Tag: Awards
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Six Harvard students named Marshall Scholars
Plans for U.K. graduate study include work on disabilities and homelessness, theoretical computer science, and histories of enslavement
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Culture Lab Innovation Fund award winners announced
This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.
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A virtual celebration of innovation at Harvard
The Bertarelli Foundation prizes awarded $510,000 to winners of the 2020 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, in which Harvard students and alumni showcase their solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems across industries.
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New members of the American Academy Arts & Sciences announced
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, which include 15 members of Harvard faculty and staff.
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Three honored for inspiring students
Three faculty have been named recipients of the 2019 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.
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Still wrestling with big questions
Harvard biochemistry professor Jack Strominger is still working in his lab at 94 years old. He will retire and become emeritus in July.
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7 Harvard seniors named Rhodes Scholars
Seven Harvard undergraduates were named Rhodes Scholars. Two other seniors were awarded Mitchell Scholarships.
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The magic of the unexpected
William G. Kaelin Jr., the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process critical for survival.
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Promising projects
Sixteen Harvard scientists are among the 93 researchers who have been selected to receive grants through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward program, which funds innovative research designed to address major challenges in biomedical science.
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Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Harvard microbe hunter wins Blavatnik Award
Emily Balskus will be honored on Sept. 23 with the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists for her work in tracking never-before-seen chemistry to specific bacteria in the human gut.
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A silly-sounding prize for some serious science
Harvard-trained researchers win Golden Goose Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Black hole project nets Breakthrough Prize
The nearly 350 astronomers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates who worked for more than a decade to capture the first-ever image of a black hole have been named the recipients of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Funding promising scientists
Associate Professor of Physics Cora Dvorkin and Associate Professor of Computer Science Stratos Idreos will each receive at least $150,000 a year for the next five years through the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program.
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10 faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Ten Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Two Harvard scientists also received awards from the NAS.
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Students find solutions for social issues
A mobile app that stops cyberbullying, a way to support tenants’ rights and housing advocacy, technology that raises the standard of infection prevention, and a science-driven approach to reinventing everyday consumer products received the four top prizes in the eighth annual President’s Innovation Challenge Showcase and Awards Ceremony.
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Tackling climate change through study
Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, now in its fifth year, is awarding seven research projects $1 million in grants.
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Harvard scientists receive Canada Gairdner Awards
Two Harvard Medical School researchers, Vikram Patel and Timothy Springer, have received the prestigious Canada Gairdner Award for transformational work in the fields of biomedicine and global health.
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A gold star for going green
Harvard received an award at the Climate Leadership Conference in Baltimore, recognizing its commitment to the environment.
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Three earn international Rhodes Scholarships
Three international Harvard College students have won Rhodes Scholarships to attend Oxford in the fall.
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Breakthrough science recognized
A series of studies conducted by Alexander Schier, the Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and members of his lab including Jeff Farrell, Yiqun Wang, Bushra Raj, and James Gagnon, and additional work of collaborators from Harvard Medical School, has been featured as the “2018 Breakthrough of the Year” by Science…
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Wood recognized with Planck-Humboldt Medal
Harvard engineer and roboticist Robert Wood is honored with the newly created Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his role and accomplishments in the field of soft robotics.
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Imaging leap rewarded with $3M
Harvard Professor Xiaowei Zhuang has been named the recipient of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in recognition of her pioneering work in the development of super-resolution microscopy techniques.
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FAS stars honored with Dean’s Distinction Awards
Four teams and 61 employees from across FAS were honored at the annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony.
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James McCarthy recognized for climate change insights
Tyler Prize winner James McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, remains optimistic that climate change is a solvable problem.
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Professor Paola Arlotta awarded George Ledlie Prize
Developmental neurobiologist Paola Arlotta has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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3 Harvard seniors gain International Rhodes
Three members of Harvard College’s Class of 2018 have been selected to represent their respective countries, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, and Zambia as Rhodes Scholars.
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Lamont wins Erasmus Prize
Michèle Lamont, Harvard’s Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, professor of African and African-American studies, and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been awarded the Erasmus Prize.