Tag: Awards

  • Nation & World

    Biologist McCarthy nets Scientist of Year Award

    The Harvard Foundation will present the 2009 Scientist of the Year Award to James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and master of Pforzheimer House, at this year’s Annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.” McCarthy will be honored for his outstanding work in climate science…

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    Nieman recognizes Charlotte Observer with Taylor Family Award

    For its coverage of health and safety violations in the poultry industry “The Cruelest Cuts,” the Charlotte Observer has won the 2008 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers, and will be presented a $10,000 prize by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on April 16, 2009.

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    Gwen Ifill of ‘Washington Week’ wins Goldsmith Award

    The winners of the Shorenstein Center’s annual Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism are by definition accomplished. But in listing all the achievements of this year’s recipient, Gwen Ifill, Shorenstein Center director Alex Jones chose to focus on something that is unlikely to find its way onto her resumé.

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    Kou named inaugural recipient of Young Investigator Award

    Samuel Kou, professor of statistics and director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award from Texas A&M University on March 14. Kou was presented with his award as part of “Statistical Methods for Complex Data,” a daylong…

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    President Faust named American Historian Laureate

    Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, has announced that Drew Faust, Harvard’s president and Lincoln Professor of History, will receive the society’s fourth annual American History Book Prize for “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.”

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    HMS presents award to Queen Noor, actor Edward Norton

    The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School (HMS) will present Queen Noor of Jordan and actor Edward Norton with the 2009 Global Environmental Citizen Award. The award, given annually, was developed to recognize those individuals who have been world leaders in protecting the global environment. The award will be presented…

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    Aykroyd honored, student groups featured

    Dan Aykroyd has got Cultural Rhythms and blues. As celebrity emcee of the 24th annual Cultural Rhythms Festival and the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year, a bespectacled Aykroyd dazzled the audience.

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    Harvard astronomer Charbonneau honored with Waterman Award

    David Charbonneau, the 34-year-old Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Astronomy, has been named the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award, and will receive $500,000 over a three-year period for scientific research or advanced study in his field.

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    CYNTHIA FRIEND RECEIVES OLAH AWARD

    Harvard Professor Cynthia M. Friend, the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science, is the 2009 recipient of the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry by the American Chemical Society.

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    Gates honored with Taplin Jr. Public Intellectual Award

    The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has named W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Director Henry Louis Gates Jr. the 2009 winner of the Frank E. Taplin Jr. Public Intellectual Award. Gates is also the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University.

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    HLS mock trial team takes top honors at Black Law Students Association event

    The Harvard Black Law Students Association’s (HBLSA) Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial team won first-place honors at the Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference this February. The team will move on to the National Conference in Irvine, Calif., on March 18.

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    James Franco well-done at Hasty roast

    On the most superstitious day of the year, James Franco got lucky. With his roguish grin and trademark James Dean looks, the actor appeared stunned but happy during his Friday the 13th roast as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year, rubbing his Pudding Pot and declaring, “Now I’ve made it.”

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    Markley named Ivy Player of the Week

    For the third time this season, Crimson basketball forward Emma Markley ’11 has been named Ivy League Player of the Week. Markley had 18 points, 10 rebounds, and two blocks in the Crimson’s 18-point win against Cornell on Friday (Feb. 13). Then, in a 71-74 loss to Columbia on Saturday (Feb. 14), Markley tied her…

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    Detroit Free Press recognized with Worth Bingham Prize

    For their comprehensive series “A Mayor in Crisis,” Detroit Free Press staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick, in addition to their colleagues, are the winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

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    Woodberry curator named Bynner Fellow

    Woodberry Poetry Room Curator Christina Davis has been awarded one of two 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. Davis and the other recipient, Mary Szybist, from Portland, Ore., will each receive a $10,000 fellowship, and both will read from their works in a public event at the Library of Congress on Feb.…

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    Prolific poet John Ashbery ’49 will receive 2009 Harvard Arts Medal

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery ’49 will receive the 2009 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony kicking off the Arts First festivities on April 30.

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    Red Book applications being accepted by Medical School

    Harvard Medical School (HMS) invites junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows to apply for fellowships and grants as part of the spring 2009 Red Book Awards.

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    Civil rights legend recognized for years of service

    At times, the best way to truly honor those who have selflessly and tirelessly served is with a simple “thank you.”

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    Newsmakers

    THREE HMS PROFESSORS ELECTED TO MICROBIOLOGY ACADEMY; STONE ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING; KLEINMAN HONORED BY SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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    Zellweger adds Hasty Pudding Pot to trophy shelf

    Academy Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger proves she is worthy of the shiny Pudding Pot that comes with being named the Woman of the Year by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

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    Bridget Jones is on campus, James Dean on his way

    “You had me at ‘Renée!?????” Renée Zellweger and James Franco have been chosen as the 2009 Hasty Pudding Woman and Man of the Year.

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    Manela AAAS visiting scholar

    Erez Manela, Harvard’s Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, is among eight individuals who have been awarded fellowships as part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ (AAAS) Visiting Scholars Program for 2009. The fellowship program supports scholars and practitioners in the early stages of their careers who show leadership potential in the humanities,…

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    Hoja de Laurel de Oro Award to Barbara and William Fash

    Harvard professors Barbara Fash and William Fash have been jointly honored with the Hoja de Laurel de Oro, the prestigious lifetime achievement award given by the government of Honduras. The award, which recognizes the couple’s 30-plus years of service in preserving and documenting Honduras’ cultural heritage, was presented at the Casa Presidential in the capital…

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    Tribe recognized by American Bar Foundation

    Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School (HLS), is the recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). The annual award recognizes an individual who has engaged in outstanding scholarship in law or in the field of government.

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    AAAS honors seven Harvard faculty with title of ‘fellow’

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science — has awarded seven Harvard professors the distinction of AAAS fellow.

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    Delaney-Smith honored as New England sports hero

    Crimson head women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith — the winningest coach in Ivy League history — was recently awarded the Selma Black New England Hero Award.

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    Wilson receives NCSE’s Lifetime Achievement Award

    Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE).

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    Newsmakers

    Rockefeller Fellows chosen; Hedley-Whyte wins AAMI award; Goldman invited to speak to Homeland Security Council; Steinkeller receives Humboldt award; Counter at Nobel Prize ceremony

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    Women’s hoops recover on homestand

    After a tough loss to Providence by 12 points and another to Boston University by 19, there was one thing the defending Ivy League co-champion Crimson needed: a home game. Nothing proved that more than the way the 4-4 Harvard women’s basketball team bounced back from consecutive losses with consecutive wins to advance to 6-4.…

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    Algebra, topology expert Lurie named professor of mathematics

    Mathematician Jacob Lurie, whose expertise ranges across algebraic geometry, topology, and algebra, has been named professor of mathematics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.

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