Featured series 
Month: September 2009
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Campus & Community
Davis Center announces 2009-10 visitors and award recipients
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics’ fellows and senior scholars
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has announced its new fellows and senior scholars for 2009-10. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.
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Campus & Community
Houghton adds 2,000th finding aid to OASIS Catalog
Houghton Library, Harvard’s main rare book and manuscript depository, has vast holdings collected over centuries. Yet until these available resources are cataloged, they are considered “hidden collections” — difficult to find.
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Campus & Community
Parmigiani and Dominici named professors of biostatistics at HSPH
Giovanni Parmigiani and Francesca Dominici have been named professors of biostatistics at HSPH.
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Campus & Community
IOP’s resident, visiting fellows for fall
The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its six resident fellows and three visiting fellows for the fall semester.
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Campus & Community
Oil workshop illuminates complex issue for teachers
Elementary and high school teachers attend a weeklong Harvard workshop on oil and the economic, political, and environmental issues that accompany it.
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Science & Tech
Two centers join fellowship programs
The Berkman Center and the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS) have joined their fellowship programs for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Taking the next step
Melissa McCormick reflects on her journey from modern dance to her current position as a newly tenured professor of Japanese art and culture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Nation & World
Bringing science back to Liberian classrooms
Adam Cohen, assistant professor in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Ben Rapoport, a student at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are bringing science to war-torn Liberia.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus
Harvard’s new American Repertory Theater director Diane Paulus ’88 takes a classic Shakespeare comedy for a spin on the disco floor with “The Donkey Show.”
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Arts & Culture
Child psychiatrist pens her past
Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport uncovers a relationship with the mother she scarcely knew in her powerful familial memoir. Infused with accounts of treating her own teenage patients, Rappaport plumbs the bond between parents and children while closing in on healing.
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Campus & Community
Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care
In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts.
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Arts & Culture
Helping others thrive
As the new executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program, Shelly Lowe plans to help Native American students utilize the resources that are available to them through the University.
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Campus & Community
Chairs, tables, performances come to the Yard
To enhance the Harvard community’s campus experience, the University will install tables and chairs within Harvard Yard and the Radcliffe Quad and host open-air performances.
