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After 18 years of dedicated professional service to the College, GSAS, HGSE, and KSG and their students, Charles Ducey has announced his decision to resign from his position as director of the Bureau of Study Counsel as of the end of this academic year for personal and professional reasons. Duceys contributions to the Harvard community…

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association Thursday (June 10) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

Multinationalism, collective decision-making, and the rule of law – these offer the best hope of achieving a stable and equitable world order, according to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Alan Altshuler, a member of the Faculties of Design and Government and a distinguished scholar of urban politics and planning, has been named acting dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) effective July 1.

Harvard University has selected the nationally acclaimed planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to create a preliminary planning framework for its future development in Allston.

Ca. June 1961 – Harvard announces that its new office building and health center on Mount Auburn St. will bear the name Holyoke Center, in honor of Edward Holyoke, Harvard’s…

More news and information about Harvard will be delivered digitally by the Central Administration to the community beginning in July, including two summer issues of the Harvard Gazette (http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette). Paper publication of the Gazette will resume Sept. 16 and continue throughout the academic year. Regular Harvard news updates will continue to be available at http://www.harvard.edu.…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: n…

It wasn’t only students on the road to a diploma taking significant steps at the University this year. It was a time for progress in myriad areas. President Lawrence H.…

Philip S. Holzman, founder and director of McLean Hospitals Psychology Research Laboratory and one of the worlds pre-eminent scientists in schizophrenia research, died on June 1 at the age of 82.

Harvey Brooks, a pioneer in incorporating science into public policy and a member of the Harvard faculty for more than 50 years, died May 28 at his home in Cambridge from complications of congestive heart failure. He was 88.Brooks was Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus in the Kennedy School of Government,…

The Department of Music recently announced that $144,000 has gone toward fellowship and award programs for graduate and undergraduate students.

Mariame Patricia McIntosh and Daniel Walton Reed, members of the M.B.A. Class of 2004 at Harvard Business School (HBS), have been named Deans Award recipients for their accomplishments over the past two years in community building – or, more precisely, nation building – among students at the Business School, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute…

Edwin Raymond Corey, a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) for more than 40 years, died on May 28 at his home in Wellesley from complications following abdominal surgery. He was 84.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2004-05 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 43…

This year the Harvard Extension Schools Commencement Speaker Award will go to Catherine Anne Rahaim, who completed her master of liberal arts (A.L.M.) degree in religion. Her speech, titled Open Gates, highlights her experiences taking evening courses after teaching history during the day at Gardner High School.

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has named Jack L. Strominger, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the 2004 recipient of the ASBMB-Merck Award. This award, which consists of a stipend, plaque, and transportation expenses to the associations annual meeting, at which Strominger will present…

One composes operas that are performed all over the world another has done breakthrough work on the psychological effect of racial and cultural stereotyping a third, a scholar of modern European history, has probably shaken hands with more world leaders than nearly anyone else on the planet and a fourth, in addition to heading a…

Listening to Coleen Sabatini is exhausting. You feel like you lead a sluggish life when the 28-year-old talks about all shes done – besides earn a combination M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School and masters from the Harvard School of Public Health.

After an invigorating year at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Gregory Wong said hes ready for new challenges and has lined up a big one: a year working to foster economic ties with Iraq as a foreign service officer in the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Kristy Elizabeth Benoit, who grew up in the tiny, close-knit community of Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia, never planned to attend Harvard College. She expected to keep with the local tradition: Stay in the province after high school and create a life for herself.

Design School graduate Mollica Manandhars petite stature and soft voice give little indication of the determination and singleness of purpose that have guided her life since adolescence. Growing up in the city of Kathmandu in Nepal, Manandhar knew from an early age that she wanted to be an architect. Ask her why, and she answers…

Maribel Hernándezs parents moved their three children to Houston, Texas, from Mexico City when she was 13. They intended to learn English and then move back to Mexico being bilingual would open more doors in Mexico, and help them to get better jobs and earn more money. This was not to be.

To the extent that there is an average Harvard student, Berenika Zakrzewski 04 is no average Harvard student.

After Mark Jennings receives his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School (HDS) today, hell end up right where he started: on the mean streets of one of the nations toughest cities. But now, as the executive director of the Los Angeles Ten Point Coalition, hell be ministering to youth who are at risk for losing their…

In the past three years, Daniel E. Ho has had three homes: one in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one in New Haven, Connecticut, and a virtual third on the road. Weve come to call this the Amtrak Degree, says Hos dissertation advisor, Gary King, the David Florence Professor of Government. Hes in a joint political science and…

Stephanie Saldana, who graduates with a master of theological studies (M.T.S.) degree from Harvard Divinity School today, recently heard that she was chosen to be a Fulbright scholar next year in Damascus, Syria, where she will research the Muslim Jesus both historically and in the current moment, focusing on how the figure of Jesus has…

When Sonny Chheng receives his diploma from Harvard Business School (HBS) this June, it will be a moment he will treasure for the rest of his life.

On a recent Friday between getting back from a training weekend in Pennsylvania and getting ready to head to Greenwich for the United States Squash Team trials, Louisa Hall 04 spent a few hours at the Science Center taking her final exam in English 17: American Literature. The delicate balancing act of academics, training, and…

Carolina Johnson knows just the job she wants after she graduates from Harvard College. She wants to represent the 25th District of Middlesex County in the Massachusetts legislature.