Year: 2006

For your average college senior, 20 years is literally a lifetime. Its also about the same amount of time it took fifth-generation Montanan David Cromwell 06 of the Harvard swimming and diving team to realize he actually enjoyed the aquatic life.

Hockey goaltenders tend to be a stoic bunch. When not deflecting whats thrown at them, this rare breed of athlete sits nestled in a cage for 60 minutes at a time, waiting. Even their massive padding and that plain and frightful mask lend a level of anonymity and coolness absent in high-scoring, fist-pumping forwards.

Elias Mudzuri knows he has a fight ahead of him when he returns to his native Zimbabwe after graduating from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in June.

The tour begins in the research and development area. Pinned to the wall, a large sheet of white graph paper is inscribed with neatly arranged ink drawings of … well, things. Some look like scissors or Swiss Army knives, others like deformed sandwich cookies or mutant hotdogs.

Like many young New Yorkers, Erby Mitchell grew up with hoop dreams.

Down to earth is the phrase that is probably most often used to describe David Wax. Most people dont mean it literally, but considering Waxs background, it is particularly apt.

When Elizabeth McNeil was asked to suggest a place to meet to talk about what its like to be graduating from the Harvard Extension School at 82, she had an immediate answer: the Everett Public Library.

Watching her grandfather struggle with diabetes late in life, Enesha Cobb became convinced that the medical profession can do better.

Sarah Billmeier got off to a good start in competitive skiing, winning a gold medal in a world championship race in France at age 14. By the time she was 25, she was a six-time world champion and had won 13 Olympic medals. In 2002, she put aside her skis to enter Harvard Medical School.…

Normally, ROTC cadets are officially sworn in to the U.S. armed services in front of the statue of John Harvard before moving on to a more formal ceremony in the Yards Tercentenary Theatre. But the 2006 class gathered instead under the tent covering the theater stage, looking out onto a sea of puddled white chairs…

American democracy is not a static, unchanging phenomenon, but rather an ongoing argument said Sean Wilentz, this years Phi Beta Kappa orator.

Joy Seth Hurd IV speaks fluent Latin. Martin Spencer Bell has his sights set on being a trial lawyer. Liz Carlisle is a country singer/songwriter with an album on record store shelves. Though these graduating Harvard students may seem very different, they all have something in common: On Commencement Day, each will take the stage…

A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 8). In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the countrys oldest university – and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study – this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square…

Cy Devery caught up with two old friends June 6 when he visited the Collings Foundation in Stow, Mass. – the AT-6F Texan and the T-33 Shooting Star.

Linda Greenhouse, longtime Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times and graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard College, will receive the 2006 Radcliffe Institute Medal.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named 12 recipients of its annual alumnae awards. Among others, this years honorees include Susan Faludi 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Amy Gutmann 76, president of the University of Pennsylvania and Elaine Pagels 70, author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas…

More than 70 undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19. The prize winners, including their advisers, are as follows:

A special kind of leadership, embodied in the selfless service of five Harvard Business School (HBS) students – Michael Arlotto and Jill Szuchmacher, Kathleen Cassie Kearney, Avichai Avi Kremer, Yael Gayle Tzemach – is being recognized this week with the 2006 Deans Award, one of HBSs highest honors.

Stefan Behnisch, principal of Behnisch Architekten and the lead architect for Harvards Allston science complex, will be developing a preliminary design concept for the building over the next several months. With this first Allston project, Behnisch, working in conjunction with Harvards master planning team, will help launch the beginning of a process to define how…

Susan L. Graham 64, the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2006-07. She will succeed Patti B. Saris 73, J.D. 76 following Commencement. Paul Buttenwieser 60, M.D. 64, a psychiatrist and novelist, will become vice…

When Fung Hon Chu asked sons Victor Ph.D. 71 and William M.B.A. 72 to apply their Harvard training to the family company as if it were a case study, he may not have imagined how their educations would help transform Li & Fung into the success that it is today. Li & Fung is a…

Commencement represents a time for both departing and returning. Just at the moment when seniors graduate, alumni gather for reunions – and the opportunity to assist the College. Each class is unique, demonstrating its support in different ways.

Maria Polinsky, a linguist who combines careful empirical work with a subtle appreciation of linguistic theory, has been named professor of linguistics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of now-incurable conditions afflicting…

Seven men and two women received honorary degrees at this morning’s 355th Commencement Exercises. Biographical sketches of the honorands appear below.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Harvard University Wednesday (June 7) announced a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract with 470 Dining Services workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 26. Members of Local 26 are expected to vote on ratification of the agreement in the coming days. If ratified, the new contract would be in effect until June 19, 2011.…

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: •…

After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of now-incurable conditions afflicting…