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Mary Ellen Avery Doctor of Science Mary Ellen Avery, recipient of an honorary doctor of science degree, received the National Medal of Science in 1991 for her discovery of the…

Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark announced Monday (June 6) that he will step down on July 31, in order to accept the role of president of Brigham Young University, Idaho, shortly thereafter. Clark was named dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1995 he is the eighth dean in the Schools 97-year history.

PBHA and Class of ’55 fete 100 years of service More than 100 members from the Class of 1955 kicked off their 50th reunion at a June 5 dinner reception…

…in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing….

Professor Felton Earls, director of the Harvard South African Fellowship Program, recently awarded special certificates signed by President Lawrence H. Summers to eight South African Fellows who studied in various programs throughout the University this past year. The Harvard South African Fellowship Program is funded by the Presidents Office and the individual Schools that the fellows attend as part of the Universitys commitment to the building of a new South Africa.

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 of the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will honor, among others, writer and editor Ann Fadiman 75, pianist Ursula Oppens 65, and biologist Susan Lindquist Ph.D. 76 at its annual Radcliffe Day celebration on Friday (June 10). The awards will be presented and the recipients will speak at the Radcliffe Awards Symposium, Discovering Different Truths: In Search of Common Ground. In addition, Distinguished Service Awards will be presented. Lincoln Professor of History and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust will address alumnae, their guests, and the award recipients at the Radcliffe Annual Luncheon in Radcliffe Yard following the symposium.

Harvard alumni celebrating their 50th reunion have been out of school more than twice as long as most graduating seniors have been alive. What have they learned in all that time? What do they remember of their student days? How does life look from the perspective of 50 years out? We talked to some members of the Class of 1955 and found them to be a vital, enthusiastic, and generally satisfied group of guys.

Nobodys perfect, not even Harvard students, Alicia Menendez 05 will tell graduates and their families today.

Aaron Holzapfel looks about as youd imagine the captain of Harvards championship heavyweight crew would look – 6 foot 3, 220 pounds, with a trim beard and longish, wavy blond hair.

Having an identity crisis is not uncommon for college students. Who am I? Where do I belong? What is my purpose in life? These are questions that haunt many a young person preparing for the plunge into adulthood.

Michelle Whites love of animals has shown her a way to reach out to others and is leading to a possible lifetimes work as a veterinarian.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and internships for the 2005-06 academic year. The center will support the projects of 52 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $320,000. In addition to funding research conducted abroad, CES has been working with Harvard alumni clubs in Europe and the WorldTeach organization to develop summer internships in Europe in order to encourage students to include an international experience as part of their Harvard education.

Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (June 2) that John P. Huchra, Doyle Professor of Cosmology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been appointed to the newly created post of vice provost for research policy.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti has announced his intention to step down in June 2006 as dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) and dean for physical sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University. Narayanamurti, the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, plans to devote himself to teaching, research, and other forms of university service.

Eighty-eight seniors from the class of 2005 were elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, on May 12. These students will be formally inducted into the chapter at a ceremony and dinner in June.

In its relatively short 20-year history, the Harvard Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has become a renowned hub of intellectual discourse and a resource for humanities scholars throughout the Boston area, welcoming graduate students, faculty, and scholars.

Francesco Erspamer, a scholar with broad expertise in Italian literature, culture, and history from the Renaissance to the present, has been named professor of Romance languages and literatures in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Three Harvard doctoral candidates receive Dibner Fellowships from MIT The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has awarded fellowships to three…

Reischauer Institute seeks essay submissions The deadline for submitting works for the 2005 Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the best graduate and undergraduate papers on a Japan-related…

The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced earlier this spring that Alphonse Fletcher Jr. A.B. 87 and Massachusetts Rep. Alice K. Wolf M.P.A. 78, IOP 94 will receive the HGLC Civil Rights Award and Ally for Justice Award, respectively. The two will be presented with the awards at the caucus annual Commencement Day dinner on June 9 in Lowell House. In the evenings keynote speech, activist and author Keith Boykin J.D. 92 will address the nexus between the African American Civil Rights Movement and the gay civil rights movement.

Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), recently announced the appointment of Bradford W. Voigt as the first director of institutional advancement for the art museums. Voigt will join HUAM in this new position on July 18.

Baseball heads west to take on Titans Harvard baseball will represent the Ivy League in NCAA tournament action this Friday (June 3) when the Crimson (29-15 overall) take on defending…

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting its seventh annual career forum on June 14. This years event will be held at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 3 to 7 p.m.

An estimated 7,000 people (including 5,000 alumni/ae) are expected to attend reunion activities, which begin Monday (June 6) and continue through June 11. Here is a list of the activities.

After its first year in operation, Harvards Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows program is getting positive reviews from faculty members and student fellows alike, who say the program both increases interaction between faculty and students and results in improved course content available on the Web.

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 of the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

Harvards Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures recently awarded Kerstin Luise Tremel 05 the Bernhard Blume Prize for her thesis Literrorisierung: German Literary Approaches to the Red Army Faction. This prize is awarded to the graduating senior who has written the best honors thesis on a German subject and whose performance in courses offered toward the concentration is of equal merit. In addition, second-year graduate student Mattias Frey was awarded the Bernhard Blume Award for excellence in course work in the first three terms of graduate studies, while Justice Kraus, a fourth-year graduate student, took the prize for excellence in course work in the second three terms of graduate studies.

For the fourth consecutive year, a piece from Harvard Review has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Series (Houghton Mifflin), a showcase for the years finest poetry, short stories, and essays since 1915. Justice Shiva Ram Murthy, by Rishi Reddi, was chosen for the 2005 edition of The Best American Short Stories by guest editor Michael Chabon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Reddis story originally appeared in Harvard Review 27 (Fall 2004). Contributors to Harvard Review have also been selected in recent years for Best American Poetry 2002, Best American Essays 2003, Best American Short Stories 2003, and Best American Essays 2004.

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has named Thomas C. Tsai 05 the winner of its 2005 Taiwan Studies Essay Prize. Tsai is a concentrator in history and science and a candidate for the certificate for health policy.