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Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Professor Charles V. Willie received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA). The award was presented to Willie, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, at the ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia on Aug. 14.

Health care in the Peoples Republic of China is unequal and too expensive, and theres not enough of it, but the Chinese government is aware of the problems and is moving to address them, Chinas vice minister of health said Sept. 8 at Harvard Medical School.

Harvard University continues to be among the nations best workplaces for women, according to Working Mother magazine, which on Sept. 12 named the University one of its 100 Best organizations for working mothers for the third year in a row. Harvard is the only university on the 2005 list and one of just three employers in Massachusetts to be recognized.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University will welcome six Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2005-06 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.

Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, recently announced the selection of a diverse and experienced group of individuals for fellowships this fall.

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy located at the Kennedy School of Government recently announced its fall fellows and visiting faculty.

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy located at Harvards Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Judy Woodruff will be a visiting fellow during the fall semester.

Working with zebrafish, growth factors, and chicken embryos, Harvard undergraduates got a chance this summer to learn and work in laboratories of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute during its first summer internship program.

In a darkened lecture hall at Harvard Medical School last month, area high school students presented the work of eight long, summer weeks, talking of platelets and of stem cells, of intestinal bacteria and of vaccines, of sleep deprivation, and of falls in the elderly.

The Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy (CHSA) celebrated its fifth anniversary this summer. Now, thanks to funding from Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers office, it is set to operate for another five years.

A research effort, led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the University of Washington, Seattle, focused…

Harvard waste management officials are holding up four construction projects at the University this summer as examples of recycling successes, with nearly all construction debris, furniture, and equipment recycled or…

Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law, will present a lecture open to all students and staff, titled Remembering the Constitutions Future: Anticipating the Roberts Legacy? at noon Monday (Sept. 19) in Lowell Lecture Hall.

Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (CHHI) at Harvard Law School (HLS), has announced that the institutes official opening will take place today (Sept. 15).

Sevcenko gets honorary degree Ihor Sevcenko, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature Emeritus in the Department of the Classics, was awarded an honorary doctorate of liberal arts from…

Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Technology Review magazine recently named four Harvard researchers to its 2005 list of top technology innovators under the age of 35. According to the magazine, the TR35 will shape our world for decades to come.

With the goal of opening the Harvard classroom to distance learners, Harvard alumni, and possibly an international audience, all 26 lectures of Moral Reasoning 22: Justice, taught by Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel, will be filmed in high-definition video this fall.

Come September, Sasha Rush, a Harvard junior, can tell his friends he spent his summer in a Harvard bio lab, breeding bacteria, manipulating them, and working with other undergraduates to create a biological machine that can transmit a signal from one point to another.

Its dinnertime in Annenberg Hall, and Celia Arias-Piña is enjoying a time-honored ritual of college life: She tucks into a heaping bowl of brightly colored sugary cereal, leaving the chicken and broccoli on her plate untouched.

Ever since its invention more than a century and a half ago, photography has proved difficult to classify. Does it deserve to be grouped with the traditional arts of painting and sculpture, or is it simply a technique for recording visual facts?

Three Harvard students recently joined 167 scholars nationwide to receive fellowships through the Fund for Theological Education (FTE). FTE fellowships provide financial assistance and support to talented students from diverse backgrounds that demonstrate the professional and personal skills needed to be effective pastors, scholars, and educators. These fellowships are divided into four categories (congregational, doctoral, ministry, and undergraduate).

Each summer, more than 850 economically disadvantaged children from Boston and Cambridge have a fun, safe, enriching experience at the 12 summer camps run by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA).

Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs John Ruggie was appointed as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annans special representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises this past month. Ruggie served as UN assistant secretary-general and adviser to Annan on strategic planning from 1997 to 2001.

Donald Howard Shively, an authority on Japanese urban life and popular culture in the Tokugawa period and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, where he also served as director of the Japan Institute (now the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies), died on Aug. 13 in a nursing facility near his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 84.

HMS student takes bronze at World University Games Third-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) graduate student Elizabeth Shakhnovich captured a bronze medal for the U.S. Taekwondo Team this month at the…

Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Walter C. Willett was named winner of the 25th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research earlier this month. An independent panel selected Willett, who is also the chairman of the Department of Nutrition in the Faculty of Public Health, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week beginning Aug. 18 and ending Aug. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Dormandy to direct research at Belfer Center The U.S. National Security Council’s Xenia Dormandy will join the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as executive…

Harvard researchers have found new evidence that female mammals can produce egg cells throughout life and have traced their production out of the ovary and into the bone marrow in findings that could both reshape sciences understanding of female reproduction and provide new avenues for treatment of infertility.