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Nation & World
Eight from Harvard elected to American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, recently elected eight new members from Harvard into this year’s class of scholars.
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Degrees, certificates awarded at 359th Commencement
Today (May 27) the University awarded a total of 6,777 degrees and 81 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of…
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Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows
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Honorary degrees awarded
Harvard will confer 10 honorary degrees today (May 27) during the Morning Exercises.
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Harvard Business School honors eight for service to society
Eight members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2010 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Tom Harkin presented with HSPH’s Healthy Cup Award
The Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table recently presented Sen. Tom Harkin from Iowa with the third annual Healthy Cup Award on May 18.
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Alfred Pope
Alfred Pope, professor of neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School and senior neuropathologist at McLean Hospital, died on Feb. 13, 2009, at Fox Hill Village in Westwood, Mass., at the age of 94. Pope, one of the world’s most eminent neuropathologists, served at McLean for more than six decades.
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Raymond D. Adams
Raymond Delacy Adams, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Oct. 18, 2008, at the age of 97. Adams was considered by his peers to be one of the pre-eminent neurologists of the 20th century.
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Harvard Rituals: Class Day
CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour addresses graduating seniors during Class Day ceremonies the day before Commencement.
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Creating worldwide change
A Harvard Kennedy School degree program celebrates a decade of graduates who are having a major impact on international development.
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Harvey Goldman
Harvey Goldman, professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, died on April 6, 2009, from complications of a hematologic disorder. Goldman was not only a master educator, but also an outstanding surgical pathologist and investigator in the field of gastrointestinal pathology.
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Daniel Tosteson
Daniel Charles Tosteson, former dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, died on May 27, 2009, at the age of 84 after a long and courageous struggle with Parkinson’s disease. His 20-year leadership of the Harvard Medical Faculty was marked by innovation, change, and renewal. His…
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In praise of unwanted termites
The star of Africa’s savanna ecosystems may be the lowly insect. Its regularly spaced mounds prove a key to maintaining ecological function in the area.
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Around the Schools: Harvard Art Museum
In 1962, American artist Mark Rothko painted five murals to display in a penthouse dining room in the then-new Holyoke Center on Mt. Auburn Street.
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Two receive V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded two V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 at its spring reception this month (May).
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Take your passport and go, Amanpour says
International TV correspondent Christiane Amanpour urged Harvard College’s Class of 2010 to take time to work overseas, as she addressed Class Day ceremonies on May 26.
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Phi Beta Kappa elects 99
Ninety-nine seniors from the Class of 2010 were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, in the senior final election on May 11.
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Radcliffe Institute awards Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Diana C. Wise
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has awarded its 2010 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Diana C. Wise, a Harvard senior concentrating in history and literature.
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Trudeau Foundation awards scholarship to Lisa Kelly of HLS
Lisa Kelly, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School (HLS), has been named one of 15 recipients of the 2010 Trudeau Foundation Scholarships, presented by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
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Michael W. Shannon
Michael Shannon, the first African-American full professor of pediatrics in Harvard Medical School’s history, died on March 10, 2009, at the age of 55. At Children’s Hospital Boston, Shannon directed the largest pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program in the country and trained subsequent leaders in toxicology and emergency medicine.
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Science for the young set
Harvard hosts students from two Boston schools for some grounding in the importance and attraction of basic science.
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National Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard
Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors
The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Stephen Burt, Peter Der Manuelian, David Howell, Martin Puchner, and Gu-Yeon Wei.
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Houghton Library presents Hofer Prize
The Houghton Library recently awarded the 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art to five Harvard graduate students.
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Harvard Foundation recognizes students, faculty, race relations
Forty-five students, two race relations tutors, and a distinguished faculty member were honored by the Harvard Foundation for exceptional contributions to improving intercultural and race relations at Harvard College on April 30, as part of the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Ceremony and Aloian Memorial Dinner, held in Quincy House.
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Peter Emanuel Sifneos
Peter Emanuel Sifneos, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, died at his home in Belmont on Dec. 9, 2008, at the age of 88. He was an internationally renowned pioneer in the areas of short-term psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine.
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Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship announces two winners for 2010
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship in Community and Economic Development, Abigail Pound and Eduardo Andres Berlin Razmilic.
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Sit a spell, and pass the sweet tea
A Southern student reflects on what his expectations were, and how the reality differed, when he moved to Cambridge from Arkansas to attend Harvard.
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Gokhan Hotamisligil receives honor for the Study of Obesity
Gökhan Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, will receive the prestigious Wertheimer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity in July in Stockholm.
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Six from Harvard receive Guggenheim Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to six faculty members from Harvard.