Campus & Community

Harvard has named Patrick Foley, a former USA Hockey assistant coach and three-year captain at the University of New Hampshire, an assistant coach of men’s ice hockey, Robert D. Ziff Head Coach of men’s ice hockey Ted Donato recently announced.

Harvard men’s swimming head coach Tim Murphy recently announced that Mark Sowa — a veteran of collegiate and international coaching — has been named an assistant coach with the Crimson program.

Each fall and spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults.

Katie Ferrari (right) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) reads with second-grader Alicia Morency from the Amigos School on Putnam Avenue. Ferrari participates in the Lectores y Amiguitos program managed by the Office of School Partnerships and Cambridge School Volunteers.

In her classroom, Sherri Geng ’09 has put up a quote from Henry David Thoreau: “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” Being good for something and thereby becoming an agent of change is an idea she wants to get across to her students. “If you’re truly invested in what you’re doing,” she says, “you can have an impact on the world.”

The palm trees on the steps of the Memorial Church lent Harvard Yard a tropical look on July 31 as the sounds of steel drums and smells of exotic fruits wafted through the air on a balmy afternoon.

More than 100 summer interns, faculty, and staff converged on the Bio Labs courtyard on July 24 for the inaugural Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) summer barbecue.

During this short hot summer, approximately 120 undergraduate scientists spent more time on the laboratory bench than at the local beach. These fledgling biologists, chemists, and engineers were participating fellows in the Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE).

Harvard University’s endowment earned a 23.0 percent return during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. With FY07 being one of the best performance years since the inception of Harvard Management Company in 1974, the overall value of the University’s endowment grew to $34.9 billion.

Nearly 80 years after they were rescued by plumbing magnate Charles R. Crane, the Lowell House bells are returning to their original home in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.

Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman has selected two individuals with both broad and deep experience in Harvard science administration to provide administrative leadership and structure for the newly created Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC).

Mohsen Mostafavi, an international figure in the fields of architecture and urbanism, will become the dean of the Faculty of Design beginning in January 2008, President Drew Faust announced today.

Ann MacMillan Wacker, co-master of Cabot House from 1978 to 1984, died May 18. Wacker was married to Warren E.C. Wacker, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus and, from 1971 to 1989, the director of University Health Services.

Every year Harvard braces for a storm of applications. Now it’s ready — officially — for storms of the natural variety. In a brief ceremony July 20, federal officials certified Harvard as the first university in New England, and the first Ivy League school, to receive a “StormReady” designation from the National Weather Service (NWS).

Hyacinth M. Young, a Jamaica native with a flair for cool sunglasses and flashy blouses, teaches high school English in California. She’s at Harvard for three weeks (July 2-21) to study poetry in a summer seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Joining her are 14 other teachers from around the country.

A memorial service for Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, will be held at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on Oct. 19. Chandler died May 9, 2007, at the age of 88.

Retired Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Alexander Leopold Nussbaum of Newton, Mass., died June 22, 2007. He was 81.

Located at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for resident fellowships this fall. Resident fellows interact with students, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and pursue individual studies or projects throughout an academic semester.

Harvard’s Department of Music recently announced its fellowship and award recipients. Close to $220,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students.

The following awards were presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during June Commencement.

Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been awarded the European Science and Culture Award from the City for the Cultures of Peace in Berlin. The award is given in recognition of his fight against the abuse of human rights, racism, and discrimination, and efforts on behalf of the victims of oppression. Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was recognized for his books, films, and teaching regarding the history of Africans and African Americans and for his support for the struggle for equal rights in the United States.

Alphonse Fletcher Jr. í87, chairman and CEO of Fletcher Asset Management Inc., recently announced the selection of the 2007 class of Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellows, which includes Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack. Created in 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Courtís landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the fellowship program will award each of the five Fletcher Fellows a stipend of $50,000 for work that contributes to improving race relations in American society.

Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Alan Altshuler recently announced that Carl Steinitz has retired from his tenured professorship to become the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Research Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning (effective July 1). In this role, Steinitz will remain active in research and will continue to instruct part-time at the GSD.

Alan Altshuler, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), recently announced that Martha Schwartz has been promoted to professor in practice of landscape architecture, with tenure (effective July 1). Since 1987, Schwartz has held positions of design critic and adjunct professor in the GSD, where she has taught options studios, portions of the landscape architecture core, and seminars.

Each fall and spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults. Held at Blodgett Pool, the Saturday morning lessons will commence Sept. 22 and run through Oct. 27 (lessons will be suspended during the week of Oct. 13). For more information, contact Keith Miller at (617) 496-8790, or visit http://www.athletics.harvard.edu/swimschool/.

Harvard crew returned to the top of the podium at the Henley Royal Regatta (July 5-8) with a win in the Ladies Challenge Plate. It was one of three victories for Harvard-affiliated rowers on the final day of the regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England.

High school students from six states gathered at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in June for a conference on religious diversity and tolerance. Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Program and Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, the daylong conference, called ‘T.I.D.E. (Teenage Interfaith Diversity Education): The Wave of Change,’ featured workshops, dialogue, games, and other activities.

Harvard and City of Cambridge officials on Tuesday (June 19) used the penultimate day of spring to celebrate a double dose of sunny news.

President Drew Faust announced today (July 2) that Associate Vice President for University Development and Director of Development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Robert Cashion ’81 has agreed to serve as acting vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development while the search for a permanent vice president proceeds. Cashion assumed his new role today.

Jeffrey S. Flier, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will become the new dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine on Sept. 1, President Drew Faust announced today.