Tag: Harvard News

  • Nation & World

    New VP for human resources

    Marking the culmination of a national search, Manuel Cuevas-Trisán has been appointed Harvard’s new vice president for human resources.

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    Manuel Cuevas-Trisán.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Network Propaganda’ explored

    “Network Propaganda,” which is based on a three-year study, examines American politics and the media ecosystem surrounding the 2016 presidential election.

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    The ruse of ‘fake news’

    In a recently published study, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Matthew Baum and Northeastern University Professor David Lazer, an associate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, argue that a multidisciplinary effort is needed to understand better how the Internet spreads content and how citizens process the news and information they consume.

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    Small media, big payback

    Researchers found that if just three outlets write about a particular major national policy topic, discussion of that topic across social media rises by more than 62 percent.

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    The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered

    Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.

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    Tracking your friends and idols

    Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.

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    A complicated Lincoln

    A collection of scholars painted a complex, complicated, and rich picture of the nation’s 16th president during a two-day symposium at Harvard April 24-25.

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    Understanding health care reform

    With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.

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    The future of news

    Experts in print, television, and the social media look at the troubled present of news, and peer ahead at its future.

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    MessageMe test Thursday, Oct. 22

    Harvard will conduct the semiannual test of its emergency notification system, MessageMe, Thursday (Oct. 22).

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    Q&A on Harvard’s financial report

    Harvard University’s treasurer, Jim Rothenberg, and its chief financial officer, Dan Shore, discuss the annual report and the lessons learned in a tough economic climate.

    12 minutes
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    Five FAS faculty members receive tenure

    Five FAS faculty members have been named full professors with tenure.

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    Print directories canceled

    This fall, Harvard’s traditional phone directories are going the way of the dinosaurs, with paper savings measured in tons.

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    Executive Vice President Lapp brings experience to Harvard

    In high-profile positions in New York and at the University of California, Harvard’s new executive vice president established a reputation as a collaborative leader with a knack for creative problem-solving.

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    Mobile kiosk links Harvard arts events; inspires digital artists

    Passersby will soon be able to access current cultural events at Harvard through the Mobile Information Unit, an innovative, cross-disciplinary research project designed and fabricated by Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) students.

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    Deadlines for summer online Harvard Gazettes

    This summer the Gazette will publish two online issues — on July 23 and Aug. 20. The deadline to get copy into the July 23 issue is July 16; the deadline for the Aug. 20 issue is Aug. 13. The first print issue of the academic year — in the Gazette’s new, redesigned format —…

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    Highlights from a memorable Commencement

    On June 4, administrators sighed with relief at the weather, speakers went over their notes, and graduates congregated in black-tasseled flocks alongside a rainbow of professors in their own caps and gowns. Meanwhile, the Harvard Gazette staff fanned out across the campus on Commencement day to pick a rainbow of their own — colorful accounts…

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    Harvard Board of Overseers election results

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association on June 4 announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 358th Commencement. The six newly elected Overseers follow:

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    O’Connor marks women’s progress in legal profession

    Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, turns 80 years old next year. O’Connor — chipper, funny, and precise — spoke at a luncheon sponsored annually by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which awarded the former justice its Radcliffe Medal.

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    Martha Minow named dean of Harvard Law School

    Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become the dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, President Drew Faust announced today (June 11).

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    As the Civil War finally ends, a relieved, sad, graduation day

    The Commencement of 1865 and the day of commemoration that followed it hold a unique spot in Harvard history. Though some military actions were still taking place, the Civil War had essentially ended in April of that year. John Langdon Sibley, head librarian at Harvard, wrote in his diary that there had already been a…

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    HAA President Morris hands off to Alvarez-Bjelland

    Last spring, as Walter Morris ’73, M.B.A. ’75, prepared to become president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), he was eagerly anticipating his 35th class reunion. For Morris, this reunion was another cherished opportunity to renew old friendships, and, in many instances, an occasion to build new ones. Class reunions are the HAA’s flagship alumni…

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    Ernest May, Harvard professor and eminent historian of international relations, dies at 80

    Ernest May, a renowned historian of international relations and foreign policy and professor of history at Harvard University, died on June 1 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from complications following surgery, according to his family. He was 80.

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    Groundbreaking professorship in LGBT studies

    Harvard has received a $1.5 million gift from the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) to endow the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality. Harvard Overseer Mitchell L. Adams ’66, M.B.A. ’69, will inform participants at the annual HGLC Commencement dinner that a campaign spanning several years has reached its goal. Named after…

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    HDS grad hopes to alter military culture

    Lukas Filler likes a challenge. One of the 6-foot-5-inch former competitive swimmer’s favorite pastimes is surfing … in the New England winter … before dawn.

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    358th Commencement: Harvard confers 6,777 degrees and 81 certificates

    Today the University awarded a total of 6,777 degrees and 81 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,562 degrees.

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    O’Connor named Radcliffe Medalist

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced that Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, will be awarded the 2009 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 5). Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute, will give opening remarks…

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    Matt Lauer anchors Class Day festivities

    Matt Lauer, co-anchor of NBC News’ “Today,” delivered the 2009 Senior Class Day speech in Tercentenary Theatre on Wednesday (June 3) under a canopy of green leaves and slightly overcast skies. With a joke-filled address that had the large crowd frequently in stitches, the accomplished journalist proved he is also an accomplished stand-up comedian.

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    Commencement orators talk the talk

    A journalist, a landscape architect, and a Latin scholar are today’s Commencement orators. They fulfill a University tradition dating back to 1642. They also embark on three journeys that hint at the wide array of academic paths leading outward from Harvard.

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    Sobering poems, more sobering oration mark PBK

    Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) chapter first met in 1781, two years before the end of the Revolutionary War.

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