Year: 2006

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences September 27, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Cherishing Our Hearts and Souls (COHS), a Roxbury-based, community-centered coalition affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has received funding from the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) and the networks founding partner, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), to implement a community-wide effort to raise public awareness and improve access to…

As recent debates over the teaching of intelligent design in our nations classrooms show, the teaching of religion in public schools remains a controversial topic. The First Amendment to the Constitution, as well as the concept of the separation of church and state, cause many educators to shy away from religion in the classroom. Yet…

In October 2006, the sixth annual contingent of new Gates Scholars, selected from countries around the world, will begin graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, England. Recently, 40 successful candidates from the United States, including three Harvard affiliates, were among the latest round of recipients.

In its first-ever capital campaign, the Harvard Business School (HBS) has surpassed the record for the most money raised by a business school, nearly $600 million. This amount far exceeds the goal of $500 million set at the campaigns launch.

Looking at the courses Francesco Erspamer is teaching his first year at Harvard, one is struck by their historical breadth. There is a course on the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, one on the writers of the decadent period at the turn of the 20th century, and two that examine the Italy of today,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

The 10th and 11th meetings of the Faculty Council for 2005-06 were extra sessions held on Feb. 8 and 15 to discuss the process by which the next dean of…

Harvard University announced today (Feb. 16) the establishment of a $50 million Professorship Challenge Fund. The group of generous donors who created the fund hopes to encourage gifts from alumni and friends to endow named professorships across the University and provide other critically needed faculty support.

Harvard lost one of its greatest teachers and quintessential biologists with the death of Claude Alvin Villee Jr. on August 7, 2003, at age 86, after a long illness with Parkinsons disease.

After three years of minimal increases in market rents (0 percent in 2003, 0.7 percent in 2004, 0.7 percent decrease in 2005), research for this year suggests a recovery is under way in the local rental market, thereby supporting an increase in Harvard residential housing rents.

In a suite of newly remodeled offices in the basement of Pierce Hall, a group of undergraduates huddles near a whiteboard besmirched with diagrams. Laptops glow. Uncompleted circuit boards lay scattered across tables like abandoned blue books. A blur of voices doesnt make the scene any less puzzling: We have something here, and we have…

The shadow knows, and so does Zuleika Velazquez.

Provost Steven E. Hyman and the Chair of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies Professor John Coatsworth have announced the appointment of Stephen P. Marks as the first Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. His responsibilities will include working with the committee to expand undergraduate education opportunities in human rights,…

After a 15 percent increase last year, applications to the College kept pace, remaining near record levels. Applications for the Class of 2010 number 22,719, compared to last years record 22,796.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize Committee is now seeking nominations for this years prize, which recognizes the outstanding performance of members of FASs administrative and professional staff.

Susan Athey, an economic theorist who has made significant contributions to the study of industrial organization, has been named professor of economics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

They are very different.

The Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal currently encircling the United States Congress is the worst case of corruption to hit Washington in a long time, according to experts taking part in a Kennedy School of Government forum Tuesday night (Feb. 7).

When the busload of Harvard undergraduates arrived at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in New Orleans, one of the citys first schools to reopen after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the back yard was a debris-clogged mess.

To address the national and global epidemic of childhood obesity, Harvard College alumna Penny Pritzker 81 and her husband, Bryan Traubert, have pledged $5 million to Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to fund the nationwide application of a childhood exercise and nutrition program that has been piloted by HSPH and the YMCA.

Theres President George H.W. Bush riffing on Saturday Night Live comedian Dana Carvey riffing on him. Theres South African Bishop Desmond Tutu talking about people power. Theres Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai talking about the importance of striving to do your best.

Astrophysicist Steven Cranmer of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has been awarded the 2006 Karen Harvey Prize by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America.

Womens swimming & diving scores perfect 10 Host Harvard women’s swimming and diving team sunk rivals Yale (252-67) and Princeton (203-116) in this past weekend’s Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet (Feb. 4-5) to…

This years opening round Beanpot challenge was hardly a cakewalk for the No. 7 Harvard women icers. But for these reigning best-of-Boston champs long-accustomed to hoisting the ceramic prize each and every February since 1999 (whilst annually whipping their Pot opponents by an average score of 7-1), the outcome – a 2-1 win in overtime…

Where do university lectures end in applause? Where can you see country folk taking their first train ride? Where is Tiger Leaping Gorge and its 1,000 species of plants and animals? If you were among the 123 students who spent the fall semester abroad, you could answer these exotic questions (Germany, Southern India, and Chinas…

Guido Imbens, widely considered among the most creative, productive, and influential econometricians of the past two decades, has been appointed professor of economics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: 2006 Wednesday, Feb. 15, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, March 16, 4-5:30 p.m.…