Campus & Community

Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of Meet the Press (MTP) and political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today program, is the 2005 Class Day speaker, announced the Harvard College Class of 2005 Senior Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association Wednesday (May 11). He will address the senior class and guests on Class Day, June 8, at 2 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre.

One hundred forty-five Harvard faculty and staff members will be honored today (May 12) for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 51st annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony – a unique event in that it recognizes both faculty and staff from across the entire University – will be held at the Ropes-Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School.

Joslin Diabetes Center scientist elected to NAS Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School Christophe O. Benoist, co-head of the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics at Joslin Diabetes Center, was…

Stephen Lewis named HSPH Commencement speaker Stephen Lewis, United Nations special envoy of the secretary-general for HIV/AIDS in Africa and director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, will be the Harvard…

Last weekends stormy weather turned up roses for Harvard baseball, as the host Crimson swept two games from Cornell in Mondays (May 9) rescheduled Ivy League Championship, handing the home team its first league title in three years. Harvards pitching crew – well rested after Saturdays and Sundays rainouts – limited Cornell to two runs over a pair of contests to dismiss the Big Red, 2-0 and 4-2.

Lecturer on social medicine Carola Eisenberg, one of the five founding members of Physicians for Human Rights (an organization that shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to the campaign for banning land mines), and her husband, Leon Eisenberg, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine Emeritus in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will receive the American Psychiatric Associations (APA) 2005 Human Rights Award at APAs annual meeting in Atlanta on May 23.

If laughter is the best medicine, then Harvard Divinity School student Zachary Warren is hoping that for Afghan children, performance will help the medicine go down.

They could be called the above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty prizes.

Glenn Patton Pat Wright, teacher, editor, and mentor, died of cancer in his Cambridge, Mass., home on May 4. He was 58 years old.

Can a roomful of Harvard students meeting for three hours on a Friday afternoon help to ease the deep historical tensions between China and Japan? Ronald Heifetz thinks so.

The Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced the selection of 18 undergraduate students, chosen from a pool of 185 candidates, for prestigious paid summer political internships. These students will meet and learn from leading academics, policy-makers, and politicians at high-profile organizations, furthering their understanding of and interest in politics and public affairs. In addition, the IOP is providing financial assistance to nearly 100 current Harvard undergraduates for help in securing public service summer jobs, as well as to rising seniors conducting summer thesis research.

Six Harvard professors joined nearly 200 scholars nationwide to be named recipients of a total of $7.4 million in fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The fellowships, announced this past February, are intended for individual research in the humanities.

The third McDonald Conference on Evangelical Theology began Friday night (May 6) with a keynote speech by Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton University professor of sociology and the director of the Princeton Center for the Study of Religion. Wuthnow has studied religion from the perspective of many disciplines, including economics, politics, arts, and psychology, and has written many books, including 1991s Acts of Compassion, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Responding to his speech on Friday was Ronald F. Thiemann, a professor of theology and religion and society at Harvard Divinity School.

For the past 12 years, the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 225 sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The Weissman Program enables students to develop a richer understanding of the global community in which they live and work, and provides an opportunity for them to share their experiences with the Harvard community when they return.

Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-06 academic year are John A. La Rue 07 and Elizabeth S. Widdicombe 06. The two were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers applications.

The Harvard community is invited to a performance of The Witness Cantata, composed by Swanee Hunt, former ambassador to Austria (1993-97) and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government. Coro Allegro – Bostons acclaimed chorus for members and friends of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities, directed by David Hodgkins – will perform the cantata May 13 in Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m.

njuries to the upper spinal cord can take a victim’s breath away. Most people don’t know that breathing difficulties are the leading cause of disease and death after such injuries.…

The consumption of low-fat dairy foods may reduce men’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the May 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. The…

With the rapid advance of technology opening new frontiers of knowledge, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study looked at the increasingly detailed understanding of biological systems last week (May 6)…

The topic of health statistics took center stage last week as practitioners from around the world discussed the critical role statistics play in identifying and addressing health disparities during a…

n a new scientific report titled “Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts,” David Foster, director of Harvard University’s Harvard Forest, is calling, along with his colleagues,…

Type 1 diabetes, diagnosed in children and adults, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the pancreas no longer produces insulin. Diabetes, which ranks as the fifth-deadliest disease in the…

Tennis takes Ivy honors, set to battle Terrapins Women’s tennis recently swept the league’s top two honors with senior Susanna Lingman earning player of the year accolades and Celia Durkin…

The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its fourth annual Public Service Celebration, titled 100 Years of Service in honor of the associations centennial, on May 6. The event included a reception and an awards dinner to honor graduating seniors with Stride Rite Senior Recognition Awards, Stride Rite Post-Grad Fellowships, and Houston-Moreland Awards.

Seven members of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR), all recent nonagenarians, were honored by University Marshal Jackie ONeill for their dedication to lifelong learning. The April 29 ceremony at the Harvard Faculty Club was attended by friends and family of the honorees, and by Dean Michael Shinagel of the Division of Continuing Education, HILR president Ellie Porter, and HILR director Leonie Gordon.

In April you can go to New Orleans for a celebration of jazz, and in August you can head to Edinburgh for a nonstop multiweek theater fix. Lincoln Center has dance all summer. But all those art forms and more fuse with dazzling effects during the annual four-day celebration of the arts at Harvard. The 13th Arts First was held last weekend.

When Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, turned 70, his native country of Nigeria celebrated his birthday with two solid weeks of festivities. Harvard could not fête the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in quite the same way, but it managed something equally impressive – a feast of words catered by three of the honorees fellow Nobel laureates.

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…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on: