Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the establishment of the Kistefos Public Service Fellowship. The fellowship will be funded through a donation of more than $1 million from Kistefos AS, one of Norway’s leading privately owned investment companies.
Eleven incoming Harvard graduate students recently joined 66 other scholars from across the globe to receive scholarships from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. These graduate scholarships cover tuition, room, board, fees, and books — up to $50,000 annually — for up to six years. The scholarships are among the most generous academic awards offered in the United States.
A Chinese vice minister, a senior vice president from Fidelity Investments, and professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston College are among the incoming fellows and visiting scholars at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) this fall.
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its fellows for the fall. These Shorenstein Fellows will work on research projects while at the center.
Internationally renowned Canadian neuroscientist Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine, was recently named the inaugural winner of the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on July 10 at the society’s 116th annual convention, held in Addison, Texas.
Jack Shonkoff, the former dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, has been appointed professor of child health and development at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and at the Graduate School of Education (GSE).
Geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham has been named dean for the physical sciences in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Dean Jeremy R. Knowles announced Aug. 10.
The Kennedy School of Government has announced that Samantha Power has been named Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, the first faculty member to hold the chair honoring the longtime Swedish political and civic leader who was assassinated in 2003.
Jim Yong Kim, a former director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS unit, has been appointed director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). He will become François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the School.
It has been 35 years since Derek Bok was sworn in as Harvard’s 25th president and 15 years since he left office. This July he assumed the presidency for a second time, the only person ever to do so.
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 and Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30…
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities. This year’s awards ceremony will take place during the fall HAA board of directors meeting on Oct. 12.
The Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine, together with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, will co-host a symposium on Sept. 26 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth Ave., in Boston. Admission is free.
The Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation announced that the Rappaport family and foundation have awarded Harvard University $12.35 million to permanently endow Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
Just as Harvard’s many classrooms, labs, and offices got settled into the relatively peaceful pace that tends to mark each summer season here on campus, an army of engineers, contractors, and workers busily moved the earth at Harvard Stadium. And made a mountain.
This year is Rembrandt’s 400th birthday, and to honor the occasion, the Busch-Reisinger Museum has put together an exhibition of nearly 50 of the great Dutch artist’s prints and drawings.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies has announced F. Bart Harvey, chairman of the board of trustees and chief executive officer of Enterprise Community Partners, as well as chairman of the board of Enterprise Community Investment, as its eighth annual John T. Dunlop Lecturer. The lecture will be held in October at the Graduate School of Design in Piper Auditorium.
Beginning next year Harvard College will eliminate its early admission program and move to a single application deadline of January 1, the University announced today (September 12). The change in policy, which builds on Harvard’s efforts over the past several years to expand financial aid and increase openness in admissions, will take effect for students applying in the fall of 2007 for the freshman class entering in September 2008.
In the United States, the best-off people, like Asian women in Bergen County, N.J., have a life expectancy 33 years longer than the worst-off, Native American males in some South Dakota counties – 91 versus 58 years. So concludes the most comprehensive study to date of who dies when and where in this country.’
In the United States, the best-off people, like Asian women in Bergen County, N.J., have a life expectancy 33 years longer than the worst-off, Native American males in some South Dakota counties – 91 versus 58 years. So concludes the most comprehensive study to date of who dies when and where in this country.’
Despite dramatic increases in health expenses since 1960, the return on medical spending is high, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. Studying health and spending trends from 1960 to 2000, the researchers concluded that health care in America has been cost-effective on the whole, although ballooning costs for the elderly are a cause for concern.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Aug. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Beginning in September, the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will present “Sketching After School” — a weekly drawing series for young people between the ages of 8 and 12. Artist and educator Deborah Putnoi, who has degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Tufts University, will lead the sketching activities.
Harvard University graduate students Satoru Takahashi and Gernot Wagner were recently selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as two of 50 outstanding research participants to attend the second Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences. The meeting, held in Lindau, Germany, Aug. 16-19, welcomed winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.
Each year, numerous postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. These include the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program in Aging, and the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Program, among others. Nominations for these fellowships and grants are due Oct. 23.
The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology was recently awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) for $110,000 to help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness.
Nine Harvard College students who graduated this past June and 14 current and former graduate students of the University have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year.
David N. Hempton, a renowned social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America, has been named as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
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