Tag: ” Drew Faust

  • Nation & World

    Q&A with Radcliffe’s new dean

    A Q-and-A with Lizabeth Cohen, new dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

    8 minutes
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    A welcome to the military

    In an annual fall tradition, Harvard rolls out the welcome mat for its new students and fellows who are veterans or who are still in the service.

    6 minutes
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    Freedom in motion

    Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the Godkin Lecture and took questions from students last night at Harvard Kennedy School.

    4 minutes
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    Coming back, looking forward

    Members of Harvard’s Corporation and Board of Overseers, past and present, gathered at Harvard Law School’s new Wasserstein Hall Sept. 22 for a reunion afternoon featuring a panel discussion on teaching innovation and a question-and-answer session with Harvard President Drew Faust.

    10 minutes
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    A president next door

    Harvard President Drew Faust — with a mischievous gift in tow — helped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology welcome its new president, L. Rafael Reif, at his inauguration on Friday.

    3 minutes
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    Death and the Civil War

    Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”

    7 minutes
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    Back to basics

    Military training returns to Harvard, as ROTC cadets participate in their first on-campus workouts in 41 years.

    5 minutes
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    Maskin named University Professor

    Eric S. Maskin, a Nobel laureate whose work has had widespread impact on economics and aspects of political science, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.

    4 minutes
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    A warm welcome, and a challenge

    Forced indoors by rain, College freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre and the Memorial Church to become formal members of the Class of 2016 at Harvard’s annual convocation.

    4 minutes
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    New beginnings

    In her traditional annual remarks at the first fall Morning Prayers, Harvard President Drew Faust found common ground between the secular and the religious, “the ineffable and the immediate,’’ and reminded listeners of “the need to serve both.”

    3 minutes
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    A moving experience

    More than 1,600 undergraduates took the first step yesterday to making Harvard their home for the next four years, as they began arriving early in the morning for the ritual of freshman move-in day.

    10 minutes
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    New dean for GSAS

    Xiao-Li Meng, chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

    5 minutes
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    Taking a stand on diversity

    After the Supreme Court announced it will hear a major case on affirmative action in October, Harvard joined 13 other universities to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting considerations of race in college admissions.

    2 minutes
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    Oxford awards honorary degree to Faust

    Harvard President Drew Faust was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University in a ceremony marked by traditions four centuries old on a campus at least twice as old as Harvard’s.

    3 minutes
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    Faust on forest foray

    Harvard President Drew Faust toured scientific sites at the Harvard Forest last week in a visit that marked the first time in decades that a Harvard president visited the 3,500-acre experimental forest site.

    2 minutes
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    Applications for Winter Break grants

    Harvard University President Drew Faust today announced the opening of the 2013 Winter Break grant cycle for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty. Proposals may be submitted online until Sept. 21.

    3 minutes
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    A boost to international learning

    Eight faculty led programs designed to give students international experience have received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.

    5 minutes
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    Extraordinary performers

    A juggling janitor, an inspirational minister, all-star fundraisers, and a dining hall checker were among 49 University employees feted at Sanders Theatre June 5 as Harvard Heroes, a longstanding tradition at the University that returned this spring after a three-year hiatus.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard entrepreneurs weave silk with science

    Harvard University President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship has selected Vaxess Technologies, a company founded by Harvard students, to receive its grand prize. Vaxess Technologies will share the $100,000 to advance social ventures with SPOUTS of Water, Revolving Fund Pharmacy, and School Yourself.

    5 minutes
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    Disorder in the American courts

    In a luncheon address, retired jurist Margaret Marshall, the 2012 Radcliffe Medalist, cautioned that money-mad judicial races may be tipping the scales of justice.

    5 minutes
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    Zakaria offers parting words

    Delivering Harvard’s Commencement address, journalist Fareed Zakaria told members of the Class of 2012 to trust themselves as they journey into a world that is more peaceful and contains more opportunities than ever before.

    4 minutes
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    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

    16 minutes
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    A.R.T. reaps Tony Awards notice

    Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), and her reimagined production of “Porgy and Bess” nabbed 10 Tony Award nominations, and another musical with ties to the A.R.T. grabbed 11.

    4 minutes
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    Stepping up

    A day before graduating, four Harvard seniors receive their military commissions.

    4 minutes
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    Lessons for the lucky few

    In her Baccalaureate Address, President Drew Faust urged graduates of the Class of 2012 to be mindful of their good fortune — and to embrace the responsibilities a privileged education bestows on them.

    3 minutes
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    ‘Voice of public service at Harvard’

    Calling the Kennedy School “the voice of public service at Harvard,” University President Drew Faust welcomed alumni from across seven decades Friday to a special 75th anniversary conference.

    3 minutes
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    Yielding to an invitation

    Nearly 81 percent of students admitted to Harvard’s Class of 2016 have chosen to matriculate at the College. The last time the yield on admitted students reached 80 percent was 41 years ago.

    5 minutes
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    Encouraging a life’s work

    Harvard President Drew Faust met with a new crop of Presidential Public Service Fellows for a candid discussion of what the University can do to promote public service as a career and a calling.

    3 minutes
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    Freedom’s just another word

    The poor often have too many basic choices, which can sap their resources and energy, economist says.

    4 minutes
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    Making commitment count

    A student finds that her involvement in Athena, a gender-empowerment group, has helped to build confidence and community. She has given many hours, and gotten back much.

    7 minutes