Tag: Awards

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    Sanes receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize

    Joshua R. Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and founding director of the Center for Brain Science, has been named recipient of the 2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.

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    ‘Innovative’ teaching is recognized

    Professors Elena Kramer and Martin Nowak have been named the recipients of the 2016 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

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    FAS staff acknowledged for their contributions

    The dozens of FAS staff who gathered in University Hall on March 9 were honored as Dean’s Distinction award winners, with 59 recipients receiving a total of 61 awards.

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    On-the-job excellence

    The annual Harvard Heroes ceremony honored staff members who have displayed, according to President Drew Faust, “ingenuity and grit.”

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    Election of Harvard faculty to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 213 new members. They include several Harvard faculty members. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Mass.

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    Two professors win Wolf Prize

    Harvard professors C. Ronald Kahn and Stuart L. Schreiber have won the Wolf Prize, considered the most prestigious award in science after the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award.

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    A panoply of achievement

    Seven African-American leaders receive Du Bois Medals from the Hutchins Center.

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    They get the job done

    Sixty-four people who selflessly keep the University running are this year’s Harvard Heroes, for demonstrating unwavering excellence within their departments and Schools.

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    Damian Woetzel to receive Harvard Arts Medal

    Ballet dancer, director, and now arts leader Damian Woetzel, M.P.A. ’07, has been announced as recipient of the 2015 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust at a Farkas Hall ceremony on April 30 at 4 p.m.

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    A call for action, and for hope

    Warning of myriad international problems, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Harvard faculty and students to continue research on such issues and use what they learn to help improve living and environmental conditions.

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    A leap across the pond

    College seniors Michael George and Anna Hagen have won Marshall Scholarships for graduate work in the United Kingdom.

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    The power of ‘we’

    Bob Moses, A.M. ’57, the Civil Rights leader who conceived and shaped the effort in 1964 to connect black Mississippi citizens with more than 1,000 out-of-state volunteers in a grassroots voter-registration drive — Freedom Summer, as it would come to be known — returned to his alma mater to receive the eighth annual Robert Coles…

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    Powerful voices

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

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    5 named Harvard College Professors

    Their scholarly interests range from the design of programming languages to health economics to the molecular changes that influence evolutionary fitness. One thing the five faculty members who were awarded Harvard College Professorships in recent weeks have in common is a gift for instilling passion for education in their students.

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    Nine Cabot Fellows named

    Nine professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.

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    GSAS honors four with Centennial Medals

    This year, four prestigious scholars received the Centennial Medal.

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    Students receive Barrett Award

    The Bureau of Study Counsel awarded Keerthi Reddy ’14 and Daniel Wilson ’14 the Joseph L. Barrett Award on May 5.

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    Physics Department wins $1M award

    The Harvard University Department of Physics recently won a $1 million award from the Moore Foundation to study quantum systems.

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    Harvard loves LL Cool J

    LL Cool J, recording artist, actor, author, and philanthropist, has been named the 2014 Harvard University Artist of the Year.

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    Wilson receives Benjamin Franklin Founder Award

    Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson received the Franklin Founders Award on Jan. 17, delivering a speech on Franklin’s 308th birthday.

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    Author Atwood to receive Harvard Arts Medal

    Author, poet, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood, A.M. ’62, will receive the 2014 Harvard Arts Medal on May 1.

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    Duo wins ‘Worlds’ debate competition

    Josh Zoffer ’14 and Ben Sprung-Keyser ’15 have won the 34th edition of the World Universities Debating Championship.

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    Harvard leads in Fulbright awards

    Harvard is the leading producer of Fulbright Scholars for 2013–14, with 44 students — 32 from Harvard College and 12 from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences — receiving the prestigious grants to conduct research or teach abroad. Of the 44, 39 accepted the awards.

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    Six alums honored for service

    Five alumni were recognized with Harvard Alumni Association Awards at a ceremony on Oct. 24.

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    Two named Aloian Memorial Scholars

    Kathryn Walsh ’14, of Adams House, and Roland Yang ’14, of Kirkland House, have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.

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    Malala Yousafzai is Harvard Humanitarian of the year

    Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old Pakistani girl who was shot on Oct. 9, 2012, in an assassination attempt for expressing her philosophy of gender equality in education and who famously said, “I want every girl, every child, to be educated,” will receive the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award.

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    Staffer wins Hollywood Book Festival grand prize

    Jonathan Womack, a media technician at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, took home the grand prize at the Hollywood Book Festival for his sci-fi novel “A Cry for a Hero.”

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    Japan cultural agency honors Bestor

    Theodore C. Bestor, the Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, has received the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Award for the Promotion of Japanese Culture from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan.

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    Lepore to deliver Radcliffe lecture Sept. 10

    Award-winning author and Harvard Professor Jill Lepore will talk about her latest title, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” on Sept. 10 at the Radcliffe Institute.

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    Postdoc wins Runyon Fellowship

    Michael A. Cianfrocco, a postdoctoral fellow in molecular and cellular biology, has been named a fellow by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

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