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Harvard Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation celebrated the 25th anniversary of the organization with a formal gala Saturday evening (Dec. 2) in the Eliot House Dining Hall. The night included a reception and dinner followed by a program that featured tributes to the founders of the organization, reflections…

Brazelton receives 2006 Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize T. Berry Brazelton, clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the 2006 Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize. The Theodor Hellbrugge Foundation in Munich recognized Brazelton for his outstanding lifetime achievements, saying, “Dr. Brazelton’s path-breaking studies form the foundation of our understanding of the crucial importance of…

Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Individuals are welcome on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Dec. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Free flu shots are now available to all Harvard ID holders and HUGHP health plan members at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) every Monday and Tuesday through Dec. 19, and at a range of times and days at additional Harvard locations in Cambridge and Boston.

At its seventh meeting of the year on Dec. 6, the Faculty Council held further discussions on general education, considered a proposal concerning evaluation of teaching fellows, and voted to approve the Harvard Summer School 2007 courses. The council next meets on Dec. 20. The preliminary deadline for the Jan. 9 faculty meeting is Dec.…

Lowell House senior, literature concentrator, and poet Emily Vasiliauskas has been named a 2007 Marshall Scholar and plans to spend the next two academic years studying at England’s Cambridge University.

The hills, alas, are alive with the rumble of bulldozers and dump trucks. While the Swiss Alps may conjure up in Americans idyllic visions of Julie Andrews frolicking on a grassy hillside, a group of Swiss landscape architects recently brought to Harvard cautionary tales of their design battles against the ugly sprawl threatening to overrun…

The following seniors, listed below by their Houses, were nominated to Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) in the latest round of elections, held this past November.

Through its visiting fellowships program, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Human Rights Program seeks to give thoughtful individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to step back and conduct a serious inquiry in the human rights field.

The cultures and religions of Africa and their influence on people in the New World, both black and white, has fascinated J. Lorand Matory since his undergraduate years at Harvard. His 1982 senior honors thesis, “A Broken Calabash,” explored connections between the religious worship of the Yoruba people of Nigeria and similar beliefs and practices…

As a 4-year-old boy in 1939, Charles Fried escaped with his family from Czechoslovakia in advance of the Nazi invasion. It was his first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

You may remember Jamie Patrick Shea. In 1999, he was the NATO spokesman whose Cockney-accented daily briefings marked the progress of the 78-day bombing campaign in Kosovo.

Visiting Professor of History Kenneth Maxwell, director of the Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), recently announced the first class of Harvard’s 2006-07 Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellows.

First the bum out: Prior to UConn’s 3-2 upset of the Harvard women’s hockey team Tuesday night (Dec. 5), the Crimson had owned the longest win streak in all of Division 1 hockey this season. Now cheer up: In the final stretch of that eight-game streak, the women beat No. 7 University of Minnesota-Duluth, twice.

U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte identified terrorism as one of the most significant challenges facing both the Muslim and non-Muslim world. Speaking Friday night (Dec. 1) in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Negroponte cited the intelligence community’s recent successes in the fight against terrorism – last summer’s killing by the U.S. military…

Five years ago, following a student-led worker-advocacy campaign, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine convened a committee of 11 faculty, four students, and five Harvard staff members (three unionized employees and two senior administrators), to address the issue of wages and working conditions for service workers at the University.

The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Office of the Dean for the Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard University Press have announced an undergraduate essay contest to explore the impact of literature on individual lives.

U.S. energy consumption will continue to rise in the years ahead, and along with it, America’s dependence on foreign energy sources. That was the message delivered Nov. 30 by former Congressman Philip Sharp to a group of 36 congressional freshmen attending the 17th biennial Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress at the Kennedy School.

The nonviolent principles of Mohandas Gandhi may be the only way to bring peace to the world, Gandhi’s granddaughter said Monday (Dec. 4).

Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died Oct. 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 and had been in declining health after suffering a stroke in August 2005. A memorial service for Clausen and his wife, Margaret, who passed away on Nov. 6, will be held Dec. 15 at…

Dec. 2-3, 1942 – Seven Mexican and three Bolivian journalists visit Harvard while touring the U.S. and Canada to study wartime conditions. Dec. 9, 1944 – Alumni begin to respond to Donald Moffat’s contest for devising new and more seasonable attire for traditionally top-hatted and dark-clad Commencement aides and marshals. A “Constant Reader” of the…

The carved stone monolith tells the story of Yax Pasaj Chan Yopaat, the 16th and last ruler of the Maya city of Copan, one of the most important sites in Maya history.