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Harvard Varsity Club inducts 54th Hall of Fame Class
Following a pandemic-induced two-year delay, the Harvard Varsity Club (HVC) was finally able to honor the Hall of Fame Class of 2020 last month, in celebrations attended by more than…
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New tools for preventing the next pandemic
In November 2021, researchers in the Botswana lab of Sikhulile Moyo discovered a coronavirus genome that contained dozens of new potentially dangerous mutations. The researchers rapidly alerted the rest of the…
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Three Harvard Chan School faculty elected to National Academy of Medicine
Three faculty members from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — Wafaie Fawzi, Vikram Patel, and John Quackenbush — have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Membership is considered one…
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With conflict in Ukraine, threat of nuclear war is back ‘front and center’
Over the past two decades, there’s been a steady proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. In recent weeks, the threat posed by these weapons has loomed larger, with Russian…
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Harvard Innovation Labs’ ventures selected for Launch Lab X GEO cohort
The Harvard Innovation Labs is welcoming 26 ventures into the 2022-2023 Launch Lab X GEO cohort, a global startup leadership program designed to help early-stage, Harvard alumni-led ventures grow into…
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New sculpture on Harvard Business School campus
Harvard Business School announced today the addition of a new sculpture to its campus, Sentinel (Mami Wata) by artist Simone Leigh, as part of the School’s ongoing outdoor contemporary art…
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Kang-Kuen Ni named Moore Experimental Physics Fellow
Kang-Kuen Ni, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, has been named among the first cohort Moore Experimental Physics Investigators. Each of these investigators is pushing the boundaries…
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Tiya Miles recognized with MCB Nonfiction Award
Massachusetts Center for the Book has named Harvard Professor Tiya Miles the recipient of its Nonfiction Award for “All That She Carried” (Penguin Random House). This National Book Award winner is…
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Former Costa Rican President Alvarado describes his country’s public health successes
The U.S. has a lot to learn from Costa Rica. That message came through loud and clear in a fireside chat with former Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, held…
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HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship announces 2022-23 fellows, appointments, advisers
The Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has announced the Rock Executive Fellows, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Venture Capital Advisors, and Lawyers-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year. Rock Executive Fellows (REF) are comprised of four non-faculty affiliates/practitioners…
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Harvard Business School announces 2022-23 cohort of Executive Fellows
Harvard Business School has announced the cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. With its largest cohort yet, 36, the Executive Fellows Program seeks to leverage the expertise…
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Professor awarded €14 million grant to explore links between undersea volcanos and glacial cycles
The European Research Council has awarded Harvard Professor Charles Langmuir and researchers the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany a €14 million Synergy Grant to explore the…
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At HDS, Buddhist Ministry Initiative fellow seeks a different path
As a child, Venerable Dorjey Dolma was mesmerized by how her aunt, a Tibetan Buddhist nun, wore the maroon monastic robe. It was her admiration for her aunt, and appreciation…
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Following Hurricane Ian, Mass. medical team brings emergency dept. to hospital parking lot
In the wake of Hurricane Ian, with some Florida hospitals closed or damaged and their health care staff exhausted, a team of 37 Massachusetts doctors, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and paramedics traveled near…
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Jay O. Light, former dean of Harvard Business School, dies at 81
Jay O. Light, dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on Oct. 15 at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old.…
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FAS Dean Gay announces cluster search to expand faculty focused on climate
At the first in-person faculty meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since February 2020, Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS Claudine Gay announced a cluster hire of three…
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Harvard Business School launches Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today the formation of the Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, which is both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work it has done…
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Harvard Chan School welcomes new faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has welcomed six new primary faculty members over the past few months: Irini Albanti is a lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management and…
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75th anniversary of groundbreaking moment in Harvard history
When Chester Pierce ’48, M.D. ’52, took the field at the University of Virginia on Oct. 11, 1947 as a member of the Harvard football team, it was recognized as…
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Grad Fest returns for the fifth year
More than 700 graduate and professional school students convened at the Smith Campus Center on Sept. 29 for the fifth annual Harvard Grad Fest. Hosted by the Graduate Student Affairs…
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Learning how to climb to the top, safely
The Arnold Arboretum is celebrating its Sesquicentennial and this year it served as the backdrop for a unique training program aimed at keeping Harvard’s workers safe and its trees healthy.…
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Xiaowei Zhuang wins 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize
Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, has won the 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for making seminal discoveries in cell and neurobiology with…
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Faculty Council meeting — Oct. 12, 2022
On Oct. 12 the Faculty Council voted to approve a revised description for the Standing Committee on Women and heard the Dean’s Annual Report to the Faculty. In addition, the…
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Harvard Business School announces 2022-2023 Kaplan Fellows
Harvard Business School has announced this year’s recipients of the Robert S. Kaplan (M.B.A. 1983) Life Sciences Fellowship. Established in 2008, the fellowship was created by Robert S. Kaplan, who…
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Confronting the challenges of long COVID
When Jessica Lovett developed long COVID, her fatigue was so severe that she could not move her body. “I was a first-time mom, and I had a 2-year-old son,” she said.…
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Experience the world at Harvard
At any given time of year, Harvard is home to lectures, seminars, and exhibits on topics of immense global importance — from public health to the climate crisis to the…
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Is new malaria vaccine world-changing? Maybe.
A new vaccine for malaria developed by scientists at the University of Oxford was up to 80 percent effective at preventing disease in young children, according to trial results published in early September. Dyann…
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2022 Aloian Memorial Scholarship winners announced
The Harvard Alumni Association has named Stephany Zhivotovsky ’23 of Cabot House and Adam Aleksic ’23 of Kirkland House as this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars. Each year…
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Jarad Mason named Moore Inventor Fellow
Jarad Mason, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named one of the Moore Inventor Fellows. Launched in 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, a…
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Nine Harvard scientists win NIH grants
Nine scientists from Harvard are among the 103 who have been selected in four categories to receive more than $200 million in grants over five years through the National Institutes…