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Mossavar-Rahmani Center announces Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize winner
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government awarded the 2019 John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government to Laura Nicolae ’20. Nicolae…
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Sociologist wins dissertation award
Christina Cross, a postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, and incoming assistant professor of sociology, received the 2020 Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association last month. The award recognizes the best doctoral…
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Three recent graduates awarded Taliesin Prize
Recent graduates of the Class of 2020 Catherine Kerner, Cecil Williams II, and Adele Woodmansee received the Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning this week. Kerner concentrated…
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Professor awarded $1.6 million grant to explore quantum matter
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded Harvard Professor Amir Yacoby a $1.6 million Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Initiative grant. The five-year grant will allow Yacoby to…
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Art Museums present virtual ‘Painting Edo’ tours
This week, the Harvard Art Museums launched a collection of online tours of the special exhibition “Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.” The series is made possible through…
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Dana-Farber to test blood cancer drug in COVID-19 patients
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are participating as lead investigators in a clinical test of a blood cancer drug in patients infected with the COVID-19 virus. The test follows several…
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2020 W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute fellows announced
The W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University recently announced the 2020-21 class of fellows. According to Director and…
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Center for Jewish Studies announces Weinstein Prize recipients
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University announced this week the recipients of the 2020 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies. Sonia Epstein ’21 of Eliot House…
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Graduate Commons Program: Supporting Student Parents
Graduate study at Harvard is a full-time job and many students are juggling school, parenting, and homeschooling — all from inside their apartments. Kaitlin Roberson, an Ed.M. candidate at the…
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Star Family Prizes recognize College advisers
Harvard College’s Advising Programs Office awarded 12 advisers from across the University with the prestigious Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising. The Star Prizes were established by James A. Star ’83 to…
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Awardees announced for Lemann Brazil Research Fund
This week, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs announced the 2020 awardees of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund.…
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Art Museums present enhanced digital offerings
This week, the Harvard Art Museums announced a new range of free digital offerings, providing audiences at home the opportunity to engage with the museums while temporarily closed. A newly…
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Cabot Fellows announced
Fifteen faculty members have been awarded 2020 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications: Dimiter Angelov, Dunbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, “The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of the…
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Pandemic resilience: Getting it done
As a follow-up to the “Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience,” which calls for massively scaled up programs of testing, tracing and supported isolation (TTSI) as a means to safely re-open the…
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Faculty recognized for teaching and mentoring
Brandon Terry and Jie Li received the 2020 Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in teaching undergraduates. The annual award is given to assistant or associate professors and was formally announced…
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Graduate Commons Program helps residents ease social isolation
In mid-March when undergraduate students were preparing to quickly leave campus, most Harvard University Housing residents remained in place. The Graduate Commons Program (GCP) continues to serve them to combat…
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Brown-Nagin, Faust set for Radcliffe Day discussion
In celebration of Radcliffe Day 2020 and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin will be joined by Drew Gilpin Faust,…
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Medical School chooses Robert Satcher Jr. as Class Day speaker
Robert Satcher Jr., an alumnus of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and a NASA astronaut, will be this year’s Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of…
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Bryan Stevenson named Law School’s graduation speaker
Bryan Stevenson J.D./M.P.P. ’85, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and best-selling author of “Just Mercy,” will be the speaker for…
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COVID-19 treatment test linked to increased risk of cardiac issues
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a Public Health Concern of Global Interest on Jan. 30, more than one million have tested positive for the illness in the United States,…
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International negotiation goes virtual
When Harvard announced that the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester would be completed online, educators were pressed to alter their carefully-crafted curricula for the digital sphere. For Arvid Bell,…
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Pluralism Project launches distance learning updates
As students and educators struggle with emergency online instruction, and many reluctantly prepare for distance learning in the fall, quality online educational resources have never been more critical. The Pluralism…
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Faculty Council meeting — April 29, 2020
On April 29 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of “Courses of Instruction” for 2020–21 and of the University Extension School courses for 2020–21. They also approved…
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Harvard and Astellas establish strategic research alliance
Harvard University and Astellas Pharma Inc. have established a three-year strategic research alliance to support multiple, multi-year research projects initiated by faculty at Harvard, focused on the research and development…
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Center for Geographic Analysis hosts COVID-19 forum
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves rapidly around the globe, the Center for Geographic Analysis at IQSS is hosting an online forum focusing on time-sensitive geospatial research on COVID-19-related topics. The…
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Study finds immune system changes in multiple myeloma development
Long before multiple myeloma becomes a malignant disease, the collection of immune system cells and signal carriers amid the tumor cells undergoes dramatic shifts, with alterations in both the number…
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Law clinic pushes against regulation rollback
Jason Bell ’21 spent Earth Day helping fight the Trump administration’s efforts to replace the Clean Power Plan — an Obama-era scheme that sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions from…
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Avi Loeb nominated to presidential advisory council
Harvard Astronomy department chair Abraham Loeb has been nominated to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The council advises the president of the United States on…
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Researchers at Arboretum studying ‘cold hardiness’
This year’s dramatically fluctuating temperature cycles from seasonably cold days to atypically warm stretches and back again has affected the life cycles of many species, including plants. At the Arnold…
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Arcadia grant renewal supports climate research
The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past (SoHP) at Harvard and the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine are delighted to announce the renewal of…