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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.

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.

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:

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.

Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) hosted a very special event on May 21, “An Evening With Your Favorite Authors,” to benefit the Hoffman Breast Center at Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

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.

In 1976, in the education journal Change, President Derek Bok famously asked, “Can ethics be taught?” At the time, few universities and even fewer faculty specialized in ethics; philosophers rarely applied their moral insights to real-world problems; and doctors, lawyers, businesspersons, and policymakers usually had little or no ethics training, even as the world was becoming increasingly complicated in matters of often long-ranging moral import.

Charles “Chuck” Carroll, longtime Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) employee and a Harvard graduate, died on May 21, after succumbing to a rare blood disease. He was 65.

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its sixth annual Public Service Celebration on May 7 in the masters’ residence of Lowell House. A capacity crowd of 240, including PBHA public service leaders and volunteers, Harvard faculty and staff, and invited guests, attended the ceremony. The keynote address — traditionally comprising the reflections of three seniors — was presented by Chimaobi Amutah, Rabia Mir, and Aidan Madigan-Curtis.

Eleven Harvard undergraduates will embark on an intense internship experience this summer, working alongside New York’s most innovative nonprofit organizations and government agencies to solve challenging problems facing children today.

For the second year, Harvard College students have been awarded Lester Kissel grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on a range of ethical issues. The seven grant winners will conduct research in the United States or abroad, and write reports, articles, or senior theses. Three of the students will carry out their projects on internships or foreign study. Each grant supports living and research expenses up to $3,000.

Musgrave memorial May 18 A memorial service for Professor Emeritus Richard Musgrave will be held on May 18 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Musgrave died Jan. 15 in Santa Cruz, Calif., at the age of 96.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 7. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that Miho Mazereeuw M.Arch./M.L.A. ’02 will receive the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture to study post-disaster urban architecture in three cities along the Ring of Fire, a zone of the most frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

As a 15-year-old who had spent half her life in Saudi Arabia’s expatriate community, Claudine Gay got a rude awakening when, in the 1980s, she returned “home” to a private New Hampshire boarding school.

In this 10th anniversary year of the prestigious Harvard College Professorships, five FAS faculty members have been honored for their particularly distinguished contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.

May 1638 — The College Yard expands as the Town of Cambridge grants the College a lot of land that today includes Harvard, Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy halls.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Grillo memorial service May 3 A celebration of the life of Hermes C. Grillo, professor of surgery emeritus, will be held May 3 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church. Grillo died in Italy in October 2006. Musgrave memorial May 18 A memorial service for Professor Emeritus Richard Musgrave will be held on May 18 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Musgrave died Jan. 15 in Santa Cruz, Calif., at the age of 96.

In a May 2 letter to the Harvard community, interim President Derek Bok is soliciting input on the issue of calendar reform. The letter also provides an update on developments around this issue. To view the letter, go to http://www.harvard.edu or visit the President’s site at http://www.president.harvard.edu/.

What gives people the ability to tell right from wrong? Is the moral sense instilled in us by God? Is it inculcated through religious training? Or does moral judgment vary according to the culture in which we were raised?

Suppose you have a lot of information and you want to put it together so it makes sense. Here’s a suggestion from psychologists at Harvard Medical School — sleep on it.

“What better place,” observed social entrepreneur and philanthropist Catherine Reynolds, “to describe a new paradigm than here at Harvard?”

Students and administrators have declared Advising Fortnight a success. The two-week event organized by Harvard College marked the beginning of pre-concentration advising for the Class of 2010. First-years flocked to advising events — scores of them — held by every academic department and degree program, with attendance approaching 3,000.

When Benedict Gross was a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard, there was no Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Teaching fellows who wanted to know what was the most effective way to help undergraduates understand their course work were pretty much on their own.

At the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Thursday (April 26), Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert S. Mueller III outlined terrorism threats, described how the FBI was fighting them — and how at the same time the agency was protecting civil liberties.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 18, 2006, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Edward Cheatham, Jr., Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science, was placed upon the records. Cheatham’s research and teaching bridged the divide between software theory and practice.

A celebration of the life of Hermes C. Grillo, professor of surgery emeritus, will be held May 3 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church. Grillo died in Italy in October 2006.

Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to the Puget Sound waterfront. This is the first time the winning project has been located in the United States.