Campus & Community

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.

The Center for European Studies has awarded senior thesis travel grants to 34 undergraduates and 18 graduate students to fund summer research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

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…

Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes

Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows

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.

Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.

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.

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. ’75, classical philology.

Harvard will confer 10 honorary degrees today (May 27) during the Morning Exercises.

Marcus Briggs-Cloud believes native language is what connects communities. His time at the Divinity School has helped him strengthen that bridge.

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.

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.

Members of Harvard’s Class of 1950 reminisce about their undergrad years and discuss where their lives went in the 60 years that followed.

Eight members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2010 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

The Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table recently presented Sen. Tom Harkin from Iowa with the third annual Healthy Cup Award on May 18.

Alfred Pope, professor of neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School and senior neuropathologist at McLean Hospital, died on Feb. 13, 2009, at Fox Hill Village in Westwood, Mass., at the age of 94. Pope, one of the world’s most eminent neuropathologists, served at McLean for more than six decades.

James Houghton, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is stepping down from his post at the end of June. He reflected on his long Harvard association during an interview.

Graduating senior Derek Mueller spent a lot of time being theatrical with Harvard’s Hasty Pudding troupe, and is now heading to Los Angeles and the entertainment world.

Raymond Delacy Adams, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Oct. 18, 2008, at the age of 97. Adams was considered by his peers to be one of the pre-eminent neurologists of the 20th century.