Tag: Awards

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    Donald Ingber wins 2011 Holst Medal

    Donald Ingber, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has been awarded the 2011 Holst Medal.

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    Students awarded for Japanese studies

    Four Harvard students were awarded prizes in Japanese studies by Tazuko Ajiro Monane Memorial Fund and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

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    Two named ACM fellows

    Susan Landau, a visiting scholar in computing science, and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo Seltzer were two of 46 people who were recently named fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery.

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    Easy like Lionel Richie

    Singer Lionel Richie visits Harvard to receive the Harvard Foundation’s inaugural Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award, dining with undergraduates and recalling his career.

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    Harvard paleontologist awarded

    Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus Alfred W. Crompton received the A.S. Romer–G.G. Simpson Medal from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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    Three GSAS among winners of HHMI fellowships

    Three Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students — Nataly Moran Cabili, Mehmet Fisek, and Le Cong — are among the 48 winners in a new fellowship competition from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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    Hello, Lionel Richie!

    Distinguished singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer Lionel Richie will receive the 2011 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award from the Harvard Foundation on Dec. 5 at Kirkland House.

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    Organist wins music battle

    Harvard’s Associate University Organist and Choirmaster Christian Lane was recently named the winner of the prestigious 2011 triennial Canadian International Organ Competition.

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    French Consul honors Adams House affiliate

    Norman R. Shapiro ’51, an affiliate of Adams House, was recognized by the French Consul for a lifetime dedicated to translation and the spread of French culture.

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    Achievement recognized by academy

    Twenty Harvard professors are among 179 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at an Oct. 1 ceremony in Cambridge.

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    Bailyn receives Samuel Eliot Morison Award

    Adams University Professor Emeritus Bernard Bailyn received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the USS Constitution Museum’s highest recognition for scholarship.

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    Alumni honored with Hiram Hunn Award

    The Harvard Admissions Office has recognized select alumni with the Hiram Hunn Award.

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    Lown, ProCor grant Heart Hero Award

    ProCor, a global communication program promoting heart health founded by Harvard School of Public Health Professor of Cardiology Emeritus Bernard Lown, has awarded the Louise Lown Heart Hero Award to the Kenyan-Heart National Foundation’s rheumatic heart disease prevention program.

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    Eight researchers win PECASE awards

    President Barack Obama named 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, including eight from Harvard.

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    Magazine recognizes Justin Kasper

    Popular Science magazine has selected Center for Astrophysics astronomer Justin Kasper as one of this year’s “Brilliant Ten” scientists.

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    Xie awarded for biophysics contributions

    Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Sunney Xie will receive the Founders Award from the Biophysical Society for his influential contributions in the field of biophysics.

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    Brown wins Sacks Award for research

    The National Institute of Statistical Sciences has presented the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Emery N. Brown of MIT and Harvard.

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    Ten professors named Cabot Fellows

    Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.

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    Borjas co-wins prestigious economics prize

    The Institute for the Study of Labor has announced that this year’s IZA Prize in Labor Economics will be awarded to George J. Borjas of Harvard University and Barry R. Chiswick of George Washington University for their fundamental contributions to the economic analysis of migration and integration.

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    Sackstein granted $17M for research

    Dermatologist Robert Sackstein has been awarded a prestigious $17 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

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    Three researchers named Runyon Fellows

    The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, has named 18 new Damon Runyon Fellows, including three from Harvard.

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    Winning across the pond

    Four from Harvard’s heavyweight crew team defeated Oxford Brookes University to win the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on Sunday (July 3) on the River Thames.

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    HMS professor recognized for work

    Margarita Alegría, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Hispanic Mental Health Research, Advocacy, and Leadership Award from the National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health.

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    Gates receives honor, gives lecture

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was honored with the 2011 Media Bridge-Builder Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.

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    Summers wins Global Economy Prize

    Lawrence S. Summers has been awarded the 2011 Global Economy Prize by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

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    Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants announced

    The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has announced the 2011 recipients of the Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants.

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    CES announces student grant winners

    The Center for European Studies has announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.

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    Thoughtful leadership

    Marcel Moran ’11 of Eliot House and Annie Douglas ’12 of Adams House have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.

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    Center for Jewish Studies awards seniors

    The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2011 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2011 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

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    Miller wins Radcliffe’s Fay Prize

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Matthew Smith Miller winner of the 2011 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for his interdisciplinary work and extensive research on his thesis, “Surely His Mother Mourns for Him: Africans on Exhibition in Boston and New York, 1860-1861.”

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