September 22, 2005

Picnicking with the Prez In Harvard Yard, first-years took time off from gobbling down hot dogs, hamburgers, and doughnuts to wait patiently in a long line and get a chance to shoot the breeze with the president. On this warm September day, President Lawrence H. Summers and a bunch of upperclassmen hung out in the Yard and extended a warm welcome to not-completely-oriented freshmen, who showed up in impressive numbers to enjoy the food and the ambience of their first Harvard do. (Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Campus news and events

• Lecture series to explore digital futures
  Googler Reese will kick off yearlong seminar series

• Homi Bhabha Joins Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as senior adviser in the humanities

• Harvard Film Archive inaugurates LBGT series

• HBS completes restoration, expansion of Baker Library

• Jack Kemp to deliver Dunlop Lecture on Gulf Coast 'renaissance'

• Step right up to Harvard State Fair this Friday

• HSPH announces new appointments

• Eleven top scholars join KSG faculty

• It's time for 'Movie Time'

• RMO fall workshops to cover electronic record keeping

Awards and fellowships

• Campus-wide contest seeks artful, sustainable solutions

• Center for Ethics selects six graduate fellows

• Program on U.S.-Japan Relations names fellows

• American Australian fellowship open to Harvard students

• OFA announces fall 2005 grants

• Department of Ophthalmology awarded blindness prevention grants

In memoriam

• Japan scholar Donald Shively dies
  

• Kenneth R. Andrews, HBS professor and Twain scholar, 89
  

• Memorial Minute: Thomas B. Fitzpatrick
  

• Memorial Minute: J. Wayne Streilein
  

Faculty Council notice for Sept. 21

This month in Harvard history

President Summers holds office hours

Police reports

In brief

Newsmakers