A life sciences professor at UCLA by day and the frontman for punk rock band Bad Religion by (late) night, Greg Graffin will receive Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy's 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award tonight at Memorial Church. The award recognizes a humanist or atheist who has made a lasting impact on US culture. (Last year, the group honored novelist Salman Rushdie.) Graffin, whose hits include "How Could Hell Be Any Worse" and "American Jesus," will give an acoustic concert and stick around for a Q&A session. . . . Also today at the World's Greatest University, reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee will be on campus to receive the artist of the year award for his contributions to the Latino community. (Despite his team preference, Daddy Yankee is known in these parts as a big fave of Sox slugger David Ortiz.) Also being honored this afternoon at the Holyoke Center by Harvard's Presencia Latina is Jaslene Gonzalez, a 21-year-old who won the seventh season of "America's Next Top Model." Previous honorees include Matt Damon, Will Smith, his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, Denzel Washington, Jet Li, and Andy Garcia.
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