Campus & Community

Leading evolutionary ecologist Jonathan B. Losos, whose study of Caribbean Anolis lizards has profoundly shaped our understanding of ecologys impact on species biodiversity, has been appointed professor of organismic and evolutionary biology in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

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, 35 students – five of which are Harvard students – have been selected as 2006-07 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Each fellow will devote more than 200 hours of service to local communities lacking access to adequate health services. The projects include tobacco education, teaching new immigrants how to shop for nutritious foods, diabetes counseling with Haitian immigrants, educating children in residential treatment centers on oral health, and publishing a community health newspaper.

Kokkalis Program seeks intern The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is now accepting intern applicants to assist with databases and international…

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 8). For the 18th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards 355th Commencement Exercises.

The following services will be in effect at the University on Commencement Day, June 8. Restrooms Restrooms for the general public are located in Weld, Thayer, and Sever halls. These…

The third annual Herchel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships have been granted to 44 Harvard College students. This year marks the second for a full cohort of fellows – and an increase of 50 percent from 2005.

Seven Harvard graduate students were recently awarded prestigious Rappaport Summer Public Policy Fellowships by Harvards Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. Natasha Epissina, Erick Guerra, Rebecca Haessig, Matthew Murray, Jeffrey Roth, Bijal Shah, and Diane Smith were among the 12 fellowship recipients.

Benjamin Franklin knew how to get things done: He was an inventor and scientist, printer and politician, writer and thinker. Not surprisingly, he managed all this in the 18th century, a time when a wide variety of printed materials and technical instruments gave intellectuals and the general public unprecedented access to information about science, technology, geographic exploration, politics, music, and religion. Armed with little formal education, Franklin consumed the increasingly available knowledge of his time and generated a lot himself. His legacy reflects a how-to nature that helps explain his great contributions to so many areas.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting its eighth annual career forum on June 13. This years event will be held at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

Sue Williamson, director of the master in public administration (M.P.A.) program at the Kennedy School of Government, died May 27 at her home in Watertown, Mass., after battling cancer for several months. She was 60 years old.

Leslie and Abigail Wexner, founding benefactors of the John F. Kennedy School of Governments Center for Public Leadership (CPL), have pledged an additional gift of $6.3 million to support the centers research, teaching, and leadership development over the coming three years.

In honor of the four black men of the class of 1952 – dubbed the pioneers – the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard Black Mens Forum held a tribute and reception earlier this spring. Walter C. Carrington 52, James M. Harkless 52, Herbert S. Hughes 52, and William M. Simmons 52 were presented with the Harvard Foundation medal during the April 22 event.

Ph.D. candidate named Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has selected Japa Pallikkathayil, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, as one of its 30 Charlotte W. Newcombe…

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures has announced its 2005 – 06 award winners. Prizes to undergraduate and graduate students total more than $6,000.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, with its tall crest and black and white markings, is a dramatic bird.

In 1952, Roger Marshutz was a young Army recruit from Los Angeles assigned to the Pusan Military Post in Korea. Before being drafted, he had studied air-conditioning engineering at California Polytechnic State University expecting to enter the family business, but in his last semester before entering the military he decided to switch to photography. Fortunately, the Army gave him a chance to continue in that field.

Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have prompted human immune cells to attack HIV protein fragments, showing that the long-sought vaccine to protect against AIDS…

Applied scientists from Harvard University have, for the first time, demonstrated high-power continuous wave (cw) room-temperature quantum cascade (QC) lasers made by a well-established mass production semiconductor synthesis technique. The…

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: n…

A memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been scheduled for Wednesday (May 31) in the Memorial Church at 2 p.m. Galbraith,…

May 19, 1959 – To mark the 50th anniversary of A. Lawrence Lowells election to the Harvard presidency, the Harvard Corporation renames the New Lecture Hall (1902), henceforth to be…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Susanna Siegel remembers staring up at the ceiling as a young girl and wondering whether the marks she saw on the white surface were tiny holes or tiny dots.

Randy Buckner tries to predict what you will remember. The newly tenured professor of psychology and his Harvard colleagues have been able to anticipate which words students will remember and have also been able to improve the memories of older people.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirby has announced that Joyce E. Chaplin, Caroline M. Elkins, Jill Lepore, David Roxburgh, Susan R. Suleiman, and Gordon L. Teskey 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 … .

Gates is editor in chief of Oxford African American Studies Center W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. is serving as editor in chief of the…

Richard G. Schneider Jr. Ph.D. 81 has been chosen as this years recipient of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) Intellectual Innovator Award.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) presented two outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on May 19. The awards, which were given by HGSE Dean Kathleen McCartney, the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, and Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, provide a one-year stipend for study at HGSE. The afternoon presentation of the fellowships was held at the Harvard Faculty Club.

Men’s heavies pick up Rowe Cup, 2V’s claim gold The Harvard men’s heavyweight crew captured the Rowe Cup at the EARC Sprints this past Sunday (May 21) at Lake Quinsigamond…

Harvard Medical School (HMS) announced Tuesday (May 23) that it has signed a multimillion-dollar license agreement with Merck & Co. Inc. to develop potential therapies for macular degeneration, an eye disease that affects older people and can lead to blindness.