Ahmed Ragab—a historian of, among other things, medieval Islamic medicine—has been appointed the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at the Harvard Divinity School, a position he will assume this July, the school announced last week.

Reverend Gomes’ absence from Memorial Church feels oddly incongruous, but his colleagues and congregation are committed to ensuring that daily routines proceed as usual.

Schools within Harvard University have announced that classes will be canceled Wednesday, and the University has advised a large portion of its staff not to report to work in light of a storm that may bring up to 16 inches of snow to the Boston area.

Divinity School students have contributed to developing the new program, bolstering the unique combination of public service and spiritual outreach.

Three speakers—each with ties to business or religion—discussed different perspectives on how to define personal success.

The World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland welcomed unusually large delegations from many universities, including Harvard, which sent a number of senior administrators and well-known professors.

Gomes said that he had always planned to retire once reaching the age of 70—and he will reach that benchmark in time to retire in 2012.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and four of the University's professional schools offered retirement plans to members of their faculty earlier today, marking the realization of an idea that surfaced when it became clear last fall that the University's endowment would be hard-hit by the financial crisis.