Campus & Community

From the boardroom to the classroom and beyond, public speaking is an unavoidable — and often feared — fact of life for some Harvard faculty and staff. The Crimson Toastmasters are there to help, and maybe even make the learning fun.

From her early days as a labor organizer to her current role advocating for laid-off employees, union official Joie Gelband has made a career of handling workers’ issues.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Carroll E. Wood Jr., Professor of Biology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Carroll Wood’s innovative research project, the Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States, took a biological approach to the description of plants involving all aspects of biology, including their evolutionary history, ecology, geographic distribution, and economic uses.

Harvard’s Board of Overseers names Leila Fawaz as president and Robert Shapiro as vice chair of the executive committee for 2011-12.

Harvard Gazette photographer Rose Lincoln has captured a glimpse of Harvard during the region’s many recent snowstorms and blizzards.

Harvard’s campus reflects three centuries of architectural history, and a practiced intimacy that draws people together.

At a time of need, the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund infuses another $100,000 into nonprofits in North Allston-North Brighton. Grants totaling $300,000 have now been issued to 17 local organizations over three years.

In the Beanpot hockey tournament, the Harvard men rallied to win the consolation game, 5-4, while the women lost, 3-1, in the championship.

At its ninth meeting of the year on Feb. 9, the Faculty Council approved a motion regarding mail ballots. They also heard an overview of the College Fellows Program, an analysis of pre-term planning, and an update on the General Education Program.

The Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) is calling all local visual artists to participate in its second annual art exhibit, also part of Harvard’s annual Arts First events from April 28 to May 1.

For the second year in a row, Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has won a poetry prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.

Two articles by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, have been included in an online anthology of The Art Bulletin.

About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1.

Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus and naturalist Edward O. Wilson has received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the ecology and conservation biology category.

HUPD Chief Francis Riley sits down with the Gazette to discuss crime and its prevention on campus.

Outings & Innings, part of Harvard Human Resources, has provided faculty and staff with deals on events, activities, local goods, and more for over 30 years. Beginning Feb. 10, students can share in the savings as well, thanks to a new pilot program.

The Harvard women’s hockey team edged Northeastern in a Beanpot shootout and now heads for the final.

Northeastern flexed its offensive muscles on the way to a 4-0 win in the opening round of the annual Beanpot men’s hockey tournament at TD Garden on Monday (Feb. 7).

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Feb. 4 that its founding director, Donald E. Ingber, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.

Harvard on the Move, a new fitness initiative, kicked off with a panel discussion at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 26.

The London School of Economics and Political Science has awarded Harvard Professor of Philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith the Lakatos Award for outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science.

Harvard Law School has announced the appointments of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner and Stephen Shay, deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as professors of practice.

Poet and Harvard staff member Julia Budenz died in Cambridge on Dec. 11 at the age of 76.

“Tonight Show” host and Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Jay Leno was on campus Friday (Feb. 4) to receive a Pudding Pot and a tour of Harvard, complete with serenade, presidential visit, and even a pie in the face.

Villa I Tatti is currently accepting applications for two fellowships.

A celebration of the life and mission of Martin Luther King Jr. will be held on Feb. 7, from 7 to 8 p.m., in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

Elizabeth Cropper, dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and president of the Renaissance Society of America, has been awarded the I Tatti Mongan Prize.

Harvard’s interdisciplinary Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies, led by Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, was recently awarded a $156,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Julian Pribaz of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery’s 2011 Harry J. Buncke Lecturer.