Campus & Community

Allston Room to extend hours Commencement Week The Harvard in Allston exhibit room in the Holyoke Center Arcade will hold extended hours (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) from June 4 to 8. Members of the University community are invited to stop by for free iced tea and lemonade and to have a look at the maps and model of Harvard’s proposed master plan for Allston. Visit http://www.allston.harvard.edu for more information.

Gomes accepts honorary degrees The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes has been awarded three honorary degrees this spring, including those of doctor of divinity from The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City and from Lafayette College in Easton, Penn., and the degree of doctor of humane letters from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. Gomes delivered the baccalaureate sermon at both The General Theological Seminary and Lafayette College. At Augustana College, meanwhile, he gave the Commencement address. The Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Gomes is the recipient of 36 honorary degrees.

Westheimer memorial set for June A memorial gathering for Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will be held June 29 at 3 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford St. Westheimer died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.

Gene G. Ketelhohn, the building manager of Cabot House since 1983, died May 26 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 60.

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.

The Kennedy School of Government’s Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group recently announced that the 2006 Stone Fellowship has been awarded to Fan Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy, for her paper “Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? Theory and Evidence of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market.” The Stone Fellowship is given for the best paper written by a doctoral student in the area of environmental and resource policy.

Honoring the legacy of Albert Schweitzer, area graduate students are committing to a year of service with a community agency. In a competitive selection process, 29 students — including six from Harvard — were recently selected as 2007-08 Boston Schweitzer Fellows.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced the names of 32 women and 19 men selected to be 2007–08 Radcliffe Fellows. The fellows — among them 18 humanists, 13 scientists, 12 creative artists, and eight social scientists — will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Their projects range from the production of a film and photographic series on 21st century American workers to research into deriving heart cells from stem cells to improve cardiovascular development.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named 11 recipients for its annual alumnae awards. Selected by the Radcliffe Institute’s Alumnae Recognition Awards Committee, winners have distinguished themselves in both their service to Radcliffe and in their careers. The awards will be presented and the recipients will speak at the “Women Shaping Power: From the Grassroots to Head of State” symposium on June 8. This event, scheduled for 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the American Repertory Theatre, 64 Brattle St., occurs annually as part of Harvard-Radcliffe Commencement Week.

The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston has awarded 12 summer public policy fellowships to graduate students from seven local universities, including five students from Harvard. The fellows will spend 10 weeks working on projects for public agencies and elected and appointed officials. Additionally, they will help design and carry out a seminar series for their colleagues on key issues facing the region.

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has announced its support of 73 undergraduate travel grants/internships and 51 graduate student grants for travel or dissertation research/completion.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring a record number of students traveling to Latin America for research and internships this summer. DRCLAS made a total of 156 summer travel awards that resulted in support for Harvard students across the University.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, will host its ninth annual career forum on June 12. The event will be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. and will be open to the public from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

Beginning 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 every Tuesday through October.

Children are able to solve approximate addition or subtraction problems involving large numbers even before they have been taught arithmetic, according to a study conducted at Harvard University by researchers from the University of Nottingham and Harvard.

The Harvard Coop, continuing its tradition of contributing to public service in Greater Boston communities, has awarded $10,000 in grants to a total of 22 student-led public service organizations at Harvard. Nine grants will support summer programming in 2007 and 13 grants will support term-time service for the 2007-08 academic year. Harvard Coop public service grants help students to launch projects and special initiatives, upgrade equipment, design new materials, and provide services to youth and low-income, sick, homeless, or otherwise disadvantaged clients. The Harvard Coop hosted a reception ceremony April 23 to honor grant awardees.

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on June 7. For the 19th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 356th Commencement Exercises.

Morning Exercises 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:

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.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences interim Dean David Pilbeam has announced that Allan Brandt, Kathleen Coleman, Jeffry Frieden, and James Robinson are the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for the current academic year. The fellowships are awarded annually to selected faculty members in recognition of their achievements and scholarship in the fields of “literature, history or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted.”

The Cambridge Historical Commission recently awarded its Preservation Recognition Award to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for its renovation of the Radcliffe Gymnasium, which preserved the historical fabric of the building while focusing on accessibility, quality, and sustainability. Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves, along with Historical Commission Chair William B. King and Vice Chair Bruce A. Irving, presented the award to representatives from the Radcliffe Institute and Bruner/Cott & Associates — the Cambridge architecture firm that designed and planned the renovation — at a May 23 ceremony held at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.

In an age where the health of those in one country can affect that of others around the world, scholars from Harvard, Boston University, and Northwestern University gathered at Harvard’s Barker Center last week to examine the importance of values in driving efforts to address global health concerns.

The sheriffs still ride up to Harvard’s Johnston Gate on horseback. The free beer flows freely. It’s the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, the first benefactor of the University, and the 356th Commencement at the nation’s oldest institute of higher learning.

Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) hosted a very special event on May 21, “An Evening With Your Favorite Authors,” to benefit the Hoffman Breast Center at Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital.

May 1967 — More than 800 guests fill the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts to celebrate John Finley’s 25th anniversary as Master of Eliot House.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

BSC summer session upcoming The Bureau of Study Counsel will offer its summer session course in reading and study strategies from July 2 to 19. Through readings, films, and classroom exercises, students learn to read more purposively, selectively, and with greater speed and comprehension. One-hour sessions will be held Monday through Friday beginning at 4 p.m. (no class July 4). The cost is $150. To register, contact the Bureau of Study Counsel at (617) 495-2581.

Kargère awarded advising award The Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council recently awarded Lecturer on History and Literature Stephen Kargère the 2007 John R. Marquand Award for exceptional advising and counseling for a faculty member. Now in its sixth year, the prize — honoring legendary Dudley House senior tutor John H. Marquand — is annually awarded to one faculty member and one nonfaculty adviser.

Westheimer memorial set for June A memorial gathering for Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will be held June 29 at 3 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford St. Westheimer died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.

Ana Vollmar ’08 of Pforzheimer House and Matt Drazba ’08 of Kirkland House have been named this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars. The two will be honored at the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) fall dinner. Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian ’49, a former HAA executive director and master of Quincy House, the scholarships recognize two rising seniors who have made unique contributions to their Houses and to undergraduate life, thus making Harvard ‘an exciting place in which to live and study.’