Campus & Community

Thomas G. Everett, director of bands at Harvard University and jazz adviser to the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA), has been named the recipient of the 2008 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. The award, which offers an honorarium of $10,000 to a nationally recognized educator, is administered by the OfA.

The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has announced a $2 million gift establishing the Sheikh Suhaim Bin Hamad Al Thani Fellowship Fund.

Runners, throwers, jumpers take second, third at HYP meet, Men’s squash takes fourth at CSA National Team Championships, Operation playoffs: Mission getting accomplished for Crimson hockey

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.

Harvard is already famous for its experts in languages, law, medicine, government, and literature. Now you can add heating and cooling.

The first flower of spring, the daffodil has long been a symbol of hope and renewal. It has also become a powerful tool in the American Cancer Society’s efforts to treat patients.

The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently announced a new scholarship opportunity for students and scholars from Southeast and East-Central Europe.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to William Worthy on Feb. 22.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced the arrival of its 2008 spring fellows.

Roger W. Ferguson Jr. A.B. ’73, A.M. ’78, J.D. ’79, Ph.D. ’81, chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corp. and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for 2008-09.

Renowned legal scholar and political theorist Cass R. Sunstein has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty, Dean Elena Kagan announced Tuesday (Feb. 19). Sunstein, currently a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School, will begin teaching at HLS in the fall. He will also become director of the new Program on Risk Regulation.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), who for 10 years has directed the renewal and expansion of the former division and its transition to a School, has announced today (Feb. 15) his intention to step down from his position in September 2008.

The Harvard University Department of Music has announced the appointment of Helmut Lachenmann as the Fromm Foundation Visiting Professor for spring 2008. Lachenmann is the esteemed German composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world.

A feisty Charlize Theron proved a match for her kidders at this year’s Woman of the Year award ceremony as the tall, slender, striking blonde gave as good as she got during the annual roast by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

February 1943 — Animator Walt Disney visits Harvard to consult with Anthropology Department Chair Earnest A. Hooton about a forthcoming Technicolor film ridiculing Adolf Hitler’s racist theories. On the steps of the Faculty Club, Disney tells the Boston press that he plans to leave Hitler “out of the picture,” since “too much attention has already been given to that guy.”

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Hysen trumpets ‘No Vote, No Voice’ before NASS, Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library, ‘Visions of Spring’ seeks artists

Three faculty elected to NAE, Linnean Society of London honors Wilson, Arthur Kleinman serves as Cleveringa Professor, Faculty earn Smith Breeden Prize, Pair wins prestigious NSF award, ‘Father of World Wide Web’ to receive Pathfinder Award

The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations based at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced the appointment of Aviva Luz Argote as its new executive director.

Donald MacLeod, former director of accounting at Harvard University, passed away at his home in Lexington, Mass., on Feb. 2 after a brief illness.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 11, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Frank Henry Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Westheimer was one of the key figures in twentieth-century chemistry.

Commencement 2008 notice

With the flu season currently at its peak (and the 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.

Perhaps to the shock of the Union and Rensselaer women’s hockey teams, the color of the Crimson’s jerseys this past weekend (Feb. 8-9) failed to soften the club’s ferocious play. Donned in specifically designed pink jerseys for the Pink at the Rink campaign, the No. 1 nationally ranked Harvard squad shut out the visiting squads, 4-0 and 5-0, respectively, to extend the Cantabridgians’ win streak to 11. Most recently, the Crimson — skating in their standard uniform, beat BU, 3-1, on Tuesday (Feb. 12) to snap up the program’s 12th Beanpot title.

Whenever one of the nation’s most prolific offenses dukes it out with one of collegiate hockey’s top defenses, the results are electrifying. But in the land of the Beanpot, the outcome of this exact setup — a 6-5 overtime win by shot-happy B.C. over the stoic Crimson — is, if not exactly ho-hum, pretty standard fare. So spoiled are we.

Harvard President Drew Faust met with public school superintendents and professional associates from Boston area schools on Feb. 8 to share ideas about, among other things, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and preparing students from preschool through college and beyond.

The first flower of spring, the daffodil has long been a symbol of hope and renewal. It has also become a powerful tool in the American Cancer Society’s efforts to treat patients.

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2008 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (HKS). The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at a March 18 awards ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at HKS. The prize honors journalism that promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics by disclosing excessive secrecy, impropriety and mismanagement, or instances of particularly commendable government performance.

Two regulatory affairs executives from an Italian energy company, the president of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, and a Vietnamese professor of economics are among the incoming fellows being welcomed this spring at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG).

Tim Golden, senior writer for The New York Times, will present the 2008 Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Feb. 21, 2008.