Campus & Community

More than 1,000 Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents turned out for the 23rd Community Football Day.

Ernesto Cortés Jr. received the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Award for his efforts to empower people to improve their lives and circumstances.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October, 2, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Robert Vivian Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Pound was one of the historic figures of twentieth-century physics, playing a central role in several discoveries that have had immense consequences for science and our everyday lives.

Harry L. Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Crew, is widely regarded as the premier rowing coach in the United States. In this video, he discusses the sport of rowing.

Alvin E. Roth, an economist whose research as a member of Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences improved the design and functioning of markets, has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He shares the prize with Lloyd S. Shapley, A.B. ’44, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

A family that sent four daughters through Harvard Business School — including former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao — visited the School on Friday to announce a $40 million gift that will fund scholarships for students of Chinese heritage and support the building of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center for executive education.

Eric Jacobsen, the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, and Jenny Hoffman, an associate professor of physics, have been named recipients of the 2012 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching at Harvard.

As Harvard’s neighbor Boston College celebrates its 150th year, it’s important to reflect on the enduring tension between scholarship for social good and inquiry for its own sake, President Drew Faust said Oct. 10 as she received the college’s first Sesquicentennial Medal.

Lamont Library will remain open 24/7 during reading period and final exams this academic year, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and interim librarian of Harvard College Susan Fliss announced today.

The Faculty Council met on Oct. 10 and discussed a variety of College matters.

Nabbing its 13th straight victory by crushing Cornell on Oct. 6, the Crimson football team is 4-0 on the season, and has won all its games by double digits.

President Drew Faust today launched the second year of the President’s Challenge, inviting Harvard students and postdoctoral candidates to create entrepreneurial solutions to pressing societal problems and introducing a new category, the arts.

For the second consecutive year, Harvard’s landscaping staff brought trees, shrubs, boxes of bulbs, and a new bench to Harvard Yard. With their help, students, proctors, and administrators transformed the space into a more inviting setting.

Harvard has early connections to both winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.

Renowned international public health scientist and medical statistician Hans Rosling will be awarded the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at Winthrop House on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October, 2, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Juan Marichal, Smith Professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Marichal was committed to Harvard’s international outreach and helped foster its intellectual ties with the Iberian and Latin American worlds.

A Q-and-A with Lizabeth Cohen, new dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

A new Harvard Library portal opens the window on a library reorganization that preserves the print past and embraces the digital future.

Tucked away along a row of trees behind Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Dean David Hempton’s house, the HDS garden came to flourish in 2009 and continues to thrive to this day.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham has become the first American woman ever to win one of the U.K.’s most prestigious poetry accolades, the Forward Prize for best collection.

In an annual fall tradition, Harvard rolls out the welcome mat for its new students and fellows who are veterans or who are still in the service.

Raj Chetty, professor of economics, and Benjamin Warf, a neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, are among 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, or “genius grants.”

Alumni active in schools committee work have been honored with the annual Hiram Hunn Award by the Harvard Admissions Office.

During the renovation of Old Quincy House, three swing spaces in Harvard Square have become residential extensions of the Quincy community: Ridgley Hall, Hampden Hall, and Fairfax Hall.

We remain committed to working with the leadership of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) to reach an agreement that benefits both our employees who are represented…

Harvard University announced today that its endowment posted a -0.05% return and was valued at $30.7 billion for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011. The fiscal year 2012 endowment return was 98 basis points in excess of the -1.03% return on the benchmark Policy Portfolio.

Members of Harvard’s Corporation and Board of Overseers, past and present, gathered at Harvard Law School’s new Wasserstein Hall Sept. 22 for a reunion afternoon featuring a panel discussion on teaching innovation and a question-and-answer session with Harvard President Drew Faust.

Richard M. Losick, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard, has been named one of three winners of the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize by Columbia University in recognition of his work to understand the intricate, dynamic, and three-dimensional organization of bacterial cells.

In honor of the Aloian Memorial Scholarships program’s 25th anniversary, the Harvard Alumni Association has selected four students to receive Aloian scholarships. They will be honored on Sept. 27.

Approximately 400 Harvard runners participated in the ninth annual Brian Honan 5K Run/Walk on Sunday.