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Faculty to receive HMS-HDS mentoring awards Seven faculty members of Harvard Medical School (HMS) will receive Excellence in Mentoring Awards, co-sponsored by HMS and the School of Dental Medicine (HDS),…

The first group of Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows got their marching orders this week during training designed to prepare them for a summers work of creating new online course content aimed at enhancing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) educational experience.

The first Herchel Smith Harvard Undergraduate Research Fellowships have been granted to seven Harvard College students who will use the awards to support scientific research conducted around the world this summer.

New York State Sen. Thomas K. Duanes three weeks at Harvard in February were among the richest he can remember.

The Student Mental Health Task Force, convened in December 2003 by Provost Steven E. Hyman and Dean of Harvard College Benedict Gross, released its final report today (June 17) urging a broad range of recommendations aimed at improving mental health education, resources, and services across the University.

Shirley Tilghmans keynote address at the Radcliffe Day celebration on Friday (June 11), brought up some interesting issues regarding the role of science in society, the importance of scientific literacy, and the obstacles facing women scientists. But it would have made an even more interesting debate.

Harvards disparate graduate programs in the life sciences will be unified under a single programmatic umbrella beginning in July in a reorganization that aims to increase coordination between the individual courses of study and allow greater student mobility and programmatic versatility.

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Harvard is committing financial and scholarly resources to widening access to high-quality education, President Lawrence H. Summers said at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) during the Afternoon Exercises of Commencement.

Public Interest Careers at Harvard promotes and supports College undergraduates whose career goals are focused on the public interest.

It was a science picnic for alums. A 50th reunion symposium on June 9 featured five of the best minds on the Harvard faculty, if not in the world.

Harvard researchers have shown that an apple a day isnt quite enough to keep the eye doctor away – at least for the most common type of blindness that afflicts the elderly.

Kofi Annan Doctor of Laws Kofi Annan is the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations and the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff. Born in Kumasi,…

One of the worlds foremost constitutional scholars and a chemist whose groundbreaking work in nanotechnology has had far-reaching impact will become Harvards newest University Professors, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (June 7).

Gomes receives five honorary degrees this spring The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes was awarded five honorary degrees this spring, including that of doctor of music from Westminster Choir College…

Summer orchestra to hold open auditions The Harvard Summer School Orchestra will hold open auditions June 28-July 1 from 5 to 9 p.m. in Lowell Hall (rooms B12 and B13).…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Security screening will be taking place at the entry points to Harvards Commencement today (June 10). All Harvard participants in the ceremony, including faculty, should bring their Harvard IDs. Both participants and guests are strongly advised not to bring bags as searches will delay entrance to the event.

I got the name Knowledge from my mother, says South African Knowledge Rajohane Raji Matshedisho. One reason was because it was a unique name, and the other is that she always wanted me to be one of those clever kids. Those are the two reasons she gave me.

…united we are forever invincible….

As they wind down their doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), Susan Kardos, David Kauffman, Edward Liu, and Heather Peske leave an impressive body of work. Each has been lead author on an academic article and collaborator on a published book theyve delivered conference talks, conducted quantitative and qualitative research, written grant proposals, and extensively reviewed each others dissertations.

Shirley M. Tilghman, a world-renowned scientist and president of Princeton University, will receive the 2004 Radcliffe Institute Medal on Friday (June 11) at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Universitys yearly Radcliffe Day luncheon.

Seven outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge community were honored by the Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on June 2 at the Faculty Club. The Conant Awards, which are given to support the professional growth of exemplary public school teachers and administrators, were awarded to Christine Colbath-Hess (Haggerty School), Robert Comeau (Another Course to College School), Folashade Cromwell (Young Achievers Science and Math Pilot School), Mary Skipper (TechBoston Academy), Christopher Stapel (Boston Community Leadership Academy), Emily Qailbash (Center for Leadership Development), and Gail Ranere-Nunes (Cambridgeport School).

Thomas E. Everhart 53, president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology, has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2004-05. He will succeed C. Dixon Spangler Jr. M.B.A. 56, following Commencement.

The University Center for Ethics and the Professions has received a gift of $10 million from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. The gift – initiated by Lily Safra, the widow of Edmond J. Safra – will support the core activities of the center, including faculty and graduate student fellowships, faculty and curricular development, and interfaculty collaboration. In recognition, the center will be renamed the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.

Subhankar Banerjee insists that his 14-month photographic journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was unmotivated by politics. It was an artistic and spiritual quest, he says, that prompted him to quit his job as a scientist, take up photography – almost from scratch, and capture the landscape, nature, and culture that makes the remote Alaskan region unique.

Patricia OBrien, dean of the Simmons College School of Management, and co-master of Currier House, has been named deputy dean of Harvard College, a newly created position that will report to the dean of Harvard College. OBrien will begin her new role on Aug. 1.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean Drew Gilpin Faust has announced the names of 46 men and women selected as 2004-05 Radcliffe fellows. While at Radcliffe, the fellows – among them eight creative artists, 14 humanists, 12 social scientists, and 11 scientists – will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Together, the fellows distinguished academic, professional, and creative endeavors are the center of a scholarly community that was established when Radcliffe College merged with Harvard University to form the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Recent past fellows have included fiction writer Zadie Smith author and attorney Jennifer Harbury geophysicist Maria Zuber historian Darlene Clark Hine and anthropologist husband-and-wife team Jean and John L. Comaroff.

From Harvard A to Z, a new book written by former University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, former Harvard Magazine editor John T. Bethell, and former secretary of the Universitys governing boards the late Robert Shenton, comes an alphabetized amalgam of Harvard lore. A sampling of factoids appropriate to the commencing of graduates and the gathering of alumni follows:

Presiding over this years Commencement for the first time, new University Marshal Jackie ONeill has no reason to be surprised. She has, after all, attended 24 of the past 25 ceremonies, and the form of the event has hardly changed in that time.