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The Department of Music has announced its fellowship and award recipients. More than $150,000 went toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students. The John Knowles…

Seven seniors and one graduate from the University have been selected as Gates Scholars. The new scholarship program, set up by a $210 million trust from the Bill and Melinda…

Lawrence H. Summers will be officially installed as Harvards 27th president on Friday, Oct. 12, in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.

Conjuring images of dancer Isadora Duncan on the beach and comedian Lucille Ball at the candy factory, the founder of the Society for Ladies Who Laugh Out Loud gave about 30 Harvard women some seriously silly advice during a noontime talk Thursday, May 24.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 55 student grants and fellowships amounting to nearly $200,000 for the 2001-02 academic year. Fifteen grants will support…

In 1721, Cotton Mather listened to the slave Onesimus describe how Africans used fluid from a mild smallpox infection to inoculate the healthy against the disease.

Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems has received a grant to study worldwide capital adequacy regulation of financial institutions. The project, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Co., will involve…

Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, has been named among the class of 2001 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of…

Barry Mosers delicate pen-and-ink rendition of the restored Memorial Hall tower on the dust jacket of Neil L. Rudenstines new book Pointing Our Thoughts: Reflections on Harvard and Higher Education, 1991-2001 stands as an appropriate symbol of its authors achievement as Harvards 26th president.

Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that students and alumni who take jobs in fields not traditionally considered “law-related” will be eligible for the school’s loan forgiveness…

For 26 years, Cathy Craddock has taught some of the youngest scholars in the Harvard community: preschoolers who attend the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative, one of six Harvard-affiliated day-care centers.

Shavell assumes presidency of law association Steven Shavell, the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), has assumed the presidency of the American Law and Economics…

Garrison Keillor, creator and host of Minnesota Public Radios A Prairie Home Companion, will be the orator at next weeks Harvard Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises. The first academic event of Commencement Week, the exercises will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5, following the induction of about 100 seniors into the…

On June 6, Greta Van Susteren, CNN legal analyst and host of The Point With Greta Van Susteren, will deliver Harvard Law Schools 2001 Class Day address. The speech will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall on the Law School campus.

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday, June 7. For the 13th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards 350th Commencement Exercises.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, May 26. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) has announced the three faculty members who will receive this year’s PBK Teaching Prize. The prize, now in its 20th year, will be…

May 6, 1951 – The new Eliot Bridge across the Charles River at Gerry’s Landing is dedicated to the memory of President Charles W. Eliot and his son Charles Eliot,…

With spring cleaning in full swing, Harvard’s Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) provides members of the Harvard community a list of charitable organizations throughout Greater Boston that would make…

You eat a wonderful meal in an Italian restaurant and ask the chef for the recipe. But by the way, you say, I cant afford veal so I ordinarily use ground beef. I cook for 50 instead of for two, and I dont like broccoli. But please tell me the recipe.

After tracking the health of Harvard alumni for 41 years, researchers offer this advice for a longer life: exercise, exercise, exercise, and quit smoking.

When Katherine Merseth fills out a form that asks for her profession, she always writes teacher.

The Harvard University Library and three major publishers of scholarly journals – Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley &amp Sons, and the University of Chicago Press – have agreed to work together in developing an experimental archive for electronic journals. The preservation and the archiving of electronic journals – which are increasingly born digital and for which,…

If any of the 120 Harvard managers attending the Sixth Workforce Management Conference on Friday, May 18, were hoping for a free lunch and an easy day out of the office, they were sorely disappointed.

For many years, Stanley Cavell, Ph.D. 61, has been at the forefront of combining philosophical inquiry with the study of film. Thanks to the generosity of retired Harvard faculty member and filmmaker Robert G. Gardner 48, A.M. 58, Cavells contributions to the area of film studies have been permanently honored with the creation of the…

Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were appointed Monday to the 64th class of Nieman Fellows.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the winners of a fellowship created for the schools top students by Imagitas, a Waltham, Mass.-based government-solutions company. The Imagitas Fellows Program is designed to encourage public service and explore new ways of using private sector resources to solve public sector challenges. Maxwell Kennedy, chairman of the…

Study links child care to aggression. This recent headline, and others like it, has some parents wondering if preschool might be the first step to reform school.

Harvard University and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) announced today a new partnership to create The Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, a summer school program for Cambridge students.