Tag: Awards & Honors

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    HKS presents Roy Family Environmental Award

    Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) will present the 2009 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership to the Mexico City Metrobus, a bus rapid transit system that reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while improving the quality of life and transportation options in one of the largest cities in the world.

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    Lloyd M. Aiello receives Alpert Prize for preventing blindness in diabetic patients

    Lloyd M. Aiello, a Harvard Medical School clinical professor of ophthalmology at Joslin Diabetes Center’s Beetham Eye Institute, will receive the 2008-09 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize on Sept. 29.

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    Greyser honored by Institute for Public Relations

    Steven A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received a special award for his contributions to public relations education and research from the Institute for Public Relations.

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    Five Harvard graduate students receive Julius B. Richmond Fellowships

    Five Harvard graduate students have been named to receive Julius B. Richmond Fellowships from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

  • Arts & Culture

    Longfellow online exhibition recognized by ACRL

    The ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section has selected the online exhibition “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200” as a winner of the 2009 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Award.

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    Davis Center announces 2009-10 visitors and award recipients

    The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.

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    The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics’ fellows and senior scholars

    The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has announced its new fellows and senior scholars for 2009-10. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.

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    Akpan named to Hermann Trophy Watch List

    For the second consecutive season the National Soccer Coaches Association of America has named Andre Akpan ’10 to the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy Watch List.

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    Newsmakers

    FAS CONFERS 17 MIND, BRAIN, AND BEHAVIOR CERTIFICATES; ‘REMEMBERING AWATOVI’ WINS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER AWARD

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    M-RCBG, HKS announce Dunlop awards

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has announced that Vivek Viswanathan and Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart are the 2009 recipients of The John T. Dunlop Thesis Prize in Business and Government, awarded to the graduating senior who writes the best thesis on a challenging public policy issue at…

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    Harvard-Yenching Institute’s 22 visiting scholars, fellows

    The Harvard-Yenching Institute has selected 22 visiting scholars and fellows from major universities in Asia. Established in 1928, the Harvard-Yenching Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia, with special attention to the study of Asian culture. The group of visiting scholars and fellows includes faculty members and advanced graduate students…

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    Bhat and Holland named Fisher Prize winners

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Harvard College senior Shubha Lakshmi Bhat and Alisha Holland, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, are the 2008-09 recipients of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.

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    Committee on African Studies awards 51 summer travel grants

    Through its Africa Initiative, the Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded 51 grants to Harvard students for travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2009. The grants fund internships, language study, senior thesis research, master’s thesis research, and doctoral dissertation research. Twenty-four undergraduates and 27 graduate students were awarded grants, the largest number…

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    Six faculty named Cabot Fellows

    Six professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards recognize tenured faculty members for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history, or art, broadly conceived.

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    O’Connor marks women’s progress in legal profession

    Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, turns 80 years old next year. O’Connor — chipper, funny, and precise — spoke at a luncheon sponsored annually by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which awarded the former justice its Radcliffe Medal.

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    Calla Videt explores ‘the space between’

    During a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, film director Mike Nichols told students that professional training begins in youth when a person does what he or she loves 10,000 times before even thinking about the arc of a career.

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    Barnard College honors Winter

    Irene Winter, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, was honored on May 20 with a medal of distinction from Barnard College at commencement.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard Department of Music announces $226,000 in fellowships

    The Music Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and lifelong love of music.” This year’s recipients are David Sullivan and Karola Obermüller.

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    Weatherhead Center presents doctoral candidates with research grants

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has selected 11 Harvard doctoral candidates to receive pre- and mid-dissertation grants to conduct research on projects related to international, transnational, global, and comparative studies. In addition, the center is awarding four foreign language grants to doctoral students to assist them in their field research. The recipients, along with…

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    Certificates awarded by DRCLAS

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded nearly 20 certificates in Latin American Studies in 2009.Undergraduates from multiple academic departments and doctoral students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences received certificates. To be eligible, students must complete an approved course of study as a part of their work toward…

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    CES awards travel grants for research

    The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) continues its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe. Nearly 30 undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships in Europe this summer, while 18 graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations over the coming year.

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    GSAS awards medal to four for service, scholarship

    For 20 years now, 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. This year’s recipients: an art historian who encouraged viewers to simply look; a historian who explored the worldwide impact of slavery; an economist…

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    Richardson Fellows focus on public service

    The Class of 2009 recipients of this year’s Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will be working on legal issues affecting immigrant guest workers, providing support for young people in a Palestinian refugee camp, and assisting residents of a New Orleans neighborhood to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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    Extension School recognizes outstanding work, presents awards

    The Harvard Extension School has announced student prize and faculty award winners for 2009.

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    Asian studies centers, institutes announce grant recipients

    The Harvard Asia Center, the Harvard China Fund, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative are pleased to announce the recipients of student grants for summer 2009 and academic year 2009-2010.

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    Hoopes winners recognized for outstanding scholarship

    The following Harvard College seniors have been named Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winners for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19. The recipients, including their research and advisers, are as follows:

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    2008-09: A look back

    As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at highlights of the year that was.

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    HBS students honored for service to the School, society

    Six members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2009 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award. The recipients, who will be recognized by HBS Dean Jay Light at Commencement ceremonies this afternoon (June 4) on the HBS campus, are Andrew Goldin, Garrett Smith, and the team of Rye Barcott,…

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    Radcliffe’s Fay Prize awarded to Norman Yao for pioneering research

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named Harvard math and physics concentrator Norman Yao ’09 the winner of its 2009 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Yao was selected for the quality and potential impact of his senior thesis, which describes a breakthrough scientific technique he developed to measure the properties of neurofilaments,…

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    O’Connor named Radcliffe Medalist

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced that Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, will be awarded the 2009 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 5). Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute, will give opening remarks…