Campus & Community

Harvard Forest’s David Foster elected to the Trustees of Reservations board of directors at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner on Sept. 26.

Donald B. Rubin was elected a corresponding fellow for distinction in research at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy on July 16.

Harvard’s Weld Boathouse has been enchanting rowers and residents for more than 100 years.

Harvard Forest recently announced the 2009-10 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The fellowship program was established in 1962 to support the advanced research of individuals who show promise in making important contributions to forestry.

A memorial service for Hanna Machlup Hastings, former House master and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) administrator, will be held at 2 p.m. on Oct. 17.

Jericho Brown, a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego, will receive the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award on Oct. 28 at a ceremony in New York City.

Anderson Lab manager Lenny Solomon is retiring in December after more than three decades helping guide people and projects.

On Oct. 15, Harvard will hold the 55th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony in historic Sanders Theatre, honoring faculty and staff from across the University who have served Harvard for 25 years.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications for 2010-11.

Nathan Glazer will give the Seymour Martin Lipset Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4. Glazer’s talk is titled, “Democracy and Diversity: Dealing with Deep Divides.”

The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to veteran reporter Jon Alpert.

“Since I realize that direct service is only one aspect of assisting, I became more involved with advocacy, working on education issues and with PBHA’s Student Labor Action Movement.”

Volunteers from across the University are lending a hand to the Greater Boston Food Bank from November through May.

Dr. Susan Mitchell of Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School led a study of 323 patients with end-stage dementia at 22 nursing homes near Boston.

Robert Leffert, who died on Dec. 7, 2008, at the age of 75, is remembered for being a spectacular physician who in his time at the Massachusetts General Hospital became a major force in rehabilitation medicine and also in the management of upper extremity disorders.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 13, 2007, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Charles Paul Segal was placed upon the records. Segal is regarded as one of the most prolific 20th century interpreters of classical literature and poetry.

A Harvard education includes a healthy dose of service, as illustrated by students working in positions from Cambridge to Capitol Hill.

University Health Services (UHS) will conclude offering seasonal flu vaccinations in about two weeks as the University’s health care workers prepare for the arrival of the first doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine.

Is this a healthy and expected consequence of Congressional politics? What might this say about how partisan politics has evolved? Is there a historical precedent that we might compare this to?

People intuitively think that a minimally invasive approach has fewer complications, even in the absence of data,” said Dr. Jim C. Hu, the study’s lead author, who is director of urologic robotic and minimally invasive surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

“His seminal contributions to the field of AIDS research helped provide crucial statistical foundations upon which we could better combat this terrible disease,’’ Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, said in a statement issued yesterday.

Senior Lizzy Nichols, co-captain of the women’s soccer team, was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for women’s soccer on Oct. 5.

Composer, baritone saxophonist, and activist Fred Ho ’79 will be honored by Harvard University as the fall 2009 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal on Nov. 13. He will perform in a tribute concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands on Nov. 14.

For the second straight week, the Crimson’s rushing attack, which leads the Ivy League, guided the Harvard football team to victory.

Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately. What’s so strange about them is that they’re invisible.

In a study about weight and body satisfaction, researchers measured the height and weight of 4,254 schoolchildren from Nova Scotia and asked them how much they agreed with the statement “I like the way I look.”

Today’s study “suggests a new approach in slowing down the rate of the disease,” said Schwarzschild, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, in an Oct. 9 telephone interview. “People live with Parkinson’s disease for decades. We want to make those decades much more manageable and keep people much more mobile….”

The temperature may be falling, but the Harvard women’s soccer team is getting hot at just the right time. After an Oct. 6 victory in which the Crimson dominated Fairfield, 4-1, Harvard traveled to Ithica, N.Y., to defeat Cornell, 2-0.

As the clouds cleared, the rain ceased and the sun began to break through, a new day in Harvard history dawned as the University’s first woman president, Drew Faust, was honored at a Service of Thanksgiving at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.