Campus & Community

Marking the one-year anniversary of the Bush re-election and as part of a national student walkout against the war, the Harvard-Cambridge Walk for Peace gathered students and faculty together for a peace walk outside the Science Center on Wednesday (Nov. 2).

November marks the beginning of the month long Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign. Employees will receive campaign pledge cards in the mail this week. For more information, or to pledge online, visit www.community.harvard.edu/communitygifts.

At its fourth meeting of the year on Nov. 2, the Faculty Council considered a proposal to disband the Standing Committees on Benefits and on Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records, received a report on the priorities of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and discussed the report of the Committee on General Education.

November 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.” At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Celebrating the tremendous progress made in the past 25 years in the field of biomedical informatics, along with the contributions made by Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences Robert Greenes, the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) has established an endowment for a Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics, and has named Greenes as its first incumbent. For subsequent incumbents, the chair will bear his name.

When Steven Riel talks about his life, much of what he relates sounds like poems waiting to happen.

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in Southeastern and East-Central Europe with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. The program awards fellowships to enable individuals from the region to pursue one of the following masters degrees at KSG: masters in public policy (M.P.P.) masters in public administration (M.P.A.) masters in public administration/mid-career (M.P.A./M.C.) and masters in public administration in international development (M.P.A./I.D.).

HBS profs awarded paper prize Harvard Business School (HBS) Associate Professors Lee Fleming and Jan W. Rivkin, with co-author Olav Sorenson, have won a 2005 European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary…

RMO workshop to cover electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The…

With five key skaters from last seasons squad either gone for good due to graduation (national scoring leader Nicole Corriero and top defender Ashley Banfield), or out for the year chasing Olympic gold (U.S. national team hopefuls Julie Chu 06 and Caitlin Cahow 07, and Canadian Sarah Vaillancourt 08), the Harvard womens hockey team looked to its new flock of freshman – eight in all – to soar past Robert Morris University (RMU), 7-0, in the Crimsons season opener this past Saturday (Oct. 29) at Bright Hockey Center.

Dawson wows, plows Dartmouth to reset Harvard bar for yards Junior tailback Clifton Dawson finished off the visiting Big Green this past Saturday with 223 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns…

George Widmer Thorn (GWT) was born in Buffalo, NY, January 15, 1906. He was the son of George W. and Fanny Widmer Thorn. George senior was involved in the food industry and retired early at the height of the depression. However, in 1923 he was able to send GWT, age 17, to Wooster College, Ohio.

Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi, Iraqs ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, provided an inside look at the writing of the Iraqi constitution and the future of the democratic process Monday (Oct. 31) at the Kennedy School of Government.

General Electrics (GE) Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs Ben W. Heineman Jr. will become a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government this coming February. At that time, Heineman will also become the first Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard Law Schools Program on the Legal Profession.

Harvard has won a CoreNet Global Innovator Award for its success in managing capital projects and controlling risk.

Harvards Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship program for outstanding new Ph.D.s in economics, political science, and sociology who wish to advance their understanding of health policy research.

Six alumni/ae were recognized for their outstanding Schools and Scholarships work during an awards ceremony on Oct. 28.

Owen Gingerich, professor of astronomy and of the history of science emeritus at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and author of The Book Nobody Read, the story of Nicholas Copernicuss great work De revolutionibus, will deliver Harvards prestigious William Belden Noble Lectures in three parts, Nov. 14, 15, and 16 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

The big day finally arrived, and Paul and Harriet Weissman couldnt have been happier.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, has announced the appointment of 19 new fellows for the 2005 – 06 academic year.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is presenting Robert Turner: Rare Places in a Rare Light. This traveling exhibition, which opens on Saturday (Nov. 5), features the richly detailed images of wild American landscapes by fine art landscape photographer Turner. Drawing upon 20 years of experience in film, Turner has assembled a stunning collection of images.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Kevin Eggan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard and a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has been named an assistant investigator by the Stowers Medical Institute (SMI), which is based in Cambridge. Eggan and several members of his lab have become employees of SMI, but will continue to conduct their research at Harvard, where Eggan remains a member of the faculty.

A new generation of liberals, galvanized by Howard Deans 2004 presidential campaign, are using the blogosphere to generate support and formulate tactics, and may soon make their impact felt on national politics.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that six Harvard affiliates have been elected fellows.

The Venerable Losang Samtens hands had to be steady as a surgeons as he engaged in the painstaking process of creating a Wheel of Life sand mandala. This masterful accomplishment took place during a weeklong residency recently at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). The mandala was created in celebration of the centers 45th anniversary and to inaugurate its programming theme for the year: Religion, Place and the Environment.

Harvard and Russian researchers have documented natural selection’s role in the creation of new species through a process called reinforcement, where butterfly wing colors differ enough to avoid confusion with…

Sea spiders as large as a foot across have been seen crawling along the deep ocean floor from the windows of submersible research vessels. Most of them, however, including those in a Harvard study, are a scant millimeter (.04 inch) in size. But big or small, they boast long snouts, on either side of which grow pincerlike claws.

Assistant Professor of Public Policy Asim Khwaja, with collaborators Jishnu Das and Tara Vishwanath from the World Bank and Tahir Andrabi from Pomona College, has rushed to create a Web…