“Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,” by Ezra F. Vogel, published by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize.
Robert Darnton and Amartya Sen were among nine honored by President Barack Obama as 2011 National Humanities Medalists, while Harvard Overseer Emily Rauh Pulitzer was a recipient of the 2011 National Medal of Arts.
The inaugural HILT Symposium opened a Harvard-wide conversation, engaging faculty and students in dialogue, debate, and the sharing of ideas about pedagogical innovation. The event convened invited members of the Harvard community and presenters from within Harvard and externally who offered interesting and informative perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education, with an emphasis on evidence-based approaches.
Hundreds of undergraduates filed into the Harvard Innovation Lab Feb. 10 for the second annual Start-Up Career Fair. An initiative of Harvard’s Office of Career Services, the fair was an opportunity for undergraduates to meet with representatives from some of the country’s most innovative and fast-growing firms, and to learn about jobs and internships.
A provocative role-playing presentation called “Inclusive Leadership: Managing Successful Teams” was designed to bring attention to workplace inequities, stereotypes, discrimination, and unconscious bias. The session was the second in a series of diversity dialogues.
Representatives of Harvard and many agencies gather to celebrate preserving the affordability of 25 homes in Chapman Arms Apartments in Harvard Square.
All-star Harvard faculty members at “Harvard Thinks Big” dazzled and provoked their audience in 10-minute talks Thursday that framed major questions about happiness, stem cell growth, runaway obesity, and the exploding American prison population.
Provost Alan Garber shares how a new organizational design and strategic direction, recently recommended by the Library Board, will position the Harvard Library to respond to the evolving expectations of the 21st century scholar.
Recording artist, concert performer, and philanthropist John Legend has been named Harvard University’s 2012 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation.
Economics concentrator Pulkit Agrawal ’15 has been awarded a bursary by the University of Warwick International office to attend the Warwick Economics Summit on Feb. 17-19.
Harvard University’s newest residential building at 10 Akron St. in Cambridge has won the Harleston Parker Medal for 2011 as “the single most beautiful building or other structure” recently built in metropolitan Boston.
Actor and director Tommy Lee Jones ’69 is the recipient of the 2012 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust on April 26.
Harvard’s 25th annual Daffodil Days campaign to help raise money for the American Cancer Society is under way through March 1, with gifts scheduled for delivery on March 19.
Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Once a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.
Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.
Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, set to pass the 1,000-point scoring milestone, has other interests too, ranging from volunteer work to crime-fighting technology.
For hundreds of students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, January included financial-planning seminars, classes about the history and politics of chocolate, and workshops on answering tough questions in job interviews.
Harvard recycles, reuses, or composts more than half its waste, but a recent audit shows that there is room to further reduce the more than 6,300 tons sent to landfills each year, according to Rob Gogan, associate manager of recycling services in Harvard’s University Operations Services.
Delivering the keynote address Jan. 29 at the Cambridge Public Library’s 37th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds called for educators to help students “make explicit their own values and build their own ‘beloved communities.’ ”
Tired of the endless cycle of deprivation and overeating? Harvard University Health Services is offering an intuitive eating seminar, and registration is open now.
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