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Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Tuesday, April 9, that he has appointed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, leading historian of education and president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, as the next dean of the Graduate School of Education.

The University community has seen a number of events and, recently, even weeklong sessions devoted to the issues of emotional and mental health. But Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Week is a little different — its sponsored by a group made up entirely of students. The week of April 15-19 will feature a number of…

The fight against terrorism is the most important job undertaken by the military in the past 37 years, a period that includes Desert Storm, the Vietnam War, and the Cold Wars latter decades, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers told a Kennedy School audience Thursday (April 4).

Robert E. Rubin 60 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.

Political satirist and comedian Al Franken will share his wit and wisdom with this year’s outgoing seniors as the 2002 Class Day speaker, the Harvard College Class of 2002 Senior Class Committee announced Tuesday (April 16).

In the wide world of Harvard club sports, the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club is a rebel state. Established in 1982 for and by women, — eons before the extreme in sports (or girl power, for that matter) — the club has tapped the imagination of more than a few young women. Led by an all-female…

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is funding three summer internship positions for Harvard undergraduate students interested in working in Berlin as research assistants in the social sciences. Good computer skills, a willingness to work independently, and an interest in foreign cultures and the social sciences are the basic requirements for application. The…

In Gut Reflections. Israel. Palestine. 2002, Israeli artist Adi Yekutieli uses diverse artistic media to convey an emotional response to the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Subtle yet powerful, Yekutielis work avoids the use of violent images or specific coherent political statements, focusing instead on the human condition.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year. The fellowship, designed to provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to complete, or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation, is open to any student in…

Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled by dog sled when she was a girl in Canadas frozen north. Today, 40 years later, the snowmobile has replaced the dog as the main mode of travel for Canadas Inuit.

John Monro, a former dean of Harvard College whose long career as an administrator and teacher was dedicated to bringing higher education within the reach of poor and minority students, died March 29 at the age of 89.

Anita Hamilton put her arm around the shoulders of the boy in the gray sweatshirt and cooed in his ear: Bop, bop, boodily bop, beedily bebop, beedily bop.

At the 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, panel discussions sponsored by more than a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs will focus on what has changed in world affairs since Sept. 11 — and what has not. Participants in this April 12-13 event include world leaders, scholars, journalists, CEOs, and high-level U.S. and foreign…

President Lawrence H. Summers returns to the classroom as a guest lecturer for Psychology and Economics, EC 1030, at the Bio Lab.

Karen Armstrong will deliver the 2002 Francis Greenwood Peabody lecture at the Memorial Church, on Saturday, April 13, at 10:30 a.m. The title of her talk is Faith After Sept. 11th. A prolific writer and well-known commentator on religious matters, Armstrong is the best-selling author of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism,…

Close to 200 people, most of them women, gathered in a tastefully appointed meeting room at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies on April 8. They came to hear a talk called From Welfare to Wedlock: Should Social Policy Promote Marriage and Fatherhood? While outside the French doors daylight savings time graced a terrace with…

William Tan has miles to go before he rests.

The American photographer and ethnographer Josephine Powell spent years in North Africa and the Middle East, documenting local architecture, textiles, nomad life, and village cultures. Traveling on horseback to some of the most isolated parts of these regions, Powell became a legendary figure among the people she encountered and stories were often told about this…

For Alexander Ness, composing is its own reward.

Drop a pebble into a still pool and youll see a series of smooth, shallow ripples emanating from it in a tidy concentric progression. Drop a computer-simulated earthquake onto a map of, say, Los Angeles, and youll see the same thing, right? Not anymore, thanks to a team of Harvard and California Institute of Technology…

After a rough road trip that saw the Harvard womens tennis team (6-7, 2-0 Ivy) drop five of six matches to schools in Florida, South Carolina, and California, the Crimson returned to the Murr Center Courts this past Friday and Saturday (April 5-6) for a two match home sweep. Harvard served up a pair of…

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its support of 19 student arts projects taking place during Arts First weekend (May 2-5). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts. The Council on…

Per W&aumlstberg, a prolific Swedish author, human rights advocate, and a member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Literature, was at Harvard April 4 for a luncheon at the Faculty Club, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation. W&aumlstberg, who earned a Harvard A.B. degree in Comparative Literature in 1955, recalled being accidentally locked overnight in Widener…

He is quiet and unassuming, but massage therapist Bob Collins attracts a lot of attention as he walks through a Holyoke Center administrative office. A chorus of unsolicited praise pours from offices: Hes amazing. The best. One touch and I was hooked.

Employee discount at Peabody

March Madness came to Harvard Law School (HLS) this year, even though the only court students set foot on was a court of law.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.