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Tag: Awards & Honors
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Campus & Community
Gipson to receive Friedenwald
The 12,000-member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected Harvard Medical School Professor of Ophthalmology Ilene K. Gipson as the recipient of the Friedenwald Award.
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Campus & Community
HSPH dean receives highest honor from Cyprus
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Dean Barry R. Bloom has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III, which is the highest honor awarded in the Republic of Cyprus to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the welfare of the Cypriot people.
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Campus & Community
Chu named Kazmaier winner
After having proved herself on the international stage as a two-time Olympic medalist, senior forward Julie Chu recently earned more than a bit of validation as the nation’s top collegiate player by taking home the prestigious Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.
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Campus & Community
Composer Adams to be awarded Arts Medal
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams ’69, M.A. ’72 will return to Harvard to accept the 2007 Harvard Arts Medal as a part of the Arts First weekend festivities (May 3-6). Adams will take part in a variety of forums that will provide opportunities to learn about his artistic accomplishments firsthand, including a lecture by the…
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Campus & Community
Bazerman receives lifetime achievement award
Max H. Bazerman, Harvard Business School’s Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program.
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Campus & Community
Singer Prize to acknowledge teachers’ impact
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has asked Harvard College seniors to nominate secondary school teachers who have impacted their lives. As part of a new award given by the dean’s office, the Singer Prize for Excellence in Secondary Teaching — funded by the Paul Singer Family Foundation — will recognize the extraordinary work…
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Campus & Community
IBM, Ash Institute create award to recognize innovation in government
IBM and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the creation of a $100,000 award program to recognize the world’s most transformative government programs.
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Arts & Culture
BMF to honor actress Allen as Woman of the Year
The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) will present the 2007 Woman of the Year award to acclaimed actress, producer, director, and choreographer Debbie Allen. The presentation of the 2007 award — scheduled for March 10 at the Boston Fairmount Copley Hotel — will be the highlight of the 13th annual “Celebration of Black Women: Honoring…
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Campus & Community
MIND recognizes Cure Alzheimer’s Fund with first philanthropic award
Established in 2001 by members of the Harvard Medical School faculty, the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) recently recognized the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund with its first Philanthropic Innovation and Investment Award. The award recognizes donors who have made substantial commitments to visionary work that cannot be funded through other sources but has the potential…
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Campus & Community
KSG student awarded prestigious press award
Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student Sareena Dalla was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation scholarship at the foundation’s annual scholarship luncheon in New York City. A panel of leading journalists selected Dalla (and 11 others) from a pool of applicants representing 65 colleges and universities.
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Campus & Community
Fryer awarded Sloan Award
Assistant Professor of Economics Roland Fryer Jr. recently received the prestigious Sloan Award in the field of economics.
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Campus & Community
Hart honored for research on entrepreneurship
M.B.A. Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Emerita Myra Hart has been named a recipient of the 2007 FSF-NUTEK Award, an international prize for research on entrepreneurship and small business.
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Campus & Community
‘Redefining Health Care’ collects Hamilton Award
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results,” by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has been awarded the 2007 James A.…
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Campus & Community
Engell wins Ness Book Award
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has awarded its Frederic W. Ness Book Award to James Engell, the Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, for his book with Anthony Dangerfield, “Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money.”
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Campus & Community
HBS-affiliated work named top management book
“From Resource Allocation to Strategy” (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been named the best management book of 2006 by Strategy + Business magazine.
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Campus & Community
Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government established
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Kennedy School of Government has established a thesis prize for a graduating Harvard College senior. The deadline to apply is May 24.
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Campus & Community
Nine Harvard affiliates named Soros Fellows
Nine Harvard-affiliated students are among the 31 recipients recently named Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Soros Fellows receive half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as a maintenance grant of $20,000 per year.
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Arts & Culture
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards (ranging from $100 to $2,500) for relevant research projects.
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Campus & Community
New York City mayor to receive award, deliver remarks at KSG
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, will receive the Pathfinder Award Friday (March 2) from the Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bloomberg will also deliver remarks before an audience of invited guests at the School’s Wiener Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. and will be…
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Campus & Community
Lemann Professor nominated young global leader
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently nominated Tarun Khanna, an authority on strategy and emerging markets and Harvard Business School’s Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, as a Young Global Leader 2007.
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Campus & Community
NSP names Harvard senior Josh Bolian top volunteer
Harvard senior Josh Bolian has been selected Volunteer of the Year out of 550 candidates by the National Student Partnerships (NSP). The nation’s only year-round, student-led service organization, NSP works one-on-one with low-income community members by providing intensive on-site and referral services.
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Campus & Community
Kaplan elected to Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State
Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School Robert S. Kaplan recently joined the select group of academic, business, and government experts who have been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
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Campus & Community
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards (ranging from $100 to $2,500) for relevant research projects.
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Campus & Community
Porter, Teisberg win Hamilton Award for ‘Redefining Health Care’
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results” (Harvard Business School Press) by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School,…
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Campus & Community
HBS’s Sunil Gupta recognized with Berry-AMA Book Prize
“Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run” (Wharton School Publishing), co-authored by Sunil Gupta, Harvard Business School’s Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, has received the 2006 Berry-AMA Book Prize from the American Marketing Association (AMA) as the best book in marketing reviewed that year.
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Campus & Community
HMS meeting to explore HMS fellowship, grant opportunities
The Faculty Fellowship Committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is sponsoring an information session March 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Waterhouse Room (first floor of Gordon Hall) on the subject of invitational research fellowships and grant opportunities for HMS postdocs and faculty.
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Campus & Community
CES welcomes spring fellows
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies has announced the arrival of its 2007 spring fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, and society at Harvard. Visiting scholars play an active role in the intellectual life of the center and the University. While in Cambridge, the scholars conduct…
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Campus & Community
Office for Arts announces spring grant recipients
Sponsored in part by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) grant program, more than 1,000 students will participate in 38 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this spring. Grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
HMS sponsors information session on grants, fellowships
The Faculty Fellowship Committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is sponsoring an information session March 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Waterhouse Room (first floor of Gordon Hall) on the subject of invitational research fellowships and grant opportunities for HMS postdocs and faculty. The meeting will provide information about the Burroughs Wellcome Award,…
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Campus & Community
GSD faculty reel in progressive architecture awards
Office dA, the firm of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Architecture Professor Monica Ponce de Leon and Adjunct Professor Nader Tehrani, together with Aga Khan Visiting Fellow Aziza Chaouni, received P/A Awards – regarded as the world’s top honor for “un-built projects” – at the Center for Architecture in New York City this past…