Campus & Community

Matthew Salesses, a faculty and staff assistant at Harvard Kennedy School, moonlights as an up-and-coming fiction writer, editor, columnist, and, soon, a new dad.

Nearly 77 percent of students admitted to Harvard opt to attend the College, up from last year’s 75.5 percent.

Harvard University plans to honor Joel Iacoomes, one of the first Native Americans ever to attend the College, with a special posthumous degree at its 2011 Commencement exercises on May 26. Iacoomes died shortly before Commencement in 1665.

The Radcliffe Rugby Football Club has been crowned the 2011 USA Rugby DII National Champion after an incredible matchup against Notre Dame.

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced the selection of its 2011-12 Hertz Fellows, including Harvard students Megan Blewett and Jesse Engreitz.

Information on Harvard’s May 26 Commencement.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Music Department have announced the appointment of Jill Johnson as director of the OFA Dance Program and senior lecturer in the Department of Music.

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the Top 25 Innovations in Government in competition for the Innovations in American Government Award.

Four hundred eighth-grade students from the Cambridge public schools visited campus to discuss their science experiments with the Harvard community.

Eighty from Harvard lend helping hands to the Allston-Brighton community during Boston Shines, the citywide cleanup effort.

Harvard Assistant Professor of English Jason Stevens has been named a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year.

A memorial service for Eli Shapiro, the former Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Investment Management at Harvard Business School, will be held on May 7.

The Harvard Foundation honored Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, on May 3 with its 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Dinner in Quincy House.

Registration is open for the Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day reading course in July.

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis played with young musicians from Harvard and Cambridge Rindge & Latin School in a master class.

The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced the selection of the second annual Burke Global Health Fellows.

The Harvard Foundation recently sent more than 1,000 new wool blankets and other relief items to the victims of the catastrophic March earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Gordon S. Jones has been named the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a new and innovative initiative set to launch in late 2011 that will foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities, and provide a forum, both physically and virtually, for interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community.

President Drew Faust names Lizabeth Cohen as interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The current dean, Barbara J. Grosz, will step down at the end of this academic year.

Five graduate students have been awarded the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates.

Augustine M.K. Choi, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was selected as the 2011 Ho-Am Laureate in Medicine, often referred to as the “Korean Nobel Prize.”

“The Young Ones,” a BBC series filmed with Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen Langer, which replicates her Counterclockwise study using British celebrities, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.

At its last meeting of the year, the Faculty Council approved Extension School courses for 2011-12, the courses of instruction for 2011-12, and changes to the handbook for students for 2011-12. They also approved a description of the standing committee on public service and a proposal for study abroad and discussed campaign planning and an analysis of the academic integrity survey.

Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds will appoint a new director to coordinate resources and develop programming to support bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer undergraduates.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2011.

Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.

Two child care centers on campus recently reopened after Harvard-financed renovations brought both up to the standards of contemporary best practices for child care.

Renato Tagiuri, professor of social sciences in business administration emeritus at Harvard Business School, died on April 15 at the age of 91.

Ten students have been awarded the first grants from Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship. The program supports returning undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing public service work during the summer.

Tina Tchen ’78, chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama, encouraged young women to be part of a “vanguard of change,” and Harvard College senior Madeleine Ballard touted everyday leadership during the 14th Annual Women’s Leadership Awards.