Campus & Community

The choice of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to lead the Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI served as the springboard for a lively panel discussion on the future of religion in global politics at the Kennedy School Forum Wednesday night.

This August, the Harvard University Art Museums will present Degas at Harvard, an exhibition examining Harvard Universitys distinguished holdings by Edgar Degas – one of the most important collections of the artists work in the United States. The exhibition will draw together more than 60 works by Degas from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, together with promised gifts to the Fogg, as well as works from the Houghton Library at Harvard and Harvards Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Organized by the Fogg Art Museum, the exhibition encompasses drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs, and will be on view at Harvards Arthur M. Sackler Museum from Aug. 1 to Nov. 27.

Stem cell research is a complicated subject, not only scientifically but ethically as well. This past Friday (April 15) a debate at Harvard Law School promised to shed light on…

Addressing health disparities is among the top priorities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said the agency’s director Elias Zerhouni at the second of three Harvard symposia on April…

A long-awaited federally funded study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) recently announced that taking an aspirin a day helps women prevent one of the nation’s leading…

In a demonstration project designed to conserve water, control pollutants washing into the Charles River, and recharge groundwater supplies for the dry summer months, Harvard has begun using rainwater to…

During an April 13 Capitol Hill breakfast for Harvard¹s congressional alumni and current members of the Massachusetts delegation, President Summers (right) spoke with attendees about a range of issues from student financial aid and Harvard¹s low-income student initiative to the importance of federal-university partnership in research. He chats above with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Congressman Thomas Petri ¹62 (R-Wis.).

In these uncertain meteorological times, an intrepid cyclist takes the chance that this blooming magnolia tree will not be covered with frost by the time she makes the first circult.

As many as one out of three people in the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, public health experts estimate. That could lead to a global plague were it not for the fact that only one out of 10 infected people actually develops the disease.

April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the “S.S. Radcliffe Victory,” one of several wartime Victory…

A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Harvard faculty members James Hanken and Edward O. Wilson will deliver tributes. They will be joined by Walter Bock, professor of evolutionary biology at Columbia University Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine and Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 18. 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 the following date:

In an effort to inspire a new wave of dialogue, action, and service among youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS, students from the Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF), the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC), the Harvard African Students Association (HASA), and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) will be co-hosting, for the first time, the Unite Against AIDS Summit: HIV/AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora. Taking place April 22-23, the summit is the culmination of years of planning between the student groups on how to get more youth involved in the battle against HIV/AIDS. The summit has a particular focus on mobilizing black youth, who, despite being the demographic group most affected by the disease, are severely underrepresented in advocacy and service concerning the epidemic.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and lecturer in public policy at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Samantha Power speaks with photojournalist James Nachtwey prior to a panel discussion titled Photojournalism and Human Rights held as part of a weekend of events at Tufts University. Both Power and Nachtwey were recently named 2005 National Magazine Award Winners for work they did separately on the crisis in Darfur in the Sudan.

More than 150 international leaders, scholars. and practitioners gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a four-day conference aimed at sharing experiences and fostering discussion on how to improve democracys functioning.

Four professors win Guggenheim Fellowships

Concert to raise funds for Sarcoma Foundation The premiere of “Cancione,” a work for strings by award-winning jazz violinist Ramsey Ameen, will be dedicated to the memory of the wife…

Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society. The newly elected members will be inducted on May 2.

After taking three out of four games against Yale this past weekend (April 16-17) at ODonnell Field, the Harvard baseball team seemed to climb the Ivy standings with the ferocity of a hot hit single on the Top 40 charts. With eight Ivy games left in this season-within-a-season, the Crimson, at 10-2 (17-10 overall), are sitting pretty atop the Red Rolfe Division standings. Though much like in the fickle music business, the Harvard club will have to continue producing against host Brown in a pair of doubleheaders this weekend (April 23-24) to maintain its prestigious spot.

Failed Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought his positive populism back to the Kennedy School on April 13, sounding a call to eradicate poverty in the United States. Terming it his new cause, Edwards told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that citizens and government working together have a lot of work to do to raise living standards amongst the poorest of the poor.

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds seven out of 10 of Americas college students are concerned Social Security will not pay out benefits when they retire, with students significantly more likely to support investment of Social Security taxes in private accounts than the general public. In addition, the poll showed college students at odds with the current administration on foreign policy issues, with only about one out of three in favor of the United States work to spread freedom and democracy across the world and nearly three out of four believing the United States should let the UN and other countries take the lead in solving international crises and conflicts.

Arts First, Harvards annual weekend festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 13th anniversary May 5-8. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students in presenting some 200 concerts, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, public artwork, and theatrical and dance productions.

Participants on an independent bipartisan panel examining energy reform discussed recommendations to Congress Thursday (April 14) that would see caps on greenhouse gas emissions, new investments in nuclear and renewable technology, and financial support for clean coal plants.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences March 15, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

To anyone whose idea of a documentary film is an investigation of a specific subject using original footage, interviews, and archival images, the films of Ross McElwee may seem quirky, to say the least.

Golf struggles at Ivy champs Harvard’s men’s and women’s golf teams finished eighth and sixth, respectively, in Ivy League championship action this past weekend (April 16-17). The men turned in…

Alexis Martire 05 plays number three doubles against Boston College on April 19 at home. The Crimson, ranked 19th in the nation, downed the Eagles, 6-1, to capture their sixth consecutive victory.

Medical historian and Japanologist Shigehisa Kuriyama, who has brought an unusually broad perspective to the study of world medical history, has been appointed Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Established in 1986, the annual Reischauer Lecture series is sponsored this year by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Renowned international scholar Takeshi Hamashita will present the two remaining lectures.