Tag: Awards & Honors
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Campus & Community
Student papers win Setchkarev Prizes
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded two V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 each at its spring reception this May.
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Hicks’ book ‘Dignity’ honored
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International has selected Donna Hicks’ “Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict” as the recipient of its 2012 Educators Award.
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HGSE student wins literary prizes
Harvard Graduate School of Education student Rebecca Givens Rolland has won two recent literary prize for her prose and poetry.
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Evans wins Welch Award in Chemistry
David A. Evans, the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, was awarded the 2012 Welch Award in Chemistry in recognition of his pioneering research.
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Harvard College Professors named
Five faculty members were recognized for their excellence in undergraduate teaching this week by being awarded Harvard College Professorships.
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A heroic return
After a three-year hiatus, the Harvard Heroes Recognition Program — which celebrates Harvard staff members who make extraordinary contributions “above and beyond” — will return in a ceremony June 5.
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Counter named Living Legend
Professor S. Allen Counter will receive the Museum of African American History’s 2012 Living Legends Award alongside Massachusetts First Lady Diane B. Patrick and baseballer Jim Rice.
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Ragon study is honored
A study by researchers at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard is among those chosen to receive Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards from the Clinical Research Foundation.
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OFA awards undergrad art prizes
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2012.
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AACR honors Alan D’Andrea
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented Alan D. D’Andrea with the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his work in understanding cancer survival and progression.
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Green stars
On April 12, hundreds of staff, students, and faculty gathered to recognize more than 60 individual and team winners at the third annual Green Carpet Awards hosted by the Office for Sustainability.
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Glamour honors Ryu
Harvard College student Annemarie Ryu was honored on April 4 as one of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women.
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18 receive OFA fellowships
The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Office of the Dean for the Arts and Humanities announced 18 undergraduate recipients of the 2012 Artist Development Fellowship.
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Matthews, Silverman are Scientists of the Year
The Harvard Foundation will present the 2012 Scientist of the Year Award to Jessica O. Matthews ’10 and Julia Silverman ’10, co-founders of Uncharted Play Inc. and inventors of SOCCKET, at this year’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference.
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Paulus honored for directing excellence
The American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2012 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.
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Pinkett Smith named Woman of the Year
As a part of its Celebration of Black Women program, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum has selected acclaimed actress Jada Pinkett Smith as Woman of the Year.
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Toft named Fulbright scholar
Monica Toft, associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been selected for a 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. scholar grant.
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HKS presents Neustadt and Schelling Awards
Amartya Sen, one of the world’s most eminent economists and philosophers, has been named one of the recipients of the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.
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Semitic Museum director wins book prize
“Ashkelon 3: The Seventh Century B.C.,” a publication co-written by Semitic Museum Director Lawrence Stager, has won the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize.
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CUNY Law School honors Gates
Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.
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Two recognized with Merck Fellowship
Theodore Betley, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Victoria D’Souza, associate professor of molecular and cellular biology, were recently named as the recipients of the 2011 George W. Merck Fellowship.
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Ph.D. students win Weintraub Award
Two Harvard Ph.D. candidates, Itay Budin and Nicolas Chevrier, were among 13 students awarded the 2012 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.
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Wolff to receive honorary degree
Middlebury College will award Professor Christoph Wolff an honorary degree at their commencement on May 27.
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Vogel wins Gelber Prize for book
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Ezra F. Vogel has won the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.”
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Guardian editor to lecture, receive honors
Alan Rusbridger, editor of the British-based Guardian newspaper, will address an audience of students, faculty, journalists, and members of the public on March 6 at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Five named Sloan Fellows
Five professors have been named Sloan Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Historian’s book a prize finalist
Professor Maya Jasanoff is one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” published by Knopf.
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Eight from Harvard headed Down Under
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has announced fellowship awards to eight accomplished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2012, and to two Australian researchers headed to Harvard.