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A report released Wednesday (May 7) by Harvard Universitys vice president for administration details a series of actions taken by the University in the last three months to increase wages for service workers, enhance education and training programs, and develop long-term improvements in the climate for workers on campus. The report shows that the University…

Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. today. Individuals wishing to meet with 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 (May 4). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 21, 1890 – A University statute combines faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School with the College Faculty (which is the same as the Graduate School Faculty) to form the 62-member Faculty of Arts and Sciences. There are 12 Divisions, with larger ones broken down into Departments.

The provocative 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, which was sponsored by more than a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs this past April can still be viewed in video format on the Internet. You can be a virtual guest at the more than a dozen panels that made up Globalization After September 11: Has…

Genes that have allowed brains to become larger and more complicated have been found and cloned by researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the California Institute of Technology.

A year after having his arm blown off attempting to clear a land mine, Sgt. Jones is still in constant pain from the injury, despite taking many different precription painkillers and trying everything to numb the pain from experimental electric stimulation to a daily six-pack.

Springfest this year bloomed into a bigger, better event that included the entire Harvard College community, thanks to co-sponsorship from President Lawrence H. Summers.

Add parades, a cappella, and fan dancing to the seven livelies and youve got some small notion of the astonishing array of arts and entertainment that will be offered up to the Harvard Community and friends over the upcoming week known as Arts First. This 10th anniversary of the annual event features concerts, poetry readings,…

Gordon Randolph Willey died of heart failure on the morning of April 28, in Cambridge. He was 89.

Claire Mallardi, lecturer on dramatic arts and artistic director Emerita, Radcliffe College, has been named the recipient of the 2001-02 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. Administered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, the award carries an honorarium of $10,000.

Rodney A. Hawes (MBA 69), reflected in a video monitor, speaks at the dedication of the new Harvard Business School building that bears his name at a ceremony Friday (April 26). Hawes Halls eight classrooms are equipped with advanced technology to facilitate the dynamic interchange between faculty and students in the Schools hallmark case teaching…

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nations pre-eminent learned society and research institution, announced earlier this week its newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members. Members of this years class – composed of 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary members – were honored for their achievements in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine,…

Its Saturday morning and 6-year-old Desean Watson is hugging his Big Buddy, Harvard senior Nikhil Dutta.

Donna Haraway, the prominent cultural theorist, has shifted her focus from genetic engineering, primatology, and cyborgs to dogs.

Daniel R. Glickman, who has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government by Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Glickman will succeed Sen. David Pryor, who will be leaving the directors post…

Two people who have spent much of their lives working to challenge and correct social injustice were recognized this past Tuesday (April 30) at an award ceremony organized by the Kennedy Schools Center for Public Leadership.

The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into Harvards scholarly expertise last Friday (April 26) when about 100 government officials attended a seminar in Washington titled Islamic Finance 101.

Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures, will join 24 students in being honored at the annual David Aloian Dinner and Student/Faculty Award Ceremony to be held at the end of the semester in the Quincy House Dining Hall. For the past 20 years, the director of the Harvard Foundation…

Paid family leave is where the rubber of two of Americas most cherished private institutions – the family and business – meets the road of public government.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies, a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government, has named masters degree candidates Connie Chung and Alastair Smith as its 2002 Emerging Leaders Fellowship recipients. Both Chung, an urban planning candidate at the Graduate School of Design, and Smith, a masters degree…