Campus & Community

More than 700 students will participate in 27 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at Harvard University this fall, sponsored in part through the grant program of the Office for the Arts (OfA). These grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.

Education and thrills combined as tentative little fingers stretched out to caress the baby American alligator and the red rat snake under the eyes of watchful parents at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) recently. Other creatures featured at the Harvard Museums annual Community Day, drawing oohs and aahs from children and adults alike, included a raucously colored green-cheeked conure, a delicate kestrel, and an undeniably adorable opossum. HMNH was one of six Harvard museums to open its doors to surrounding communities on Sept. 18.

Abduction stories are strikingly similar. Victims wake up and find themselves paralyzed, unable to move or cry out for help.

How does someone who hasn’t learned to count yet, say a preschooler, deal with numbers? Adults are comfortable with symbols like “10” to signify 10 balloons, beeps, or beliefs. But…

Du Bois Institute to present Katznelson Author Ira Katznelson will read from his new book, “When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America,”…

Team HMS reaches beach among top 30 finishers A dozen Harvard Medical School students placed 23rd overall out of 285 running clubs in the seventh annual Reach the Beach Relay…

Former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp will deliver the seventh annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, An American Renaissance for the Gulf Coast, on Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Graduate School of Designs Piper Auditorium. A reception will be held at 7 p.m. in Stubbins Room, Gund Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Dockery named new chair of Dept. of Environmental Health Harvard Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Douglas Dockery has been named chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School…

Former Google Chief Operations Engineer Jim Reese will share the secrets of how he helped the search engine grow from 300 servers when he joined the company in 1999 to 10,000 today in a talk scheduled for Wednesday (Sept. 28).

Eleven leading academics and practitioners whose expertise ranges from health policy to Latin American studies have been named new faculty members at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced.

Newly elected Serbian President Boris Tadic said a democratic Serbia and Montenegro could be a regional force for stability and economic growth, but warned that moves to further fragment the nation would work against those goals.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine December 15, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

This fall, Harvard will host its first Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender (LBGT) Film Series. This inaugural event seeks to examine and celebrate representations of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender life and culture in cinema during the four decades since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York Citys Greenwich Village ignited the modern gay rights movement.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has selected six graduate fellows in ethics for the 2005-06 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in law, political science, philosophy, and medicine, were chosen from a pool of outstanding Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics. Arthur Applbaum, professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, directs the program. This year, Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Frances Kamm will join the graduate fellows seminar.

In Harvard Yard, first-years took time off from gobbling down hot dogs, hamburgers, and doughnuts to wait patiently in a long line and get a chance to shoot the breeze with the president. On this warm September day, President Lawrence H. Summers and a bunch of upperclassmen hung out in the Yard and extended a warm welcome to not-completely-oriented freshmen, who showed up in impressive numbers to enjoy the food and the ambience of their first Harvard do.

Harvard is taking the first step in its 50-year journey toward an integrated campus in Allston, Cambridge, and Longwood – a journey that has been in the preliminary planning and consultation phase since the turn of the millennium. This first step is selection of an architect for Allstons first science building.

Ann E. Berman, vice president for finance and chief financial officer of the University, announced her decision to step down effective April 1, 2006.

On freshman move-in day, Sept. 10, proud father Charles Oo looks like hes carrying an Impressionist masterpiece as he moves a mirror into his daughter Kimberlys dorm. Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office

At the Activities Fair for freshmen, Harrison Greenbaum 08 points to a sponge ball that he conjured out of thin air, convincing an astonished or gullible Sara Manning 09 to sign up for the Magic Club.

All members of the University community and their guests are invited to attend Harvards fourth annual Its Movie Time at Harvard, to be held Sept. 25 in Tercentenary Theatre.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the weeks beginning Aug. 30 and ending Sept. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., 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:

The ranks of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty expanded over the summer with the arrival of three new assistant professors and two new tenured professors of law. The hires are part of an effort to bring about a net increase of 15 faculty members during the next decade.

Mason Fellows Program names Eckroad new director Kathy Eckroad has been named director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government…

A. Clayton Spencer has been named the Universitys vice president for policy, and Kasia Lundy has been appointed chief of staff in the Office of the President, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Sept. 8.

Suzy M. Nelson, a seasoned academic administrator with broad experience in the areas of student affairs and residential life, has been named Harvard Colleges associate dean for residential life, effective Sept. 19.

Christine Atwood has been appointed senior associate dean for external affairs at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced. In her new role, Atwood will lead the Schools development initiatives and oversee alumni programs. She will also serve as a member of the deans leadership team, helping to define the Schools strategy moving forward.

Lecturer on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations John (Jay) Ellison was named secretary of the administrative board and assistant dean of Harvard College last month. Ellison has served Harvard for more than a decade, most recently as a senior tutor in Lowell House, where he annually coordinated advising for 450 residents. His committee service in the College has been substantial, including coordination of the Harvard College Emergency Management Team, and membership in the subcommittee on Harvard Student Organizations, the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard, and the Freshman Board of Advisers.

Milton Fund accepting faculty proposals The William F. Milton Fund makes research funds available to faculty members of the University for studies of a medical, geographic, historic, or scientific nature.…

Somewhere between attending class, studying, and sleeping, a dozen Harvard Medical School (HMS) students have made the time to train for a 200-mile, 24-hour relay race from Bretton Woods, N.H., to the seacoast. So what drives these future docs to run laps through the itchy grass of the Medical School Quad so they can push and punish themselves across the Granite State? The homeless population of Boston, it turns out.