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More than 10,000 members of the Harvard University community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre at noon today (Sept. 11) to mark the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. With words, music, and prayer, students, religious leaders, and President Lawrence H. Summers honored the day’s tragic events and offered messages of peace and hope.

James C. Thomson, former Nieman Foundation curator, East-Asia historian, and key figure in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died Aug. 11, at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, of cardiac arrest after a brief illness. He was 70.

John Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government (KSG) professor and former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, has been named director of KSGs Center for Business and Government (CBG), KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced this month.

While studying a rare genetic disease, scientists have unexpectedly found a new way to detect a variety of inherited cancers.

The University observance of the anniversary of the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, will be held in Tercentenary Theatre at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 11. President Lawrence H. Summers will be the principal speaker.

Dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) Peter G. Rowe has named A. Hashim Sarkis the first Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies. Sarkis has taught at the GSD since 1995 and has been associate professor of architecture since January 2001. His teaching has covered a range of topics,…

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has received $420,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to provide fellowships for journalists of accomplishment and promise from Latin America.

Dying is easy, comedy is hard. Reportedly, these were the last words of Sir Donald Wolfit, British actor and director. Wolfits deathbed quip has been quoted often, perhaps because it captures so well comedys essential paradox.

President Lawrence H. Summers visited Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) Aug. 2, to congratulate the nearly 300 high school students about to graduate from the Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy (CHSA).

In a page 23 article in the July 18 issue of the Gazette, New MS drugs are found, Masha Fridkis-Hareli is an instructor in medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She came to Harvard University seven years ago and worked on the drugs as a postdoctoral fellow. The caption of the photograph with the story…

A man’s testosterone levels drop significantly when he holds an infant. Even holding a baby doll can decrease levels of the male virility hormone.

On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Harvard University will hold a ceremony of remembrance in Tercentenary Theatre. Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers will deliver the day’s main address, reflecting upon the year since terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania killed thousands. Students will read passages from a number of religious…

Eyes may be a window to the soul, but Donna Richard M. Losick, Harvard College Professor and Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has received a $1 million grant to support innovations in his teaching of science to Harvard undergraduates.

Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi was welcomed to Harvard University on Monday, Sept. 9, by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and members of the faculty. The prime minister attended a reception in his honor hosted by President Summers, where he addressed and met faculty, students, and other members of the Harvard community.

Music, dancing, entertainment, scrumptious box lunches, all under a rapturously blue sky – could Harvards Senior Picnic get any better?