Campus & Community

An acclaimed physics educator, an honored researcher in regenerative biology, and an Alzheimer’s-focused pathologist are among six winners of the 2009 Australia-Harvard Fellowships recently announced by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation (HCAF).

For the sixth year in a row, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals presented a check for $10,000 to the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) for the promotion of arts education. Since its inception in 2002, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment has subsidized tickets for thousands of Cambridge students to attend theatrical performances, cultural events, and museum exhibitions. To date, Hasty Pudding has donated more than $70,000.

With spring’s anticipated return still weeks away, there’s a beacon of yellow hope. Daffodils are an invigorating component in the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) efforts, and Harvard is again a key participant in Daffodil Days, the ACS’s annual flowery fight to help patients and eradicate cancer.

Al Witten worked as a teacher and principal for more than two decades in areas ravaged by poverty, crime, violence, and disease. Now the South African native is at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where he is figuring out ways to make schools central to facing these daunting challenges.

Nicholas and Erika Christakis have been appointed as master and co-master of Pforzheimer House.

The Harvard Black Law Students Association’s (HBLSA) Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial team won first-place honors at the Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference this February. The team will move on to the National Conference in Irvine, Calif., on March 18.

In basketball, embarrassment can be excruciating, but it can also serve as a powerful motivator. It took an embarrassing first half against Princeton (Feb. 20), in which the Crimson trailed 6-28 at one point, for Harvard to muster a bit of motivation.

This season the Harvard women’s hockey team (17-9-3; 16-4-2 ECAC) didn’t quite match last year’s 27-1 regular season record, nor did they post a 22-0 record in the ECAC. But what they did do may be even more impressive — starting the season with a disconcerting 6-7-3 record, and ending it by clinching the 2009 ECAC regular season championship.

The Harvard women’s fencing team — ranked fourth in the nation — extended its winning streak to an impressive 14 games, as the Crimson dominated the Ivy League Championships to advance to an overall record of 20-1.

In just the second year under head coach John Tillman, the Crimson men’s lacrosse team — which went 6-8 last season — has already started with a bang as they upset fifth-ranked Duke on Saturday (Feb. 21), 9-6.

The Harvard Swim School is a program for all levels of swimming and diving ability taught by members of the Harvard men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, under the supervision of the varsity coaching staff. The purpose of the school is to give individualized instruction to children and adults, ages 5 and up.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards of up to $2,500 for relevant research projects.

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now offering the Traub-Dicker-HKS Summer Research Fellowship to support research by HKS students interested in human rights issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.

Ca. February 1963 — In the latest of a long series of skirmishes with Harvard, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci proposes that the Lampoon Castle be converted into a public restroom.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Dear Colleagues, Friends and Neighbors: I am writing today to update you on our plans for development in Allston.

Feb. 28, 1902 — The Athletic Committee approves the formation of a swimming club.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

On the most superstitious day of the year, James Franco got lucky. With his roguish grin and trademark James Dean looks, the actor appeared stunned but happy during his Friday the 13th roast as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year, rubbing his Pudding Pot and declaring, “Now I’ve made it.”

Free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS). The flu shots will be given on the third floor of HUHS in Holyoke Center during regular weekly office hours. Similarly, faculty and staff may also receive flu shots at satellite HUHS offices at the Longwood Medical Area, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School during regular office hours.

Harvard is offering an early retirement incentive package to staff across the University as one of many steps toward managing the challenges of the economic downturn.

For the third time this season, Crimson basketball forward Emma Markley ’11 has been named Ivy League Player of the Week. Markley had 18 points, 10 rebounds, and two blocks in the Crimson’s 18-point win against Cornell on Friday (Feb. 13). Then, in a 71-74 loss to Columbia on Saturday (Feb. 14), Markley tied her career-high of 27 points, while adding career-bests in rebounds with 14 and blocks with eight.

The No. 2 Harvard women’s squash team fell just shy of their 12th College Squash Association (CSA) national championship on Sunday (Feb. 15), falling to No. 1 Princeton, 5-4.

After consecutive losses to No. 1 Boston University, No. 14 Yale, and No. 15 Boston College, the Crimson men’s hockey team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 decision against Colgate on Friday (Feb. 13) and a 4-2 shocker against the No. 5 Cornell Big Red on Saturday (Feb. 14).

Resilience has defined the Harvard women’s hockey team this season. After a slow start, in which the Crimson went 6-7-3 in their first 16 games, Harvard bounced back by winning nine of 10 — including five straight wins on the road. So on Tuesday (Feb. 17) night, when the recently ranked No. 9 Crimson saw a 1-0 deficit against the No. 5 New Hampshire (UNH) Wildcats rise to 2-0, it was not panic that radiated from Harvard head coach Katey Stone’s bench, but composed resilience to set things straight.

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson have been appointed master and co-master of Winthrop House. Sullivan has been a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007. He is also director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, with areas of interest including criminal law, criminal proceedings, legal ethics, and race theory. Prior to teaching at HLS, he was a member of the faculty at the Yale Law School, where, in his first year, he won the school’s award for outstanding teaching.

For their comprehensive series “A Mayor in Crisis,” Detroit Free Press staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick, in addition to their colleagues, are the winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

Undergraduate tuition at Harvard will increase 3.5 percent to $33,696 for academic year 2009-10. Need-based scholarship aid is expected to grow to a record $147 million, an 18 percent increase over what was planned for the current academic year. The total package (tuition plus room, board, and student services fee) will be $48,868, a 3.5 percent increase over last year.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 9, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Elliot Forbes, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Forbes is well known for his revision and critical annotations of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven.

Free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).