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Tag: Awards & Honors
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Robert Putnam receives National Humanities Medal
President Obama awarded Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, with the 2012 National Humanities Medal. Also receiving the award was a former Overseer and former faculty member at the Graduate School of Design.
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Campus & Community
Jesse Berlin to receive Lagakos Award
The Harvard Department of Biostatistics has announced that Jesse Berlin will be this year’s recipient of the annual Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Campus & Community
College alumna receives Opel Award
The 2013 Jane Rainie Opel Award was presented to Christin McConnell ’03 during a ceremony on Radcliffe Day.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute funds student research, travel in Japan
Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RI) promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.
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Campus & Community
GSAS honors four alumni
The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually on the day before Commencement to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.
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Campus & Community
Korea Institute funds research, study, and work
The Korea Institute at Harvard University promotes the study of Korea and brings together faculty, students, scholars, and visitors to create a leading Korean studies community at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Extension School recognizes outstanding grads
Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and exceptional faculty with numerous awards and prizes. Recipients may demonstrate outstanding initiative, character, and academic achievement; show dedication to the arts or public service; or, in regard to faculty, be lauded by their students for excellence in teaching.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe honors three with Fay Prize
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to three graduating seniors whose theses set forth the most imaginative work and original research.
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Campus & Community
Fairbank Center aids student research
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies supports graduate and undergraduate students in advancing their Chinese language skills and conducting research focused on China-related topics. In 2012-13 the Fairbank Center assisted…
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Campus & Community
Four from HBS win Dean’s Award
Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2013 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Campus & Community
Three win Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching
The PBK Literary Exercises focus on a poet and a speaker every year. But they also provide an occasion for naming honorary members and for awarding the Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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Campus & Community
Students win BSC’s Barrett Award
Ruth Goins ’13 and Kabungo “Yanick” Mulumba ’15 were presented with the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony on Wednesday.
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Campus & Community
Sorensen named trustee of National Humanities Center
Diana Sorensen is one of four new trustees of the National Humanities Center.
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Campus & Community
2013 OFA arts prizes announced
The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2013.
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Campus & Community
Artist fellowships awarded
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Office of the Dean for the Arts and Humanities announced the 2013 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship.
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Campus & Community
Senior named Churchill Scholar
Harvard senior Tony Feng will use the award to study theoretical mathematics with a special interest in analysis, differential geometry, and physics.
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Campus & Community
Applications open for M-RCBG senior fellows program
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) is accepting applications for its senior fellows program.
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Arts & Culture
Matt Damon to receive Arts Medal
Actor, writer, producer, and humanitarian Matt Damon is the recipient of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard President Drew Faust at a ceremony on April 25 at 4 p.m. at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Three named Damon Runyon Fellows
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, has named 15 new Damon Runyon Fellows, including three from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Doctor honored for work, leadership
Jane deLima Thomas, a palliative care physician and associate director of the Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of five U.S. physicians to receive the 2013 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award.
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Campus & Community
AAAS names 7 fellows from Harvard
Seven faculty from Harvard University are named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Campus & Community
Sen named Chevalier
Amartya Sen, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has been decorated with the title of Chevalier in France’s Legion of Honor.
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Campus & Community
The university’s mission, reaffirmed
As Harvard’s neighbor Boston College celebrates its 150th year, it’s important to reflect on the enduring tension between scholarship for social good and inquiry for its own sake, President Drew Faust said Oct. 10 as she received the college’s first Sesquicentennial Medal.
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Campus & Community
Hans Rosling to receive Humanitarian Award
Renowned international public health scientist and medical statistician Hans Rosling will be awarded the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at Winthrop House on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m.
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Campus & Community
Jorie Graham wins Forward Prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham has become the first American woman ever to win one of the U.K.’s most prestigious poetry accolades, the Forward Prize for best collection.
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Campus & Community
Economist, neurosurgeon win MacArthurs
Raj Chetty, professor of economics, and Benjamin Warf, a neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, are among 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowships, or “genius grants.”
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Campus & Community
Alumni receive Hiram Hunn Award
Alumni active in schools committee work have been honored with the annual Hiram Hunn Award by the Harvard Admissions Office.
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Campus & Community
Losick awarded Horwitz Prize
Richard M. Losick, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard, has been named one of three winners of the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize by Columbia University in recognition of his work to understand the intricate, dynamic, and three-dimensional organization of bacterial cells.
