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Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 20. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.…

Ulam memorial service, May 31 A memorial service for Adam Ulam will be held on Wednesday, May 31, at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Ulam was the Gurney Professor…

“[President Clinton] appreciates Neil Rudenstine’s leadership at Harvard, particularly his commitment to federal research and science and technology and also his efforts to expand the African-American Studies department there.” —White…

“No one person deserves credit for all of that, and Neil would be the last person to claim it,” Stone said. “But, more than anyone else this past decade, he…

Two from Harvard named Carnegie Scholars Two Harvard professors were among 12 leading researchers in American universities who have been named Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation. Caroline Hoxby, Morris…

Twelve international journalists have been named Nieman Fellows for the 2000-01 academic year. They will join twelve U.S. journalists whose names were announced earlier in May to make up the…

The password isn’t “open sesame” but the new cyber-gateway into Harvard databases still seems like something of a marvel (at least to the non-techies among us). Paul Martin, dean for…

“I am reducing everything to its maximum.” This was Earl Kim’s way of describing his own music and the compositional processes and aesthetic which assured its distinctive, individual character. Spare,…

Just how – and how much – is the dotcom world changing our lives? In a V.I.P.-studded attempt to answer this question, the Harvard community is hosting the third Internet…

Sixty-four undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The Prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19, a firearms expert…

It is 2 p.m. at Graham & Parks School in Central Square. Susan McCray passes out a letter to each student in her seventh-grade homeroom. Tension was building as the…

On a festive occasion marking John Finley’s retirement as Master of Eliot House in 1968, an admiring colleague evoked the mythical image of Cheiron, the wise centaur who was teacher…

Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) congratulates 25-year Harvard employee Bertha Demirjian, who works at the Admissions and Financial Aid Office. Demirjian has worked in different departments within Harvard…

Neil L. Rudenstine announced today that he will conclude his tenure as President of Harvard University at the end of the 2000-01 academic year.

The Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (’52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, is now in its seventh consecutive year of operation. The program affords sophomores and juniors the…

When Josep Lluis Sert, the former Dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), sketched his architectural drawings for the “futuristic” Holyoke Center 40 years ago, odds are he gave…

To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree candidates will…

Cambridge declares June 7 Michael Shinagel Day To honor Michael Shinagel, who will celebrate his 25th year as dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education and University Extension this year,…

The Mellon/Mentored Scholars Program at Harvard, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, aims to increase the number of under-represented minorities on college…

Mother Nature got her act together just in time for Mother’s Day. Bright sunshine greeted thousands of visitors at the annual Lilac Sunday on May 14 at the Arnold Arboretum…

Think of one of the great churches of Europe – St. Peter’s in Rome or England’s Canterbury Cathedral – a place of great beauty and solemnity filled with monuments to…

While examining the brains of hyperactive, inattentive boys with a new type of scanner, Harvard researchers found a reduced flow of blood into a specific area of the brain. Known…

Everyone knows that time-honored habits die hard. So it’s no surprise that Daniel Federman, the outgoing dean for medical education, would find it difficult to leave Harvard after a half…

How good are you at detecting a lie? Liars often give themselves away by facial expressions or changes in vocal pitch. But most people do no better than 50/50 at…

Vsevolod Setchkarev, the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, and a noted authority on Russian fiction and poetry, died at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, on…

In his nearly half a century on the Harvard faculty Bartlett Jere Whiting established a reputation for great learning, influential teaching, and dangerous wit. He died at 90 on 24…

The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History has announced the recipients of its 2000-01 fellowships. The fellows, who will come to Harvard to spend a sabbatical year writing…

Harvard University Police detectives are investigating the unarmed robbery of an undergraduate, which occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16. According to police, the suspect approached the student…