December 16, 2004

Sleigh sold separately After a holiday shopping spree with her mom, freshman Abby Cushing brings a Norfolk Pine back to her dorm in the Yard. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office) More holiday photos

Campus news and events

• Carolyn Abbate named professor of music
  Distinguished musicologist will also hold the first Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship

• McKenna named professor of Celtic languages and literatures
  A 'medieval scholar of great distinction'

• Holiday stylin'
  Antlers sprout at the GSD, and frogs wait under the mistletoe

• Gazette publication to resume in February
  

Awards and fellowships

• Rabin wins Israel's EMET Prize

• Monane prize winners honored

In memoriam

• Nathan Marsh Pusey - Memorial Minute
  

• Edward Peirson Richardson, Jr. M.D. - Memorial Minute
  

• Annemarie Schimmel - Memorial Minute
  

This month in Harvard history

President Summers holds office hours

Police reports

In brief

Newsmakers