Campus & Community

Professor of Higher Education Richard Chait and William Ryan, research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, have been named recipients of the Council for Advancement and Support of Educations (CASE) 2005 Research Writing Awards. These awards recognize outstanding research and writing in the educational advancement disciplines of alumni relations, communications, and development.

The Memorial Church undergoes top-to-bottom renovations this summer, including new slates for the 73-year-old roof, insulation for the attic, and state-of-the-art heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. The church will reopen for Freshman Sunday, Sept. 11. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of Marilyn Dunn as the new executive director of the library and Radcliffe Institute librarian. She will assume her duties on July 18. Currently the college librarian and director of information resources at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., Dunn brings to the position a demonstrated commitment to womens studies. In addition, she has extensive managerial and leadership experience, familiarity with special collections and archives, strong knowledge of digital resource best practices, a track record of public service, and through consortium participation, lively awareness of the challenges facing libraries of varying sizes and purposes.

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) earlier this month announced its acquisition of the Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection, one of the most important groups of Fluxus materials in North America. The acquisition is a partial gift from Barbara Moore, and a partial purchase made through the museums Margaret Fisher Fund.

Walking up the ramp of the Carpenter Center, Julie Buck smiles as she sees a poster of a pretty, dark-haired woman in a white, one-piece bathing suit lying on a red leather recliner with a color test strip balanced on her bare thigh.

James J. Healy, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), died at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., on June 6 at the age of 88. A member of the Harvard University and HBS faculties for more than four decades, he was a leading authority on labor relations as well as a nationally renowned arbitrator in numerous labor-management disputes who remained active in arbitration activities almost until the time of his death.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and economists Jeffrey Liebman and Alberto Abadie have been named professors at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

Dean of Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby announced on July 13 that Lisa Martin, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government, has been appointed senior adviser to the dean, with responsibility for advising him, the divisional deans, and the Faculty as a whole on matters related to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The appointment is effective immediately.

President Lawrence H. Summers throws out the first pitch at Fenway Park on July 15 the Red Sox went on to defeat the New York Yankees that evening, 17-1. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office)

Corriero nominated for ESPY Harvard’s Nicole Corriero ’05, the ECAC Hockey League and Ivy League Player of the Year, was recently nominated for an ESPY Award by ESPN in the…

The Women’s Health Study (WHS) – the largest randomized clinical trial to investigate the impact of aspirin and vitamin E on the primary prevention of cardiovascular and cancer risk – has helped shape some of clinical medicine’s basic understanding of disease prevention and women’s health. Now, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), where the WHS is based, are detailing new, long-awaited results that examine if low-dose aspirin (100 mg. every other day) protects healthy women against cancer, and if vitamin E (600 IU every other day) protects healthy women against cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Postdoc named Runyon Fellow The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named Yifeng Zhang, postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology, one of its 10 postdoctoral fellowship recipients at its May…

HMNH seeks ‘gallery guides’ The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) seeks volunteers who wish to share their enthusiasm for natural history with museum visitors of all ages. The museum…

Four Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty will serve in leadership roles within the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), a consortium of universities and academic medical centers established today (July 14) by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD). The center’s goal will be to solve major problems in HIV vaccine development and design. Barton Haynes, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, will head the initiative.

Evelynn Hammonds, professor of the history of science and of African and African American Studies, has been named senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (July 20).

Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Phan Van Khai visited Harvard University today (June 24) to talk about higher education in his country. Khai met privately with Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers this morning and briefly visited the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard. In the afternoon, Khai participated in a panel presentation chaired by University Professor Emeritus Henry Rosovsky at the John F. Kennedy School of Government titled ‘Higher Education in Vietnam: From Peril to Promise.’ The panel included Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna and scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tufts University.

From 42 Native nations, high school students learn the ropes at Harvard

Jay O. Light, the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr., Professor of Business Administration, has agreed to serve as Acting Dean of Harvard Business School starting August 1, President Lawrence H. Summers announced June 30, 2005.

What could the fierce dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex and a modern songbird such as the sparrow possibly have in common? Their pulmonary systems may have been more similar than scientists previously…

Even with modern medical treatment, patients who have experienced a heart attack remain at increased risk for sudden death after they are discharged from the hospital. In an effort to…

Damaged or unusable cells in our bodies will commit suicide to protect us from harm. That’s a well-known process with the awkward name of “apoptosis.” There’s also necrosis, meaning “to…

Nobody believed Judah Folkman when, in the 1960s, he claimed that the growth of cancers could be stopped, even reversed, by blocking the tiny vessels that feed them blood. Over the years, however, he has survived peer rejection of his theory, and gone on to develop drugs that did what he predicted they would do.

At Afternoon Exercises of this years Commencement (June 9), the Class of 2005 was delighted to hear a childrens story and a song about a manatee. Actor and arts activist John Lithgow 67 charmed the large Tercentenary Theatre crowd with his disarming address offering lighthearted advice and self-deprecating wisdom along the way.

Ryan Travia, coordinator of alcohol and drug education programs at Dartmouth College, will become director of alcohol and substance abuse services at Harvard University, announced Paul Barreira, director of the Department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling. In this new position, Travia will lead the University in addressing issues of alcohol and health among students as recommended by the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard in its October 2004 report to University Provost Steven E. Hyman.

June 11, 1776 – The Provincial Congress grants the College permission to reoccupy its buildings, and Harvard prepares to return from Concord.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association has announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 354th Commencement (June 9).

On June 14, troops muster on Cambridge Common in advance of historical re-enactments that commemorate the 230th birthday of the U.S. Army. The establishment of a Continental Army was approved by Congress on June 14, 1775.

The University will soon launch a new set of tools for accessing and searching electronic resources on the Harvard Libraries Web site (also known as the portal) located at http://lib. harvard.edu. Known as E-Research @ Harvard Libraries, the tools – set to launch June 30 – will replace the portals current E-Resources menu.

The Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge, Mass., that merged with Harvard in 2002, has announced its selection of two new junior fellows. These researchers have been chosen to perform independent experimental research for five years, with full institutional support and access to the institutes technical and scientific resources.