Year: 2005

An estimated 7,000 people (including 5,000 alumni/ae) are expected to attend reunion activities, which begin Monday (June 6) and continue through June 11. Here is a list of the activities.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting its seventh annual career forum on June 14. This years event will be held at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 3 to 7 p.m.

Baseball heads west to take on Titans Harvard baseball will represent the Ivy League in NCAA tournament action this Friday (June 3) when the Crimson (29-15 overall) take on defending…

Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), recently announced the appointment of Bradford W. Voigt as the first director of institutional advancement for the art museums. Voigt will join HUAM in this new position on July 18.

The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced earlier this spring that Alphonse Fletcher Jr. A.B. 87 and Massachusetts Rep. Alice K. Wolf M.P.A. 78, IOP 94 will receive the HGLC Civil Rights Award and Ally for Justice Award, respectively. The two will be presented with the awards at the caucus annual Commencement Day dinner on June…

Reischauer Institute seeks essay submissions The deadline for submitting works for the 2005 Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the best graduate and undergraduate papers on a Japan-related…

Three Harvard doctoral candidates receive Dibner Fellowships from MIT The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has awarded fellowships to three…

Francesco Erspamer, a scholar with broad expertise in Italian literature, culture, and history from the Renaissance to the present, has been named professor of Romance languages and literatures in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

In its relatively short 20-year history, the Harvard Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has become a renowned hub of intellectual discourse and a resource for humanities scholars throughout the Boston area, welcoming graduate students, faculty, and scholars.

Eighty-eight seniors from the class of 2005 were elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, on May 12. These students will be formally inducted into the chapter at a ceremony and dinner in June.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti has announced his intention to step down in June 2006 as dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) and dean for physical sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University. Narayanamurti, the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, plans to…

Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (June 2) that John P. Huchra, Doyle Professor of Cosmology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been appointed to the newly created post of vice provost for research policy.

The planning firm Cooper, Robertson and Partners has prepared an interim report for the Harvard community that proposes preliminary ideas and options for a basic campus and urban framework in Allston.

The South Asia Initiative (SAI) at the Asia Center has announced its first completed cycle of Das and Menezes Travel Grants to the Indian Subcontinent. Grants were awarded for research travel to Harvard faculty and graduate students from across all the Schools, and to undergraduates at the College.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 3, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that Sir Kieran Prendergast has been named Goodman United Nations Fellow for the 2005-06 academic year. Prendergast will be affiliated with the Schools Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Boys & Girls Club to honor Capuano, McCluskey The West End House Boys & Girls Club of Allston-Brighton will honor Congressman Michael E. Capuano and Harvard Director of Community Relations…

At the Carpenter Center, Jojo Karlin 05 is reflected in one of the pieces at an exhibition of student work.

A group of students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have won a competition to design permanent housing for survivors of the December 2004 tsunami disaster.

Exercise plays a role in preventing breast cancer, and research strongly suggests that breast cancer patients who are more physically active improve their self-esteem and body image. Now, a landmark study from the Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) finds that exercise after diagnosis may help breast cancer patients live longer. The study appears in the…

On a sunny day before the floods of May, a couple of students take a TV kind of attitude to their laptop, while in the background sits a member of that disappearing species, the reader.

The life and writings of Harvard graduate Henry David Thoreau have for a century and a half spurred writers, artists, naturalists, and everyday citizens to engage more deeply with the natural world. One such person is Scot Miller, a native Texan whose nature photography has taken him all over the United States and Europe.

To the strains of We Are Family, 519 students who participated in the Bridge program this year were recognized for their academic achievement at the Horner Room in Agassiz House on Sunday (May 22).

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor (left) presented five medals from the Creativity Foundation on May 21 to students of outstanding creativity in the arts, sciences, entrepreneurship, and public service. Among the recipients was Lowell Houses Shaw Natsui 05.

The following were elected to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Faculty Council for a three-year term (2008): Judith Ryan* (Germanic Languages and Literatures) to the tenured seat in the humanities Elizabeth Spelke (Psychology) to the tenured seat in natural sciences Arthur Kleinman (Anthropology) and Everett Mendelsohn* (History of Science) to the tenured seats…