Campus & Community

World War II, with its influx of multiracial colonial volunteers and billeted American troops, was the caldron that created Great Britain as a state in which race became an instrument of policy and a tool of cultural division.

Cancer researcher, geneticist, and social activist Mary-Claire King will deliver the 2006-07 Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

The Leon Levy Foundation has established the Philip J. King Professorship to support an outstanding scholar of the ancient world, Harvard University announced today (Nov. 9). The gift underscores the foundation’s commitment to fostering a cross-cultural academic environment that aims to understand ancient civilizations such as those in the Near East and the Mediterranean basin.

A cross-faculty effort to understand life’s most basic mystery – how complex chemicals can become the simplest organisms – kicked off Wednesday (Nov. 8) with a symposium at the Gutman Conference Center.

Community violence and poverty are not the only aspects of neighborhoods that predict adolescent crime, according to Harvard University sociologist Patrick Sharkey. In a study released in the latest issue of the American Sociological Review, Sharkey finds that community organization, familial relations, and personal attributes all shape an adolescent’s decision to engage in or refrain from violence.

The American Society for Landscape Architects (ASLA) honored faculty and students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) with its highest awards at the society’s annual meeting last month in Minneapolis.

Through its visiting fellowships program, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Human Rights Program seeks to give thoughtful individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to step back and conduct a serious inquiry in the human rights field. Individuals who become fellows at the program are usually experienced activists or scholars with a substantial background in human rights.

The Harvard Ceramics Studio hosted an exciting day of events Saturday (Nov. 4) featuring a slide lecture and demonstrations from potters, tile painters, and ceramicists from around the world, with an emphasis on Asian, Islamic, and Renaissance influences. Workshops, mariachi bands, and even a poetry reading rounded out the day. Attending were students from the Extension School class “Spanish American Art and Architecture: European and Islamic Elements.” (Staff photos Emily Berl/Harvard News Office)

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.

Nov. 5, 1948 – The Law School Forum makes radio history, broadcasting the first program on “American Sex Standards.” Held in the auditorium of Cambridge’s Rindge Technical High School (now…

Changes that will impact the 5,400 employees at Harvard who currently purchase monthly MBTA passes are scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1. To learn more: • Visit CommuterChoice at…

The University’s employee drive for charities, Community Gifts Through Harvard, is an open-choice campaign that runs throughout the month of November.

Xiaowei Zhuang, whose creative and daring application of chemistry and physics to key questions in biology has enabled observation of single molecules and the creation of pioneering “molecular movies,” has been appointed professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective Jan. 1, 2007.

Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed inaugural director of the new Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

The Harvard University Music Department will present a concert of competition-winning orchestral works by graduate students Ulrlich Kreppein, Hannah Lash, and Bert Van Herck Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. The works will be performed by a 45-piece professional orchestra and conducted by New York-based contemporary music specialist Jeffrey Milarsky.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) will once again present a check for $12,000 to the “Hasty Pudding Theatricals Cultural Endowment Fund” to support Cambridge public schools and their arts programs. Launched four years ago, the fund allows Cambridge public school students to pursue experiences in theater, dance, and the visual arts that would otherwise be closed to them. The check will be presented Nov. 11 at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School prior to a 7:30 p.m. student performance of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

College sophomore named top entrepreneur by Business Week Harvard sophomore Allan Sahagun was recently named one of Business Week magazine’s “Best Entrepreneurs Under 25” for his social networking Web site…

Committing 14 penalties for a loss of nearly 100 yards against a team playing their best football of the season is hardly a formula for success. Luckily for the only recently careless Crimson, the team’s defensive corps stuck to the script – shut down the running game – with spectacular results. And for that (along with four forced fumbles), the Crimson got away with a 24-7 victory against visiting Columbia this past Saturday (Nov. 4) at the stadium.

St. Lawrence sweeps hockey, men nab first win A balanced St. Lawrence attack lifted the fifth-ranked Saints past No. 6 Harvard, 4-2, in women’s hockey action this past Saturday (Nov.…

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Kathleen McCartney recently named nine recipients of the School’s new Urban Scholar Fellowship program. By providing tuition and health insurance fees, the fellowship makes attending graduate school a reality for a select group of educators from urban school systems.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents the first solo show of the photographs of the late Michael Rockefeller in the highlands of New Guinea from March to August 1961.

Kelly Stone, co-founder with her sister, actress Sharon Stone, of the philanthropic agency Planet Hope, visited Harvard last week as a guest of the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard public service organization Phillips Brooks House Association.

The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of Kent M. French as the second Archie C. Epps Fellow to Harvard College.

Scientists visiting Harvard this month gave an audience of 180 a glimpse into the future of medicine – a world of implantable arteries, “bioartificial” organs, and replacement cells for failing hearts.

The annual Día de los Muertos festivities at the Peabody Museum and Geological Lecture Hall were, as usual, full of life. Frightening and amusing puppet theater, music, and Mexican food made for a whirl of sights, sounds, and aromas to please all ages.

Alan J. Stone, the University’s Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs since 2001, announced today (Nov. 8) that he will step down at the end of the 2006-07 academic year.

When you’re fighting flu or any other infection, your body mobilizes battalions of cells to defend against the invading viruses or bacteria. But once the invaders have been defeated and…

Marsha T. saw the lights of pain coming. They flashed and zigzagged before her eyes. Her visual field shrank into a tunnel. A registered nurse, she knew what was next.…

You would not expect someone being honored with an award named for the first woman tenured in the Harvard Faculty of Education to be even a bit down on education for women.

Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…