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Tag: Awards & Honors
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Campus & Community
Astronomers honored for excellence, research
Harvard astronomers Robert P. Kirshner and Gaspar Bakos were honored this month (Jan.) by the American Astronomical Society.
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Campus & Community
BIDMC’s Pandolfi to receive cancer research award
Cancer geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the recipient of the 2011 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research.
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Campus & Community
Deadline looms for two HMS fellowships
Two fellowships in Harvard Medical School’s media fellowship program are open for applications from reporters.
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Campus & Community
Kafadar nabs Turkish honors
Turkish President Abdullah Gül presented in December the 2010 Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts to Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar for history.
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Campus & Community
NARSAD awards $720,000 to Harvard researchers
Twelve from Harvard are among 214 researchers named NARSAD Young Investigators.
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Campus & Community
Gregory Verdine wins prize for cancer research
Gregory Verdine has won the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.
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Campus & Community
Basketball player earns honors
Harvard sophomore Victoria Lippert earned her first league honors of the season this week (Jan. 3) as she was named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week for her performances last week for the Crimson.
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Campus & Community
Book award named in Middle East scholar’s honor
The Middle East Studies Association announced a new book award named for Professor Roger Owen of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Campus & Community
HSPH professor awarded for diabetes research
Columbia University Medical Center presented the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, the James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and the chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Campus & Community
Rhodes Scholars announced
Three Harvard undergraduates and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named Rhodes Scholars.
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Campus & Community
48 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Forty-eight seniors were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.
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Campus & Community
Harvard prof wins prize for criminology study
The 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been jointly awarded to John Laub of the National Institute of Justice and Harvard’s Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Robert Sampson for their research showing why and how criminals stop offending.
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Campus & Community
Three scholars recognized for music contributions
Three scholars from Harvard’s Music Department received prizes at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Los Angeles in early November.
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Campus & Community
Postdoc fellow wins neurobiology prize
Christopher Gregg, a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, is the 2010 Grand Prize winner in the annual international competition for the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.
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Campus & Community
Harvard professor INET grant recipient
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has selected James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard, and his research partner Steven Pincus of Yale University, to be awarded a project grant through the institute’s Inaugural Grant Program to research the events leading to the British Industrial Revolution.
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Campus & Community
‘Outstanding Women’ honored
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds and Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), received the Outstanding Women Award from the YWCA Cambridge on Oct. 29.
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Campus & Community
Bok Center honors 510
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ deans of undergraduate education awarded an unprecedented 510 certificates of distinction and excellence on Oct. 26 at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.
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Campus & Community
Harvard students win in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Harvard doctoral candidate Alice Chen won first prize in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, while several other Harvard students took home second and third prizes.
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Campus & Community
Alums receive Hiram Hunn Award
The Harvard Admissions Office has awarded the Hiram Hunn Award to eight alumni for their outstanding schools committee work.
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Campus & Community
Two from HBS win award for article
An article by John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld is the first runner-up and winner of an honorable mention for the best paper published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2009.
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Science & Tech
Gabrielse wins Lilienfeld Prize
Harvard Physics Professor Gerald Gabrielse was named the recipient of the 2011 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, awarded by the American Physical Society for outstanding contributions to physics.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Forest director awarded for conservation efforts
The Trustees of Reservations recently recognized David R. Foster with their prestigious Charles Eliot Award at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner held on Sept. 25.
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Campus & Community
Two faculty receive Science of Generosity grants
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Assistant Professor of Psychology Felix Warneken have received grants of $149,000 and $150,000, respectively, from the Science of Generosity, an initiative at the University of Notre Dame.
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Campus & Community
Greyser wins Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School’s Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, has received the 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association in recognition of his “distinguished career contributions to the scientific understanding of sports business.”
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Campus & Community
Toffel awarded for environmental research
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.
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Campus & Community
Three doctoral students receive 2010-11 Julius B. Richmond Fellowships
Doctoral students Erin C. Dunn, Sky Marietta, and Matthew Ranson have been named recipients of Julius B. Richmond Fellowships from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Five SEAS computer science students named 2011 Siebel Scholars
Five students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were named among the recipients of the 2011 Siebel Scholars awards.
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Campus & Community
NARSAD awards professors for breakthrough schizophrenia research
Associate Professor of Psychiatry Marc J. Kaufman and Associate Professor of Psychology Dara Manoach, both of Harvard Medical School, are among 42 innovative researchers awarded NARSAD 2010 Independent Investigator grants for schizophrenia research.
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Campus & Community
Ash Center welcomes 2010-11 student and executive fellows
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College welcomes four Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholars
Four recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship are now students at Harvard College.