Year: 2005

The Class of 2005 recipients of this years Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will be serving others in locales from Arizona to India, and in fields ranging from mentoring young women to helping refugees.

Four Harvard-affiliated researchers were recently elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The May election was held during the academys 142nd annual meeting.

Eliot Canter 35 remembers going to the New England Brick Co. in North Cambridge to pick out bricks for the new Hemenway Gymnasium, whose construction he was overseeing.

Denise Scott Brown, an architect and planner and principal of the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, will receive the 2005 Radcliffe Institute Medal tomorrow (June 10) at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the yearly Radcliffe Day luncheon.

A record nine members of the Business Schools M.B.A. Class of 2005 are being honored this week with the Deans Award – and these recipients are as diverse as they are outstanding in their commitment to service. Given annually since 1998 by Dean Kim B. Clark to students who have demonstrated unusually strong leadership during…

Harvards Department of Music has announced its 2004-05 fellowship and award recipients. Close to $190,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the departments graduate and undergraduate students.

Creating new opportunities for generations of students to engage in rigorous study of the principles of economics and finance, Moise Y. Safra has established the Moise Y. Safra Professorship of Economics. Safras $3.5 million gift to fund the new chair is a significant step toward Harvards goal of increasing the size of the Faculty of…

Ethan Gray 05, former president and associate principal cellist of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, is the first recipient of the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award.

A mathematician who has forged new paths in algebra and algebraic geometry, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose work may lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of deadly diseases, a scholar of religion whose best-selling books explore the diversity of belief in early Christianity, and an economist whose groundbreaking study of markets was rewarded with the…

Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George Whitesides is this years recipient of the prestigious Welch Foundation award for scientific achievement, the foundation announced on June 2. A pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, Whitesides, in winning the Welch award joins other distinguished Harvard scientists, including Jeremy Knowles (1995), Wm. Von Eggers Doering (1990), Frank…

As the academic year comes to its traditional triumphant conclusion, many graduates, students, and faculty are already getting their summer plans under way – if not in fact, certainly in their imaginations. Following are some of the summer plans of faculty members of the University, and also an intimate, if brief, glimpse into their summers…

Federal Judge Patti B. Saris 73, J.D.76 has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2005-06. M. Lee Pelton Ph.D. 84, the president of Willamette University, will serve as vice chair of the boards executive committee.

Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development and academic dean, will serve as acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (June 6). Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, the current dean, announced her intention in March to step down at…

Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, effective July 1.

Restrooms: Restrooms for the general public are located in Weld, Thayer, and Sever halls. These restrooms are wheelchair accessible. First aid stations: First aid stations are situated in the following…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

June 1904 – Helen Keller, who had lost sight and hearing in early childhood, earns her A.B. (with honors) from Radcliffe. Dorothy Elia Howells recalls the memorable moment in “A…

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2005 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2005 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

Harvard University seniors Christopher D. Golden, an environmental conservation concentrator Liora Russman Halperin, a history and Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator and Peter McMurray, a Slavic studies and classics concentrator, are the winners of the 2005 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, which is awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew…

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 9). For the 17th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the City of Cambridge and of Harvards 354th Commencement Exercises.

In some corners of Las Vegas, Harvard chemist David Liu is viewed as a dangerous man.

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

June 19, 1638 – Shortly before this date, Nathaniel Eaton, first Master of the College, moves with his family from Charlestown into a house in the Yard. By Sept. 17,…

When Bryan Richardson signed up for a lecture course on public finance at the Kennedy School of Government last fall, he never expected to be earning his grade by hobnobbing with urban police officers. This material can be kind of dry in the classroom, the 26-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., recalled. We all hoped to apply…

A month of rain has rendered the Yard a glowing paradise of greenery.

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has named Thomas C. Tsai 05 the winner of its 2005 Taiwan Studies Essay Prize. Tsai is a concentrator in history and science and a candidate for the certificate for health policy.

For the fourth consecutive year, a piece from Harvard Review has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Series (Houghton Mifflin), a showcase for the years finest poetry, short stories, and essays since 1915. Justice Shiva Ram Murthy, by Rishi Reddi, was chosen for the 2005 edition of The Best American Short Stories by…

Harvards Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures recently awarded Kerstin Luise Tremel 05 the Bernhard Blume Prize for her thesis Literrorisierung: German Literary Approaches to the Red Army Faction. This prize is awarded to the graduating senior who has written the best honors thesis on a German subject and whose performance in courses offered toward…

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 of the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

After its first year in operation, Harvards Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows program is getting positive reviews from faculty members and student fellows alike, who say the program both increases interaction between faculty and students and results in improved course content available on the Web.