Campus & Community
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Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative announces advisory council and memorial co-chairs
University looks to build on initial steps to engage community, develop enduring partnerships
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Unfolding the academic year
Students sample classes across campus, offering them a taste of what lies ahead
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Harvard releases race data for Class of 2028
Cohort is first to be impacted by Supreme Court’s admissions ruling
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Dusting off a microscopic portion of Harvard’s Glass Flowers collection
New release shows minute details of lives of spore-forming plants and fungi
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‘Find yourself a teacher. Win yourself a friend’
Garber says key to greater unity is to learn from one another, make all feel part of community at Morning Prayers talk
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How to make the most of your first year at Harvard
Shop classes, avoid echo chambers, embrace the Red Line — and other faculty tips for new students
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Keeping students in the loop
Getting Harvard graduate students to connect with each other and the vibrant offerings at Dudley House keeps its longtime administrator Susan Zawalich, a tap dancer with a love for Godzilla and toys, busy.
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Open enrollment to begin Oct. 28
Open enrollment for Harvard employees begins Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 12.
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A river runs through it
Harvard has developed a simmering romance with the Charles River and has a growing interest in it as a living laboratory, after centuries of the waterway serving as the University’s humble back door.
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Field goals
Chris LeRoy ’11 is enjoying his first season as a starter — one who “has developed into an All-Ivy caliber player,” according to his coach.
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Two from HBS win award for article
An article by John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld is the first runner-up and winner of an honorable mention for the best paper published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2009.
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At Harvard, the Kitchen as Lab
Harvard students are savoring an undergraduate course that uses the kitchen to convey the basics of physics and chemistry…
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$12.3 million gift to Center for Ethics
Harvard receives gift of $12.3 million from Lily Safra in memory of her late husband.
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A new vice president
Harvard names Mark R. Johnson as the University’s vice president for capital planning and project management.
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Harvard receives $12.3 million from Lily Safra to support Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Harvard University has received a gift of $12.3 million (10 million euros) from Lily Safra. Given in memory of her late husband, Edmond J. Safra, founder of the Republic National Bank of New York.
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A fresh look at College life
A few weeks into college, families reunite for speeches, panels, and entertainment at Freshman Parents Weekend.
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Those that serve, teach
Honored with the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urges students and the public to help transform and improve the nation’s education system.
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Q&A with Dan Shore
Harvard the University’s latest annual report reflects the effects of difficult strategic choices made during tumultuous economic times. The results are encouraging, but Chief Financial Officer Dan Shore says that Harvard will need to continue managing its expenses cautiously as it works through the lingering ramifications of the Great Recession.
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Business School announces Tata gift; two initiatives
A pair of building projects supported by the Harvard Business School takes aim at fostering leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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Partying like it’s 1985
Dozens of Harvard employees were honored at the 56th Annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Oct. 13.
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Reinhold Brinkmann, musicologist, 76
Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the 19th and 20th centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, died on Oct. 10, after a long illness, in Eckernförde, Germany. He was 76.
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Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 13
At the October 13th meeting of the Faculty Council, its members met with President Drew Faust to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.
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NYPL’s Matthew J. Sheehy will lead Harvard Depository
Matthew J. Sheehy, acting director for reference and research services at the New York Public Library, has been named to lead the Harvard Depository.
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Paul Tillich Lecture speaker announced
Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will deliver the fall 2010 Paul Tillich Lecture on Nov. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The title of the lecture is to be announced.
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Harvard Forest director awarded for conservation efforts
The Trustees of Reservations recently recognized David R. Foster with their prestigious Charles Eliot Award at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner held on Sept. 25.
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Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowship in autism
Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Postdoctoral Fellowship in Autism. Two fellowships will be awarded, effective January 2011.
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Human rights at a crossroad
The decade-old University Committee on Human Rights Studies was disbanded in June, having largely achieved its goals of promoting cross-disciplinary research and creating human rights-centered courses for undergraduates. In that light, Tuesday’s annual reception became a tone-setting event for the next phase of human rights scholarship.
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Family Football Day scores
Every year Harvard invites Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents to Community Football Days to cheer the Crimson and feast on free fare. These two events are among the many sponsored by the University.
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Bringing faculty together
Provost-sponsored events seek to bring together faculty from across the University and spur cross-disciplinary ventures.
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John Huchra, astronomer, dies at 61
John Peter Huchra died unexpectedly on Oct. 8 at the age of 61. He was the Robert O. & Holly Thomis Doyle Professor of Cosmology and the senior adviser to the provost for research policy at Harvard.
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Do Americans Really Want a Smaller Government?
Many conservative Americans are making the Tea Party-style argument that the U.S. government should be small, localized, and as personally unobtrusive as possible according to a new survey by Harvard University
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Du Bois Institute welcomes fall fellows
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, has announced the appointment of 14 new fellows for fall 2010.
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Concerns over drugs, safety, health
Harvard officials are meeting with House tutors and administrators this semester to clarify campus drug policies.
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Biking at Harvard 101
To make life harder for thieves and easier for pedestrians, cyclists who ride to and around campus should take advantage of the University’s parking spots and racks, remember to lock their bikes, and stay off the sidewalk.
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The Fogg begins to rise
With most of Harvard Art Museums’ staffers and collections settled elsewhere, workers create a “state-of-the-art museum facility,” with plans to open in 2013.
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HAA announces 2011 class marshals
The Harvard Alumni Association announced the 2011 class marshals on Sept. 28.