Campus & Community

The apple might not fall far from the tree, but new research shows that how it falls might be what is most important in determining tree distribution across a forest.…

Prize4Life Inc., the nonprofit organization founded by Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni Nathan Boaz and Andrea Marano and student Avi Kremer, announced earlier this month that it will award a…

At its sixth meeting of the year on Nov. 29, the Faculty Council held further discussions on general education and considered a proposal from Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti to change the…

Nov. 18, 1986 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to establish an honors concentration in Women’s Studies by fall 1987. Nov. 19, 1986 – The city of Cambridge, local…

Bower memorial service Dec. 3 A memorial service for Nancy Milender Bower ’61, former research assistant to Professor Emeritus James Duesenberry (economics), the Littauer Center, and the Murray Center at…

Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…

For more than 100 years, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s student-run, nonprofit public service organization, has made a meaningful impact on the people it serves in the Boston and Cambridge area.

Harvard College senior and environmental activist Scot Miller has been named one of 12 national recipients of the 2007-08 George J. Mitchell Scholarship. The award will support Miller’s graduate work in environmental studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Nine Harvard affiliates were recently awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Eight days at a private vacation home in Greece, five days at the Maui Marriott, dinner for six cooked by Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean David Ellwood, or dinner for four with former KSG Dean Graham Allison are just a few of the big-ticket items up for bid at the 21st annual Summer Internship Fund (SIF) auction, Dec. 7 at KSG. A silent auction, featuring autographed books, dinners at local restaurants, and gift certificates, among other items, will begin at 5:30 p.m., to be followed by a live auction for the bigger prizes.

Allston-Brighton Family Network accepts HSPH-sponsored award The Allston-Brighton Family Network (ABFN) – a group of service providers, parents, and neighborhood residents who develop free activities and programs that support the…

Cusworth helps hoops bounce Lehigh The Harvard men’s basketball team prevented a four-game slide with an 83-75 dismissal of visiting Lehigh on Nov. 25. The victory marked the Crimson’s first…

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced on Nov. 20 an award of nearly $200 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to support applications and enhancements of large-scale DNA sequencing for biomedicine.

From the front steps of Baker Library at the Harvard Business School (HBS), you can see the ever-moving present: the glitter of traffic along Soldiers Field Road, the gliding Charles River, and, beyond the Weld Boat House, the distant bustle of Harvard.

The next Humanities Center ’20 Questions’ talk (date to be announced) will feature Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and author of the recent ‘What Terrorists Want.’ For more on the center, go to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/

The Open Collections Program (OCP) of the Harvard University Library has launched “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,” a Web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard’s libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

America cannot walk away from Iraq without risking another world war. That warning was sounded at the Kennedy School forum Nov. 17 by Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), the man responsible for U.S. military strategy in the Middle East.

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Kathleen McCartney announced that, as part of a multiyear doctoral funding opportunity, the School has guaranteed to pay full tuition and health fees for all doctoral students through the end of the third year. The announcement, made at a meeting of doctoral students in Askwith Hall, was received with palpable gratitude.

For a few months at least, the compact Straus Gallery on the ground floor of the Fogg Art Museum will be the heart of protest and dissent at Harvard.

Upon the recommendation of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the president approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the recent FAS Faculty Meeting. Standing Committees of the faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the dean and Faculty Council. The dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.

This past Monday (Nov. 27) at approximately 5:40 p.m., a female graduate student reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was robbed at the corner of Banks and Cowperthwaite streets.

Free flu shots are now available to all Harvard ID holders and HUGHP health plan members at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) every Monday and Tuesday through Dec. 19, and at a range of times and days at additional Harvard locations in Cambridge and Boston.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

After careful evaluation, Harvard Transportation Services recommended and gained approval to provide all monthly transit passes at a 50 percent discount, beginning Jan. 1. This policy change equalizes the subsidy amount for bus, subway and commuter rail users, and softens the impact of the MBTA fare increase for many users.

‘Rojo’ takes first prize Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music Hans Tutschku recently won a first prize in the 2006 Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition for his work “Rojo.”…

If the relationship between Canadians and Americans were put into lyrics, an appropriate song might go: “Canadians say potato, Americans say potahto.”

So thoroughly convincing was the Yale football team’s owning of the 123rd annual showdown with the Crimson gridironers this past Nov. 18 at Harvard Stadium, it seemed as if the visiting Bulldogs had packed years of frustration into a single afternoon. Yale’s five-year drought against the Crimson may very well have fueled their 34-13 winning performance.

The number of Early Action applications to Harvard College increased this year by 3.5 percent. While numbers are still preliminary because the processing and reading of applications have not been completed, 4,005 students have applied compared with 3,869 last year. This is the fourth year in a row that about 4,000 students have applied early.

In order to make tickets widely accessible, the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has launched a new program – 50 @ $15 @ noon – which offers 50 tickets at $15 for each performance during the 2006-07 season. The tickets will become available at noon on each performance day, either by phone or in person. Purchases will be limited to two tickets per customer and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. The program does not apply to performances for which tickets are no longer available. Information about availability will also be posted on the A.R.T. Web site at http://www.amrep.org.

Harvard Forest’s “Wildlands and Woodlands” proposal to conserve roughly half of Massachusetts as protected lands has received a boost from a new report detailing seven strategies to finance the ambitious proposal.