Campus & Community

At the Feb. 29 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved proposals for a Ph.D. program in education and to change the schedule of regular meetings of the Faculty in the Rules of Faculty Procedure.

Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta launched the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment initiative, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Feb. 29.

The third John Harvard Book Celebration Lecture featured Harvard doctors and best-selling authors Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, who tackled the topic “Your Medical Mind: How to Decide When Experts Disagree.” The next lecture is March 1 at the Parker Hill Branch of the Boston Public Library in Roxbury.

Nine-time Grammy winner John Legend was serenaded by Harvard singers and had a front-row seat to the student dance performances at the 27th Cultural Rhythms, an annual festival hosted by the Harvard Foundation, on Feb. 25.

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Ezra F. Vogel has won the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.”

Alan Rusbridger, editor of the British-based Guardian newspaper, will address an audience of students, faculty, journalists, and members of the public on March 6 at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Five professors have been named Sloan Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

A memorial service has been set for longtime A.R.T. resident director David Wheeler, who died Jan. 4.

The Harvard men’s basketball team controlled much of the second half, but Ivy League rival Penn scored 15 of the last 20 points to stun the Crimson, 55-54 on Feb 25. The Crimson face Columbia on March 2.

The issues selected for the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship were announced during a special kickoff on Wednesday at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), which is hosting the challenge.

Professor Maya Jasanoff is one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” published by Knopf.

Barbara Lindsay Norton, a longtime Harvard employee, died on Feb. 17 in North Andover, Mass., after illness.

The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has announced fellowship awards to eight accomplished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2012, and to two Australian researchers headed to Harvard.

Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Harvard’s Head Tennis Professional Michael L. Mercier has been named Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Member of the Year for the State.

At the Feb. 15 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members considered proposals for a Ph.D. program in education and to change the schedule of regular meetings of the Faculty in the rules of faculty procedure. They also met with President Drew Faust to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.

Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Sociology (Harvard Medical School) and and Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School)

Daniel Lieberman Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Eleanor Duckworth Professor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education

Doug Melton Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Kaia Stern Director of the Prison Studies Project Visiting Faculty at Harvard Divinity School Visiting Faculty in Sociology at Harvard University Visiting Faculty in African and African American Studies at Harvard University

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt, who pioneered a new approach to curricular development with the launch of the Graduate Seminars in General Education, announced Feb. 15 that he will step down as GSAS dean this spring owing to health considerations. He plans to return to the faculty when his treatment is concluded.

Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.

Two high school friends brought an old-fashioned backyard tossing game with them when they entered Harvard, and now it’s an official club sport.

Escaping Cambodia’s violence, Aun Em gradually built a new life, becoming IT coordinator at Harvard Medical School and a passionate advocate for women.

In Eliot House, interested students flock to a basement woodshop to construct tables, boxes, or chairs, to turn vases or bowls, or to create other works.

An undergraduate finds her path to satisfying public service by searching among the alternatives she sampled to discover the best fit for her.

A search sheds light on the controversial turning point 40 years ago when men and women first shared housing in Pforzheimer and Winthrop.

President Drew Faust announced today the launch of the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship hosted through the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). This effort is part of Harvard University’s commitment to social entrepreneurship and cross-School initiatives. President Faust is sponsoring this University-wide challenge seeking entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most important social problems.

Steven E. Hyman, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist, University provost for a decade, and the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, has been named director of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, effective Feb. 15.