Campus & Community

From “social efficiency” to “curriculum integration” to “open classrooms,” the history of American education is littered with failed school reform efforts that mobilized support and generated momentum for fits and…

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs; environmental and…

It takes a village to raise a child, but if there’s no village handy, try Harvard Neighbors. Two groups, one for babies up to 12 months, the other for toddlers…

Noteworthy events around the University Classical ensemble performance is free for students Boston’s classical music ensemble, Collage New Music, will present its first concert of the season on Sunday, Oct.…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Joan Marie (Colllins) Gillespie, a former Harvard administrator, died on Sept. 14. She was 72. A lifelong resident of Arlington, Mass., Gillespie worked for the Anthropology and Social Medicine Departments…

Charles Marcus doesn’t believe that he or anyone else lives in the real world. He thinks that everything we see around us, from wood to whales, comes from a more…

Konrad Emil Bloch, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964, died Sunday, Oct. 15, at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. He died of complications from congestive…

There’s considerably more than meets the eye at the Fogg Art Museum. Long an invaluable resource not just for Harvard, or even regionally, but on a national scale, the Fogg…

Eight Harvard seniors were elected class marshals this month, taking over a post that will have them guiding their class not only through its senior year, but also after graduation.…

One of the many classes offered by the Museum of Natural History (HMNH) took flight last Saturday morning in a burst of color and light. Led by Ann Ambiel, a…

It was labeled “the greatest, most pathetic, and most arbitrary tragedy in history” in a statement published in the New York Times on Nov. 1, 1915. The American Committee on…

A memorial service will be held this coming Saturday (Oct. 14) for a Harvard graduate student who found an opportunity to serve others under the most challenging of personal circumstances.…

Listening to Mozart won’t raise a child’s IQ, but music classes could help her or him to understand directions and diagrams. For enhancing a student’s ability to speak, read, and…

While more informed minds awaited this week’s Nobel Prize awards, the Sanders Theatre crowd cheered the Tenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring “achievements that cannot, or should not,…

The Biology Prize, awarded for a report “On the Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles From Costa Rica.” Winner Richard Wassersug of Dalhousie University clarified that while the tadpoles were eaten…

At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed with Administrative Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull all of the faculty’s current building projects and plans. Associate…

“When you hear that there is a disparity between minorities and the rest of the population, believe it,” says John Ruffin, the first associate director of research on minority health,…

Cornell’s Adam Skumawitz took a pass from teammate Colin Nevison and fired it past Harvard keeper, junior Dan Mejias, with just under six minutes remaining in the second overtime to…

For someone who was once sure she wanted to be a clinical psychologist, Jennifer Hochschild hasn’t done too badly as a political scientist. Hochschild, recently named a professor with a…

The John Harvard statue, which has been sheltered during the reconstruction of University Hall, was apparently not safe from vandals. A “milk” mustache was painted on the revered statue. Staff…

In her autobiography, “The Dyer’s Hand,” astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the first female tenured professors at Harvard, summed up the rewards of a career in science: “Do not undertake…

When Arkansas Senator David Pryor packed his bags, sold his home, and departed Washington in 1996 after more than 30 years in public service, he didn’t think twice about leaving.…

The Radcliffe Institute, celebrating its inaugural year as an institute for advanced study, will host an interdisciplinary symposium on “Gender and Inquiry” on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 12 and 13,…

Law School alumni Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given Harvard University two gifts that significantly strengthen the University’s capacity in the field of human rights studies. They pledged…

The eighth annual Ebert Community Service Day will take place Thursday, Oct. 19, at 1:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Medical Education Center at Harvard Medical School. An informative…

Brendan McGrath, whom many faculty members remember as the man who found them a place to live, died Oct. 7 while scuba diving near Gloucester. The cause of death was…

Bharat Anand What makes a television viewer more inclined to watch 20/20 than 60 Minutes? Do network identities play a role in the decision? And what about network promos —…

Quarterback Neil Rose ’02 stuttersteps his way across the goal line for the second of his three first-half touchdowns against Cornell on Saturday. Staff photo by Jon Chase

The Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies Program provides an opportunity for distinguished Latin Americans to teach at Harvard for one semester in any field. The…