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  • Versatile vocalist Mahogany headlines benefit at Sanders

    Local fans of jazz and blues will soon have a chance to hear some of the most talented and admired performers in those genres and to help the homeless as well.

  • New leadership fellowship program established

    A core of 13 faculty members is collaborating across disciplines to create a new Harvard fellowship program they say will harness a largely untapped universe of leadership skills.

  • Former Congressman Leach named director of Institute of Politics

    David T. Ellwood, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, recently announced that former U.S. Congressman James A. Leach (R-IA) has been named the new director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP). Leach will serve for this academic year, beginning immediately and succeeding outgoing director Jeanne Shaheen.

  • Harvard to limit greenhouse gas emissions in new Allston construction

    Harvard University this week reiterated its long-standing commitment to improving the environment, voluntarily agreeing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new buildings constructed on its Allston campus in ways that…

  • Community Affairs fills fall with free family fun

    Among the abundance of fun and free offerings for the public in and around Harvard Square this fall are two upcoming events sponsored by Harvard’s Office of Community Affairs.

  • Inaugural Day of Service set for Sept. 29

    The Harvard Undergraduate Council, the Harvard Graduate Council, and the Phillip Brooks House Association have partnered to coordinate the first University-wide Day of Service on Sept. 29.

  • Blodgett Pool school seeks novice swimmers, divers

    Each fall and spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults.

  • Lectores y Amiguitos: Reading and sharing

    Katie Ferrari (right) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) reads with second-grader Alicia Morency from the Amigos School on Putnam Avenue. Ferrari participates in the Lectores y Amiguitos program managed by the Office of School Partnerships and Cambridge School Volunteers.

  • Caribbean theme a hit with Cambridge seniors

    The palm trees on the steps of the Memorial Church lent Harvard Yard a tropical look on July 31 as the sounds of steel drums and smells of exotic fruits wafted through the air on a balmy afternoon.

  • Barbecue draws summer interns for fun in the sun

    More than 100 summer interns, faculty, and staff converged on the Bio Labs courtyard on July 24 for the inaugural Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) summer barbecue.

  • Blodgett Pool school seeks novice swimmers, divers

    Each fall and spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults. Held at Blodgett Pool, the Saturday morning lessons will commence Sept. 22 and run through Oct. 27 (lessons will be suspended during the week of Oct. 13). For more information, contact Keith Miller at (617) 496-8790, or visit http://www.athletics.harvard.edu/swimschool/.

  • ‘The Wave of Change’

    High school students from six states gathered at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in June for a conference on religious diversity and tolerance. Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Program and Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, the daylong conference, called ‘T.I.D.E. (Teenage Interfaith Diversity Education): The Wave of Change,’ featured workshops, dialogue, games, and other activities.

  • Double dose of good green news

    Harvard and City of Cambridge officials on Tuesday (June 19) used the penultimate day of spring to celebrate a double dose of sunny news.

  • In brief

    Auction aims to expand day care vouchers for Oxford Street co-op The Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative is the only Harvard-affiliated day care that accepts state-issued tuition vouchers for families who cannot afford the high cost of day care. To help support the expansion of the voucher program, the co-op will hold a silent auction June 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, third-floor Maya Galleries.

  • Harvard’s Farmers’ Market set to reopen June 19

    Beginning (Tuesday) June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held between the Science Center and Memorial Hall every Tuesday through October.

  • ‘Elder statesman’ brightens big day

    On Thursday afternoon (June 7), in the shade of a tree in the Old Yard, Philip Keene of Natick, Mass., sat in a wheelchair holding a small sign that read “1925.” Nearby was Thayer Hall, where he lived as a senior 82 years ago.

  • Working for herself so she can work for the community

    How do you celebrate getting into Harvard with your family, if your family has no real concept of Harvard?

  • Shapeshifter Bratt moves between Wall Street and NGOs

    “I really don’t have a plan for my life,” says Martin Bratt, who is receiving his master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), “but feel that by being who I am I can help break down some stereotypes.” Bratt has seen both sides of the chasm that splits public service and the private sector, and believes his experience will help him build a necessary bridge between the two.

  • Eggleston’s formula: Hard science and the joy of art

    As a toddler, Sarah Skye Eggleston ’07 of Quincy House wore a Harvard jumpsuit — the stuff of parental dreams. It worked.

  • Viviany Taqueti: Writer, doctor, public servant

    As a young girl, Viviany Taqueti followed her doctor father as he made rounds in the two hospitals he built in the jungles of Brazil. Sitting on the banks of the muddy, mighty Amazon River, Taqueti decided that she wanted to be like him, a person who improves the lives of others and who believes that you can do anything you set your mind to.

  • ‘Harvard does something to you: It opens the door to the world’

    When Raul Ruiz was a teenager, some of his teachers realized he had potential. But most, he says, recommended he apply to a vocational school; it would be a big step toward the American dream for a first-generation Mexican-American boy whose migrant-worker parents had never finished high school.

  • Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • In brief

    Allston Room to extend hours Commencement Week The Harvard in Allston exhibit room in the Holyoke Center Arcade will hold extended hours (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) from June 4 to 8. Members of the University community are invited to stop by for free iced tea and lemonade and to have a look at the maps and model of Harvard’s proposed master plan for Allston. Visit http://www.allston.harvard.edu for more information.

  • Memorial services

    Westheimer memorial set for June A memorial gathering for Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will be held June 29 at 3 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford St. Westheimer died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.

  • Gene Ketelhohn, Cabot House building manager, 60

    Gene G. Ketelhohn, the building manager of Cabot House since 1983, died May 26 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 60.

  • Schweitzer Fellows commit to community service

    Honoring the legacy of Albert Schweitzer, area graduate students are committing to a year of service with a community agency. In a competitive selection process, 29 students — including six from Harvard — were recently selected as 2007-08 Boston Schweitzer Fellows.

  • Humanists, scientists, artists among new fellows at Radcliffe

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced the names of 32 women and 19 men selected to be 2007–08 Radcliffe Fellows. The fellows — among them 18 humanists, 13 scientists, 12 creative artists, and eight social scientists — will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Their projects range from the production of a film and photographic series on 21st century American workers to research into deriving heart cells from stem cells to improve cardiovascular development.

  • Traditional tintinnabulation

    A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on June 7. For the 19th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 356th Commencement Exercises.

  • Commencement exercises, June 7

    Morning Exercises 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:

  • Conference examines values and global health

    In an age where the health of those in one country can affect that of others around the world, scholars from Harvard, Boston University, and Northwestern University gathered at Harvard’s Barker Center last week to examine the importance of values in driving efforts to address global health concerns.