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  • 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.

  • Radcliffe appoints director of communications

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Alison Franklin director of communications.

  • Harvard Shorts Film Festival seeks film submissions

    The Harvard Shorts Film Festival is open for submissions until Feb. 4.

  • FAS Dean Smith looks ahead

    As it emerges from the worst of the global financial crisis, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is renewing its focus on priorities ranging from House Renewal to innovative pedagogy. With the release of the 2010 FAS annual report, Dean Michael D. Smith, John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spoke to the Gazette about his goals for the year.

  • David Turnbull

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 19, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Turnbull was a pioneer in the development of multi-disciplinary materials science.

  • A look inside: Adams House

    Drag Night in Adams House lets its residents really strut their stuff.

  • Fakhri A. Bazzaz

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 19, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Fakhri A. Bazzaz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Bazzaz was an ecologist who greatly influenced scientific thought and public policy on climate change.

  • When one sentence just won’t do

    A Harvard College senior discusses the difficulties of explaining her senior thesis in the sciences, particularly since the topic can make people cringe.

  • Wild Harvard

    Nature watchers around campus, open to the hard-to-see creatures nearby, deliver a message of attention and affection.

  • Food for thought

    Harvard graduate and Food Literacy Project administrator Dara Olmsted loves working with food and helping others connect to the environmental and nutritional implications of what they eat.

  • No ordinary leader

    Dominant. That’s the only word to describe the Harvard women’s basketball team over the past 25 years. The team has won 11 Ivy League championships since 1986 — a little less than one every other year — and 70 percent of its games in interleague play.

  • No ceilings

    In 2004, Harvard announced an initiative to make the University more accessible to low-income families by expanding recruitment and eliminating parental contributions for eligible students. Since then, 1,900 students have taken advantage of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Here’s how the program changed the lives of some of its first alumni.

  • ‘Outstanding Women’ honored

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds and Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), received the Outstanding Women Award from the YWCA Cambridge on Oct. 29.

  • Getting out the vote

    Cambridge residents, University students vote at two campus locations during midterm elections.

  • ‘Treat and Greet’ in Allston

    Harvard hosts a Halloween “Treat and Greet” celebration and open house in the Barry’s Corner section of Allston, a get-together that drew flocks of costumed local residents and children.

  • A witchin’ good time

    Pirates, witches, ninjas, and skeletons invaded Harvard Yard Friday (Oct. 29) as part of the Phillips Brooks House Association’s (PBHA) Halloween Party. PBHA organizers host the extravaganza each year, inviting students from their after-school and in-school programs to campus for an afternoon of crafts projects, tasty treats, and face-painting fun.

  • A housing dream come true

    Harvard’s 20/20/2000 initiative, the University’s 20-year, $20 million, low-interest loan program to help create low- and middle-income housing in Boston and Cambridge, helped to fund the Doña Betsaida Gutiérrez Cooperative on the Blessed Sacrament campus in Jamaica Plain. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project was Oct. 30.

  • Harvard’s 20/20/2000 affordable housing initiative helped build, renovate 4,350 units in Boston and Cambridge

    Seventeen percent of affordable housing projects built or renovated in Cambridge and Boston over the past decade are the result of Harvard’s 20/20/2000 affordable housing initiative.

  • GSD students unveil new design journal

    Trays, a student publication at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), and GSD student group Social Change and Activism, have collaborated to create the first annual compendium on socio-cultural awareness in design titled DO!: Design Opportunity.

  • Bok Center honors 510

    The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ deans of undergraduate education awarded an unprecedented 510 certificates of distinction and excellence on Oct. 26 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.

  • All in this together

    Members of the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) — which assists member institutions in recruiting and retaining faculty and staff — worked on strategies for a host of challenges during the organization’s general assembly, held at Harvard University.

  • Professor Harold Bolitho dies

    Harold Bolitho, professor of Japanese history emeritus in Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, died on Oct. 23 after a long illness.

  • Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 27

    At its fifth meeting of the year on Oct. 27, the Faculty Council heard details of the forthcoming faculty retirement plan.

  • Harvard students win in Collegiate Inventors Competition

    Harvard doctoral candidate Alice Chen won first prize in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, while several other Harvard students took home second and third prizes.

  • Arnold Arboretum announces T-shirt contest

    The Arnold Arboretum invites artists of all ages to submit their T-shirt designs for Lilac Sunday 2011.

  • Minds in the making

    The Harvard Achievement Support Initiative is arming teachers, parents, and community partners with techniques and resources that boost student achievement.

  • ‘Treat and Greet’ open house at Barry’s Corner

    Harvard University will host a Halloween-themed community open house at Barry’s Corner in Allston on Oct. 29. The event encourages neighbors to meet people who work in the area and learn more about the Harvard departments and organizations in the community.

  • Screening: Side Effects From Endoscopic Procedures

    Instead of relying on doctors’ reports about adverse events, Harvard’s Dr. Daniel Leffler used electronic medical records to track emergency visits and hospital admissions that occurred within two weeks of a colonoscopy or upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy and that appeared to be related to the procedures…

  • Aiding scholars at risk

    Harvard issues a call for nominations in an annual quest to offer one-year fellowships to “scholars at risk” who face persecution in their native countries.

  • Noma-Reischauer Prizes awarded in Japanese studies

    The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Ltd. Publishers hosted the 16th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the 15th annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies on Oct. 15.