Campus & Community

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.

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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.