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  • 48 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa

    Forty-eight seniors were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.

  • Harvard prof wins prize for criminology study

    The 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been jointly awarded to John Laub of the National Institute of Justice and Harvard’s Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Robert Sampson for their research showing why and how criminals stop offending.

  • Ceramics Program hosts holiday show and sale

    The Ceramics Program of Harvard’s Office for the Arts will present its annual holiday show and sale Dec. 9-12 at 219 Western Ave. in Allston.

  • PBHA launches holiday gift drive

    Phillips Brooks House has launched Harvard’s annual holiday gift drive — an effort to collect more than 1,000 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge.

  • Three scholars recognized for music contributions

    Three scholars from Harvard’s Music Department received prizes at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Los Angeles in early November.

  • Keeping creature company

    For 33 years, José Rosado has taken care of more than 300,000 amphibians and reptiles in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.

  • New Campus Services department takes shape

    Campus Services, the administrative group that serves every School and unit across the University, announced plans today (Nov. 18) to increase efficiencies and strengthen the University commitment to sustainability.

  • A program of exploration

    Freshman seminars connect students with new subjects and star faculty.

  • Harvard’s lasting effect

    Harvard senior Marcel Moran recalls the classes he loved. But, more important, he realizes how his education has helped him to analyze and synthesize what he learned while at Harvard.

  • Hardly the retiring kind

    A vital resource, the Harvard University Retirees Association keeps former employees connected to the University’s vast resources, and to each other.

  • A look inside: Currier House

    Security guard Yohannes Tewolde does his job with flair at Currier House.

  • Harvard students improve recycling

    Students from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Resource Efficiency Program and staff from Harvard Recycling conducted the 13th annual waste audit on Nov. 11.

  • Rebound

    The Harvard men’s basketball team is on the up and up, thanks to its newest coach Tommy Amaker.

  • Marsden appointed new dean of social science

    Peter Marsden, the Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology and a Harvard College Professor, has been appointed the new dean of social science by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith.

  • Postdoc fellow wins neurobiology prize

    Christopher Gregg, a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, is the 2010 Grand Prize winner in the annual international competition for the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.

  • Medical School’s Jocelyn Spragg, 70

    Jocelyn Spragg, faculty director of diversity programs and special academic resources in the division of medical sciences at Harvard Medical School (HMS), as well as a research scientist, educator, mentor, and tireless promoter of educational opportunities for underrepresented students, died Nov. 2.

  • Key support

    As director of Harvard’s Advising Programs Office, Adela Penagos oversees advising programs for all undergraduates — from peer advisers and proctors who help freshmen make the adjustment to college life, to concentration advisers who guide students through their chosen areas of study.

  • Honoring great teaching

    The Harvard Statistics Department’s inaugural David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture highlights the importance of passion, clarity, and accessibility in undergraduate teaching.

  • Giving thanks to each other

    Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is giving staff members an opportunity to show their gratitude to one another at this week’s first-ever Giving Thanks Open House (Nov. 16-18).

  • Heavy smoking in pregnancy linked to crime in offspring

    Mothers who puff a pack a day or more while pregnant run a 30-percent higher risk of having kids who become criminal offenders, according to a study published Tuesday…

  • Baby photos from the ultimate edge – a black hole

    Astronomers may have lucked into the ultimate in cosmic baby pictures: a voracious black hole fresh from its violent birth…

  • Brain-damage risks higher for younger marijuana users, study says

    People who start smoking marijuana before they turn 16 may damage their brains more than people who start later, according to a small study from McLean Hospital…

  • 46 faculty enter retirement program

    Forty-six faculty members have elected to take advantage of Harvard’s faculty retirement program, with longer phased retirement options the most popular choice.

  • Harvard Foundation unveils new portrait

    A portrait of Chester Middlebrook Pierce ’48, M.D. ’52, was the latest to be unveiled in the Harvard Foundation’s Portraiture Project.

  • Winter Break recharge

    For many undergraduates, Winter Break (Dec. 22-Jan. 23) will be a welcome opportunity to recharge after the fall semester. At the same time, students looking for something to do between semesters will find plenty of exciting activities offered by Harvard and its alumni, on and off campus.

  • Harvard professor INET grant recipient

    The Institute for New Economic Thinking has selected James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard, and his research partner Steven Pincus of Yale University, to be awarded a project grant through the institute’s Inaugural Grant Program to research the events leading to the British Industrial Revolution.

  • Michael Tinkham, superconductivity pioneer, 82

    Michael Tinkham, the Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Emeritus at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Physics, passed away on Nov. 4.

  • Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 10

    At its sixth meeting of the year on Nov. 10, the Faculty Council heard updates about plans for Jan. 2011, the Rockefeller funds, and study abroad.

  • Future of Diplomacy Project names fellows

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Future of Diplomacy Project has announced new resident and nonresident fellows for fall 2010.

  • Overjoyed

    Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.