Year: 2005

Mason Fellows Program names Eckroad new director Kathy Eckroad has been named director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government…

The ranks of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty expanded over the summer with the arrival of three new assistant professors and two new tenured professors of law. The hires are part of an effort to bring about a net increase of 15 faculty members during the next decade.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the weeks beginning Aug. 30 and ending Sept. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

All members of the University community and their guests are invited to attend Harvards fourth annual Its Movie Time at Harvard, to be held Sept. 25 in Tercentenary Theatre.

At the Activities Fair for freshmen, Harrison Greenbaum 08 points to a sponge ball that he conjured out of thin air, convincing an astonished or gullible Sara Manning 09 to sign up for the Magic Club.

On freshman move-in day, Sept. 10, proud father Charles Oo looks like hes carrying an Impressionist masterpiece as he moves a mirror into his daughter Kimberlys dorm. Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office

Ann E. Berman, vice president for finance and chief financial officer of the University, announced her decision to step down effective April 1, 2006.

Harvard is taking the first step in its 50-year journey toward an integrated campus in Allston, Cambridge, and Longwood – a journey that has been in the preliminary planning and consultation phase since the turn of the millennium. This first step is selection of an architect for Allstons first science building.

Harvard waste management officials are holding up four construction projects at the University this summer as examples of recycling successes, with nearly all construction debris, furniture, and equipment recycled or…

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has appointed Francis X. McCrossan to serve as dean for administration, the Schools chief administrative and financial officer. McCrossan, who began work on Aug. 1, will oversee a range of administrative departments including Information Technology Services, Human Resource Services, Facilities Management, Financial Services, Administrative Publications, Major Capital Projects, and…

Harvard investigators researching a needle-free tuberculosis vaccine and new ways to gather public health information in developing countries received major boosts from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of $26 million in two separate grants.

A simple urine test holds promise for detecting both life-threatening birthmarks and the presence of cancer. Out-of-control growth of both is tied to proteins that reveal themselves in urine.

Members of the Harvard community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation, the Universitys executive governing board.

The sun was out and the weather was in the 90s, but that didnt prevent guests at Harvards 30th annual Senior Picnic from enjoying themselves. In addition to lunch, music, and dancing, the event featured speeches by local politicians and civic leaders as well as a rousing performance of patriotic songs by the Cambridge Senior…

Gizmo has been working at Childrens Hospital Boston for almost three years without a vacation or even a coffee break. She underwent a major brain transplant a few weeks ago, but she never calls in sick and is never late. Busy nurses, harried administrators, excited young patients all love the 4 1/2-foot-tall, 600-pound bilingual robot…

The chorus of eeews when the microsurgery port punched its way into the patients abdomen quickly gave way to an awed silence as the surgical tools passed through the port and began their work.

Harvard researchers have found new evidence that female mammals can produce egg cells throughout life and have traced their production out of the ovary and into the bone marrow in findings that could both reshape sciences understanding of female reproduction and provide new avenues for treatment of infertility.

Dormandy to direct research at Belfer Center The U.S. National Security Council’s Xenia Dormandy will join the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as executive…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week beginning Aug. 18 and ending Aug. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Walter C. Willett was named winner of the 25th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research earlier this month. An independent panel selected Willett, who is also the chairman of the Department of Nutrition in the Faculty of Public Health,…

HMS student takes bronze at World University Games Third-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) graduate student Elizabeth Shakhnovich captured a bronze medal for the U.S. Taekwondo Team this month at the…

Donald Howard Shively, an authority on Japanese urban life and popular culture in the Tokugawa period and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard, where he also served as director of the Japan Institute (now the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies), died on Aug. 13 in a nursing facility near…

Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs John Ruggie was appointed as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annans special representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises this past month. Ruggie served as UN assistant secretary-general and adviser to Annan on strategic planning from 1997 to 2001.

Each summer, more than 850 economically disadvantaged children from Boston and Cambridge have a fun, safe, enriching experience at the 12 summer camps run by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA).

Three Harvard students recently joined 167 scholars nationwide to receive fellowships through the Fund for Theological Education (FTE). FTE fellowships provide financial assistance and support to talented students from diverse backgrounds that demonstrate the professional and personal skills needed to be effective pastors, scholars, and educators. These fellowships are divided into four categories (congregational, doctoral,…