Year: 2005

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of Marilyn Dunn as the new executive director of the library and Radcliffe Institute librarian. She will assume her duties on July 18. Currently the college librarian and director of information…

The Memorial Church undergoes top-to-bottom renovations this summer, including new slates for the 73-year-old roof, insulation for the attic, and state-of-the-art heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. The church will reopen for Freshman Sunday, Sept. 11. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

Professor of Higher Education Richard Chait and William Ryan, research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, have been named recipients of the Council for Advancement and Support of Educations (CASE) 2005 Research Writing Awards. These awards recognize outstanding research and writing in the educational advancement disciplines of alumni relations, communications,…

Harvards Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) has announced the winners of its graduate and undergraduate student fellowships. These fellowships help to foster innovative research on American politics, spanning from the Civil War to the present. Deadlines for the fellowships are in early spring.

Wind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists interested in playing with the Harvard Summer Pops Band are invited to attend open rehearsals (no audition required) beginning June 29 through Aug. 7 from 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. Interested individuals should bring their instrument and, if possible, a folding music stand to Lowell Hall at the above-mentioned times. Directed…

Denise Scott Brown said that when she was a young student, people would tell her she looked like a Radcliffe girl.

The Asia Center, the South Asia Initiative, the Fairbank Center, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute have announced their award recipients for this summer and the upcoming academic year.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it has awarded 59 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $190,000 for the 2005-06 academic year. Twenty-four grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, and 35 will support graduate students. In recent years, the center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students, both increasing…

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has announced that 31 Harvard students have received DRCLAS certificates in Latin American studies.

Not exactly in disguise, but nicely dressed and well-behaved, a couple of intrepid Gazette reporters mingled unobtrusively in the lively, vibrant 354th Commencement of Harvard University. They were on the lookout, as they are every year, for what is known in the trade as color. This year, under friendly skies and surrounded by movement, noise,…

Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) is currently seeking volunteers interested in public art education for its museum docent program. The program consists of approximately 35 volunteer guides who give tours…

Rapping, stepping, and sidewalk-chalking are hardly customary modes of communication at Harvard Medical School (HMS). But such youth-focused expressions were the media of the day Monday (June 13) at HMSs second annual Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities event.

Allison Gerrity (from left), 15, her father Steve and sister Erin, 13 – all in town to see brother Michael 05 graduate – cool off at Widener Library during Class Day.

Emily Abrams was fact-checking Aaron Coplands tenure as Norton Professor at Harvard as part of her research on a forthcoming book on the composer edited by her professor, Carol Oja. The official lectures from his visit (there were six) were published in the volume Music and Imagination in 1952. Abrams, a second-year musicology graduate student,…