Campus & Community

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, was made commander of the National Order of Benin by the president of Benin, Mathieu Kerekou, in a June ceremony in Cotonou. President Kerekou also conferred honorary citizenship upon Gates. These honors recognized his work in editing the Encarta Africana CD-ROM and The Africana Encyclopedia, and his exploration of African civilization in the BBC program and book Wonders of the African World.

Davíd Carrasco will join the Faculty of Divinity in September as the inaugural Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. Carrasco, who has been professor of the…

The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting visionary, action-oriented leaders, is accepting applications for the ELP Fellowship Class of 2002-04. The program provides training and project support to 25 talented individuals each year from nonprofits, business, government, and higher education.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers led a contingent of University faculty and officials to Washington, D.C., July 11 and 12 for a day-and-a-half effort to call attention to the importance of federal funding for basic scientific research.

The English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was a great fan of the United States. A lifelong admirer of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, he once said that he envied the explorers Lewis and Clark and wished that he could see American Indians.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has awarded the prestigious Hassenfeld Public Service Fellowship for Rhode Island to Providence resident Caroline Benedict-Drew. The award carries a years tuition and stipend to study at the KSGs internationally acclaimed masters program in public administration.

Beginning Sunday, Aug. 19, the HOLLIS Portal, a gateway to Harvard libraries electronic resources such as Lexis-Nexis, MEDLINE, OED, and all electronic journals, will institute a University-wide authentication system – the University personal identification number (PIN) service.

They met dinosaurs and tigers, marched in a parade, sailed a boat, and traveled to an island.

Improving the quality of mental health services has been an abiding concern of Kennedy School student Joshua Rubin.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, revolutions and rebellions were occurring at a rate that made established regimes tremble. In addition to the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, and a dozen rebellions that swept across Europe from Italy to Ireland, there were slave insurrections in Surinam (1763) and Haiti (1791), an unsuccessful rebellion in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais (1789), and, between 1816 and 1824, a series of revolutions in South America led by Sim&oacuten Bol&iacutevar and Jos&eacute de San Mart&iacuten.

Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Taiwanese foreign minister Hung-mao Tien signed an agreement last month establishing the KSG-Taiwan Leadership Program. The new…

Summer school occupies one of the darkest chambers of high schools hall of horrors. Theres the shame of having failed a class – or several – during the year, the agony of waking up early and going to school on beautiful summer days, the ache of spending sultry evenings with homework assignments instead of with friends.

Blue skies shone and balloons bobbed over Tercentenary Theatre on July 31, as Harvard University and the city of Cambridge welcomed nearly 1,000 Cambridge senior citizens to the 26th annual Harvard Yard Picnic.

This is how Jordan Swanson is spending his last summer as a Harvard undergraduate: June in Bangladesh as a U.S. State Department intern investigating human rights abuses, July and August in Thailand conducting malaria research.

Biomedical trade show to be held next month The 2001 Biomedical Research Equipment and Supplies Exhibit will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19, and Thursday, Sept. 20, from 9:30 a.m.…

Forty-nine concerned citizens from all over the United States came to the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), sponsored by the Divinity Schools (HDS) Center for the Study of Values in Public Life to train clergy, lay leaders, and community developers in inner-city economic improvement.

Harvard University joined Brigham and Womens Hospital and the nonprofit tenants organization Roxbury Tenants at Harvard in an unusual three-way land-swap agreement that will make way for a new medical center while preserving affordable housing in Bostons Mission Hill neighborhood.

Glenn Kleiman recalls the time his 7-year-old son asked him when color was invented.

Merrell Aspin is working as an intern with the Massachusetts Division of Medical Assistance in the Managed Care Program, where she is researching contracting issues for the divisions upcoming contracting process. She is a student at the School of Public Health (SPH).

It’s the rarest, shortest-lived matter in the universe. In fact, it’s antimatter – the opposite of matter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.

Four from Harvard are included in Time magazine’s select list of America’s Best in science and medicine.

Extraordinarily tiny holes are behind a whole new way to make structures only a few dozen atoms in size.

Since a Harvard graduate student published his Ph.D. thesis three years ago, evidence has been accumulating that women are the real movers of society, spreading their genes as they married and moved in with their husband’s families.

The permanent reversal of Type 1 diabetes in mice may end the wrenching debate over harvesting stem cells from the unborn to treat adult diseases. Researchers at Harvard Medical School killed cells responsible for the diabetes, then the animals’ adult stem cells took over and regenerated missing cells needed to produce insulin and eliminate the disease.

On Monday, July 16, Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price and Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor released a statement to the University Community concerning the reclassification of certain jobs in beginning administrative and professional grades that would make the positions eligible for overtime pay. The statement explains why the reclassification is necessary under the Fair Labor Standards Act and expresses appreciation for the thoughtfulness and hard work of human resources directors, managers, and other employees across the Universitys Schools and units in bringing the Universitys diverse and complex range of work responsibilities into alignment with external legal requirements. The statement, which human resources officers across the University were encouraged to share broadly within their Schools and departments, is reprinted in full below. Individual employees who have questions about reclassification should contact their HR representative for further information.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks ending June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, and July 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

One of nature’s best shows features the signals that fireflies exchange as they search for mates on warm summer nights. Few people can watch it without wondering how the little bugs turn their belly lanterns on and off so quickly.

July 2, Lawrence H. Summers first full day on the job, greeted Harvards 27th president with a mix of ordinary tasks, celebratory events, and plenty of hard work.

On Oct. 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.

If you watch carefully, you can see the Earth move, says Albert Szabo, pointing to a rainbow sparkling on the back of a black leather chair. As the Earth rotates, he explains, sunlight shining through the prisms he has fastened to the window cause bands of colored light to migrate around the room.