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The following students were awarded prizes this month by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures:

Previously unknown letters written by W.E.B Du Bois (A.B. 1890, A.M. 1891, Ph.D. 1895) – the influential African-American scholar and leader of the early 20th century African-American protest movement – and his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, an author and teacher, have been jointly acquired by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and Houghton Library. The…

The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) has announced that graduate students Nava Ashraf and Nicola Gennaioli, both of the Department of Economics, have been named the centers grant recipients. Given to graduate student associates who expect to complete their dissertation within the upcoming academic year, the award supports up to a…

Despite the myths, rumors, and apprehension that swirled around the library community in the wake of the USA Patriot Act, the acts impact on Harvards 90-plus libraries has been minimal.

The six newly elected Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) directors, in order of their finish, are: Andrea C. Silbert, 19,649 Marilyn J. Holifield, 17,908 Susan Fales-Hill, 17,183 Alexander L. Aldrich, 17,029 Thomas H. Castro, 16,384 and Alan A. Khazei, 16,059.

The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced this years prize recipients.

Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), received a special award on June 5 from the president of Kazakhstan in recognition of his work to remove nuclear weapons from Kazakhstan and for his support of KSG students from that country. Ambassador Kanat Saudabayev…

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association Thursday (June 5) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 352nd Commencement. The six newly elected overseers, in order of their finish, are: Roger W.…

Americas public health system is stronger due to changes initiated after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a coordinated effort that must be ongoing, former Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Howard Koh told a Kennedy School conference on bioterrorism preparedness Tuesday (June 10).

The Kennedy Schools Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (ENRFG) has announced that this years Savitz Prize, given to the best paper written by masters students in the area of environmental and resource policy, has been conferred upon Adriana Hochberg and Catherine Rauschuber, master of public policy (M.P.P.) students. Their winning paper examines the use…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 7. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Sailing captures coed championship A day after retaining its team race national championship, Harvard sailing captured the Coed Dinghy North American Championship this past Tuesday (June 10) at Bayview Yacht…

A memorial service for Tony Lee, associate director of financial services, will be held June 27 at Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., from 1 to 4 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, c/o Michael Rabin, M.D., D1234, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115. Lee was…

June 19, 1858 – At the Boston City Regatta, crimson finds its first use as a Harvard color when members of a Harvard boat club seek to distinguish themselves among…

Kidney disease, thought to be unstoppable in many people with type 1 diabetes, has been reversed with the help of nature, early detection, and tight blood sugar control.

Harvard senior Amy Bei became interested in tropical diseases in the summer after high school, when she worked at a lab in San Francisco, near her home in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers urged the rushed, overscheduled Class of 2003 to know their priorities, to know that time is precious, and to keep the daily rush of temporarily urgent tasks from crowding out whats truly and enduringly important in life.

At the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony held Wednesday (June 4) in Tercentenary Theatre, nine Harvard seniors took the oath of office administered by Roger C. Taylor 53, retired Navy officer, currently a writer on nautical subjects.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 36 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $350,000.

The Humanities Center at Harvard has named teaching fellows Marianne Hopman and Keja Valens recipients of its 2003-04 interdisciplinary dissertation completion fellowships. Hopman (Department of Classics) received the fellowship for The Figure of Scylla in Greek Culture, while Valens (Department of Comparative Literature) was recognized for Between Women: Figurations of Desire in Caribbean Literatures.

A.R.T. one of Time’s top five Time magazine has recently named the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) as one of the five best regional theaters in the country. For its focus…

Tony Lee, 60, of Brookline, died May 20, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital after a short illness.

The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of its fellowships, prizes, dissertation completion grants, and research travel grants for 2003-04.

The Radcliffe heavyweight crew captured the NCAA championship this past Sunday (June 1) on Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis. The Black and White clinched the NCAA team title – the teams second since 1972 – by winning the varsity race with a time of 6:26.98, besting Michigan (6:28.58), Stanford (6:29.54), Washington (6:30.07), Virginia (6:31.49), and…

This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Stephen Silver, A.L.M. 03, concentrator in religion. The title of his talk will be Thomas Wolfe Was Right … Half-Right.

Inside University Hall recently, five former deans of Harvard College gathered with the present dean and the soon-to-become dean for an informal portrait. In the back (standing left to right) are former Dean John Fox, Dick Gross (presently dean of undergraduate education), and present Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis. Seated left to right…

When Sara Goldhaber met Jeremy Fiebert during their first year at Harvard, they had no idea that, eight years later, they would be trying to get rural people in Costa Rica to exercise more and eat less sausage and cake.

Two Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) students have heeded the call to combat tropical diseases – by heading to the Arctic.

David Kapell may be a long way from home, but he still runs the place.