Campus & Community

Harvard Management Company hosted a conference on China in December, drawing on the expertise of University academics to provide its fund managers with background, context, and perspective that will help them better understand and assess investment opportunities and risks in the emerging economic giant.

The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced March 24 that the 2011 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will be given to Refrigerants, Naturally!, an alliance of corporations substituting environmentally harmful fluorinated gases with natural refrigerants in their commercial refrigeration installations.

Six from Harvard University have been awarded 2011 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.

A paper by Ruhul Abid was recently selected by the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology as the most outstanding vascular biology paper of 2010.

Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Junior Faculty Merit Scholarship.

At its 11th meeting of the year on March 23, the Faculty Council heard a review of the joint A.B./M.M. program with the New England Conservatory. They also voted to amend the rules concerning study out of residence and to update the faculty’s media policy. Finally, they heard reports on the activities of undergraduates and graduate students during January 2011.

Harry Z. Mellins was recruited in 1969 to be chief of diagnostic radiology and residency program director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — a position he held until his death in 2009.

Ticketing and viewing information for alumni/ae, parents, and others regarding Harvard’s Commencement Exercises on May 26.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Kennedy School alumna who has restored stability to her war-torn nation, will be the speaker at Harvard’s 360th Commencement, a choice lauded by faculty.

A Harvard undergrad who was a summer intern for a nonprofit in Europe returns for another dose of experience in January.

Aisha and Shayna Price are sisters from Hawaii who rock it out in the swimming pool for Harvard’s water polo team.

Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept.

A new series of free financial planning seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Benefits Office, aims to get employees thinking about retirement long before the last paycheck comes. The next session is April 7.

The Harlem Globetrotters, children from the Martin Luther King School in Cambridge, and Harvard now have something in common — CHEER. And there was plenty of cheering during the Globetrotter’s appearance at Harvard’s Malkin Athletic Center.

Paul Smith, associate manager of landscape services, leads the ever-ready crew that digs Harvard out all winter.

One of the nation’s most eminent economists and a dynamic young development economist are recipients of the 2011 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.

The 2011 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy will be awarded on Nov. 2 to Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.

Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, received an honorary degree from the University of Ploiesti in Romania on March 17.

Demystify the home buying process by attending one of Harvard Real Estate Services’ home buying and selling seminars.

Sophomore defenseman Danny Biega of the Harvard men’s hockey team has been named to the ECAC Hockey all-league second team.

FreeThink@Harvard is a new interactive e-learning series sponsored by the Dean of Students Office at Harvard Extension School. Each discussion is led by Harvard faculty and includes a classroom chat with a crowd of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff that is also streamed online.

The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson will square off against Oklahoma State on March 15 in the National Invitational Tournament.

New tenants, including 11 over the past year, have helped to bring Harvard’s vacant Allston properties back to life.

What with all the lights, cameras, and raucous action pervading the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn., this Saturday (March 12), one could be forgiven for thinking that the one-game playoff pitting the Harvard men’s basketball team against Princeton was a scripted affair. Unfortunately for the 2011 Ivy League co-champion Crimson, it was the Tigers who managed to score the Hollywood ending.

Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. The agreement, signed Friday afternoon, March 4, at Loeb House by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and President Drew Faust, will end a 40-year hiatus.

Harvard professor John Stilgoe takes viewers on a tour of historic Harvard Yard and explores its many unique and exciting features.

On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.

Wendel W. “Tad” Meyer, who joined the Memorial Church at Harvard University as associate minister for administration in December, will become acting Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church while the University seeks a permanent successor to the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna who at great personal risk has played a key role in stabilizing and reviving her nation, will be the principal speaker at Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University’s 360th Commencement in May.

More than 30 energy and environment employers connected with Harvard students at the Office of Career Services’ second annual Energy and Environment Expo.