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Brendan P. McGrath Memorial Golf Outing set The third annual Brendan P. McGrath Memorial Golf Outing – named in honor of the assistant director for University and Commercial Real Estate…

A new survey by the Institute of Politics shows that todays college students defy common assumptions about them and are engaged, vote, and are not affiliated with either major political party.

The post-Sept. 11 spike in youth interest in national politics is fading and, though the war on terror rages on, U.S. politicians and community leaders getting back to business as usual are again turning off the generation that will make up Americas future leaders.

Undergraduates interested in Africa will soon be able to take advantage of a new concentration in African studies, thanks to a cooperative arrangement between the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Committee on African Studies.

The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded six grants for Harvard undergraduates and doctoral students to travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The three undergraduates who received grants will be doing research for their senior honors theses. One of these grants is funded by contributions from individual members of the Harvard African Students Alumni Network (HASAN), as part of their continued commitment to African students and African Studies at Harvard.

Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were recently appointed to the 66th class of Nieman Fellows. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. Fellowships are awarded for an academic year of study in any part of the university to working journalists of accomplishment and promise. More than 1,000 U.S. and international journalists have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.

Jeremy R. Knowles and Robert C. Clark have each been named to the newly created position of Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, effective July 1, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Four Harvard seniors have been selected next years Harvard-Cambridge Scholars, allowing them to follow interests ranging from poetry to social justice to foreign policy in an unfettered program at Cambridge University.

Each summer, up to 12 students in graduate-level programs at Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Suffolk University, and Brandeis University have the opportunity to experience working in the public sector through the Rappaport Public Policy Internship Program.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse 68, award-winning biographer Brenda Murphy Maddox 53, attorney Martha Minow Ed.M. 76, and pediatrician Perri Klass 78, M.D. 86 are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study during Commencement/Reunion Week.

Graduate student awards The Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to…

With a record number of applicants numbering more than 100, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded more than 70 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. The centers internship coordinator helps students take advantage of DRCLAS contacts to find an internship that best meets their interests. Students are then invited to apply for a DRCLAS summer internship grant, as are those students who find internships on their own.

Staff photos by Kris Snibbe On Commencement morning, it hovers, gossamer-like, over a stage packed with dignitaries. Its peaks rise majestically and dip sharply, evoking a turbulent sea or the…

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 51 summer research travel grants to students either traveling to Latin America or to cities within the United States while researching Latin American topics. This year, the center awarded 23 undergraduate awards and 28 graduate awards.

The people of New Mexicos Mimbres River Valley lived a thousand years ago in small villages up and down the river.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 60 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $100,000 for the 2003-04 academic year. Sixteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 28 will support graduate students, and additional awards will be made to undergraduate and graduate student groups for their own projects. In recent years, the Weatherhead Center has increased support for Harvard students significantly, increasing both the financial resources available and the number of student awards, and establishing new programs and seminars for students.

Tests of a new vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS are being launched simultaneously in the United States and southern Africa. It is the first time that such a test will be conducted in the United State and Africa at the same time.

As June 30 approaches, offices throughout the University will be closing the books – and the files – on the 2002-03 academic year. To help staff in charge of keeping the Universitys files in order, the Records Management Office (RMO) is offering a new housecleaning presentation to provide guidance to office managers and other staff with the end-of-the year cleanup. The presentation will provide practical guidance on what to keep, what to store, what to shred, and what should go to the archives.

The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) has announced its undergraduate summer research awards for 2003.

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) and the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL) have announced that five Kennedy School of Government students have been named the recipients of a jointly sponsored summer internship. The five students were selected to represent the School while pursuing unique leadership opportunities around the world in the offices of several council members and advisory board members. Lecturer in public policy Brian Mandell is the programs faculty adviser. Partial funding for the internships was provided by a gift from Richard J. Phelps.

A thick cable of nerve cells connecting the right and left sides of the brain (corpus callosum) is smaller than normal in abused children, says Martin Teicher, associate professor of…

In a story on the Harvard University Police Departments Rape Aggression Defense program that appeared in the May 15 issue of the Gazette, HUPD Sgt. Brian Lakin was incorrectly identified. The Gazette regrets the error.

Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers President Adrienne Landau (left) and Director Bill Jaeger balloon the campus on Monday (May 19), just as it was decorated 15 years ago, when the election that led to the unions formation was held.

Following are some of the incidents reported to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 17. The official log is located at 1030 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

More than 600 charities and nonprofits, largely in Boston and Cambridge, will receive grants this year thanks to the voluntary donations of thousands of Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees.

Gary Urtons research has him in knots. Literally.

Christopher Lenney can tell you what Unitarianism has to do with candlepin bowling, how Maines Great-Big Line is neither great nor big, and why the Christ Church rectory on Garden Street and the Buckingham House in Radcliffe Yard have architectural offspring in Lexington and Bedford but not Nantucket or Plymouth.

Sophomore is named Lehrman Scholar Harvard sophomore Thomas Wolf has recently been named one of 12 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars selected from more than 400 candidates nationwide. Wolf will be…

Women’s heavies stun Brown, capture EAWRC title The Radcliffe heavyweight crew (10-1, 4-1 Ivy) upset five-time defending champion Brown this past Sunday (May 18) on the Cooper River in Camden,…

Ever since the landmark law became a talking point for the Bush administration, Title IX – some 30 years after its passage – is big news, all over again. In the current debate surrounding the 1972 piece of legislation that bans sexual discrimination in athletic programs receiving federal aid, both critics and proponents of Title IX share a surprising amount of common ground when it comes to the laws fundamental intent. After all, one would be hard pressed to defend the exclusion of anyone from athletic participation. Or to dismiss the explosion of womens participation in college sports – a 400 percent increase since President Nixon was in office – as anything less than revolutionary.