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Harvard faculty members net MacArthur fellowships
Three biologists — one current and two future faculty members at Harvard — have won MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants, $500,000 no-strings-attached awards intended to encourage creativity, originality, and innovation in a broad array of fields.
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Safra Foundation accepting fellowship applications
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard is currently seeking applications for its Faculty Fellowships in Ethics program for the 2009-10 academic year. Applications are invited from teachers and scholars who wish to develop their ability to address questions of moral choice in the professions and public life more generally. Applicants should…
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GSD names Loeb Fellows for 2008-09
The following mid-career practitioners, leaders in the effort to improve the quality of the built and natural environment, will be in residence at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations names associates, fellows
The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has announced its 16 Program Associates and Advanced Research Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year. This year’s class of Program Associates includes scholars, professors, government officials, businesspeople, and journalists from Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
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Du Bois Institute announces new fellows
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, has announced the appointment of 18 new institute fellows for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Weatherhead names new class of fellows
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) recently announced its 2008-09 class of fellows. Each year, the WCFIA fellows program brings senior-level international-affairs professionals to Harvard, where they conduct focused, independent research and also interact intensively with the academic community, including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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HUCTW childcare fellowships available
The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) has announced that applications for the 2009 Childcare Fellowship are now available for download at www.huctw.org/fund_childcare/2009_application.pdf. The fund covers a portion of day care, after-school care, and vacation/summer day camps.
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Safra Ethics Center welcomes fellows, senior scholars
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics welcomed its new fellows and senior scholars for the 2008-09 academic year. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.
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Davis Center announces 2008-09 award recipients
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has announced its fellowship, prize, research travel grant, and internship recipients for the 2008-09 academic year.
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In brief
Harvard-affiliated study runs in Journal of Community Psychology; Docents sought for Semitic Museum; Habitat for Humanity sale begins Aug. 23; HMS to host second ‘Freecycle’ event, donations sought; HMS to host quantitative genomics conference, poster component; Deadline for first print issue
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Newsmakers
HMS’s Burstein new editor-in-chief of cancer journal; Doctoral student receives prestigious national doctoral fellowship; Two students recognized for innovative solutions; Smith joins Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program; Dept. of Government of awards dissertation prizes; HMNH wins ‘Best Museum’ award; Melanie A. Samuel named Damon Runyon Fellow
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Harvard’s Department of Music announces fellows and award winners
Harvard’s Department of Music recently announced a host of fellowship and award recipients. The Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to graduate students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and lifelong love of music.”
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Twelve grad students named Rappaport Fellows
A dozen talented graduate students from Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Suffolk, and Tufts have been awarded a prestigious fellowship that will allow them to spend the summer helping area public officials address a variety of key issues. The students, who were selected from nearly 100 applicants, will be working as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows…
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HGSE presents Conant Fellowships
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) presented five educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on Monday (June 9). Each of the recipients will receive one year of study at the School.
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In brief
Harvard LGBT reunion event set for September; Modern Greek Studies Program offering Ph.D. fellowship
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DRCLAS awards grants, travel internships
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 130 students traveling to Latin America for research and internships this summer.
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Herchel Smith Research Fellows to begin this summer
The Herchel Smith Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship provides financial support to Harvard undergraduates engaged in scientific research at established research centers and laboratories in the United States or abroad.
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Three seniors will pursue public service as Richardson Fellows
The Class of 2008 recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will help others in locations from South Africa to Brazil, documenting human rights abuses, improving sanitation, and helping young women to gain economic autonomy.
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences names Walter Channing Cabot Fellows
Five professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The awards, given annually, honor distinguished faculty members who have contributed to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art.
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HMS introduces wilderness fellowship
Snake bites, lightning strikes, hypothermia, tick bites, and avalanche injuries are not mishaps you ordinarily associate with Harvard Medical School (HMS), or with life in Boston.
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Kieffer awarded International Reading Fellowship
Michael Kieffer, an advanced doctoral student in language and literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is the recipient of the International Reading Association’s (IRA) Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship.
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Harvard Magazine selects two Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year will be Brittney Moraski ’09 and Christian Flow ?????10, who were selected after a competitive evaluation of writing submitted by student applicants.
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David Rubenstein Fund to support HKS/HBS Joint Degree students
Underscoring its commitment to expand financial aid options for students, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has established the David M. Rubenstein Fund, supporting students enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School/Harvard Business School (HKS/HBS) Joint Degree Program, thanks to a $5 million gift from David M. Rubenstein.
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Radcliffe Fellow, poet Elizabeth Alexander reads
It was show and tell for poet Elizabeth Alexander this week. The Yale University professor of African American studies, a Radcliffe Fellow this year, used a May 5 reading to show the depth and musicality of her poems, short stories, and penetrating essays — and to tell the story of inspiration’s multiple avenues.
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Fourteen awarded fellowships to further artistic development
The Office for the Arts (OfA) at Harvard and the Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2007-08 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship.
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20 faculty members named to 2008 class of AAAS fellows
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, today (April 28) announced the election of 20 Harvard University faculty members and affiliates to its new class of members.
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Cultural creativity in the Ethiopian diaspora
A Radcliffe Fellow this year, Kaufman Shelemay was co-organizer of “Cultural Creativity in the Ethiopian American Diaspora,” a conference held at Harvard this week (April 13-14).
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IOP introduces spring fellows for 2008
Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Harvard Kennedy School has announced its visiting fellows for spring 2008. The three fellows are Elizabeth Edwards, author and political advocate; Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former president of the Republic of Latvia; and Andrew White, president and CEO of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.