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With his sixth novel, Mystic River, landing on bestseller lists and soon to be released as a Clint Eastwood-directed film, Dennis Lehane is, without a doubt, a successful writer.

A year after posting a $5.9 million budget deficit, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) finished the 2003 fiscal year in the black, with a modest $84,495 surplus after a year of belt-tightening, personnel reductions, and space consolidation.

A Working Partnership: Acquisitions Made With the Assistance of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute will open Sept. 3 in the Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library. Over the past 10 years, Houghton Library has worked closely with the Du Bois Institute to acquire materials to support research in African and African-American history and literature. The exhibition…

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced on July 31 the appointment of three new divisional deans, effective Sept. 1. David Cutler, professor of economics, will serve as the FAS’s first dean for the Social Sciences. Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Harvard…

One hundred years ago, a young African-American scholar and activist named William Edward Burghardt Du Bois published a volume of essays titled The Souls of Black Folk, in which he made the assertion, The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races…

The Open Society Institutes Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) supports individuals to further its mission of reducing the nations overreliance on policies of punishment and incarceration. Through three fellowships – the Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, the Soros Justice Senior Fellowship, and the Soros Justice Media Fellowship – CJI funds dynamic individuals from various fields to design…

Eleven young journalists from Youth Opportunity Boston, a city agency that provides employment and training for Boston youth ages 14-21, visited the Harvard News Office Aug. 4 for a daylong lesson on Harvard, journalism, and the world of work. Hosted by Assistant Director for Publications John Lenger, the young adults put out a newspaper on…

Harvard has launched a new research project on mental health in children and youth focused on the impact of early social experiences and on the prevention of addictions in teens, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced.

The spreading of cancer from one part of the body to another has always been thought of as unpredictable, pure bad luck that causes more deaths than the original tumor.

Hey mister, are you somebody?

Why is the story written in fragments?

Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan joined Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) on Aug. 1 to celebrate Harvards contribution of more than $500,000 to a variety of programs, agencies, and organizations that are helping advance the common goal of learning in Cambridge.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning July 22 and ending Aug. 16. The official log is located at…

The second annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 21 at 6:45 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre (between Memorial Church and Widener Library). The event, open to the entire University community and their families, will feature complimentary sodas and popcorn.

Aug. 18, 1812 – Holworthy Hall is dedicated as “Holworthy College.” Aug. 14, 1945 – In the wake of the dropping of two atomic bombs by the U.S., the Empire…

Most people in America are familiar with the words black lung disease, first used in 1942 to describe a painful and often fatal occupational hazard to coal miners who breathe in particulates day after day. Black lung and other perils of coal mining are well known, though the population of miners in the United States…

If you eat right, exercise regularly, and do all the other things health columnists advise you to do, how many years could you add to your life? How much is it worth in terms of extra years to quit smoking, cut back on your favorite cocktail, and substitute a small portion of tofu for a…

Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) selects a number of distinguished scholars and professionals, many from Latin America, to spend a minimum of one semester at Harvard. While in residence, visiting scholars and fellows spend time working on their own research and writing projects, making use of the Universitys extensive…

King, the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Divinity School, is the author of a new book, “What Is Gnosticism?” (Harvard University Press, 2003), which offers a provocative look at Christianity during its formative centuries and the heterogeneous array of groups, doctrines, and beliefs that all claimed to be inspired in some way by…