Campus & Community

The phrase “retirement communities” calls to mind a number of different kinds of places — high-end gated communities or whole cities built from scratch in Sun Belt states like Florida and Arizona. Or perhaps even dismal trailer parks under the hot breath of a developer who wants to turn the whole place into high-rise condos.

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School (HLS) presented its 2007 Great Negotiator Award to Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and CEO of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm, on April 2. Wasserstein was selected in August 2006 to receive the award by the executive committee of PON — a network of faculty and scholars from Boston-area universities dedicated to developing the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution.

Women are not in charge. Worldwide, it is men — not their gender counterparts — who have power over families, clans, villages, cities, and nations.

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The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the winners of the annual undergraduate arts prizes presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2006-07 academic year.

The eighth annual anthology of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s ALANA (African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American Alliance) organization was released Friday afternoon (April 20) in a multimedia celebration in the Eliot Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall.

Janet Elliott, the daughter of a turn-of-the-century railroad tycoon and a member of New York’s social register, had her life pretty well mapped out for her, and aside from deciding which of the eligible young men of her class she would consent to marry, it wasn’t a life with a whole lot of choices.

The American Economic Association has announced that Susan Athey, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University, is the 2007 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal.

Radhika Nagpal, assistant professor of computer science in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The honor is considered one of the most prestigious for up-and-coming researchers in science and engineering.

Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced today (April 13) a plan to expand the Kennedy Scholarship Program, which brings scholars from the United Kingdom to the two institutions.

Upon meeting a scholar of literature, one is likely to ask, “What period do you study?” with the likely answer being a fairly narrow slice of the literary pie — the 19th century novel, say, or nondramatic poetry of the Renaissance. With Panagiotis Roilos, however, the answer is not so straightforward.

This month in Harvard history

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Road racers, walkers welcome for 4.2-mile outing Anti-corruption activist Macovei to speak at KSG

May symposium to honor HMS’s Melvin J. Glimcher Porter article selected McKinsey Award winner

At its 14th meeting of the year on April 18, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of a proposal for mandatory course evaluations, considered a proposal to reclassify the Standing Committee on Mind, Brain and Behavior as an instructional committee, and discussed next steps in the general education legislative process.

Albert Szabo was born in 1925 in New York City and grew up in a household where design mattered, his father being a pattern maker for the renowned dress designer Claire McCardell. Albert studied science, then fine arts at Brooklyn College between 1942 and 1947, with an interruption for military service as an aviation cadet. The arts won out in his future course of studies, but he remained convinced about the importance of maintaining a close relationship to science.

A memorial service will be held for Elena Zarudnaya Levin, wife of the late Harry Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Friday (April 20) at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

In the wake of this week’s tragedy at Virginia Tech, Harvard will hold a University Service of Remembrance and Consolation in the Memorial Church today (April 19), beginning at 10 p.m.

Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, at Harvard University and one of the key figures in 20th century chemistry, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.

Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) and Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2006-07 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship. This new program supports the artistic development of students demonstrating unusual accomplishment and/or evidence of significant artistic promise.

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2007-08 academic year will be Liz Goodwin ’08 and Samuel Bjork ’09, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of 30 student writers’ applications for the position — the largest pool of candidates in the program’s history.

The Harbus Foundation at Harvard Business School (HBS) celebrated its 10-year anniversary at its annual grantee reception this past Tuesday evening (April 17) in the Spangler Building.

Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced several new faculty appointments and promotions.

Sports in brief

A bit of necessary tinkering with the women’s doubles lineup garnered winning results this past weekend for the Crimson in tandem play opposite visiting league foes Penn (April 13) and Princeton (April 14). Unfortunately, Harvard’s unexpectedly efficient and inspired doubles play didn’t necessarily translate into any team victories for the Crimson, who failed to capture a single singles match.

Harvard College Environmental Action Committee’s Earth Day 2007 events and entertainment

1991: University Committee on the Environment established to encourage and coordinate University-wide environment-related activities and scholarship.

Seven years into the new millennium, Harvard has taken steps to lessen its impact on the environment. These are already bearing fruit, putting the University at the forefront of the national move to create environmentally friendly practices, buildings, and institutions.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.