Campus & Community

The colors are subdued and earthy, but striking in their tonal range: amber, aqua, sea green, black, and ochre. Some are teal or milky. Less common are purple and cobalt blue. Red, the rarest of all, is a deep, wine-dark hue, like a garnet stone. It is made by adding copper or gold before the glass is blown.

Harvard Business School (HBS) recently honored five of its alumni with the Schools highest recognition, the Alumni Achievement Award. These awards are given to leaders who have truly made a difference in the world, according to HBS.

Zachary Levine-Caleb is just 12 years old, but he loves studying at Harvard.

Arkansas Black Hall of Fame set to induct David L. Evans David L. Evans, senior admissions officer for Harvard College, will be inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame…

Study abroad fair this afternoon The Office of International Programs, in coordination with the Office of Career Services’ International Experience Program, will hold its third annual Study Abroad and International…

Jerzy Soltan, an architect and teacher who educated generations of students in the principles of modernist design, died at his Cambridge home on Sept. 16. He was 92.

Eleventh-ranked Lehigh University exploded for three unanswered third-quarter touchdowns en route to a 49-24 win over No. 15 Harvard this past Saturday (Oct. 1) at the stadium. The loss – the Crimsons first since a November 2003 setback against Penn – brings Harvards 13-game winning streak, which stood as the longest in Division I-AA entering Saturday, to a halt.

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies will hold the eighth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 3, 2006.

Nobel laureate Wangari Muta Maathai, who sparked an environmental revolution 30 years ago in her native Kenya by organizing women to plant trees, preached empowerment and social activism to an overflow crowd in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Friday afternoon (Sept. 30). Social change begins at the grassroots, Maathai told the audience.

The Harvard University Center for the Environment recently announced that it will name its first eight environmental fellows in March 2006. The fellows two-year postdoctoral program will start in September 2006, and applications are due by Jan. 15, 2006.

Dozens of government officials, business people, firefighters, forest workers, and others gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a weeklong program in crisis management that seeks to learn from past disasters to prepare for future ones.

Home is where healthy food is Adolescents who eat large amounts of food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor-quality diet. Among 14,355 children surveyed…

A Harvard pennant flies over Tercentenary Theatre with the Memorial Church in the background as the first semester of a challenging year gets into full swing.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Thomas J. Raymond died at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., on Sept. 29 at the age of 88. A member of the active faculty from 1950 to 1987, Raymond taught generations of M.B.A. students to write clearly and cogently as chairman of the legendary course, Written Analysis of Cases. He was also a highly regarded and honored teacher at Harvard College and the Harvard Extension School.

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After a miserable September that saw the Harvard womens volleyball team take just two out of 10 contests, the Cambridge squad finally found reason to celebrate this past Saturday evening (Oct. 1) against visiting Sacred Heart. The Crimson, which trailed just once in the match, limited the struggling Pioneers (3-12 on the season) to a negative .027-hitting percentage to capture the match in convincing fashion, 30-22, 30-20, 30-16. The 3-0 win resulted in a weekend split for the home team, who had fallen to league frontrunner Dartmouth by the same tally the previous evening.

They say music is the universal language. The Silk Road Project offers proof.

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Cancers and many other diseases often reveal themselves by the presence of proteins absent or inactive in people who do not suffer from such ailments. Researchers are finding new biomarkers,…

American and Chinese researchers digging at an imperiled site of ancient salt production found the earliest known evidence of salt manufacturing in China.

Dual concerns about Harvard’s environmental impact and skyrocketing energy costs have prompted facilities managers across the University to come together monthly to share thoughts, tips, and techniques for making Harvard…

In celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and the majesty of the Charles River Parklands, the Charles River Conservancy and the Revels called neighbors from Cambridge and Allston to the second annual RiverSing on Sept. 22. With massed choruses in the hundreds on either side of the Charles, traditional river songs were shared from shore to shore. The celebration ended with the procession of an autumnal puppet across the Weeks Bridge at dusk. Harvard, a sponsor of this years RiverSing, is among the many organizations and individuals that strive to protect and beautify the Charles.

For doctors Miriam Baron and Jennifer Moye, the money couldnt have come at a better time.

September 1930 – The Class of 1934 enters with 897 members. Dunster and Lowell – the first of the seven original undergraduate Houses – are ready for occupancy. September 1936…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

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

Ambivalence is such a common condition in our complex and uncertain times that it is astonishing to learn that the word has existed for less than a century. It was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 to describe a condition in which a person holds contradictory feelings toward someone or something.

Daniel Lord Smail, a cultural historian who studies social and legal transformations in the later Middle Ages, has been named professor of history in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2006.

Playing is important, too. And a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plan ensures that more space will be devoted to recreational, social, and, of course, study areas for…