Campus & Community

At the Office of Career Services (OCS) Career Forum last Friday (Oct. 10), Will Krause 04 expressed pride and relief. Hed made his way halfway around the booths that lined Gordon Track without being lured away from his chosen career of government. Ive managed to avoid the consulting trap so far, he said.

A small map greets you as you enter the Fogg Museums exhibition The City of Sardis: Approaches in Graphic Recording.

Richard Cozzens 07 has written a love duet in which a man who has gone to the moon to be with his lover realizes that he cannot love her away from the Earth.

Was it to watch Olympic stars, to cheer local ice-skaters, to support the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, or to take a break from Red Sox mania? Whatever spurred people to attend Eliot Houses 34th An Evening with Champions, they were well rewarded, watching phenomenal ice-skaters, such as Olympic gold medalist Oksana Baiul, Olympic pair skaters Tiffany Scott and Philip Dulebohn, and eight-time British champion Steven Cousins.

This fall the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will return with a third year of the successful Sackler Saturdays program. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands such as China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and Rome. The program, which is free and open to the public, takes place in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The first event – A Big Dig: Finding Out About Buried Treasures in the Sackler Museum – will be held Saturday (Oct. 18).

Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), fighting to break out of the middle of the crowded pack of Democratic presidential contenders, answered his critics Monday night (Oct. 13) during the first in a series of one-on-one interviews with the candidates at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. The program was televised live from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on MSNBCs Hardball With Chris Matthews. Matthews conducted the interview.

Marjorie B. Cohn, acting director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), recently announced that members of the Christof Engelhorn family have endowed a curatorial internship at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. According to Cohn, Formal internships have been a part of the Art Museums academic mandate for decades and with this endowment the Busch-Reisinger Museum will from now on be a certain and permanent focus for curatorial training.

A gene produces a protein that evidently protects cancer cells in the same way it shields brain cells from damage caused by diseases like Alzheimer’s and strokes. “The same substance…

According to Beth Simmons, a professor of government at Harvard, governments care what others think of them. They want to be admired and can be publicly embarrassed, just like like…

A widely cited estimate is that at current rates of deforestation, orangutans will be extinct in the wild in 20 years. But Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cheryl Knott, who heads…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

For her leadership in government and humanitarian causes, the Harvard Foundation will honor Gov. Sila Calderón of Puerto Rico at a reception this Friday (Oct. 17). Calderón will receive the Harvard Foundation Medal at a reception for students and faculty in Leverett House at noon, and will deliver a public address titled Value-Based Democracy: A Puerto Rican Case Study in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at 4 p.m.

In July 2000, when the Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie was elected the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, her reaction made national headlines. The stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken, she said after the bishops and elders of her church had placed their hands on her head in blessing. And indeed, her election to serve the 18th Episcopal District of the AME Church, which includes the four sub-Saharan African countries of Lesotho, Botswana, Mozambique, and Swaziland, was hailed as a symbol of hope and change for the oldest and one of the largest historically black denominations.

With a title like The Pursuits of Happiness, its no wonder that philosopher and ethicist Sissela Bok packed Science Center C Tuesday night (Oct. 14) for her Lowell Lecture sponsored by the Harvard Extension School: Is there any pursuit more elemental to our existence?

Three Harvard faculty members are among this years 24 MacArthur Fellows, which the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Sunday (Oct. 5). Each is a recipient of the fellowships $500,000 no strings attached grant.

A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church.

The Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF) generated more than $150,000 at its fifth annual Benefit Concert held at Sanders Theatre last Friday night (Oct. 3). The funds are earmarked to help homeless Cambridge residents transition into affordable housing.

A memorial service for Nancy Millette Mosher will be held Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A long-time associate of the University, Mosher taught in the Institute for Learning in Retirement.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 4. 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 on the following dates:

HBS Press, RHK form venture Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and Random House Kodansha (RHK) recently announced that they will form a partnership to co-publish a select number of…

In his long lifetime, Brad Washburn 35 has ascended heights most of us dont even dream of. Since scaling Europes highest peaks at age 16, hes mapped the now-standard route up Alaskas Mt. McKinley, created definitive maps of that mountain plus Mt. Everest, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and, in a reverse of altitude, the Grand Canyon. A pioneer of aerial photography, he made the first photographic flight of McKinley in 1936.

The Memorial Church will host one of Americas most popular Buddhist teachers, Sharon Salzberg, for a two-day meditation workshop. Salzberg will present Meditation in the Memorial Church on Oct. 24, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Praised by the Dalai Lama as a psychologically skillful accessible teacher, with wisdom and wit, Salzberg will speak about faith and teach meditation practices.

Provost Steven E. Hyman announced the appointment today of Thomas W. Lentz as Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, effective Nov. 15. Lentz is currently director of international art museums at the Smithsonian Institution.

This fall two exhibitions and a symposium commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Josep Lluis Sert as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Programs for city children before, during, and after school are the battleground for the nations future, and the quality of those programs will determine what kind of country we will be, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers said Friday (Oct. 3).

Docents sought for Semitic Museum The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteers to guide tours for the upcoming exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine,”…

The Lowell House windows provide an elegant frame to a recent rainy day scene in Cambridge.

John Dunlop, a distinguished Harvard scholar and administrator who played significant roles as a labor negotiator and government official, died Thursday morning (Oct. 2) at Brigham and Womens Hospital. He was 89.

Hollywood came to Cambridge Monday night (Oct. 6), as the area premiere of the Boston-bred film Mystic River festooned Sanders Theatre with more glitz than is customary on a weeknight in Harvard Square. But at the event, a benefit for the venerable Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on its 25th anniversary, Boston and Cambridge outshone the sequins, security, and even a video greeting by director Clint Eastwood with the films gritty but unflinchingly honest portrayal of the area.