Campus & Community

In 1983, J. Richard Gaintner joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he rose to Professor of Medicine.

With the opening of the Weld Hill facility at Arnold Arboretum, staff members and lab equipment are filling the long-awaited space dedicated to botanical research.

When freshman Anna Kelsey realizes she needs something from home, she just walks seven minutes to get it.

The crest of Currier House shows a field of red, representing Harvard, surrounding a simple golden tree. Within their own communal “tree,” Currier residents have been “greening” the way they live.

Freshmen Morgan Powell and Mariah Pewarski balance schoolwork with playing two sports — and wouldn’t have it any other way.

Robert M. Goldwyn graduated from Harvard Medical School and later returned there and became Senior Surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Israel Hospitals.

Friends and colleagues offered heartfelt remembrances during a memorial service for the Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

For Marina Betancur and 15 other Harvard employees, a celebration dinner with President Drew Faust was a victory lap on a long, arduous, and rewarding path to citizenship.

Drew Faust, eminent historian and president of Harvard University, will deliver the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 2.

The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, announced the spring 2011 Fisher Family Fellows on April 4.

The Crimson Sailing Academy will host an open house for potential summer campers on May 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The academy is open to youth ages 10-16, and teaches kids how to sail in a safe, fun environment.

Comedian Amy Poehler, star of “Parks and Recreation” and a former cast member of the late-night sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live,” has been selected as the 2011 Senior Class Day speaker.

The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, will induct 24 juniors at a formal ceremony at Leverett House on April 25.

A memorial service celebrating the life and ministry of the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes will be held in the Memorial Church on April 6 at 11 a.m.

Harvard University announced today (April 4) that Wynton Marsalis will launch a two-year performance and lecture series on April 28, with an appearance at Sanders Theatre. Currently the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is an accomplished musician, composer, bandleader and educator who has made the promotion of jazz and cultural literacy his hallmark causes.

April is Earth Month at Harvard, an inaugural initiative featuring campuswide events and activities to celebrate and raise awareness about environmental issues.

Almost 35,000 students applied to Harvard College for admission to the Class of 2015. Letters of admission and email notifications were sent to 2,158 students, 6.2 percent of the record pool of 34,950. More than 60 percent of the admitted students will receive need-based scholarships averaging more than $40,000.

Now through April 8, team up with other Harvard faculty and staff members to shut out cancer through Harvard Community Gifts.

Undergraduates have been getting into the good times at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub at Loker Commons since it opened in 2007. Student patrons flock there for the programming, affordable pub grub, and, for those over 21, a strong selection of beers from local microbreweries. Students also run the place, gaining valuable business experience and a chance to shape College social life.

Harvard offers a wealth of resources to help seniors manage stress and get as much from their last year of college as they have from their first three.

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School recognized 36 government initiatives as Bright Ideas recipients on March 29.

Harvard Management Company hosted a conference on China in December, drawing on the expertise of University academics to provide its fund managers with background, context, and perspective that will help them better understand and assess investment opportunities and risks in the emerging economic giant.

The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced March 24 that the 2011 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will be given to Refrigerants, Naturally!, an alliance of corporations substituting environmentally harmful fluorinated gases with natural refrigerants in their commercial refrigeration installations.

Six from Harvard University have been awarded 2011 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.

A paper by Ruhul Abid was recently selected by the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology as the most outstanding vascular biology paper of 2010.

Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Junior Faculty Merit Scholarship.

At its 11th meeting of the year on March 23, the Faculty Council heard a review of the joint A.B./M.M. program with the New England Conservatory. They also voted to amend the rules concerning study out of residence and to update the faculty’s media policy. Finally, they heard reports on the activities of undergraduates and graduate students during January 2011.

Harry Z. Mellins was recruited in 1969 to be chief of diagnostic radiology and residency program director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — a position he held until his death in 2009.

Ticketing and viewing information for alumni/ae, parents, and others regarding Harvard’s Commencement Exercises on May 26.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Kennedy School alumna who has restored stability to her war-torn nation, will be the speaker at Harvard’s 360th Commencement, a choice lauded by faculty.