Harvard expands financial aid for students choosing public service:

New initiative to make Harvard education more affordable for students who wish to pursue public service careers

New, far-out planet is discovered:

Would take 5,000 years to travel there at 186,000 mps

This month in Harvard history

Word wiz:

David Hembry wins Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize

Police reports

Medical texts and other fictions:

Janet Beizer looks closely at hysteria in its cultural context

Framed!

Yakov Gubanov:

Accompanist

Barbara Haber brought books and cooks to Schlesinger Library:

Made Schlesinger a home for good taste

In brief

Track splitters:

Harvard soars - and stumbles - against Northeastern

King commemoration set for Memorial Church:

Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, will deliver the keynote address

Massachusetts Health Commissioner Howard Koh to join faculty at Harvard School of Public Health:

Will serve as professor and associate dean for public health practice

Researchers identify risk factors underlying medical errors that involve leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients:

Happens during emergency procedures, or when there is sudden change in plan

Is there life after school for nation’s students?:

Gil Noam links improved after-school programs to improved mental health

Depression may trigger earlier transition to menopause:

Lifetime history of depression may be significantly associated with an early decline in ovarian function

Houghton Library explores life and literature of Jorge Luis Borges:

Exhibition explores writer's influences and influence

East meets West in stunning exhibition:

Colonial India's art treasures at Sackler

IT interns help give fellow students more ways to learn:

New internships put underclassmen to work on technology for learning

‘Who mentored you? … pass it on!’:

SPH, others, launch National Mentoring Month campaign

University sets recycling record in November

Cambridge City Council remembers Radcliffe recycling pioneer:

Scott Sandberg Square to honor environmentalist tragically killed in avalanche

Reading:

Worry, fast food, stolen naps, and study, study, study mark reading period

President Summers and Provost Hyman set office hours

New moons found around Neptune:

Three more boosts total to 11 known Neptune satellites

Newsmakers

Six seniors rewarded for quiet devotion to public service :

Phillips Brooks House Association recognizes six public servants with Houston and Moreland Awards

C. Douglas Dillon, former Treasury secretary and Harvard overseer, dies at 93:

Accomplishments spanned realms of government, diplomacy, finance, economics, and art

Bar-Yosef reads ancient campfires:

Archaeologist uncovers secrets of human origins

The big picture

Yakov Gubanov: Accompanist