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Tag: Awards & Honors
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Campus & Community
Shinagel receives service citation
Michael Shinagel, Harvard dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, is the recipient of the 2010 Walton S. Bittner Service Citation from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).
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Campus & Community
Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley
The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School’s John Spengler, and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment.
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Campus & Community
Deadline approaches for John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is accepting papers for a thesis prize for a graduating Harvard College senior.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks papers for 2010
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks submissions for its 2010 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate students with the best essays on Japan-related topics.
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Arts & Culture
From class to Cannes
“Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.
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Campus & Community
Lukas Prize Project Awards announced for 2010
The Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism recently announced this year’s recipients of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction.
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Campus & Community
Paula T. Hammond wins 2010 Scientist of the Year
The Harvard Foundation presented the 2010 Scientist of the Year Award to Paula T. Hammond, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as part of its annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.
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Campus & Community
Two GSAS physics students named Hertz Foundation Fellows
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has awarded Hertz Fellowships to Adam Marblestone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Biophysics Program, and Tony Pan, a theoretical astrophysics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
PBK inducts Class of 2011 members
The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, elected 24 juniors at a private ceremony at Leverett House on April 13.
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Campus & Community
János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration
János Kornai, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard, on March 15 was presented with Hungary’s highest state decoration, the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
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Campus & Community
HBS faculty win McKinsey Awards
Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm…
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Campus & Community
American Chemical Society presents two with awards
Robert J. Madix, a senior research fellow in chemical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Sang-Hee Shim, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with her mentor Martin T. Zanni, an associate professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison, were…
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Campus & Community
Gazette staffer recognized for poetry
Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has been awarded a $5,000 prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. The foundation annually honors poets under the age of 40 whose work celebrates the human spirit.
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Campus & Community
Robert C. Merton receives Kolmogorov Medal
Robert C. Merton, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School and the 1997 co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London.
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Campus & Community
Augustus A. White III receives Tipton award for orthopedic leadership
Augustus A. White III, the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the fifth annual William W. Tipton Jr. M.D. Leadership Award for his work as an educator, mentor, and champion of diversity initiatives.
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Campus & Community
Chicago Tribune wins Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers
The Chicago Tribune has won the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers for “Clout Goes to College,” its evenhanded and thorough investigation of improper influence peddling in the admissions process at the University of Illinois.
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Campus & Community
David Fanning to receive the Goldsmith Career Award
David Fanning, executive producer of “Frontline,” will be recognized for his distinguished broadcast journalism career by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy on March 23 at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Campus & Community
Three HLS students recognized for outstanding writing
Three Harvard Law School students have been awarded prizes for outstanding written work.
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Campus & Community
Six from Harvard named Paul and Daisy Soros fellows
Out of 890 applications nationwide, six individuals from Harvard have been awarded 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
Shinagel wins Frandson Award for ‘The Gates Unbarred’
Michael Shinagel, dean of the Harvard University Extension School, has won the 2009 Frandson Award for Literature, given annually by the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), for his book “The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910-2009.”
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Campus & Community
East Asian Legal Studies announces Yong Kim Memorial Prize for 2010
The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School is accepting submissions of papers for the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the best paper concerning the law or legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia or concerning issues of law as it pertains to U.S.-East…
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Campus & Community
David Armitage named Royal Society of Edinburgh corresponding fellow
David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters.
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Campus & Community
Two from Harvard honored for research in biological sciences
Erez Lieberman-Aiden and Mamta Tahiliani were named the 2010 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award winners for their graduate work in biological sciences.
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Campus & Community
David Mooney elected to NAE
David J. Mooney, a professor at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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Campus & Community
János Kornai Leontief Medal for economics contributions
Former economics professor János Kornai was awarded the Leontief Medal, given annually to several Russian economists and one international economist for contributions to the field of economics.
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Campus & Community
Two Harvard College seniors named Churchill Scholars
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States has awarded two Harvard College seniors Zhou Fan and Yi Sun Churchill Scholarships for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Michael Rabin to share in $1M prize
Michael O. Rabin of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has been named a 2010 Dan David Prize laureate.
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Campus & Community
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation taps seven from Harvard
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded seven Harvard faculty members Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation taps seven from Harvard
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded seven Harvard faculty members Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.