Campus & Community

Upon meeting a scholar of literature, one is likely to ask, “What period do you study?” with the likely answer being a fairly narrow slice of the literary pie — the 19th century novel, say, or nondramatic poetry of the Renaissance. With Panagiotis Roilos, however, the answer is not so straightforward.

This month in Harvard history

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

Road racers, walkers welcome for 4.2-mile outing Anti-corruption activist Macovei to speak at KSG

May symposium to honor HMS’s Melvin J. Glimcher Porter article selected McKinsey Award winner

At its 14th meeting of the year on April 18, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of a proposal for mandatory course evaluations, considered a proposal to reclassify the Standing Committee on Mind, Brain and Behavior as an instructional committee, and discussed next steps in the general education legislative process.

Albert Szabo was born in 1925 in New York City and grew up in a household where design mattered, his father being a pattern maker for the renowned dress designer Claire McCardell. Albert studied science, then fine arts at Brooklyn College between 1942 and 1947, with an interruption for military service as an aviation cadet. The arts won out in his future course of studies, but he remained convinced about the importance of maintaining a close relationship to science.

A memorial service will be held for Elena Zarudnaya Levin, wife of the late Harry Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, Friday (April 20) at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

In the wake of this week’s tragedy at Virginia Tech, Harvard will hold a University Service of Remembrance and Consolation in the Memorial Church today (April 19), beginning at 10 p.m.

Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, at Harvard University and one of the key figures in 20th century chemistry, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.

Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) and Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2006-07 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship. This new program supports the artistic development of students demonstrating unusual accomplishment and/or evidence of significant artistic promise.

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2007-08 academic year will be Liz Goodwin ’08 and Samuel Bjork ’09, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of 30 student writers’ applications for the position — the largest pool of candidates in the program’s history.

The Harbus Foundation at Harvard Business School (HBS) celebrated its 10-year anniversary at its annual grantee reception this past Tuesday evening (April 17) in the Spangler Building.

Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced several new faculty appointments and promotions.

Sports in brief

A bit of necessary tinkering with the women’s doubles lineup garnered winning results this past weekend for the Crimson in tandem play opposite visiting league foes Penn (April 13) and Princeton (April 14). Unfortunately, Harvard’s unexpectedly efficient and inspired doubles play didn’t necessarily translate into any team victories for the Crimson, who failed to capture a single singles match.

Harvard College Environmental Action Committee’s Earth Day 2007 events and entertainment

1991: University Committee on the Environment established to encourage and coordinate University-wide environment-related activities and scholarship.

Seven years into the new millennium, Harvard has taken steps to lessen its impact on the environment. These are already bearing fruit, putting the University at the forefront of the national move to create environmentally friendly practices, buildings, and institutions.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

This month in Harvard history

Newsmakers

In brief

John Lyell Sanders, Jr., served on the Harvard faculty for a total of thirty seven years and as Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics for over thirty years from 1964 until his retirement in 1995.

Mason Hammond was born in Boston on February 14, 1903, the son of Samuel Hammond, Class of 1881, and Grace Learoyd, and died in Cambridge on October 13, 2002, four months short of his one hundredth birthday.

William Henry Bond, last of the American scholar-librarians, was born in York, Pennsylvania, on August 14, 1915, only child of Walter Laucks Bond, a manufacturer of pianos, and his wife Ethel Bane (Bossert) Bond.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.

The Office for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School (HMS), together with HMS teaching affiliate Cambridge Health Alliance, bestowed the inaugural Ruth M. Batson Social Justice Award on Tuesday (April 10) at the School’s New Research Building during the Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities event.

Five Harvard affiliates are among the 189 artists, scholars, and scientists to be selected fellowship award winners by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Distinguished actress, writer, producer, and civil rights leader Ruby Dee will receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2007 Humanitarian Award when she delivers the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church on April 17 at 5 p.m.