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This past Friday afternoon (Sept. 21), members of Harvards Muslim community came to Lowell Lecture Hall for prayer. The gathering, known as Juma, is a regular weekly occurrence, but the events of Sept. 11 made it anything but ordinary.

Harvard University’s endowment beat investment benchmarks in eight of 11 asset classes in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, but saw its overall value fall amid broader market declines.

More than 1,500 people packed a Memorial Church remembrance service on Friday, Sept. 14, capping a week in which the University community mourned the victims and struggled to make sense of the tragic crashes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.

When Saif Shah Mohammed came to Harvard as a freshman three years ago, it was the first time he had been in the United States. A native of Bangladesh who grew up in Kuwait, now a senior concentrating in economics, Shah Mohammed says that living in America has affected him profoundly.

The photograph is titled Amis des espagnoles (French for friends of the Spanish). It was taken in 1968 by Malick Sidib&eacute, and there is something oddly familiar about it.

Forget about summer enrichment courses, insiders guides, or college counselors.

The Murray Research Center at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will hold a day of activities in celebration of its 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 28, in Radcliffe Yard. Dedicated to the study of lives over time, the Murray Center promotes the use of social science data to explore human development and social change.

Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood and Princeton University President Shirley Caldwell Tilghman are among the speakers who will participate in The Deans Lecture Series, sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Two untenured members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named this years Roslyn Abramson Award winners for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

As the Philadelphia Mens Dragon Boat Team paddled ahead of the pack in New Yorks 2001 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, they were pursued by an unlikely rival. Rhythmically plunging their paddles forward, steadily pulling their paddles back, the Harvard Dudley House Dragon Boat team stroked to keep pace with the first-place team. The team…

Whats my motivation for doing good? How do I recruit volunteers for my program? How can I justify all this time spent on public service to my parents?

The Academy of Management recently honored several Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members at its annual meeting last month in Washington, D.C.

Theres a buzz around the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and its not just the whir of construction equipment in Radcliffe Yard. If you listen closely, youll hear excited discussion of the four new academic leaders that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute, has recruited to help implement the Radcliffes mission.

It’s the rarest, shortest-lived matter in the universe. In fact, it’s antimatter – the opposite of matter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.

Nahigian, former baseball coach, dies at 92 Alex Nahigian, former coach of the Harvard University baseball team, passed away on July 30. He was 92. Nahigian coached the Crimson for…

Speaking this morning on Americas Response to Terrorism at Harvard Law School, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called for the United States to build coalitions with other countries and urged its citizens to unite against prejudice.

More than 1,500 people packed a Memorial Church remembrance service on Friday, Sept. 14, capping a week in which the University community mourned the victims and struggled to make sense of the tragic crashes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Harvard Divinity School will host 21 fellows and visiting scholars for the 2001-02 academic year. The 2001-02 CSWR senior…

Eleanor Benko ’02 (left), struggles with good humor through Harvard Yard, pushing her worldly goods on a dolly. Staff photo by Jon Chase

Two scientists will tie the knot at this years Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University. Lisa Danielson and Will Stefanov, both geologists at Arizona State University, will be married in a 60-second ceremony as the climax of the science worlds goofiest – and perhaps most-beloved – annual event.

The Loeb Fellowship at the Design School (GSD) announced 11 individuals who have been awarded fellowships to participate in one year of independent study using the curriculum and programs of…

Approximately 80 percent of adults responding to a random telephone survey would be willing to take a test to determine if they are genetically predisposed to developing Alzheimers disease if they were sure the test was accurate. But willingness to take the test falls to 45 percent if the test has a one in 10…

This summer, the Asia Center funded nearly 100 undergraduate and graduate student travel grants to Asia. Together with the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Edwin O.…

It has been described by experts as the largest and most comprehensive private collection of rare books, unpublished letters, manuscripts, and photographs relating to the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to be sold in more than 50 years.

The William F. Milton Fund makes research monies available to faculty members of the University for studies of a medical, geographical, historical, or scientific nature.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the second grant cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a…

Stephen Goldsmith, former two-term mayor of Indianapolis (1992-1999), has been named professor of the practice of public management at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

Three career journalists and an educator have been selected as 2001 Fall Fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, a research center based at…

Infectious bacteria that have developed resistance to even the most potent antibiotics are making hospital stays increasingly hazardous. Take the drug vancomycin, for example, which used to be a last line of defense against virulent strains of enterococci and staphylococci that can be life-threatening. These bacteria continually develop new ways to beat vancomycin.