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Year: 2007
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Campus & Community
Toni Morrison named Radcliffe Medalist
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced that author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be awarded the 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 8) at 12:45 p.m. Drew G. Faust, president-elect of Harvard University and dean of the Radcliffe Institute, will provide opening remarks and present the…
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Campus & Community
Michael D. Smith named next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Michael D. Smith, a distinguished computer scientist, admired teacher, and skilled administrative leader, will become the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this July, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced today.
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Campus & Community
Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement’s Morning Exercises
Six men and three women received honorary degrees at this morning’s 356th Commencement Exercises. Biographical sketches of the honorands appear below.
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Science & Tech
‘Digital immigrants’ teaching ‘digital natives’
Students coming into universities today are ‘digital natives’ and fundamentally different in their use of technology than the ‘digital immigrants’ who teach them, according to John Palfrey, executive director of…
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Health
Major progress toward cell reprogramming
Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers and scientists at Whitehead Institute and Japan’s Kyoto University have independently taken major steps toward discovering ways to reprogram cells in order to…
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Campus & Community
Jason Luke
You might not know Jason Luke ’94, but you know his work. He’s associate director for custodial and support services at Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations. That makes him the Commencement superintendent who every June transforms the campus into a well-oiled machine for merriment (and solemnity).
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Campus & Community
Kate Loosian
Kate Loosian is a senior project manager with Harvard Real Estate Services, where she keeps an educated eye on building renovations at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. (She has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame.)
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Campus & Community
‘Life classes’ teach local, global ways to go green
In the offices of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI), there is everything you would expect from that arm of University Operations Services: no-glue carpeting, energy-efficient lighting, high-tech windows, and sensors that adjust ventilation by measuring CO2. But in plain sight, next to one of the recycled cubicles, there is also a toilet. The bowl…
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Campus & Community
Harvard takes the LEED in green buildings
If you could fly in a small plane over Harvard, looking down wouldn’t tell you much about the University’s sustainable buildings.
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Campus & Community
Michelle Gray
Michelle Gray, who has had careers as a cooking teacher and social worker, is a customer service manager at Harvard’s Dunster-Mather combined kitchen operation. One day not long ago, she used a handheld clicker to count the number of people she talked to. The answer: almost 300.
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Campus & Community
Nathan Gauthier
He’s only 31, but Nathan Gauthier has had an adventurous life so far. He spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, studied red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, shot underwater video for NASA, and worked as a fisheries biologist in Washington state and Hawaii.
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Campus & Community
Meghan Duggan
Meghan Duggan knows her way around sustainability. The marine engineer with a master’s degree in facilities management can talk easily about kilowatt hours, solar panels, cogeneration, renewable wood, and high-efficiency lights.
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Campus & Community
The biggest challenge of sustainability: Changing minds
In 1999, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) made plans to move its offices to the Landmark Center, a converted Sears, Roebuck and Co. warehouse in Boston. Danny Beaudoin — the School’s manager of operations, energy, and utilities — was asked to look into sustainable design for the renovation: a realm of low-emitting paints,…
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Campus & Community
Message to the Harvard community from Drew Faust
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Harvard has an important role to play in environmental stewardship. Through research, education, and the planning and development of our campus, Harvard contributes every…
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Arts & Culture
Blodgett Artists-in-Residence named
The Harvard University Department of Music has announced that the Chiara Quartet has been named Blodgett Artists-in-Residence for 2008-11. The Chiara (“clear, pure, or light” in Italian) will be in residence at Harvard for four one-week periods each academic year beginning in October 2008. Recently awarded with the Guarneri Quartet Residency Award for artistic excellence…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 1976 — Before an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre, Senior Professor John H. Finley Jr. — the legendary 72-year-old Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus — gives his final Harvard lecture in “Humanities 103: The Great Age of Athens.”
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Allston Room to extend hours Commencement Week The Harvard in Allston exhibit room in the Holyoke Center Arcade will hold extended hours (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) from June 4 to 8. Members of the University community are invited to stop by for free iced tea and lemonade and to have a look at the…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Gomes accepts honorary degrees The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes has been awarded three honorary degrees this spring, including those of doctor of divinity from The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City and from Lafayette College in Easton, Penn., and the degree of doctor of humane letters from Augustana College…
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Campus & Community
Memorial services
Westheimer memorial set for June A memorial gathering for Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will be held June 29 at 3 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford St. Westheimer died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.
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Campus & Community
Gene Ketelhohn, Cabot House building manager, 60
Gene G. Ketelhohn, the building manager of Cabot House since 1983, died May 26 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 60.
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Campus & Community
Wacker, former Cabot House co-master, dies
Ann MacMillan Wacker, co-master of Cabot House from 1978 to 1984, died May 18. Wacker was married to Warren E.C. Wacker, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus and, from 1971 to 1989, the director of University Health Services.
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Campus & Community
KSG faculty group names recipients of Stone Fellowship and prize
The Kennedy School of Government’s Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group recently announced that the 2006 Stone Fellowship has been awarded to Fan Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy, for her paper “Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? Theory and Evidence of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market.” The Stone Fellowship…
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Campus & Community
Schweitzer Fellows commit to community service
Honoring the legacy of Albert Schweitzer, area graduate students are committing to a year of service with a community agency. In a competitive selection process, 29 students — including six from Harvard — were recently selected as 2007-08 Boston Schweitzer Fellows.
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Science & Tech
Center for Environment announces new fellows
From Sri Lankan tree frogs and Australian algae to the grasslands of East Africa, the research topics of the latest group of Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) Environmental Fellows represent their diverse backgrounds. The five fellows — from five different countries — will begin their work this September, joining the five fellows from…
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Campus & Community
Humanists, scientists, artists among new fellows at Radcliffe
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced the names of 32 women and 19 men selected to be 2007–08 Radcliffe Fellows. The fellows — among them 18 humanists, 13 scientists, 12 creative artists, and eight social scientists — will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Institute announces distinguished alumnae award winners
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named 11 recipients for its annual alumnae awards. Selected by the Radcliffe Institute’s Alumnae Recognition Awards Committee, winners have distinguished themselves in both their service to Radcliffe and in their careers. The awards will be presented and the recipients will speak at the “Women Shaping…
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Campus & Community
Rappaport Institute names fellows
The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston has awarded 12 summer public policy fellowships to graduate students from seven local universities, including five students from Harvard. The fellows will spend 10 weeks working on projects for public agencies and elected and appointed officials. Additionally, they will help design and carry out a seminar series for their…
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Campus & Community
Reischauer’s grant, internship recipients
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has announced its support of 73 undergraduate travel grants/internships and 51 graduate student grants for travel or dissertation research/completion.
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Campus & Community
DRCLAS awards internships, research grants
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring a record number of students traveling to Latin America for research and internships this summer. DRCLAS made a total of 156 summer travel awards that resulted in support for Harvard students across the University.