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Tag: Awards & Honors
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Campus & Community
South Asia Initiative offers grants for summer
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative (SAI) has raised the profile of South Asian studies at Harvard and internationally; generated interdisciplinary research; sent faculty and students to…
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Campus & Community
Asia Center to support travel for 66 students from Harvard
This summer, the Asia Center will support 66 students traveling to East, South, and Southeast Asia to conduct research, participate in internships, and pursue intensive language study.
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Campus & Community
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies aids student research
The Fairbank Center collaborates with the Harvard University Asia Center to offer undergraduate and graduate student grants for Chinese language study and research travel.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute funds Japanese research, travel
For the 2009-10 academic school year and summer of 2010, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has funded or facilitated the travel to Japan of 112 Harvard students, undergraduate and graduate, and has funded others for language study and research related to Japan, but conducted in other locations, from Cambridge to Moscow.
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Campus & Community
David Rockefeller International Experience Grants Program
In the second year of the David Rockefeller International Experience Grants Program, more than 400 Harvard College students accepted funding for international internships, volunteer projects, study abroad programs, and research opportunities in 53 countries across the world.
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Campus & Community
HEEP awards 2009-10 student prizes
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program recently awarded four prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics.
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Campus & Community
Two HBS professors win prize for sustainability issues in curricula
HBS professors Forest L. Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel share the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for sustainability issues in business curricula.
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Campus & Community
HKS alumni honored
Three accomplished leaders have been named recipients of 2010 Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni awards. The awards were presented during ceremonies at the School on Class Reunion Weekend (May 14-15).
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Campus & Community
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize awarded
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recently awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to 89 Harvard College seniors, in recognition of outstanding research or scholarly work.
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Campus & Community
HBS professor named fellow
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
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Campus & Community
Extension School recognizes outstanding grads
Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes
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Campus & Community
Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows
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Campus & Community
Benefiting society, scholarship
For more than two decades, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded its Centennial Medal to a select group of graduates who have made significant contributions to society and scholarship: David Bevington ’52, Ph.D. ’59, English; Stephen Fischer-Galati ’46, Ph.D. ’49, history; Eric Maskin ’72, Ph.D. ’76, applied mathematics; Martha Nussbaum, Ph.D.…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Business School honors eight for service to society
Eight members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2010 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Campus & Community
Tom Harkin presented with HSPH’s Healthy Cup Award
The Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table recently presented Sen. Tom Harkin from Iowa with the third annual Healthy Cup Award on May 18.
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Campus & Community
Two receive V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded two V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 at its spring reception this month (May).
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Institute awards Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Diana C. Wise
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has awarded its 2010 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Diana C. Wise, a Harvard senior concentrating in history and literature.
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Campus & Community
Trudeau Foundation awards scholarship to Lisa Kelly of HLS
Lisa Kelly, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School (HLS), has been named one of 15 recipients of the 2010 Trudeau Foundation Scholarships, presented by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
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Campus & Community
National Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard
Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Campus & Community
Houghton Library presents Hofer Prize
The Houghton Library recently awarded the 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art to five Harvard graduate students.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation recognizes students, faculty, race relations
Forty-five students, two race relations tutors, and a distinguished faculty member were honored by the Harvard Foundation for exceptional contributions to improving intercultural and race relations at Harvard College on April 30, as part of the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Ceremony and Aloian Memorial Dinner, held in Quincy House.
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Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship announces two winners for 2010
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship in Community and Economic Development, Abigail Pound and Eduardo Andres Berlin Razmilic.
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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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Campus & Community
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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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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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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Harvard Black Men’s Forum presents annual awards
The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF), which pays tribute to the contributions that black women have made to Harvard and to society at large, recognized former Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, among others, at its Celebration of Black Women event on April 29.
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Five from Harvard win DCPS case competition
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.
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Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s…
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Steven Pinker wins George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, was named this year’s winner of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, presented by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
