Campus & Community

Now that Nokuthula Ngwenyama is about to receive her masters in theological studies, she feels less sure about her goals than when she started the program.

When Phillip Woods was in the eighth grade, he announced to his parents, Im going to Harvard. It was a big goal for the son of a Baptist preacher in rural North Carolina.

Shanti Nayak and Nazanin Samari-Kermani have made the Kenyan battle against AIDS a personal matter, traveling this semester from Mount Elgon in Kenyas west to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in the east to help a leading anti-poverty organization gear up to fight the disease.

Major League Baseballs scouting report for Harvard pitcher Ben Crockett 02 applauds his loose, live, strong arm, comparing his lean frame to legend Orel Hershiser. The report celebrates his downer curve with late bite and his solid fielding skills. It concludes with something of a curveball, at least in the world of bottom-line professional sports, describing Crockett, the Crimsons 6-foot-3-inch slinger, as an Outstanding person. Seems the senior economics major has made an impression with more than just his 92 mph fastball.

No one needs to tell the Jimenez family that Harvard is worlds away from their home in Rancho Cascade, Calif.

351st Commencement: Harvard confers 6,409 degrees and 361 certificates

From August through May, the workers in the program get four hours of paid release time each week to learn English, computer skills, or the subjects they need to earn a high school diploma. Held onsite, the classes are staggered to cover work schedules ranging from 9-to-5 to the graveyard shift.

The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of its fellowship, dissertation, and research travel awards for 2002-03.

The Department of Music has announced that $120,000 went toward fellowship and award programs for the departments graduate and undergraduate students.

The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies has announced that two graduating seniors are the recipients of the 2002 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies has announced its selection of Rachel D. Jaffe and Abigail N. Hoover, both of the Graduate School of Design, as this years recipients of the Awards for Outstanding Housing Paper or Design. Each year, the center awards the prizes for graduate-level research and design that best advances the field of housing studies as an academic endeavor.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student awards and internships for the 2002-03 academic year. The center will support the projects and research of 35 undergraduate and graduate students with grants that total more than $350,000.

Question: What do the growth of suburbia, contemporary landscape painting, the evolution of sea urchins, marriage laws in colonial India, and the women writers of imperial China have in common?

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Divinity School has announced the recipients of its 2002 Summer Research Grant Awards in the field of religion, health, and healing. The funded research promises to contribute significantly to the community of scholarship on the intersection of religion and healing. Students will present their research at a CSWR discussion series during the 2002-03 academic year. Visit the Religion, Health, and Healing Initiative Web site at http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/health/health.htm for regularly updated information about the research projects and the discussion series.

This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Linda Hime Newberry, A.L.M. 02, whose speech is titled An Extension Degree as a Patchwork Quilt. Francis J. Aguilar, professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will deliver the main address, titled Cleared for Take-Off, at the graduate certificate ceremonies.

As he edged into the main theme of his Phi Beta Kappa oration, The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Ozzy Osbourne, historian Simon Schama divulged some interesting biographical clues to the sources of his own eloquent speaking and writing.

Because of incorrect information supplied to the Gazette, a page 8 article in the May 30 issue, Biotech Club Announces Winners, reported an incorrect title for David Edwards. His correct title is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering.

June 19, 1725 – The Harvard Corporation elects Benjamin Wadsworth, Class of 1690, as Harvards eighth President.

In a speech at the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Commissioning Ceremony Wednesday (June 5), President Lawrence H. Summers made it clear that the University can accommodate both intellectual freedom and patriotism.

The following are the graduating seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa:

Next month, the Harvard University Choir will release its seventh CD, Choral Music of Amy Beach and Randall Thompson. Recorded in Londons 12th century Temple Church while the choir was on its European tour last summer, the CD includes noted American composer Amy Beachs three-movement a cappella motet, Help us, O God, and Alleluia by former chairman of Harvards music department Randall Thompson 20.

Susie Yi Huang, a chemistry concentrator who will graduate with bachelors and masters degrees, and Andrew Leren Lynn, a history and literature concentrator who will graduate with a bachelor of arts degree, are the winners of the 2002 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, which is awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Drew Gilpin Faust, the dean of the institute, announced the names at the Radcliffe Associations Strawberry Tea on Wednesday (May 29).

Four years as a Harvard College undergraduate have taken graduating senior Duncan Smith-Rohrberg from believing in mind over matter to pondering matters of the mind.

Elizabeth Drye has a simple philosophy – do what youre interested in and follow the opportunities. Shes interested in so many things that this has led to a complex life – Stanford University, Harvard School of Public Health, Congress, the White House, Harvard Medical School, and motherhood.

Donald Warne is about to make history, but hes not happy about it.

Laura Clancy cant tell you how she fills her pre-summer days. The best way she has to describe it is a blur of so many random things. But what else can you expect from someone who is gearing up (as she does every spring) for a seven-week summer program for 700 urban children at 12 sites across Boston and Cambridge? And thats in addition to her continuing responsibilities as president of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), which runs most of the University-affiliated public service programs involving more than 1,800 undergraduates.

Every Wednesday night growing up in tiny Palmyra, N.J., Taii Bullock 02 would sit down to family dinner at her Aunt Jeanes house with at least 20 relatives.

Almost 30 years after he dropped out of college, Bill Dodd sat in his office, looked at the pile in his in box, and decided to tackle the task that had been on his agenda the longest.

Martin Gonzalez refused to let colon cancer prevent him from making the most of his Harvard Business School (HBS) experience inside and outside the classroom. Mo-Yun Lei used her education background to enrich the learning process of her HBS classmates. In recognition of their service to the Business School community, these students received the sixth annual Deans Award from Kim B. Clark, dean of the HBS faculty, at a special luncheon Wednesday (June 5).

The Committee on African Studies has awarded eight student grants for travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The four juniors who received the grants will be conducting research for their senior honors theses, while the four graduate student recipients will be researching their doctoral dissertations. The graduate student grants are funded by an endowment established by Jennifer Oppenheimer 89, J.D. 93.