Campus & Community

As June 30 approaches, offices throughout the University will be closing the books and the files on the 2005-06 academic year. To help staff in charge of keeping the Universitys files in order, the Records Management Office (RMO) is offering two important workshops in May and June.

As the first psychologist, indeed the first non-physician from any discipline, to receive full clinical as well as research psychoanalytic training in America, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, PhD, broke ground for and inspired so many who came after her. Having accomplished this as a woman only confirmed the conviction she conveyed that doors would, indeed must, open to a person of talent, passion, persistence, and intellectual daring. She was fiercely committed to (so as not to repeat the word passion) her beliefs, which included psychoanalysis and the peace movement. She was among the last survivors of a generation of gifted young psychoanalysts who forged the hegemonic primacy of the American ego psychology paradigm. At Harvard, in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, she was one of the first women to be appointed as a full professor – Clinical Professor of Psychology in 1982.

What film would you least like to see with your tasty feet dangling in the deep and your nervous hands treading water, not to mention the complete exposure of one of your most important assets protuding from an inner tube? The answer is self-evident. On April 13, the fearless undergraduates of this fair University showed what they were made of, figuratively and literally, as they watched two screenings of Jaws from the comfort of front-lane seats in the MAC pool. The mayor assured that all would be safe – and it turned out he was right. A good time was had by most.

Hold the french fries, doughnuts, and cookies, and save as many as 228,000 heart attacks and deaths from heart disease. That’s the message from a team of researchers at the…

Scientists have found that worms dwelling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents opt for temperatures of 45-55 degrees Celsius (113-131 degrees Fahrenheit) when provided a choice of conditions, giving them the highest…

Elisabeth Moyer knows that planeloads of relief supplies arrive regularly in Africa. She knows that African and international workers struggle to provide food and to fight diseases such as AIDS,…

Professors at Harvard University have overwhelmingly approved a plan that will reinvent the experience of the University’s undergraduate life sciences students, broadening degree options to better track modern biology and…

April 5, 1931 – Easter Sunday. The Russian bells of Lowell House ring out for the first time in Cambridge. April 10, 1950 – Ralph J. Bunche – AM ’28,…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Today, April 20, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up…

Musical theorist V. Kofi Agawu, a scholar whose research and writing span musical traditions from Gustav Mahler to the Ewe people of Ghana, has been appointed professor of music and African and African-American studies in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced appointments that carry two University cross-disciplinary science initiatives to the next level of their development:

M.P.H. candidate elected AMA student section chair Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) M.P.H. candidate Benjamin Galper ’02 has recently been elected national chair of the American Medical Association (AMA)…

Although the Harvard womens basketball team didnt quite make an appearance in the 2006 Final Four tournament (the Crimson, for the record, finished the season 12-15, 8-6 Ivy), the University wasnt entirely unrepresented in the Big Show. In fact, as one of the official hosts and partners for the 25th annual womens Final Four, Harvard (together with usual crosstown rival Northeastern University) played a key role in the planning and coordination of the multi-day event.

Princetons jumping second half upends womens lacrosse The No. 10 Princeton women’s lacrosse team fired off 20 second-half shots en route to a 14-8 win over the Crimson this past…

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 2005-06 academic year.

The Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School (HLS) is frequently home to mock trials as law students sharpen their skills. On April 12, however, it was the real thing setting up shop at Ames as the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation heard arguments in an actual case.

Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society.

JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine and co-director of the Connors Center for Womens Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2006 Harvard College Womens Professional Achievement Award.

Continuing its tradition of contributing to public service projects, the Harvard Coop recently awarded nearly $10,000 in grants to 21 student-led public service organizations for spring and summer 2006. These grants help students to upgrade equipment, design new materials, provide summer services, and launch new projects and special initiatives. The Coop held a grant reception ceremony April 10.

Sitting in a swivel chair in his basement office, Robert Levin can barely keep his agile pianists fingers off the telephone. He has just learned that his friend Yehudi Wyner won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for musical composition with his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano, and he wants to be the first to call the composer in Italy and give him the news.

He was trusted and admired by colleagues in each discipline. They and his students regarded him with deep affection. Freed was one of few faculty members in Social Relations who had moral authority derived from his colleagues’ recognition that he placed the welfare of the department above personal motives.

Professor Douglas Melton asked his Harvard class this question: Should drugs and other treatments used for curing disease also be used to extend our physical capabilities, to, say, enhance athletic performance?

At its 15th meeting of the year on April 12, the Faculty Council discussed the Committee on Undergraduate Educations evaluations and considered two motions: one for a cluster of concentrations…

April 1957 – To the delight of Boston Red Sox fans, the Harvard Band performs on opening day at Fenway Park. April 1962 – On the ground floor of Holyoke…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on Thursday (April 20) from 4 to 5 p.m. Sign-up begins one hour earlier unless…

Jacob K. Olupona, a noted scholar of indigenous African religions who is currently leading an ambitious study of the religious practices of African émigrés in the United States, has been appointed professor of African and African-American studies and religion in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1.

Tuskegee University awards Gomes honorary degree The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, was awarded an honorary doctor…

Earth fair, Harvard flair The Undergraduate Environmental Action Committee is sponsoring a free Earth Day Fair on April 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Winthrop House Courtyard…

One point at a time could very well be the strategy behind the Harvard womens tennis teams recent string of successes. It also makes for a fitting introduction in the telling of the teams tale over the past few weeks.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-and-wife team known for their enormous outdoor art installations, were at Harvard Business School (HBS) April 5 teaching M.B.A. students about being entrepreneurs.