Campus & Community

Award-winning author Gish Jen, feminist legal scholar Clare Dalton, and National Public Radio (NPR) senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association during Commencement/Reunion Week.

Three Cambridge public school teachers received the Crystal Award for Preeminence in Teaching at a ceremony hosted by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at the Harvard Faculty Club Wednesday, May 22. Alan Stone, vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, presented awards to winners Carol Siriani, social studies teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Eva Jablonsky, sixth-grade teacher at the Fitzgerald School and Carol Gavin, special education teacher at the King School. Established by the Cambridge Partnership for Public Education to recognize and reward outstanding teachers in the Cambridge Public Schools, the Crystal Award bestows on the winners a $2,000 cash award, a Waterford crystal clock, and membership on the Superintendents Task Force for the Advancement of Teaching. In addition, six finalists receive $250 each for a classroom project or field trip.

More than 50 students and faculty from many schools at Harvard attended the May 10 Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability held at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Interfaculty Working Group on Disabilities at Harvard, co-chaired by Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty Evangeline Harris Stefanakis and Thomas Hehir, spawned the daylong forum, the very first interdisciplinary discussion at Harvard on persons with disabilities. KSG Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy offered the welcoming address, recalling his earlier work in pioneering disabilities services at Harvard College.

Seniors Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen N. Smith are the first two recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service. Each will each receive $25,000 in support of a formative year in public service.

Most are ticketed events, restricting public access. Several of the events will be broadcast on WHRB (95.3 FM). Those events include Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at 11 a.m. June 4 Baccalaureate service at 2 p.m. June 4 Class Day at 2 p.m. June 5 Commencement Exercises at 9:15 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. June 6.

Graduating senior Katie Heller (left) and friend Susan McGregor 05 bid a sad goodbye in the Yard.

Twelve U.S. journalists and 13 international journalists were recently appointed to the 65th 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.

Dr. Louis Klein Diamond, a physician who helped found the field of pediatric hematology – the study and treatment of childrens blood diseases – died at his home in Los Angeles on June 14, 1999. He had just passed his 97th birthday.

Imagining a nation is part of its construction.

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Five juniors have been named winners of this year¹s Patricia King Fellowships. The King Fellowships, named for the former director of the Schlesinger Library and an officer of Radcliffe¹s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, support summer research toward the senior thesis or other independent academic projects.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 55 research grants and 60 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students who will spend the summer conducting research and working in a variety of public, private, and independent-sector internships in the region. The grant recipients include students from 21 different concentrations at Harvard College and seven graduate and professional schools, including the Schools of Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Medicine, Public Health, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Harvard students will receive approximately $175,000 in funding to spend the summer in 20 countries, as well as various locales in the United States.

According to the Bible (Genesis 11:31), the city of Ur was where Abraham lived before God sent him forth on his wanderings to find the land of Canaan.

William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, will be the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday.

William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, will be the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (May 20).

Stephen Jay Gould, Harvards outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory – coupled with his award-winning writings – brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, died Monday morning (May 20) in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer. He was 60.

A committee will be formed to enhance educational and outreach efforts regarding sexual violence on campus.

Due to incorrect information supplied to the Gazette, Du Bois Institute fellow Malick Walid Ghachem was incorrectly identified in the May 9 issue. Ghachem, a J.D. candidate at the Law School, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

The president of Iceland, Olafur Ragmar Grimsson (left), greets President Lawrence H. Summers as Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School, looks on.

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Deadline set for Noma – Reischauer Prize

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 18). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

When K.A. Kelly McQueen, M.P.H. student, came to the School of Public Health (SPH) last fall, her intention was to study international health and humanitarian crises, but her goals changed on her first day of school, Sept. 11.

Who would suspect that an unassuming Greek Revival house, barely a Frisbee-toss from Harvard Divinity School, contains a doorway to another world?

Marshall Ganz knows better than most what community organizers are up against out there: trying to change minds, taking risks, supporting sometimes unpopular causes – and often with not much help around.

One hundred forty-one faculty and staff from across the University will be honored today (May 23) for 25 years of service to Harvard. The 48th annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony will be held in the Ropes-Gray Room at the Law Schools Pound Hall. President Lawrence H. Summers will host the ceremony, and the guest speaker will be honoree Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law. The Harvard Glee Club will perform at the ceremony, which will be followed by a reception for honorees and their guests.

Freshmen roommates Susie McGregor and Annie Hilby pack Hilby’s clothes in their Hollis Dormitory. Hilby is hoping to make an afternoon flight to San Diego.

The acerbic e-mails began a few days after the School of Public Healths (SPH) David Hemenway published Firearm Availability and Female Homicide Victimization Rates among 25 Populous High Income Countries in the Journal of the American Medical Womens Association (JAMWA) last month. The paper caught the attention of a small group of people, many of whom peppered Hemenway with sometimes unsigned and often scathing e-mails.

A powerful cancer drug found in the tissues of sea squirts is being tested on a variety of cancers. Trials conducted in the United States and Europe show that the compound has promising activity against connective tissue, breast, ovary, and prostate tumors.

Erin K. Jenne, a postdoc fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Kennedy School of…