Tag: Campus

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    Behind the blue

    Harvard’s two new deputy police chiefs discuss their transitions, and what everyday life is like covering the University.

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    The greening of the Law School

    Harvard Law School moves aggressively to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.

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    A ‘mind-blowing’ day

    Vermont high school students explore the human brain, with help from Harvard scholars.

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    Taking finance up the Red Line

    Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.

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    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    A collaboration by the Foundation Alícia (Alimentació i Ciència), headed by chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli fame, and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has led…

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    Clooney named 2010-11 Luce Fellow

    The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation have named Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2010-11.

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    HBS faculty win McKinsey Awards

    Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm…

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    HBS’s J. Sterling Livingston dies at 93

    J. Sterling Livingston, a retired professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), died on Feb. 14 from multiple organ failure. He was 93.

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    American Chemical Society presents two with awards

    Robert J. Madix, a senior research fellow in chemical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Sang-Hee Shim, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with her mentor Martin T. Zanni, an associate professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison, were…

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    Andrew Mattei Gleason

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2010, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Andrew Mattei Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Gleason’s best-known work is his resolution of Hilbert’s Fifth Problem.

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    Gazette staffer recognized for poetry

    Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has been awarded a $5,000 prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. The foundation annually honors poets under the age of 40 whose work celebrates the human spirit.

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    Robert C. Merton receives Kolmogorov Medal

    Robert C. Merton, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School and the 1997 co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London.

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    Faculty Council holds March 24 meeting

    At its eleventh meeting of the year on March 24, the Faculty Council discussed a proposed conflict of interest policy and the report of the Committee to Review the Administrative Board.

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    Augustus A. White III receives Tipton award for orthopedic leadership

    Augustus A. White III, the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the fifth annual William W. Tipton Jr. M.D. Leadership Award for his work as an educator, mentor, and champion of diversity initiatives.

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    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    What big questions will occupy the world’s social scientists in the coming decades? On Saturday (April 10), a dozen “big thinkers” will share their thoughts on the hardest problems in social science.

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    Humor where it’s rarely found

    In an offbeat attempt at finding common ground, a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum spotlights Palestinian and Israeli humor.

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    House masters appointed

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, announced the appointment of three House masters: Douglas Melton, Christie McDonald, and Rakesh Khurana.

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    It’s lights out

    For the second consecutive year, Harvard University will join the city of Boston by turning out the lights for “Earth Hour,” a major community awareness event about climate change, taking place in Boston and cities worldwide.

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    Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers

    The Chicago Tribune has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for “Clout Goes to College,” its evenhanded and thorough investigation of improper influence peddling in the admissions process at the University of Illinois.

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    David Fanning to receive the Goldsmith Career Award

    David Fanning, executive producer of “Frontline,” will be recognized for his distinguished broadcast journalism career by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy on March 23 at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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    Three HLS students recognized for outstanding writing

    Three Harvard Law School students have been awarded prizes for outstanding written work.

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    Harvard American Indian Project honored with leadership award

    The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and its sister organization, the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, were presented with the Public Sector Leadership Award by the National Congress of American Indians on March 1 in Washington, D.C.

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    Six from Harvard named Paul and Daisy Soros fellows

    Out of 890 applications nationwide, six individuals from Harvard have been awarded 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.

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    Shinagel wins Frandson Award for ‘The Gates Unbarred’

    Michael Shinagel, dean of the Harvard University Extension School, has won the 2009 Frandson Award for Literature, given annually by the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), for his book “The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910-2009.”

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    Housing Day

    Harvard students get fired up for Housing Day.

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    Guardian of the House

    Quincy House security guard Paul Barksdale doubles as a friend, confidante, and adviser to undergraduates.

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    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    What do John Keats’ Shakespeare volumes, William Wordsworth’s library catalog, and Victor Hugo’s commonplace book have in common with primers and spellers and other historical materials about learning to read? Each item is among the 1,200 books and manuscripts that are now online at a site called in Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and…

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    East Asian Legal Studies announces Yong Kim Memorial Prize for 2010

    The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School is accepting submissions of papers for the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the best paper concerning the law or legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia or concerning issues of law as it pertains to U.S.-East…

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    David Armitage named Royal Society of Edinburgh corresponding fellow

    David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters.

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    Two from Harvard honored for research in biological sciences

    Erez Lieberman-Aiden and Mamta Tahiliani were named the 2010 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award winners for their graduate work in biological sciences.

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