Campus & Community

Psychiatrists working in Africa during the colonial period held to the belief that Africans did not suffer from depression. They based this idea on the assumption that Africans lacked the…

California’s Proposition 71, which committed the state to raising $3 billion for stem cell research, was a public policy ‘atom bomb that shifted the embryonic stem cell research debate from…

The global response to bioterrorism and AIDS is increasing health system capacity in a way also useful if avian flu strikes, according to experts attending an interdisciplinary conference on Asian…

Long overshadowed by their famed floral kin, some of the exquisite 19th century glass animals housed at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) have finally hit the road for a Minnesota exhibit – the first time in Harvard’s nearly 130-year ownership that the rare sculptures are known to have left Cambridge.

The 24th richest person in the world made a visit to the Harvard Business School (HBS) last week (Dec. 7), and gave an audience of 700 advice on how to…

Harvard University and its Art Museums have selected a site in Allston that will become a permanent additional location for a portion of the Harvard University Art Museums’ operations and staff, and will include public galleries primarily for the display of modern and contemporary art. The new site at 224 Western Ave. is in the Barry’s Corner section of Allston, a location adjacent to Harvard’s proposed campus development that has long been identified by residents and planners as a potential crossroads for academic, cultural, and public uses that serve the broader community.

The 2006 annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility. To obtain a copy, please e-mail cheryl_thurman@harvard.edu or call the office at (617) 495-0985.

Dec. 8, 1956 – The Music Department’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library is dedicated. Designed by Stanley B. Parker ’04, the $500,000 wing allows the department to house its previously…

Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died Oct. 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 and had been in declining health after suffering a…

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

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has announced the establishment of the James MacGregor Burns Lectureship in Public Leadership to honor the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political scientist. Barbara Kellerman, former executive director and former research director at the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, will be the first to hold the chair.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Joyful Noise – the annual gospel concert honoring the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. – the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) will present the Harlem Gospel Choir at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 13.

‘Tis still the season: Community Gifts accepting pledge cards Though maybe not exactly a Christmas miracle, Harvard’s annual Community Gifts campaign has extended its deadline for pledge cards through Dec.…

As a young photojournalist in South Africa in the 1980s, Guy Tillim found that photography could be a way of bridging the racial gap that apartheid had imposed on his society.

The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH) will host its 17th consecutive summer of fun and instruction for players of all ages and abilities beginning June 11. Co-directed by Harvard’s men’s and women’s head coaches David Fish and Gordon Graham, TCH offers programs for children 4-17 years old, as well as clinics, leagues, and lessons for experienced players of the game.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has established the Robert Glauber Endowed Lectureship. The lectureship will honor the transformative leadership of Robert Glauber ’61, D.B.A. ’65, retiring chairman and CEO of NASD and a longtime affiliate of the Kennedy School. The lecture fund was created by a gift from NASD and announced in New York on Dec. 5.

Nine students in the master in design studies program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a master of architecture student were selected to construct a model of their concept of Los Angeles 100 years from now for the national competition “A 22nd Century City of the Future,” sponsored by the History Channel. The competition was inspired by past civilizations featured in the History Channel series “Engineering an Empire.”

There’s money to be made in responding to rising global temperatures, former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore told an auditorium packed with future business leaders Monday (Dec. 11) at Harvard Business School (HBS).

Frank McCourt, the schoolteacher-turned-memoirist, appeared at the Gutman Conference Center Tuesday evening (Dec. 12) to share the tale of how his New York City students goaded him into turning his “miserable childhood” in Ireland into the stuff of best sellers.

David Rockefeller visited the new Brazil Office of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) in São Paulo. The staff, directed by Jason Dyett and including Tomás Amorim, Marina de Moura, and interns Bruno Yoshimura and Allan Panossian, presented an overview of the activities and objectives of the new office, which was inaugurated earlier this year. Afterwards, Rockefeller and the group shared both an informal lunch and ideas during the Nov. 30 visit. Located on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista, the DRCLAS/Harvard Brazil Office recently hosted its advisory group, composed of leading Brazilian businesspeople, scholars, and civil society leaders.

Robert N. Anthony, member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 40 years, renowned and prolific scholar, author and innovator in the field of management accounting and control, and public servant at the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies, died on Dec. 1 at the Kendal Retirement Community in Hanover, N.H. He was 90 years old. At the time of his death, he was the School’s Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Controls Emeritus. A former president of the American Accounting Association (1973-74), he was a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame. An FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) accounting standard (number 34, capitalizing the cost of interest) is directly traceable to his work.

From the mountainous terrain of Nepal to a riverside in Manchuria to a tiny truck-stop town in Nebraska, Harvard University graduate students have spent the past year recording indigenous and emerging cultures around the world, and producing compelling works of art that push the study of anthropology beyond the written report.

Marcia Gray, 67, lives at Vernon Hall, a nursing home on Dana Street, five minutes by foot from Harvard Yard. She has been there two years. In her room, Gray said, she has a television with no picture, and a radio with no lights, “but it still gives good music.”

Lowell House senior, social studies concentrator, and Harvard Crimson managing editor Daniel J. Hemel has been named a 2007 Marshall Scholar and plans to spend the next two academic years studying at Oxford University.

Free flu vaccinations will be available Dec. 18 and 19 and Jan. 8 and 9 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Harvard University Health Services’ Monks Library on the second floor of Holyoke Center. Flu vaccinations are available to children by contacting Pediatric Services for an appointment at (617) 495-4171. Additional information about the flu is available by calling the Flu Info Line at (617) 496-2288 or Ask a Nurse at (617) 998-HUHS.

Constitutional law scholar and well-known author Noah Feldman, currently a tenured professor of law at New York University, has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law faculty beginning next fall. Feldman is a leading expert in many aspects of constitutional law, particularly law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory.

The late Bohdan Krawciw (1904-1975) was a Ukrainian-born poet, journalist, literary critic, translator, and nationalist, and an avid collector of maps depicting his homeland. As a map collector, Krawciw acquired items that included the region in even the smallest way, so that he eventually built a collection containing more than 900 maps, books, research files, and notebooks from France to Siberia and from the 1550s to the 1940s.

The three years since the Rose Revolution peacefully overthrew the government of Georgia have seen dramatic change and reform in the fledgling democracy, its current prime minister said Friday (Dec. 8).

You might think Harvard University has already mastered Islamic studies. It has offered courses in Arabic and in the history of the Ottoman Empire since the 19th century. Its endowed chair in Arabic has been in place for nearly 100 years.

For several years, the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA) has presented its annual Peacemaker of the Year award to a member of the dispute resolution community for the member’s passion and dedication to peacemaking in his or her profession and daily life. In 2004, it was the vision of the association’s incoming president, Jeff Kichaven, that this award be renamed in honor of two of SCMA’s founding members (and past award recipients) Kenneth Cloke and Richard Millen.