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Karl Haglund (right), author of the recently released Inventing the Charles River, a pictorial history of the Charles River Basin – known as Bostons Central Park – was a guest last week at an event sponsored by Harvard Planning and the Allston Initiative. Along with Renata von Tscharner (second from left), president of the Charles…

Inspired by the spirit of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), and The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University are jointly commissioning research on Southeast Asian Educational Opportunity. The studies, funded by…

The need for a stable, dedicated funding source for the Universitys expansion into Allston has prompted Harvards Corporation to extend the life of the Strategic Infrastructure Fund through the 25-year first phase of development.

Albert Alcalay is a survivor. Born to Jewish parents in Serbia in 1917, he and his family were forced to flee when the Nazis took over in 1941. They ended up in a concentration camp in Calabria, Italy, populated primarily by Jewish artists and intellectuals, and it was in that unlikely setting that Alcalay began…

Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) in partnership with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help eliminate health disparities in rural and urban communities.

Esteemed Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton died Dec. 30 of complications from leukemia. She was 46.

It was more for lack of hustlers than hustle that the Harvard mens track and field team fell to cross-town rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 10) at Gordon Track. Short-manned due to injuries, the mens team failed to enter a single sprinter in any race under 500 meters, eventually falling, 82-62, in their first…

Rugby club seeks grad student-players The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rugby Football Club seeks players from across Harvard’s graduate schools for training, matches, tours, tournaments, and social events. Rugby players…

In the first prospective study to assess the relationship between vitamin D intake in women and the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that women with the highest intake of vitamin D through supplement use had a 40 percent lower risk of developing MS as compared…

Carolyn MacLeod might be the least likely person to head a championship curling team.

Vacation program seeks experienced teachers The Harvard School Vacation Program is looking for experienced teachers or teacher assistants. The program, which enrolls 25 children of Harvard faculty and staff in…

A celebration of the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held Monday (Jan. 19) at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, will deliver the keynote address: Dont Just Activate – Celebrate!

Just in time for New Years resolutions, a new book, Free Expression, details more than 100 possibilities for writers seeking contests, competitions, and other opportunities. And unlike programs that charge reading fees or processing fees, this books listings are fee-free, according to author Erika Dreifus, who currently teaches in the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.

President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday (Jan. 14) that longtime veteran of the Harvard administration Jackie ONeill has agreed to be the next University marshal.

The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and the social advocacy nonprofit Generations Policy Initiative have launched a new journal that aims to highlight problems related to the aging of Americas baby boom population.

HUPD would like to remind students, faculty, and staff of the University to be aware of your surroundings, particularly when walking alone after dark. The College Safety Committee encourages members of the University community to walk in groups along designated, well-lit pathways. A map of designated safety pathways is located in the Student Telephone Directory.

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 Jan. 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

January 1767 – In a major curriculum reform, the College abolishes the ancient one-tutor-for-all-subjects system and introduces instructional specialization. A different tutor now teaches in each of the following four…

On Jan. 13 at approximately 5:40 p.m., a female undergraduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street in the area of Claverly Hall when a male approached her in the opposite direction and groped her. The suspect continued walking on Mt. Auburn Street. Officers from both the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge…

Young children receive an enormous volume of information – from the identity of their biological parents to names for animals to facts about the world around them – by testimony: Someone tells them that the family pooch is called a dog and that Mom and Dad are, indeed, Mom and Dad.

Describing Saddam Hussein as a ticking time bomb who had destabilized the Middle East and represented a serious threat to the United States, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman reiterated his support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq at a Dec. 15 live broadcast of MSNBCs Hardball from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

Marrying fiber optics with nanotechnology, scientists at Harvard University have created silica wires that are far narrower than the wavelength of light yet can still guide a light beam with great precision. The wires, about a thousandth the width of a human hair, function with minimal signal loss even when their walls accommodate well under…

It’s not every Harvard class that opens with a standing ovation. But then, most Harvard classes aren’t launched with the introduction, “The king of the blues, B.B. King!”