Campus & Community

The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States has named Harvard senior Alison Miller among its 2008-09 scholars.

Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Steven Flavell has been selected, along with a dozen other graduate students from North America, to receive the 2008 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC).

At its ninth meeting of the year on March 5, the Faculty Council discussed the Rules of Faculty Procedure. The council next meets on March 19. The preliminary deadline for the April 8 Faculty meeting is Monday (March 17) at 9:30 a.m.

Each spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults. Held at Blodgett Pool, the Saturday morning lessons will commence April 5 and run through May 10.

Seeking to improve health and recreation on campus, Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and Bob Scalise, director of athletics and interim executive dean of FAS, announced Tuesday (March 11) that funds have been made available to purchase new fitness equipment for the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC).

The Harvard women’s hockey team improved to 26-0-0 in Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) action with a 3-2 overtime victory against visiting St. Lawrence this past weekend (March 9) to advance to the NCAA tournament. Senior defender Caitlin Cahow netted the game-clinching goal 3:33 into overtime to hand No. 1 Harvard its fifth ECAC tournament title.

That wild rivalry between the Harvard and Yale football teams seemed to briefly spill over to women’s hoops this past Saturday (March 9) in New Haven, Conn. Unfortunately, up against the passionate play of the host Bulldogs, the Harvard Crimson were the ones to get soaked.

When the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) gathered for its first meeting late last April, it was charged by not one, but two Harvard presidents. Then president-designate and now president Drew Faust told the 18 members of the new committee that theirs is both a unique and “historic” body, created to forge meaningful scientific collaborations across the individual disciplines and schools of a University long-known for the independence of its departments and Schools.

Four Harvard students are among the 30 recipients recently named Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Now in its 11th year, the fellowship helps prepare new Americans, including naturalized citizens, resident aliens, or the children of naturalized citizens, for opportunities for leadership in various fields in the United States.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is establishing an award that recognizes journalistic independence and honors the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone. The I.F. Stone Medal will be presented annually to a journalist whose work captures the spirit of “independence, integrity, courage, and indefatigability” that characterized “I.F. Stone’s Weekly,” published from 1953 through 1971. Each year, the winner of the award will deliver a speech about his or her own experience with journalistic independence, to be followed by a workshop on the same topic.

A Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server that contained summaries of GSAS applicant data for entry to the Fall 2007 academic year, summaries of GSAS housing applicant data for the 2007-08 and 2006-07 academic years, and administrator information was hacked by an outsider and compromised in a way that the data on the server could have been viewed or copied. The GSAS site was taken down from Feb. 17 until Feb. 21 in order to investigate the incident and to improve security.

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Skating in the comfy confines of Cambridge’s Bright Hockey Center this past Friday (Feb. 29), the No. 1 ranked Harvard women’s hockey team (currently 28-1-0) found itself in some pretty strange territory: down a goal in the third period. For a team on a 16-game victory streak, the Crimson’s struggle against a below .500 Cornell club (which Harvard had already handily beaten this season, twice) in the opening contest of a critical best-of-three playoff series was also pretty scary.

With the flu season often lasting through April, there is still plenty of time and good reason to get immunized if you have not already. Following immunization, it takes approximately 10 days to develop antibodies and be protected.

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) along with the Harvard Club of Boston announced a new nonprofit management fellowship for graduating seniors of the College at a reception Monday (March 3). Beginning with the class of 2008, each year a graduating senior from Harvard College will have an opportunity to develop his or her nonprofit management knowledge and skills through a one-year internship with PBHA.

Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross have been appointed co-House masters of Currier House, beginning July 1, for the 2008-09 academic year. Shahram and Laura Khoshbin served as interim co-House masters of Currier House in 2007-08.

The Harvard Black Students Association honored Robert Lewis Jr., vice president for program at the Boston Foundation, and critically acclaimed actress Gabrielle Union with its Crimson and Black Leadership awards on Feb. 29. Crimson and Black is an annual event at the University designed to showcase the achievements of Harvard’s past black students while addressing the current black community on opportunities for improvement.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara Elliott Rogers have announced details of a transition that is under way in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and University development offices.

This month in Harvard history.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards of amounts up to $2,500 for relevant research projects.

With the launch of its new Web site earlier this week, the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has changed its URL to http://www.hks.harvard.edu. Visitors who use the old address will automatically be redirected to the new HKS site.

The Toynbee Prize Foundation will honor distinguished historian William H. McNeill at an award ceremony April 25 at the Harvard Faculty Club. Chartered in 1987, the foundation contributes to the development of the social sciences, as defined from a broad historical view of human society and of human and social problems.

Harvard Kennedy School student Sheila Lalwani was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation Scholarship at the foundation’s annual scholarship luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City.

A female undergraduate student reported that she was the victim of an indecent exposure on Sunday (March 2) at approximately 9 p.m. The victim reported that after entering the intersection of Mill and Plympton streets, she was approached from behind by an unknown male who tapped her on the shoulder.

With the flu season often lasting through April, there is still plenty of time and good reason to get immunized if you have not already. Following immunization, it takes approximately 10 days to develop antibodies and be protected.

A memorial service for distinguished American classicist Zeph Stewart will be held Friday (March 7) at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow from 3 to 5 p.m. at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St.

To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning.

Evelynn Hammonds, the University’s senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity and the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed dean of Harvard College, effective June 1, 2008.

The Memorial Church will hold its third annual charity auction to benefit the grants committee on April 17. The event will be held at the Sheraton Commander Hotel (across from the Cambridge Common) beginning at 6:30 p.m.