Year: 2005

The Board of Harvard Management Company (HMC) today (Oct. 14) announced that it has appointed Mohamed A. El-Erian president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company, commencing early in 2006.

Editors note: Graduate student at the School of Public Health and resident tutor at Leverett House Jane Humphries 03 spent her summer working in Lesotho, Africa, in the village of ha Ntlama, under the auspices of Operation Crossroads Africa. In addition to assisting in a local clinic, distributing medicines and vitamins, watching after children while…

Fourteen Harvard faculty members were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) as fellows at a Sanders Theatre ceremony this past Saturday (Oct. 8). One of the newly named fellows, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, was among the featured speakers at the ceremony, the academys 225th annual induction event.

The first three recipients of the postdoctoral fellowship in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health have settled in to begin their two years of research in ethical issues arising in health care and public health. They are:

Venturing into the crosscurrents of art and science, the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Department of Systems Biology (DSB) at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) are co-sponsoring a public art residency by artist Brian Knep for the 2005-06 academic year. For this novel initiative, the Office of the Provost has awarded…

Doug Melton recalled looking at frog and salamander eggs in a pond when he was a child and wondering how the individual egg knew whether to make a frog or salamander.

Harvard programs and initiatives to help Hurricane Katrina victims have been multiplying.

Center for the Environment accepting fellow applicants The Harvard University Center for the Environment recently announced that it will name its first eight environmental fellows in March 2006. The fellows’…

Thomas C. Schelling, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his instrumental research on game theory.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

At its second meeting of the year (Oct. 5), the Faculty Council received a report from a subset of the council on their meeting with Fellows of the Harvard Corporation. The council also discussed a draft report of the Committee on General Education and received a report on proposed changes in policy concerning Harvard-sponsored undergraduate…

Behind Lyman Hall, workmen lay gravel and cement in the process of preparing the area for a new science building.

Tim Gallagher and Bobby Harrison almost flopped into the mud of Arkansas Bayou de View in their haste to get out of the canoe. They crashed through the undergrowth after the flashing black and white bird that was threatening to vanish among the huge cypresses.

Leroy David Vandam, M.D., the first Harvard Medical School Professor of Anesthesia at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now Brigham and Womens Hospital, died April 8, 2004 in Needham, Massachusetts in the 90th year of his life.

The women march in row after row of orderly columns, a battalion heading not to war but to work under the banner For Every Fighter, a Woman Worker.

A Turkish psychiatrist, a theologian from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a legal scholar from Rwanda joined the Harvard community this fall to undertake research through the Scholars at Risk Program, which offers visiting fellowships to scholars whose work is jeopardized by political persecution in their home countries.

The American Australian Association (AAA) recently announced that it is sponsoring its second year of United States to Australia Fellowships. The program will provide up to four awards totaling $80,000 to outstanding American students to pursue graduate and postdoctoral studies and research in life and ocean sciences, medicine, engineering, or mining at top Australian universities…

Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has been appointed George Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the 2007-08 academic year. Schauer will be the 66th holder of the chair, which was created in 1929 by an endowment from George Eastman, founder of the…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 17, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

As Hurricane Katrina made landfall and tore through the Southern coastline with now-legendary ferocity, millions of Americans sat in front of their TVs with a familiar feeling of helplessness. What can I do? Many reached for their wallets a few took to the road. S. Allen Counter, who was watching TV in far-away Stockholm, was…

Many stories and images are engraved in Christian Arbelaezs memory from the 12 days he spent as a volunteer working with people who had been driven into shelters by Hurricane Katrina, but a few stand out in high relief.

Turnovers undermine Crimson at Big Red A stingy Cornell football team limited the visiting Crimson to just 226 total yards on its way to a 27-13 victory this past Saturday…