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Campus & Community
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies aids student research
The Fairbank Center collaborates with the Harvard University Asia Center to offer undergraduate and graduate student grants for Chinese language study and research travel.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute funds Japanese research, travel
For the 2009-10 academic school year and summer of 2010, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has funded or facilitated the travel to Japan of 112 Harvard students, undergraduate and graduate, and has funded others for language study and research related to Japan, but conducted in other locations, from Cambridge to Moscow.
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Campus & Community
Harvard China Fund supports student efforts
Established in 2006 under the Office of the Provost, the Harvard China Fund (HCF) is a University-wide “academic venture fund” with three core objectives: partnerships, students, and presence.
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Campus & Community
David Rockefeller International Experience Grants Program
In the second year of the David Rockefeller International Experience Grants Program, more than 400 Harvard College students accepted funding for international internships, volunteer projects, study abroad programs, and research opportunities in 53 countries across the world.
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Campus & Community
CES awards travel grants for 2010-11
The Center for European Studies has awarded senior thesis travel grants to 34 undergraduates and 18 graduate students to fund summer research.
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Campus & Community
Marie-Ange Bunga of HKS starts Congo Initiative at Harvard
Outgoing Harvard Kennedy School student Marie-Ange Bunga started the Congo Initiative at Harvard, aiming to increase awareness about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and hopes her cause will live on in the next generation of concerned students.
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Campus & Community
Reimers appointed to U.S. National Commission for UNESCO
Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and director of the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.
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Campus & Community
FAS names four full professors for 2010-11
The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: David Charbonneau, Matthew Nock, James M. Snyder Jr., and Malika Zeghal.
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Campus & Community
Two HBS professors win prize for sustainability issues in curricula
HBS professors Forest L. Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel share the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for sustainability issues in business curricula.
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Campus & Community
HEEP awards 2009-10 student prizes
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program recently awarded four prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics.
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Campus & Community
Eck speaker for 138th Berea College Commencement
Diana L. Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society and professor of comparative religion and Indian studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was the speaker for Berea College’s 138th Commencement on May 23, and will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
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Campus & Community
Graduate School of Design appoints three to faculty
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named Michael Hooper, Rahul Mehrotra and Joyce Klein Rosenthal to the GSD faculty, effective July 2010.
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Campus & Community
HKS alumni honored
Three accomplished leaders have been named recipients of 2010 Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni awards. The awards were presented during ceremonies at the School on Class Reunion Weekend (May 14-15).
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Campus & Community
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize awarded
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recently awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to 89 Harvard College seniors, in recognition of outstanding research or scholarly work.
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Campus & Community
Eight from Harvard elected to American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, recently elected eight new members from Harvard into this year’s class of scholars.
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Campus & Community
HBS professor named fellow
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
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Campus & Community
Degrees, certificates awarded at 359th Commencement
Today (May 27) 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…
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Nation & World
Changing lives, including her own
A Harvard undergraduate travels to China to visit an orphanage she aided from afar, and sees the impact of her public service.
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Arts & Culture
What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.
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Arts & Culture
An explosion of creativity
The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”
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Campus & Community
Extension School recognizes outstanding grads
Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes
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Campus & Community
Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows
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Campus & Community
HAA names Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the 2010 Harvard Medal: Nina Archabal ’62, M.A.T. ’63, Paul Buttenwieser ’60, M.D. ’64, C. Kevin Landry ’66, and Dean Whitla, Ed. ’60.
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Campus & Community
It’s all about the numbers
Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.
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Campus & Community
Alumni support financial aid
For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students applied to the College; 2,110 were accepted into the Class of 2014. More than 60 percent of the admitted students, benefiting from a record $158 million in financial aid, will receive need-based scholarships.
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Campus & Community
Benefiting society, scholarship
For more than two decades, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded its Centennial Medal to a select group of graduates who have made significant contributions to society and scholarship: David Bevington ’52, Ph.D. ’59, English; Stephen Fischer-Galati ’46, Ph.D. ’49, history; Eric Maskin ’72, Ph.D. ’76, applied mathematics; Martha Nussbaum, Ph.D.…
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Campus & Community
Honorary degrees awarded
Harvard will confer 10 honorary degrees today (May 27) during the Morning Exercises.
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Campus & Community
DRCLAS sponsors summer travel in Latin American Studies
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 160 students to travel to Latin America for work, research, and study this summer.
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Campus & Community
Alumni rally behind public service
Outgoing HAA President Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland says the group’s interest in public service is expanding by leaps and bounds. Incoming President Robert R. Bowie Jr. plans to continue strengthening the alumni community.
