National Geographic Society recently selected associate professor of anthropology Cheryl Knott to its Emerging Explorers Program. The new program recognizes and supports…

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 (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 19. The official log is located 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.