Campus & Community

Drinking coffee, regular or decaffeinated, may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, according to a study by Harvard University researchers.

The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, recently elected four new members from Harvard into this year’s class of scholars.

Daniel G. Kavanagh, a member of the faculty at the Ragon Institute, is one of the winners of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations initiative.

President Drew Faust has announced the appointment of a search advisory committee for the next minister of the Memorial Church.

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded three V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 each at its spring reception in May.

Howard Gardner has been bestowed with the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.

The Society of Professional Journalists named The Harvard Crimson the national winner in the editorial writing category as part of its Mark of Excellence competition.

David Gootenberg ’11 was presented with the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony May 2.

The popular Harvard Farmers’ Market will return to campus on June 14.

The Harvard Alumni Association announced that Arne Duncan ’86 has been elected by his classmates to be this year’s chief marshal for Commencement.

Harvard and Radcliffe College alumni/ae returning to campus for this spring’s reunions will be able to connect in more ways than ever, thanks to the new Harvard/Radcliffe Reunion app for smartphones.

Of Dunster House’s three major yearly events, those being its “Messiah” sing, the Dunster House opera, and the spring goat roast, it is the tradition of the roast that sets it apart from the other Houses.

Two start-up companies have partnered with Harvard’s CommuterChoice Program to make auto use — for long trips, quick jaunts, or daily commutes — easier.

Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music at Harvard University from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, serving, after 1990, as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music and, from 1991-1994, as department Chair.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has selected 51 fellows for the 2011-12 year.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Barrington Moore, Jr., retired Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center and Senior Lecturer on Sociology, was placed upon the records. Moore was a leader in comparative historical sociology and comparative politics.

The Harvard College Fellowship Program has proven to be a boon to students, academic departments across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the fellows themselves, many of whom have gone on to land tenure-track faculty positions in a tough job market.

The new Campus Service Center has merged Harvard University Housing, ID Card services, and the Parking Office in one convenient Holyoke Center location.

The Harvard Alumni Association will award the Harvard Medal to Albert Carnesale ’78 (hon.), Frances Fergusson ’66, Ph.D. ’73, and Peter Malkin ’55, J.D. ’58, on May 26.

Harvard Divinity School has a new blessing, a pluralist plot of paradise, in its own community garden.

Claire Richardson ’11 is an unusual example of what happens after college athletes graduate. Eligible to continue competing in college because of a year lost to injury, she’s headed to Georgetown for graduate school, and more running.

James M. Snyder Jr., an economist and Harvard’s newest professor of government, is a student of American elections, where he finds that campaign contributions don’t have the sway you might suppose.

Honor provides support for research, recognizes outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

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.