November 6, 2003

Out of the park Professor Gerald Early examines the legacies of two of America's most important black athletes - Curt Flood and Jackie Robinson. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Campus news and events

• Archaeologist William Fash named Peabody Museum director
  Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology assumes new post in December

• Cultural critic Gerald Early on Flood, Robinson
  Professor of modern letters looks at two African-American sports titans as social forces

• A bridge too far
  The decades-old bridge connecting the Widener and Houghton Libraries, shut down in 2002, is coming down in 2004

Awards and fellowships

• Two recent graduates named Richardson Fellows
  Rachelle Gould '03 and Krishnan Subrahmanian '03 receive $25K in support of a year in public service

• 2003-04 Administrative Fellows announced
  Twelve new recipients drawn from both the University and from business, education, and the professions outside Harvard

• Kuwait Program accepting grant proposals

In memoriam

• William Gienapp, Civil War historian, 59
  

• Richard E. Neustadt, eminent presidential scholar and advisor
  

• Memorial Minute: Ernst Kitzinger, art historian
  

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