Campus & Community

On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

In compliance with new government regulations, Harvard is required to collect ethnicity information from faculty and staff. In addition, Harvard employees will have an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their veteran status.

Harvard President Drew Faust today (Sept. 10) announced the creation of the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, a special venture fund to support the development and implementation of creative academic or co-curricular experiences for students during the January break period.

Harvard’s endowment earned an investment return of 11 percent for the year and was valued at $27.6 billion on June 30.

Harvard’s undergraduates will compete and perform across the country and enjoy the rituals of residential life on campus again this year, thanks to renewed support from Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds’ Student Life Fund.

The first humanist student and community center on a U.S. campus opens in Harvard Square.

Harvard launches “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.” The class, open only to undergraduates, is part of the new Gen Ed curriculum, which introduces students to subject matter and skills from across the University.

Medical malpractice and guarding against suits cost the U.S. about $55.6 billion annually, or 2.4 percent of the total health-care bill, according to Harvard University’s Atul Gawande and co-authors.

Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.

Harvard programs help incoming freshmen to get into the flow

Associate Professor of Psychiatry Marc J. Kaufman and Associate Professor of Psychology Dara Manoach, both of Harvard Medical School, are among 42 innovative researchers awarded NARSAD 2010 Independent Investigator grants for schizophrenia research.

Horace Gray Lunt, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, passed away on Aug. 11, in Baltimore, Md., scarcely a month short of his 92nd birthday.

Senior forward Katherine Sheeleigh hopes to lead the Harvard women’s soccer team to another Ivy title and the NCAA playoffs.

A group from the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement is taught Scratch, a basic programming tool, by teaching fellows and course assistants from CS50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” a popular Harvard course taught by David Malan.

Helpful information in case Hurricane Earl brings heavy rain and high winds to the area.

At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 1, the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2010-11, and discussed the work of the council in the new academic year.

Harvard programs help incoming freshmen to get into the flow.

The Harvard men’s wrestling team faces another challenging year on the mats.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 11, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Angeliki E. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, was placed upon the records. Laiou was known for her path-breaking research in Mediterranean economic and women’s history.

Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.

The Harvard men’s basketball team has released its 2010-11 schedule, and will play its first game against George Mason on Nov. 13.

The Harvard University Police Department is releasing its annual Clery Act report, titled “Playing it Safe.”

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.

Four recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship are now students at Harvard College.

Divinity School professor Kimberley C. Patton has received an award for excellence in religion for analytical-descriptive studies from the American Academy of Religion for her book “Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity.”

The Bureau of Study Counsel’s Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies will open for registration on Sept. 7.

Harvard will once again serve as the host of the weekly New England Football Writers luncheons, which will be held each Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., from Sept. 8 to Nov. 17.

Harvard reshuffles its retirement fund lineup, trimming the number of individual options while introducing adaptive “lifecycle funds.” The University will allow investment-savvy employees to invest in thousands of additional mutual funds through a new brokerage account option.

John Case Nemiah, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at both Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School, died on May, 11 2009, at the age of 90, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Widely beloved as a teacher, editor, academic leader and friend, he served as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1968 to 1985.

On November 25, 2009, Dr. Robert Moors Smith died two weeks before he would have been 97. A pioneer of modern anesthesia practice, he was considered the “Father of Pediatric Anesthesiology” in the United States.