Campus & Community

Art docents sought The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) are seeking volunteers interested in public art education for the HUAM Docent Program. The Museum Docents are a group of approximately…

Dana Reed Prize Winners for 2000 Rachel Kovner ’01 has won the 2000 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing. The Quincy House junior captured the $500 award for “This…

The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week at the annual meeting of…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.…

Give Daniel Schrag some old seawater, bits of sediment from the ocean floor, and chunks of coral rock, and he’ll tell you about Earth’s climate tens of thousands, even millions…

Add bone fractures to obesity and tooth decay as another reason that teenage girls should drink less soda pop, particularly colas. Ninth- and 10-grade girls who drink soda pop have…

Male college students in the United States and Europe want to add more muscle to their bodies because they think that will make them more attractive to females. They are…

The more physically active women are, the greater they reduce their risk of stroke, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health. The study followed 72,488…

Hazen Leroy Vail was born in Boston, August 5, 1940. His father, Hazen Claude Vail, who had left a Depression-broken small farm in Belleisle, New Brunswick, to seek his fortune…

Summer School musical opportunities The Harvard Summer School Orchestra will hold auditions for full brass, including both cornets and trumpets, harp, English horn, and piccolo on Tuesday, June 27, through…

Presiding over the classroom, Kevin Fuller, Ed.M. ’00, looks like a missionary – a free-spirited, high-stye preacher, dressed in a long, raspberry, collarless jacket, pressed black dress shirt and pants,…

Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., recently presented the 1999-00 Mack Davis Award to eight volunteers for their outstanding service to Cambridge public schools. The award is named for the late Mack…

Her memories are faded by the years, but also sweetened, perhaps, by the romanticism of times gone by. It was the fall of 1943, in the midst of World War…

A memorial gathering with music in remembrance of Luise Vosgerchian will take place on Sept. 7, 2000, at 7:30 p.m., in Sanders Theatre. There will be a special performance by…

They wore the latest colors of lipstick and matching eyeliner. Some had fake hair and even fake teeth. They pranced on stage in sequined gowns and rhinestone-studded jeans. Occasionally there…

June 08, 2000 In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university – and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from…

Thirty-eight Harvard Faculty Club workers graduated from the University’s first “Bridge” program at ceremonies at the Faculty Club on June 4. The pilot program, which provides basic literacy and language…

Harvard Law School Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Emeritus Clark Byse will receive the Harvard Law School Association (HLSA) Award in honor of his 60-year teaching career. Law School Dean…

Harvard’s Employment Office, in consultation with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2000 on Tuesday, June 13. This year’s event will be held from noon to 7 p.m.…

Like the enthusiastic reviewer of the proverbial blockbuster novel, audience members of Wednesday’s Senior Class Day program might have come away exclaiming, “I laughed, I cried.” From Jason Stevenson’s exhortation…

It was almost as if someone dropped laughing gas on Harvard Yard. Following a series of emotional and inspiring student speakers on Class Day, Conan O’Brien ’85, a two-time president…

It is 11 on a balmy spring night. Kathy Pendrak and Brenda Waldron, prepress operators at Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS), sit at computer terminals massaging mountains of data.…

Harvard Divinity School has announced three recipients of the awards that are presented each June on its Alumni/ae Day. This year, on June 7, the First Decade Award was given…

A certain chord will strike a certain reaction in certain people. The dynamic underlying that reaction is something Aaron Einbond may spend the rest of his life pursuing. The Crestwood,…

It is indicative of Brooke Ellison’s perspective on life that when she talks about the worst thing that ever happened to her, she emphasizes what went right rather than what…

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of The Reverend Mark D. W. Edington as…

The Center for Ethics and the Professions has selected the Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2000-01 academic year. Six scholars who study ethical problems in government, law, medicine, and…

Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics are invited to apply for 2001-02 Graduate Fellowships in Ethics. The deadline is…

This year, the Extension School’s Commencement Speaker award will go to Kimberly Parke, A.L.M. ’00, assistant director for undergraduate degree programs at Harvard Extension School. The title of her talk…

Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. ’65, Ph.D. ’72, has been elected President of the University’s Board of Overseers for 2000-01. She will assume the post after Commencement, succeeding Joan Hutchins ’61.…