Campus & Community

S. Allen Counter has successfully nominated Denzel Washington to host the Nobel Peace Prize Concert and Ceremonies on Dec. 10.

A square at the intersection of Linden, Bow, and Mt. Auburn streets has been named in honor of the late David L. Halberstam ’55, a journalist who wrote for The Harvard Crimson as an undergraduate.

Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League spoke at Harvard on Oct. 4.

Harvard panel on Oct. 12 will review the harsh economy and the nation’s responses to it.

Applications are invited from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.

The South Asia Initiative welcomed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, as its new director.

On Thursday (Oct. 7) the Harvard MessageMe emergency notification system will be tested. All MessageMe registered subscribers will receive a test message between noon and 1 p.m.

A memorial service to celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Kaplan, Royall Professor of Law Emeritus, will be held on Oct. 25 at 5 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall at Harvard Law School.

Anand Mahindra ’77, M.B.A.’81, has given Harvard $10 million to support the Humanities Center in honor of his mother, Indira Mahindra. The newly renamed Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard is housed in the Barker Center.

Students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences can look forward to less shuffling between classrooms, more books on the shelf at the Coop, and a better experience in section thanks to a pre-term planning initiative implemented in October.

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.

At its Sept. 29 meeting, the Faculty Council approved a revised version of the Rules of Faculty Procedure for discussion by the full Faculty, reviewed a draft of the Dean’s Annual Report, discussed Harvard’s upcoming capital campaign, and heard a report from the Standing Committee on Women on faculty hiring, retention, and promotion.

Faculty members at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals have been awarded the National Institutes of Health New Innovators awards for promising research by young researchers, and Transformative grants, for groundbreaking work by established researchers.

It is a time of change for the Harvard Corporation. In recent months, the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, has welcomed a new member and a new senior fellow, even as it has undertaken a probing look at its own role and practices. President Drew Faust and Bob Reischauer ’63, the new senior fellow, spoke with the Gazette about an eventful time for the Corporation.

A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.

William “Ned” Friedman, an evolutionary biologist who has done extensive research on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants, has been appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum.

Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur award, which she plans to use to further her research on race in America.

Nearly 400 gather to celebrate 50th anniversary of the social studies program at Harvard.

Medical researchers at Harvard say they are poised to begin human trials on a suspended-animation technique for surgery patients.

Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Assistant Professor of Psychology Felix Warneken have received grants of $149,000 and $150,000, respectively, from the Science of Generosity, an initiative at the University of Notre Dame.

Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School’s Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, has received the 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association in recognition of his “distinguished career contributions to the scientific understanding of sports business.”

Karen Putnam has been appointed associate dean for advancement at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Putnam’s position became effective on Sept. 15.

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.

The Center for the Environment welcomes an incoming group of environmental fellows for the 2010-12 academic years. These four new fellows will join a group of five scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships.

Gerald Neuman ’80, the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the Human Rights Committee, the premier treaty body in the U.N. human rights system.

Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), died on Sept. 23 at the age of 84.

Gordon Brown warns in speech at Harvard that America and Europe risk a decade of high unemployment and low growth unless new policies are urgently taken to improve global co-operation.

Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge officials join with a corporate partner to launch a program that will link distant schools along high-speed connections.

Harvard University announced today (Sept. 22) a new partnership with the cities of Boston and Cambridge designed to bring the world to students — faster and clearer than ever.

Harvard President Drew Faust took questions from television journalist Charlie Gibson, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School this year, in a Sanders Theatre forum intended to kick off the school year.