Featured series 
Year: 2007
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Nation & World
The business of law
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the place to look for the arcana of legal scholarship and practice — and for the latest on evidence, procedure, contracts, property, crime, torts, and taxation.
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Campus & Community
Cashion named acting VP for Alumni Affairs and Development
President Drew Faust announced today (July 2) that Associate Vice President for University Development and Director of Development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Robert Cashion ’81 has agreed to serve as acting vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development while the search for a permanent vice president proceeds. Cashion assumed his new…
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Health
Joslin-led study IDs genes key to regulation of body weight
A new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has further illuminated the role of genes in regulating body weight and fat distribution. Because obesity is a major risk factor for type 2…
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Health
Trial Turns Over New Leaf for Traditional Herb
If a painting’s worth were measured by the money it fetched, van Gogh’s famous rendering of his friend and physician Dr. Gachet would be among the most valuable in all…
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Campus & Community
Jeffrey S. Flier named next dean of Faculty of Medicine
Jeffrey S. Flier, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will become the new dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine on Sept. 1, President Drew Faust announced today.
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Campus & Community
Moveable feast
Watch as the Harvard Ukrainian, Baker and Carriage Houses roll down Massachusetts Avenue during a high tech production carried out in low gear.
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Campus & Community
From the borderline
Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Auction aims to expand day care vouchers for Oxford Street co-op The Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative is the only Harvard-affiliated day care that accepts state-issued tuition vouchers for families who cannot afford the high cost of day care. To help support the expansion of the voucher program, the co-op will hold a silent auction…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Khoshbins named interim Currier House masters Shah and Laura Khoshbin were recently named interim masters of Currier House for the 2007-08 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Arthur Maass
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 15, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Arthur Maass, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maass was not only an eminent scholar, but also a devoted, effective, and popular teacher.
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Campus & Community
Eileen Jackson Southern
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 15, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
James Robert Hightower
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 1, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Memorial services set for Carroll, Westheimer, Ketelhohn
Carroll memorial set for today Charles “Chuck” Carroll, longtime Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) employee and a Harvard graduate, died on May 21, after succumbing to a rare blood disease. He was 65.
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Campus & Community
Faust installation, Oct. 12
Incoming President Drew G. Faust will be formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Oct. 12 at an outdoor ceremony in the Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession, featuring representatives of universities from around the world, will begin at 2 p.m. The installation will begin at 2:30 p.m. The event will be open to all faculty,…
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Campus & Community
Weatherhead Center awards grants, fellowships
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently announced that it has awarded 27 grants to support Harvard College undergraduates and 12 to support Harvard doctoral students for research this summer. In recent years the Weatherhead Center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students by increasing financial resources, expanding the number of student awards available,…
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Campus & Community
Winners of Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science named
The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) recently named two undergraduate and two graduate students as 2006-07 award recipients.
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Campus & Community
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards 38 certificates
The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has awarded 38 certificates in health policy to graduating seniors. The 38 students, who come from 14 academic departments, completed an interdisciplinary program of health policy course work and research as part of their work toward the A.B. degree.
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Campus & Community
Inaugural Dunlop undergraduate thesis prize is awarded
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Pablo M. Tsutsumi ’07 is the winner of the first John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government. Tsutsumi won the prize for his thesis titled “Domestic Intentions: International Repercussions: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley…
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Campus & Community
Dept. of Music announces fellowship, award winners
Harvard’s Department of Music recently announced its fellowship and award recipients. Close to $220,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Farmers’ Market set to reopen June 19
Beginning (Tuesday) June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held between the Science Center and Memorial…
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Campus & Community
Mother/daughter graduate from Extension School
They’re not exactly a “mother-daughter team,” but Rosemary Dowling, 79, of Dorchester, and her daughter, Rosemary McCarthy, 55, of Duxbury, graduated in tandem from the Harvard Extension School with their Bachelor of Liberal Arts (A.L.B.) degrees on June 7. Both Rosemarys worked on their degrees over the past 10 years, commuting together, and enrolling in…
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Campus & Community
Jay Harris named committee chair, adviser to dean
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) interim Dean David Pilbeam has named Jay Harris chair of the new General Education Standing Committee.
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Campus & Community
Crimson Summer Academy celebrates first graduating class at Commencement
Harvard students weren’t the only ones commencing in Harvard Yard on Commencement Day (June 7) 2007. It was all smiles and cheers, and a few tears, at the afternoon exercises for the Crimson Summer Academy’s inaugural graduating class. The 30 Crimson Scholars, joined by their families, enjoyed the festivities of Commencement with a graduation ceremony…
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Science & Tech
Oceans are back on Mars
Since spacecraft sent back the first close-up images of Mars more than 30 years ago, some experts have insisted that oceans once existed on the now dry, cold planet. Critics have maintained for decades that such an idea is the product of unrestrained imaginations. Now, a study published in today’s (June 14) issue of the…
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Arts & Culture
In search of grammatical architecture behind words
When not in a classroom or laboratory, Maria Polinsky spends time doing fieldwork off the southeast coast of Africa, in Madagascar. She studies Malagasy, a melting-pot language whose influences start in Borneo and now borrow from Swahili, Arabic, and French.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Board of Overseers announces newly elected members
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association announced on June 7 the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 356th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Researchers analyze ‘Africa effect,’ the slow growth of some economies
African governments were instrumental in inhibiting the growth of their own economies in the late 20th century, according to a decade-long project conducted by African scholars and economists. Robert Bates, professor of government in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been immersed in this economic survey, helping the economists to understand that governmental role.