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Speizer and Willett win prestigious Mott Prize

Seventy-three undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The $2,500 prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19. The Hoopes Prize recipients are as follows:

Andrea Kurtz, a chemistry concentrator and a resident of Kirkland House who plans to do graduate work in her field this fall at Stanford University, is the winner of this years Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to a graduating senior.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on May 30, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. A remarkably skilled surgeon, inspiring teacher, author of a leading…

This year, the Harvard University Extension School’s Commencement Speaker award will go to Anthony Lorizio, A.L.B. ’01, whose speech is titled “Old Dogs Can and Do Learn New Tricks.” In…

Ten fellows from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study talk on camera about their work and their fellowship year in a new videostream feature launched this week on the Radcliffe…

When Adam Storeygard was a child, he imagined his back yard as a golf course. He drew a map of the recontoured landscape, Magic Marker lines running crazily, boldly, about the paper. On family vacations, he pored over road maps, directing his parents from the backseat of the car. When he was a teenager, he…

Sitting on stage in the altogether and having your body painted blue in a performance piece called Untitled – now thats a college memory!

This is Josephine Nobles story.

The story of J. Justin Pasquariellos childhood is more tabloid than fairy tale. His father died when he was an infant. His mother struggled with bipolar disorder. At best, raising Justin was a challenge for her at worst, she endured lengthy periods of hospitalization. Justin bounced from his mothers care in the Boston area to…

Its been 16 years since the first of Ray and Rose Chavezs five children graduated from Harvard. This years Commencement will mark the culmination of a dream when Elena, the fifth and last from a family that scrimped and saved their way to five Harvard educations, receives her diploma.

You cant get too bogged down in some of the awful, awful atrocities that happen, says human-rights activist Josh Bloom, 25. You cant try to understand torture and genocide. But there are people who are dealing with that every day.

A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today.

When Jay Munir became president of the Law School Council (LSC) last March, no one could say he lacked experience. The 24-year-olds political career first got off the ground when he was elected president of the student government – in the fifth grade. Oh, and at Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids, Mich.,…

Certainly, Commencement marks the pinnacle of an undergraduates academic career. For many graduating seniors, however, friendships forged at Harvard are every bit as life-shaping as their academic achievements. To celebrate friendship, the Gazette introduces 10 senior men who share a suite in Dunster House.

Food facts Prepared for Commencement 2001: More than 26,000 chicken breasts  2,950 pounds of pasta salad  2,650 pounds of rice salad  More than 320 sheet pans of brownies baked in…

Third World countries are drowning in debt, and its up to the wealthy countries to save them, said rock superstar Bono, highlighting an afternoon of reflection, thank-yous, and goodbyes for members of the Harvard College Class of 2001 during Class Day ceremonies in Tercentenary Theatre.

The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Scott Bassett of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Irina Harris of the…

The Harvard Directory Project has announced Hannah Sarvasy ’03 as the winner of the 2001-02 student directory cover art competition. Sarvasy’s painting, “Weld Boathouse and the Charles,” will appear on…

John Lithgow ’67 “After Harvard, I spent two years on a Fulbright, studying acting in England. And after that, I spent a year working for my father, acting at Princeton’s…

Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine bid farewell to the Class of 2001 Tuesday even as the students bid goodbye to him as the Universitys outgoing 26th president during the traditional pre-Commencement Baccalaureate Service.

The following are the graduating seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Deborah Jo Abel, Cabot, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Michael Ugo Antonucci, Winthrop, Biology; Tal Astrachan, Cabot, Psychology; James Carl…

The Graduate School of Education (GSE) has awarded six fellowships to outstanding Cambridge and Boston public school teachers. The Conant Fellowships, named after Harvard president (1933-53) and School of Education…

To an audience of about 100 freshly minted Phi Beta Kappa graduates and the esteemed faculty members who led them, Garrison Keillor extolled the virtues of laziness and failure.

Santiago Creuheras, who graduates today (June 7) with two masters degrees (a master of liberal arts in history and a master of liberal arts in government) and a certificate of special studies in administration and management from the Harvard Extension School, has been pursuing what often seems a highly improbable path toward his goals. It…

Calling the endowment of new professorships one of his highest priorities in the coming years, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles recently set a goal of expanding the Harvard College faculty by 60 members overall.

The newly established Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) recently received major commitments of support for its research and education programs. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) will allocate physical and faculty resources to the center, including new space for the China Project – HUCEs multidisciplinary research…

Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine announced today the appointment of Joseph Connors as director of Villa I Tatti, effective in the summer of 2002. Located on the outskirts of Florence, the Villa is Harvards international center for advanced study of the Italian Renaissance.

There was no ribbon at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Harvard Graduate School of Educations (GSE) new Learning Technologies Lab on May 31.

The John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the Sylvia E. Kelman Summer Internship recipient. The internship will provide a $4,000 stipend to support a master in public policy (M.P.P.) student in a public sector work/training program. In so doing, the Sylvia E. Kelman Summer Internship introduces students to careers in public service.