Campus & Community

Seven leaders in community development and housing were recently appointed fellows to Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies. The fellowship program offers leaders in the field of housing an opportunity to explore emerging research areas and to work closely with the centers research team. Fellowships are awarded for an academic year and in some cases fellows are re-appointed for consecutive years.

The new film conservation center will not only help the Harvard Film Archive care for films already in its possession it will also encourage those with valuable film collections to entrust them to the archives stewardship.

Two administrators join Summer School The Harvard Summer School has announced the addition of two new administrators. Robert A. Lue has a joint appointment as dean of the Harvard Summer…

Send resumes online Beginning this month, resumes and applications for positions at the University will only be accepted online. In order to be considered for any position(s), applicants must apply…

Harvard junior Brad Smith added the voice of his generation to the debate over Social Security reform this past summer, appearing before the U.S. Senates Special Committee on Aging to ask lawmakers to reform the system now to avoid substantial benefit cuts later.

The Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced 11 individuals who have been awarded fellowships to participate in one year of independent study using the curriculum and programs of GSD as well as other resources at the University. The only program of its kind in the nation, the Loeb Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for nurturing the leadership potential and professional development of accomplished midcareer individuals in design and other fields related to the built and natural environment.

Richard Alden Howard, botany professor and director for 23 years of the Arnold Arboretum, died Sept. 18 at his home in Cohasset. He was 86.

For this cyclist, the daily commute had become a grind. And a pop, a squeak, a scrape, and a sort of ching-ching-ching between gears.

More than 15,000 butterflies from Australia have moved into Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology. They wear iridescent blue, green, and silver boast black, red, and white spots and flaunt color combinations beyond the imagination of hip fashion plates.

Blue light outshone white in a Harvard University experiment to find better ways to reset our body clocks.

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

Nine after-school programs in Boston have joined the Harvard After School Initiative (HASI) this fall, receiving more than a quarter million dollars in grants and the opportunity to work with Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty and coordinators with other after-school organizations supported by HASI.

The treasures of Harvard Universitys six museums – from fine art to flowers of glass, tarantulas to dinosaur eggs, prehistoric pottery to 20th century masterpieces – are priceless. But on Sunday (Sept. 28), theyll also be free, at the first-ever Harvard University Museums Community Day, an open house from 1 to 5 p.m.

Harvard Universitys endowment last year made up ground lost during the prior two years difficult investment climate, earning a 12.5 percent return during the 2002-03 fiscal year, bringing the endowments overall value to $19.3 billion.

Few would deny that the DVD is a remarkable invention. Its hard not to be astonished by a process that can put a two-hour movie on a plastic disc small enough to drop into your breast pocket.

Tibetan Buddhism, with its pantheon of gods and demons, its elaborate rituals, colorful costumes, and esoteric meditation techniques, seems, to Westerners at least, to be the most exotic manifestation of the religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama 2,500 years ago.

Harvard workers will take center stage today (Sept. 18) when Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, will discuss his new book, Better Together: Restoring the American Community, (Simon & Schuster, 2003) with co-author Lewis Feldstein, at 6 p.m. at Askwith Hall.

The Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at its first meeting of the year Wednesday (Sept. 17) heard several reports on developments since the council adjourned in May. Dean William C. Kirby (FAS and history) spoke on the year ahead. He also briefed council members on new appointments to tenure, on new administrative appointments, and on the work of the council itself. Additionally, the dean discussed the work of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Appointments Process, which is expected to report this term.

Sept. 7, 1775 – The “New-England Chronicle or Essex Gazette” advertises that the Harvard Corporation and Overseers have chosen the Town of Concord as “a proper place for convening the…

The animated blockbuster Shrek has been chosen as the feature presentation for this years Movie Time at Harvard. After two days of voting during registration week, Shrek edged out runner-up Ferris Buellers Day Off – last years winner – to win a place on Harvards outdoor silver screen.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning Aug. 18 and ending Sept. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Blood is vital for human survival, but getting it to people who need it involves thorny problems.

I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind took it away.

When Joel Richard finishes his day as a staff assistant in Harvards Freshman Deans Office, he hops on his bike, pedals through the crowded streets of Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford, then turns into his driveway. There, smooth pavement gives way to weeds and potholes, and the landscape turns from three-deckers and storefronts to deep woods, marshes, and a pond brimming with wildlife. A quarter-mile later, Richard pulls up to Acorn Hill, the 21-room, 8,000-square-foot Victorian mansion he calls home.

Send resumes online Beginning this month, resumes and applications for positions at the University will only be accepted online. In order to be considered for any position(s), applicants must apply…

Just as the University prepares to celebrate the centennial of the rock-solid stadium, its principal tenant – the Harvard football team – finds itself in the midst of rebuilding. The not-so-long-ago-team-to-beat Crimson lost a total of seven All-League players to graduation, including some of the most prolific offensive players in the history of the program.

The Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health has announced the establishment of the Distinguished Alum Award. This annual award is being created by a committee composed of a diverse group of alumni.

Hearing loss and vestibular disorders can be debilitating to affected individuals, with symptoms ranging in severity from modest difficulty with speech comprehension to profound deafness, tinnitus, or dizziness. Hearing loss is the most prevalent chronic disease of the elderly, affecting more than one-third of people over 65 years of age. In most cases, hearing loss is caused by degeneration of the inner ears sensory receptor cells or hair cells.

Like language instructors introducing new words to their students, Harvard Medical School researchers have taught cellular ribosomes – a cells protein factory – to create new compounds using foreign substances.

Top world and Olympic skaters will join host Paul Wylie 91 in supporting the Jimmy Fund at the 34th annual An Evening With Champions at the Bright Hockey Center Oct. 10-11 at 8 p.m. More than $2.1 million has been raised for cancer research and care since the first exhibition in 1970.