News by School

HKS honors Alice M. Rivlin and Harold Varmus at awards dinner

November 12, 2009

Eminent economist, cabinet official, and author Alice M. Rivlin and distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus, were honored during a dinner on Nov. 3, hosted by Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Dean David T. Ellwood.

Around the Schools: School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

November 12, 2009

A team of Harvard students has won the grand prize in AT&T’s Big Mobile On Campus Challenge, a national higher-education contest to develop mobile communications platforms.

Lorsch recognized by Directorship magazine

November 12, 2009

Jay Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at Harvard Business School (HBS), was named to Directorship magazine's Corporate Governance Hall of Fame.

Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

By Julia Hanna, Harvard Business School / November 12, 2009

This winter, Guhan Subramanian will publish “Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace," a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate transactions and high-stakes personal ones, such as buying a home or car.

Around the Schools: Harvard Law School

November 12, 2009

GQ Magazine has named Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, to its 2009 list of the “50 Most Powerful People in D.C.”

Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School

October 29, 2009

When programmers at the Informatics Solutions Group at Children’s Hospital Boston were asked to create a grants database for researchers, they knew where to start. They simply asked the hospital’s affiliated Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors about their Facebook-surfing habits.

Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

By Corydon Ireland , Harvard Staff Writer / October 29, 2009

Don’t be puzzled. Be moved and amazed. Those 10 conical piles of rock, sand, and aggregate in one corner of Radcliffe Yard are actually “Stock-Pile,” a work of landscape art.

Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

By Jeff Neal, Special to Harvard News Office / October 15, 2009

As part of an effort to develop creative solutions to Harvard's projected long-term budget deficit, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard College recently launched an online Idea Bank where community members can submit recommendations for reducing costs and generating revenues.

Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer / October 15, 2009

Political operative Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Kennedy School, spoke last week at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum and regaled the audience with some of last year's election bloopers.

Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design

By Jim Concannon, Harvard Staff Writer / October 15, 2009

At the Graduate School of Design, there's plenty of learning still going on inside classrooms. But, as in many other areas, the Web is also proving to be a gateway to novel ways of sharing ideas and building teamwork.

Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer / October 15, 2009

The guest list for the Radcliffe Institute's 10th anniversary symposium was a motley mix of former fellows including journalist Susan Faludi ’81, RI ’09, who read from a story she wrote for the Harvard Crimson as a freshman.

Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

October 15, 2009

The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.

Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute

By Corydon Ireland , Harvard Staff Writer / October 1, 2009

The Radcliffe Institute’s first decade is being celebrated this fall, starting with a two-day symposium Oct. 8 and 9 — a star-power taste of the institute’s signature interdisciplinary exchanges.

Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

By Corydon Ireland , Harvard Staff Writer / October 1, 2009

In the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, faculty and staff are honing in on saving energy and materials, helping the University to significantly reduce its greenhouse emissions by 2016.

Around the Schools: Harvard School of Public Health

By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer / October 1, 2009

The Harvard School of Public Health has been taking the public’s temperature lately on health topics, including swine flu and health care reform.

Around the Schools: Harvard Law School

By Emily Dupraz, Harvard Law School / October 1, 2009

On October 5, 6, and 7, HLS will host New York University School of Law Professor Jeremy Waldron for the Holmes Lecture series.

Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Staff Writer / October 1, 2009

A group of Harvard Business School students is partnering with a nonprofit organization to help people who are struggling to keep their homes.

Turning a chipper 100

By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer / September 28, 2009

Harvard University Extension School, turning 100 next year, launched its multi-event centennial celebration with a Sept. 25 convocation.

Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School

By Colleen Walsh, Harvard News Office / September 17, 2009

A new lecture series presented by the Center for the Study of World Religions explores ecology in light of religion.

Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

By Christine Pulliam, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / September 17, 2009

What’s small, four-legged, and leaves dusty paw prints on telescope mirrors? That’s what astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian’s Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona were trying to find out.