Campus & Community

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a record-breaking gamma-ray burst located 13 billion light-years from Earth.

The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will convene a Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice at United Nations headquarters in Manhattan Sept. 9-11.

Frank J. Connors Jr., an in-house attorney at Harvard for the past 24 years, died on Aug. 14.

The Harvard University Extension School will celebrate its centennial anniversary this fall. A private convocation will be held Sept. 25, and a public panel on the future of technology is slated for Nov. 18.

On Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m., a cow will cross the Yard — in celebration of the achievements of Hollis Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who retired in June.

Alfred Lee Burke, Harvard University police officer for more than 30 years, died on Aug. 10 at the age of 68.

Laure Lebret, former associate professor of orthodontics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, died on Aug. 23 at the age of 92.

Retired Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Louis B. “By” Barnes, 81, died on Aug. 22 from complications from kidney failure.

In high-profile positions in New York and at the University of California, Harvard’s new executive vice president established a reputation as a collaborative leader with a knack for creative problem-solving.

The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), based at SEAS, launched its new Innovation Space Sept. 1. The space expands SEAS’s resources for experiential innovation education and provides Harvard’s undergraduate student innovators with the first dedicated environment for learning and working in teams on entrepreneurial projects.

Caitlin Rotman ’10 reveals a few quiet spaces and tranquil places around campus.

President Drew Faust will hold office hours four times throughout the 2009-10 academic term.

An official convocation ceremony took the place of the traditional opening exercises for Harvard College’s Class of 2013. The service included some new and old traditions.

Harvard President Drew Faust, following long tradition by leading the academic year’s first Morning Prayers service at Appleton Chapel, praised the sense of common purpose brought by a coordinated School calendar. “We have chosen a common calendar for the common good,” she said.

Women’s soccer co-captain Lizzy Nichols leaves her impact on and off the field for the Crimson.

Professor Holly Prigerson, director of the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has confronted the issue professionally and personally. Last fall Prigerson and her co-investigators published a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association examining how end-of-life care discussions between doctors and terminal patients affected the patients’ quality of life and that of their caregivers. They found that both patients and loved ones were likely to fare better, based on a variety of criteria. Yet many doctors are disinclined to broach the subject…

As the newly arrived Class of 2013 settles into the brick dormitories of Harvard Yard, they are already distinguished as the first matriculating class to study exclusively under the new requirements of Harvard College’s Program in General Education.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students unite to help Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood bring back a local library that was demolished 50 years ago to make way for Boston’s Central Artery.

This week, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) reported the first success in generating new populations of insulin-producing cells using skin cells of type 1 diabetes patients.

The Fine Arts Library (FAL) is now open in its temporary space in the Littauer Building in the North Yard.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.

The HUPD has released a report which includes information on how to report a crime, HUPD’s crime prevention programs, and other important information about security and HUPD services on campus.

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has announced its new fellows and senior scholars for 2009-10. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.

Houghton Library, Harvard’s main rare book and manuscript depository, has vast holdings collected over centuries. Yet until these available resources are cataloged, they are considered “hidden collections” — difficult to find.

Giovanni Parmigiani and Francesca Dominici have been named professors of biostatistics at HSPH.

The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its six resident fellows and three visiting fellows for the fall semester.

Elementary and high school teachers attend a weeklong Harvard workshop on oil and the economic, political, and environmental issues that accompany it.

Melissa McCormick reflects on her journey from modern dance to her current position as a newly tenured professor of Japanese art and culture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.