Campus & Community

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 5, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald was an influential scholar of American history and noted biographer of Abraham Lincoln.

New solar panels atop Canaday Hall, a freshman dormitory, are part of a heat-recovery project that’s expected to supply at least 60 percent of the hot water for buildings in Harvard Yard.

The Harvard Admissions Office has awarded the Hiram Hunn Award to eight alumni for their outstanding schools committee work.

This year, Winthrop House hopes to again claim victory by winning the Straus Cup, Harvard’s House intramural sports championship.

Harvard Divinity School embraces the green revolution, conserving energy in buildings and harvesting from its own garden.

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.

Open enrollment for Harvard employees begins Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 12.

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.

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.

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.

Harvard students are savoring an undergraduate course that uses the kitchen to convey the basics of physics and chemistry…

Harvard receives gift of $12.3 million from Lily Safra in memory of her late husband.

Harvard names Mark R. Johnson as the University’s vice president for capital planning and project management.

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.

A few weeks into college, families reunite for speeches, panels, and entertainment at Freshman Parents Weekend.

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.

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.

A pair of building projects supported by the Harvard Business School takes aim at fostering leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Dozens of Harvard employees were honored at the 56th Annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Oct. 13.

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.

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.

Matthew J. Sheehy, acting director for reference and research services at the New York Public Library, has been named to lead the Harvard Depository.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Provost-sponsored events seek to bring together faculty from across the University and spur cross-disciplinary ventures.

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.

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