Campus & Community

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.

A month of rain has rendered the Yard a glowing paradise of greenery.

When Bryan Richardson signed up for a lecture course on public finance at the Kennedy School of Government last fall, he never expected to be earning his grade by hobnobbing with urban police officers. This material can be kind of dry in the classroom, the 26-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., recalled. We all hoped to apply what we were learning.

June 19, 1638 – Shortly before this date, Nathaniel Eaton, first Master of the College, moves with his family from Charlestown into a house in the Yard. By Sept. 17,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

In some corners of Las Vegas, Harvard chemist David Liu is viewed as a dangerous man.

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 9). For the 17th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the City of Cambridge and of Harvards 354th Commencement Exercises.

Harvard University seniors Christopher D. Golden, an environmental conservation concentrator Liora Russman Halperin, a history and Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator and Peter McMurray, a Slavic studies and classics concentrator, are the winners of the 2005 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, which is awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust announced the winners – who will graduate from Harvard with bachelors degrees on June 9 – at the Radcliffe Institutes annual Strawberry Tea on Wednesday (June 1).

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2005 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2005 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

The planning firm Cooper, Robertson and Partners has prepared an interim report for the Harvard community that proposes preliminary ideas and options for a basic campus and urban framework in Allston.

The Arnold Arboretum’s program for preschoolers that serves the area Head Start brings very excited kids to a lovely, engaging and stimulating nature setting.

For the first time, amateur and professional astronomers have teamed up to discover a new planet circling a distant star. The planet was detected by looking for the effect of…

A new way to administer therapeutic RNA molecules that efficiently guides them to cells throughout the body is being reported by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated CBR Institute for Biomedical Research…

Reporting in the May 12 issue of Nature, astronomers announced that they have penetrated the heart of the universe’s most powerful explosion – a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Using the PAIRITEL…

Outside of the Kennedy School, a couple embraces, either out of affection or a desperate attempt to keep warm.

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…

The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced this week that Alphonse Fletcher Jr. A.B. 87 and Massachusetts Representative Alice K. Wolf will receive the HGLC Civil Rights Award and Ally for Justice Award, respectively. The two will receive the award at the caucus annual Commencement Day dinner, to be held in Lowell House on June 9. 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.

May 28, 1951 – About 350 former newspaperboys convene at Boston’s Parker House to mark the 50th anniversary of the Newsboys Protective Union and to celebrate the Boston Newsboys Scholarship…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Lawrence M. Levine, chief information officer and associate provost for information technology at Dartmouth College, has been named associate dean and chief information officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard. Levine will report to Executive Dean Nancy Maull. The appointment is effective Aug. 1.

There are these amazing distributions called power laws that seem to come up over and over again throughout nature and science, explains newly tenured Professor of Computer Science Michael Mitzenmacher. Under a power law distribution, rare events happen much more frequently than one would expect. They can come about not because of any great design or plan (by humans or by nature), but by, for example, monkeys typing randomly.

Fred S. Rosen, a world leader in pediatric immunology, died on May 21 a few days short of his 75th birthday.

HBS professor collects Shingo Prize Harvard Business School Assistant Professor of Business Administration Steven J. Spear has won a 2005 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize for his article “Learning…

In response to the deadly tsunami that claimed an estimated 250,000 lives this past December, a dedicated group of students at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), along with students from other Harvard graduate programs, formed the Tsunami Recovery and Rehabilitation group. Aimed to link Harvard students with internships in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the groups mission is to build resilience in severely damaged communities and restore hope.

The Harvard Crimson Summer Academy has welcomed 60 ready, willing, and eminently able high school freshmen and sophomores to the academic enrichment programs second year. The students represent 25 different public and parochial schools in Cambridge and Boston.

Harvards Murr Center recently played host to the first-ever pro-am and clinic to benefit Tenacity, Bostons leading inner city, youth tennis, and literacy program. NBC-TV sports commentator and Boston Globe writer Bud Collins hosted the April 30 event, imparting his tennis wisdom with the help of several Harvard tennis players.

Women’s crew to compete for crown Radcliffe heavyweight crew has received one of the 12 team bids to the NCAA Championship regatta to be held May 27-29 on Lake Natoma…

Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine Christian Arbelaez has been appointed to the Sullivan Alliance to Transform Americas Health Professions, a national panel working to create a diverse and better-trained health-care workforce.

Eugene Foley, president/CEO of Harvard University Employees Credit Union, was recently invited to testify before the House Financial Services Committee as an expert witness on credit card data security. A series of conversations on this topic between the Massachusetts Credit Union League Inc. and Congressman Barney Frank, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, led to this invitation. Foleys testimony was specifically aimed at explaining how credit unions and their members are impacted by breaches in data security. The hearing, Assessing Data Security: Preventing Breaches and Protecting Sensitive Information, was carried in its entirety on C-Span 2.