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Year: 2010
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Nation & World
Softball team falls to Cornell in Ivy League Championship final, 3-2
It was a fight to the finish for the Harvard softball team, but that wasn’t enough for the Crimson as the Cornell Big Red defeated Harvard on May 8, 3-2, to earn the 2010 Ivy League Championship.
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Gokhan Hotamisligil receives honor for the Study of Obesity
Gökhan Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, will receive the prestigious Wertheimer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity in July in Stockholm.
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Sit a spell, and pass the sweet tea
A Southern student reflects on what his expectations were, and how the reality differed, when he moved to Cambridge from Arkansas to attend Harvard.
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Six from Harvard receive Guggenheim Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to six faculty members from Harvard.
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Life of the party
The designated driver campaign is 21 years old. Jay Winsten, an influential force behind the anti-drunk-driving effort, reflects and looks ahead.
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Dean Hammonds appointed to HBCU advisory board by President Obama
Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College and Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Kedron Thomas awarded Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation recently announced Kedron Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as one of 20 recipients of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year.
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From plants to plates
Harvard’s food service operations are a massive undertaking, producing 26,000 meals daily in ways that have to please many palates.
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A first trip, a career opening
History professor Michael Szonyi recounts a career that began when he accepted a job at 17 working in Asia.
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‘Food Is Like Fashion’
Martin Breslin, the Dublin-born director of culinary operations at Harvard’s Dining Services, lives for food.
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Money not cure-all for health care
Analysts from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School for a think tank on health care reform.
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Weissmans support 50 interns abroad
Thanks to the generosity of Paul ’52 and Harriet Weissman, 50 Harvard College students will travel around the globe to explore their career interests and experience new cultures.
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Monica Higgins named professor of education at HGSE
Associate Professor Monica Higgins has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Higgins’ expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and organizational change, and her work straddles higher education and urban public schools.
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William Avison Meissner
William “Bill” Avison Meissner, former Harvard Medical School clinical professor of pathology and emeritus professor of pathology at the New England Deaconess Hospital, died on Dec. 6, 2008, at age 95. Meissner’s expertise was in thyroid, soft tissue, and oropharyngeal tumors.
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Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What are the odds? It is statistically improbable that a Harvard teaching award open to all graduate students for the past four years would go to members of the same department. Adding to that improbability is the fact that the department in question is among the smallest at Harvard: Statistics.
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Tips to help you enjoy 2010 Commencement, come rain or shine
The following services will be in effect at the University on Commencement Day, May 27.
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Nancy Rappaport wins book award
Nancy Rappaport, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has won the 2010 Julie Howe Book Award for her memoir, “In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide.”
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Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design
A year ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) held a three-day international conference on the future of cities. “Ecological Urbanism” drew on disciplines as seemingly diverse as design, cultural history, medicine, economics, and literature.
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Paul C. Zamecnik
Paul Charles Zamecnik, the Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine Emeritus, died in Boston on Oct. 27, 2009, at the age of 96. During a research career that spanned more than 70 years, he made a series of scientific contributions that represented multiple fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Sherry Turkle to give centennial year Lowell Lecture May 14
Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self, will give this centennial year’s Lowell Lecture, titled “The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,” on May 14 (8 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall), hosted by the Harvard University Extension School.
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Five awarded College Professorships
Dean Michael D. Smith announced May 11 that five professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Harvard College Professorships in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.
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The Art of the Sonnet
Stephen Burt, an English professor and renowned poet and critic, and co-writer David Mikics have collected 100 sonnets — the longest-lived poetic form — and offer their insights on each 14-line masterpiece.
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Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It
Richard Tedlow, the M.B.A. Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration, says denial is everywhere — even in business. He examines why leaders let denial threaten companies, and provides case studies of organizations that have met challenges head-on.
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‘The art of seeing things invisible’
“This is a wonderful story of collaboration and imagination,” said Harvard President Drew Faust, moments before cutting a ribbon yesterday afternoon to open the new Harvard Center for Biological Imaging (CBI). The facility,…
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Harvard Gazette uses QR codes as gateway to mobile web portals
The Harvard Gazette has redesigned its mobile version of the Gazette Online, providing QR codes in the most recent print issues of the paper.
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Message delivered
The Civil Rights Movement spurred Harvard President Drew Faust to youthful activism and influenced her choice to become a historian of the American South, Faust told the Harvard Business School’s first-year class, urging students to keep their desire to make a difference at the forefront of their minds.
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Yielding strong results
More than three-quarters of the 2,110 students admitted to Harvard’s Class of 2014 say they will attend the College.
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Film explores military tribunal
A short film based on military tribunals held at Guantanamo Bay examines the legality and morality of the U.S. justice system.
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Neanderthal genome tells a human story
A preliminary draft of the genome of the Neanderthal, our closest evolutionary relative, reveals in exquisite detail how this long-extinct member of the Homo genus relates to modern humans.
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Faculty Council meeting held May 5
At its 13th and final meeting of the year on May 5, the Faculty Council approved next year’s Handbook for Students and Courses of Instruction for the College and the courses for the University Extension School. The council also heard a proposal regarding the administration of final examinations.