Campus & Community

Doctoral student accepts Horowitz Foundation grant The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has named Jeremy Tobacman, a Harvard doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics, as a 2004 grant co-recipient.…

Harvard co-sponsored diversity forum approaching Members of the University community are invited to join the M.B.A. Diversity Forum at the Hult International Business School (One Education St., Cambridge, Mass.) on…

Art historian Benjamin Buchloh, recognized internationally as one of todays most important contributors to the study of post-1945 art, has been named Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2005.

Emily Abrams was fact-checking Aaron Coplands tenure as Norton Professor at Harvard as part of her research on a forthcoming book on the composer edited by her professor, Carol Oja. The official lectures from his visit (there were six) were published in the volume Music and Imagination in 1952. Abrams, a second-year musicology graduate student, also came upon something very few people knew about.

Allison Gerrity (from left), 15, her father Steve and sister Erin, 13 – all in town to see brother Michael 05 graduate – cool off at Widener Library during Class Day.

Rapping, stepping, and sidewalk-chalking are hardly customary modes of communication at Harvard Medical School (HMS). But such youth-focused expressions were the media of the day Monday (June 13) at HMSs second annual Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities event.

Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) is currently seeking volunteers interested in public art education for its museum docent program. The program consists of approximately 35 volunteer guides who give tours…

Not exactly in disguise, but nicely dressed and well-behaved, a couple of intrepid Gazette reporters mingled unobtrusively in the lively, vibrant 354th Commencement of Harvard University. They were on the lookout, as they are every year, for what is known in the trade as color. This year, under friendly skies and surrounded by movement, noise, and a great deal of color, they were not disappointed. Following are some of the usual – and not-so-usual sights and sounds of the triumphant day.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has announced that 31 Harvard students have received DRCLAS certificates in Latin American studies.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it has awarded 59 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $190,000 for the 2005-06 academic year. Twenty-four grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, and 35 will support graduate students. In recent years, the center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students, both increasing financial resources and the number of student awards available, and establishing new programs and seminars for students.

The Asia Center, the South Asia Initiative, the Fairbank Center, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute have announced their award recipients for this summer and the upcoming academic year.

Denise Scott Brown said that when she was a young student, people would tell her she looked like a Radcliffe girl.

Scientists are surprised and delighted that a recently discovered group of small molecules show an unexpected potential for easily distinguishing healthy cells from tumors and one type of cancer from…

About half of all the people in the United States will develop one or more mental disorders in their lifetimes, according to the latest national survey. During any year, one…

Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles H. Townes told a packed Science Center lecture hall Monday (June 13) that science and religion are parallel, rather than antagonistic, disciplines and that…

Wind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists interested in playing with the Harvard Summer Pops Band are invited to attend open rehearsals (no audition required) beginning June 29 through Aug. 7 from 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. Interested individuals should bring their instrument and, if possible, a folding music stand to Lowell Hall at the above-mentioned times. Directed by Tom Everett, the pops band will give performances Aug. 3 at 4 p.m. in the Yard, and Aug. 7 at 3 p.m. at the Hatch Shell. For more information, call (617) 496-2263.

Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History, has announced the names of 51 women and men selected as 2005 – 06 Radcliffe Institute fellows. While at the institute, the fellows – among them creative artists, humanists, social scientists, and scientists working on projects ranging from cancer treatments to installation art – will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Together, the fellows distinguished academic, professional, and creative endeavors are the center of a scholarly community convened to pursue and generate new knowledge.

June 1904 – Helen Keller, who had lost sight and hearing in early childhood, earns her A.B. (with honors) from Radcliffe. Dorothy Elia Howells recalls the memorable moment in “A…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

Restrooms: Restrooms for the general public are located in Weld, Thayer, and Sever halls. These restrooms are wheelchair accessible. First aid stations: First aid stations are situated in the following…

Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, effective July 1.

Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development and academic dean, will serve as acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (June 6). Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, the current dean, announced her intention in March to step down at the end of this academic year. The search for a permanent dean will begin immediately after Commencement.

Federal Judge Patti B. Saris 73, J.D.76 has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2005-06. M. Lee Pelton Ph.D. 84, the president of Willamette University, will serve as vice chair of the boards executive committee.

As the academic year comes to its traditional triumphant conclusion, many graduates, students, and faculty are already getting their summer plans under way – if not in fact, certainly in their imaginations. Following are some of the summer plans of faculty members of the University, and also an intimate, if brief, glimpse into their summers past, when the distinguished professors were themselves just humble college students.

Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George Whitesides is this years recipient of the prestigious Welch Foundation award for scientific achievement, the foundation announced on June 2. A pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, Whitesides, in winning the Welch award joins other distinguished Harvard scientists, including Jeremy Knowles (1995), Wm. Von Eggers Doering (1990), Frank H. Westheimer (1982), and E. Bright Wilson (1978). The Welch Foundation is one of the oldest and largest sources of private funding for basic research in chemistry. By the terms of its endowment, most of its programs are focused in Texas. However, both its annual chemical research conference and Welch Award in Chemistry involve the international chemical community. Whitesides is the 35th recipient of the award. The Welch Foundation will hold a banquet for approximately 400 in Houston in October to honor Whitesides. At the banquet, Whitesides will receive a certificate, a check for $300,000, and a gold medallion.

A mathematician who has forged new paths in algebra and algebraic geometry, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose work may lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of deadly diseases, a scholar of religion whose best-selling books explore the diversity of belief in early Christianity, and an economist whose groundbreaking study of markets was rewarded with the Nobel Prize received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal on Wednesday (June 8) at the Harvard Faculty Club.

Ethan Gray 05, former president and associate principal cellist of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, is the first recipient of the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award.

Creating new opportunities for generations of students to engage in rigorous study of the principles of economics and finance, Moise Y. Safra has established the Moise Y. Safra Professorship of Economics. Safras $3.5 million gift to fund the new chair is a significant step toward Harvards goal of increasing the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and it will enable closer and more frequent interaction between students and their professors.

Harvards Department of Music has announced its 2004-05 fellowship and award recipients. Close to $190,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the departments graduate and undergraduate students.

A record nine members of the Business Schools M.B.A. Class of 2005 are being honored this week with the Deans Award – and these recipients are as diverse as they are outstanding in their commitment to service. Given annually since 1998 by Dean Kim B. Clark to students who have demonstrated unusually strong leadership during their two years at Harvard Business School (HBS), the Deans Award is one of the Schools highest honors.