Campus & Community

Watch as the Harvard Ukrainian, Baker and Carriage Houses roll down Massachusetts Avenue during a high tech production carried out in low gear.

Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.

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

Auction aims to expand day care vouchers for Oxford Street co-op The Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative is the only Harvard-affiliated day care that accepts state-issued tuition vouchers for families who cannot afford the high cost of day care. To help support the expansion of the voucher program, the co-op will hold a silent auction June 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, third-floor Maya Galleries.

Khoshbins named interim Currier House masters Shah and Laura Khoshbin were recently named interim masters of Currier House for the 2007-08 academic year.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 15, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Arthur Maass, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maass was not only an eminent scholar, but also a devoted, effective, and popular teacher.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 15, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 1, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Carroll memorial set for today Charles “Chuck” Carroll, longtime Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) employee and a Harvard graduate, died on May 21, after succumbing to a rare blood disease. He was 65.

Incoming President Drew G. Faust will be formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Oct. 12 at an outdoor ceremony in the Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession, featuring representatives of universities from around the world, will begin at 2 p.m. The installation will begin at 2:30 p.m. The event will be open to all faculty, staff, and students.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently announced that it has awarded 27 grants to support Harvard College undergraduates and 12 to support Harvard doctoral students for research this summer. In recent years the Weatherhead Center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students by increasing financial resources, expanding the number of student awards available, and establishing new programs and seminars for students.

The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) recently named two undergraduate and two graduate students as 2006-07 award recipients.

The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has awarded 38 certificates in health policy to graduating seniors. The 38 students, who come from 14 academic departments, completed an interdisciplinary program of health policy course work and research as part of their work toward the A.B. degree.

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Pablo M. Tsutsumi ’07 is the winner of the first John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government. Tsutsumi won the prize for his thesis titled “Domestic Intentions: International Repercussions: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Latin American ADRs.”

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.

Beginning (Tuesday) June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held between the Science Center and Memorial Hall every Tuesday through October.

They’re not exactly a “mother-daughter team,” but Rosemary Dowling, 79, of Dorchester, and her daughter, Rosemary McCarthy, 55, of Duxbury, graduated in tandem from the Harvard Extension School with their Bachelor of Liberal Arts (A.L.B.) degrees on June 7. Both Rosemarys worked on their degrees over the past 10 years, commuting together, and enrolling in most of the same courses. They are the first mother and daughter to graduate from the Harvard Extension School with the same degree in the same year.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) interim Dean David Pilbeam has named Jay Harris chair of the new General Education Standing Committee.

Bruce Western, a leading social scientist in the field of inequality, whose work is focused on incarceration and labor market stratification, has been appointed professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1. In addition to his appointment in FAS, Western will also direct the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, which brings together faculty and students from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Harvard students weren’t the only ones commencing in Harvard Yard on Commencement Day (June 7) 2007. It was all smiles and cheers, and a few tears, at the afternoon exercises for the Crimson Summer Academy’s inaugural graduating class. The 30 Crimson Scholars, joined by their families, enjoyed the festivities of Commencement with a graduation ceremony before walking in the Harvard reunion parade.

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association announced on June 7 the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 356th Commencement.

African governments were instrumental in inhibiting the growth of their own economies in the late 20th century, according to a decade-long project conducted by African scholars and economists. Robert Bates, professor of government in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been immersed in this economic survey, helping the economists to understand that governmental role.

On Thursday afternoon (June 7), in the shade of a tree in the Old Yard, Philip Keene of Natick, Mass., sat in a wheelchair holding a small sign that read “1925.” Nearby was Thayer Hall, where he lived as a senior 82 years ago.

Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. President Derek Bok read the citations.

Gown-gown issues On Commencement Day, what’s under those black gowns? Don’t ask. But an informal survey of Harvard College footwear revealed high heels, sandals, running shoes, dress shoes for men (rare), and — most of all — flip-flops, the 21st century’s footwear for all occasions.

Barbara J. McNeil, the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy and Professor of Radiology, has been named acting dean of the Harvard Medical School effective July 1, President-elect Drew Faust announced today.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates returned to Harvard Thursday (June 7) to finally collect his degree — an honorary doctorate — and to urge the Class of 2007 to change the world for the millions who live in poverty and die of preventable diseases each year.

President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.