Year: 2006

In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, six Harvard professors recently joined 66 other U.S. scientists and engineers to be elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The election, held this week during the academys 142nd annual meeting, brings the total number of active members to 2,013.

Three Harvard faculty members were recently named among the honorees of YWCA Bostons upcoming womens leadership event. Instructor of Public Health Practice in the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health Linda Clayton will be inducted to the Ys prestigious Academy of Women Achievers, while Edwin J. Furshpan, the Robert…

Michael Rosen, a scholar of European political philosophy with a consummate command of continental political thought from the 18th century to the present, has been appointed professor of government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up begins one hour earlier unless…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

A memorial service for retired Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Professor William Robert Hutchison will be held at the Memorial Church tomorrow (April 28) at 2 p.m. An honorary associate and…

At 2 in the morning of April 25, a female student (not affiliated with the University) met an unknown male in the fourth- floor lounge of a Lesley University dormitory. After a brief conversation with the individual, the student reported that the individual sexually assaulted her. The suspect is described as a light-skinned Hispanic male,…

Robert G. Stone Jr. 45, LL.D. 03, a pre-eminent and beloved figure in the Harvard community who served as trusted adviser and friend to three Harvard presidents as well as countless faculty, staff, and students for more than four decades, died on April 18. He was 83. The cause was complications following a stroke, according…

Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management and the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be the Schools next dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (April 24).

Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management and the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr., Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be the School’s next Dean.

Robert G. Stone, Jr., AB ’45, LLD ’03, a preeminent and beloved figure in the Harvard community who served as trusted adviser and friend to three Harvard Presidents as well as countless faculty, staff, and students for more than four decades, died on Tuesday (April 18).

He was trusted and admired by colleagues in each discipline. They and his students regarded him with deep affection. Freed was one of few faculty members in Social Relations who had moral authority derived from his colleagues’ recognition that he placed the welfare of the department above personal motives.

Sitting in a swivel chair in his basement office, Robert Levin can barely keep his agile pianists fingers off the telephone. He has just learned that his friend Yehudi Wyner won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for musical composition with his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano, and he wants to be the first to call the…

Continuing its tradition of contributing to public service projects, the Harvard Coop recently awarded nearly $10,000 in grants to 21 student-led public service organizations for spring and summer 2006. These grants help students to upgrade equipment, design new materials, provide summer services, and launch new projects and special initiatives. The Coop held a grant reception ceremony…

JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine and co-director of the Connors Center for Womens Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2006 Harvard College Womens Professional Achievement Award.

Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society.

The Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School (HLS) is frequently home to mock trials as law students sharpen their skills. On April 12, however, it was the real thing setting up shop at Ames as the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation heard arguments in an actual case.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the winners of the annual undergraduate arts prizes presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2005-06 academic year.

Princetons jumping second half upends womens lacrosse The No. 10 Princeton women’s lacrosse team fired off 20 second-half shots en route to a 14-8 win over the Crimson this past…

Although the Harvard womens basketball team didnt quite make an appearance in the 2006 Final Four tournament (the Crimson, for the record, finished the season 12-15, 8-6 Ivy), the University wasnt entirely unrepresented in the Big Show. In fact, as one of the official hosts and partners for the 25th annual womens Final Four, Harvard…

M.P.H. candidate elected AMA student section chair Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) M.P.H. candidate Benjamin Galper ’02 has recently been elected national chair of the American Medical Association (AMA)…