Campus & Community

Eight receive W.E.B. Du Bois Medals for aiding African-American culture, including Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hugh M. “Brother Blue” Hill, Vernon Jordan, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, Shirley M. Tilghman, Bob Herbert, and Frank H. Pearl.

Deborah Jackson Weiss has been named senior project director for the Library Implementation Work Group. In that role, she will guide the panel putting in place the recommendations made last month by the Library Task Force.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health who analyzed stroke deaths in the United States found that people who were born in the Southeast and continued to live there as adults were 34 percent more likely than other Americans to die of a stroke

Which would make you happier: winning the lottery, or losing the ability to walk? It may seem like a no-brainer, but Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard University, says the answer may surprise you.

With sizzling hamburger sliders coming off the grill, steaming hot chocolate going into eager hands, and harmonious a cappella voices filling the background, organizers on Thursday (Dec. 3) launched a “Think Harvard Square” campaign to promote local businesses this holiday shopping season.

A silent stadium opens and closes the 2009 season-ender for Harvard Men’s Soccer team.

Two-thirds of young adults oppose sending more US troops to Afghanistan, according to a national poll released yesterday by the Harvard University Institute of Politics that suggests fissures in a key demographic that helped President Obama capture the White House.

Harvard Kennedy School graduate Sam Sanders ’09 writes about his experience as a public policy student and the road that led him to National Public Radio.

The oldest rivalry in college football dates to 1875, when Harvard and Yale played a bruising game that resembled rugby more than modern football. Back then, fans journeyed by train, horseback, and foot from around New England to view the rough-and-tumble spectacle.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is giving middle school children in three Massachusetts towns a taste of astronomy, using robotic telescopes they control themselves to fuel their interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering a wealth of short courses, seminars, and events designed to provide more work or more play, depending on your preference, from Jan. 4 to 24.

Kathryn M. Lohre has been elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches (NCC) by the NCC Governing Board.

Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard on Nov. 20-21, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors for 2010-11.

Two Harvard Business School professors, Nancy F. Koehn and Rajiv Lal, have weighed in on the Harvard Business School Web site with their best estimates of how the holiday shopping season will play out. One sees a flat or slightly improved sales period, while the other is guardedly optimistic.

Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson’s four-part documentary, “The Ascent of Money” (2009), was named Best Documentary at the 37th International Emmy Awards in New York City on Nov. 23.

Rebecca Wassarman has been named director of Academic Engagement Programs at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, has elected 48 seniors to its Class of 2010.

Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard presented the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to slain Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and the journalists of Afghanistan on Nov. 17.

Hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) students, faculty, and staff gathered in the School’s Pound Hall for a “Thanksgiving for the Troops” event on Nov. 18 to raise money and collect items for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mark Barnes has been hired as Harvard University’s chief research compliance officer and senior adviser to the provost and Cathy Gorodentsev has been named the new director of OSP.

The Reischauer Institute names Audrey Ji-eun Kim ’09 and Kathryn Handlir, A.M. ’09, winners of its annual award for outstanding essays on Japan-related topics.

Paul Zofnass ’69, M.B.A. ’73, has become the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s (HMNH) largest donor since its founding in 1998.

Harvard College has launched a new online Plan of Study tool to help undergraduates outline the courses they will take throughout their four years at Harvard.

The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study will look to advance research and promote cooperation among faculty members by providing resources and space that foster collaboration.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.

On Dec. 2, Jay Light, who has been dean of the Business School for the past five years, told the HBS faculty that he is retiring in June. After shepherding the School through some of the most demanding times in its history, he said he was looking forward to having more time to write, to sail, and to spend with his wife. But first the Gazette asked him to glance back over his long career.

It’s hard to tell whether the microscopic worms Brian Knep experiments with and portrays in his show at Judi Rotenberg Gallery are his material or his collaborators. And ultimately, that’s problematic.

The curtain finally closed on the season for the No. 10 Harvard men’s soccer team, which fell to the Maryland Terrapins on Sunday (Nov. 29) in the third round of the NCAA tournament.