Tag: Awards & Honors

  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.

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  • Campus & Community

    HAA honors four Aloian Scholars

    In honor of the Aloian Memorial Scholarships program’s 25th anniversary, the Harvard Alumni Association has selected four students to receive Aloian scholarships. They will be honored on Sept. 27.

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    Lawrence Bobo honored by ASA

    Lawrence D. Bobo has won the American Sociological Association’s Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Social Psychology.

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  • Campus & Community

    Researchers awarded NARSAD grants

    The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation announced $11.9 million in new research grants, strengthening its investment in the most promising ideas to lead to breakthroughs in understanding and treating mental illness, including 19 grants to Harvard researchers.

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  • Campus & Community

    APA honors book on literacy

    “Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children” by Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Meredith Rowe, and Emily Dexter has won the 2013 Eleanor Maccoby Award by the American Psychological Association.

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    Nine professors named 2012 Cabot Fellows

    Eight professors were named 2012 Cabot Fellows to honor their excellent publications.

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    HMS, Dana-Farber scientists receive 2012 Alpert Prize

    HMS faculty Kenneth Anderson, Paul Richardson, and Alfred Goldberg are three of four researchers being honored for their research and development of a pioneering cancer drug.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Strong showing for musicals with A.R.T. ties

    “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Once” — two shows with pre-Broadway origins at the American Repertory Theater — had a boffo night at Sunday’s Tony Awards, taking home the prizes for best musical revival and best musical, respectively.

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    Jain receives 2012 Science of Oncology Award

    Rakesh Jain received the 2012 Science of Oncology award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, recognizing his three decades of pioneering work in the field of oncology.

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  • Campus & Community

    HMS publication recognized in national design competition

    “Frontiers in Ophthalmology,” a comprehensive report of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, won a national design competition for its 2012 publication.

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  • Campus & Community

    Extraordinary performers

    A juggling janitor, an inspirational minister, all-star fundraisers, and a dining hall checker were among 49 University employees feted at Sanders Theatre June 5 as Harvard Heroes, a longstanding tradition at the University that returned this spring after a three-year hiatus.

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  • Campus & Community

    Fletcher Awards announced

    The Committee on Regional Studies — East Asia (RSEA) announced the recipients of the 2012 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Awards.

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  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe recognizes top theses

    The Captain Jonathan Fay Prize is awarded annually to the graduating Harvard College senior who has produced the most imaginative work or original research in any field.

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    HAA announces Harvard Medalists

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Charles W. Collier, Ellen R. and Melvin J. Gordon, Harry L. Parker, and Susan S. Wallach the recipients of the 2012 Harvard Medal.

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    Center for European Studies funds undergraduate research

    The Center for European Studies recently announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.

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  • Campus & Community

    GSAS honors its leading alumni

    The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually during Commencement week to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.

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    Four from HBS win Dean’s Award

    Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2012 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty honored with PBK Teaching Prizes

    The Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota Chapter of Massachusetts announced three recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Excellence in Teaching for this academic year.

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    Biostatistics honors Begg

    Harvard’s Department of Biostatistics announced that Melissa D. Begg will be the first recipient of the newly established Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.

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    Prizes awarded for Jewish studies

    The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard announced the recipients of the 2012 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2012 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

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    ‘Continential Divide’ awarded

    The American Philosophical Society awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize for the best book in cultural history published in 2010 to Amabel B. James Professor of History Peter E. Gordon.

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