The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.
Divinity School professor Kimberley C. Patton has received an award for excellence in religion for analytical-descriptive studies from the American Academy of Religion for her book “Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity.”
Harvard will once again serve as the host of the weekly New England Football Writers luncheons, which will be held each Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., from Sept. 8 to Nov. 17.
Harvard reshuffles its retirement fund lineup, trimming the number of individual options while introducing adaptive “lifecycle funds.” The University will allow investment-savvy employees to invest in thousands of additional mutual funds through a new brokerage account option.
John Case Nemiah, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at both Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School, died on May, 11 2009, at the age of 90, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Widely beloved as a teacher, editor, academic leader and friend, he served as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1968 to 1985.
On November 25, 2009, Dr. Robert Moors Smith died two weeks before he would have been 97. A pioneer of modern anesthesia practice, he was considered the “Father of Pediatric Anesthesiology” in the United States.
President Drew Faust invites the Harvard community to join her and Charlie Gibson, former host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” and now a visitor at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, for a year-opening conversation on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
Harvard’s pre-orientation programs point incoming freshmen to the city, the country, and the campus in an effort to give students a head start on adjusting to college life by building community through the outdoors, the arts, and more.
Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to experiment, learn, and discover.
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first Morning Prayers of the new school year with a message of inclusion for both the University and its students.
Harvard goes into overdrive in the summer months with a new crop of students ready to learn, and a variety of outreach programs developed for the local community.
As of Sept. 1, members of the Harvard community will have everything they need to know about the University in the palms of their hands. Harvard has launched a strategic mobile initiative to package content from across the University for display on handheld devices.
Harvard researchers working with NASA’s Kepler satellite reported Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away…
The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and Harvard Medical School link chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus
Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.
Felda Hardymon, M.B.A. ’79, the M.B.A. Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association.
The Harvard Management Company’s most recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission details changes in holdings, as is routine, but no change in policy. The University has not…
Harvard graduate Alexander J. Berman ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Russia in filmmaking, the Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.