Tag: Campus

  • Campus & Community

    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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  • Campus & Community

    Six from Harvard receive Guggenheim Fellowships

    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to six faculty members from Harvard.

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  • Campus & Community

    Kedron Thomas awarded Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

    The Woodrow Wilson Foundation recently announced Kedron Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as one of 20 recipients of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year.

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  • Health

    Money not cure-all for health care

    Analysts from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School for a think tank on health care reform.

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  • Campus & Community

    Weissmans support 50 interns abroad

    Thanks to the generosity of Paul ’52 and Harriet Weissman, 50 Harvard College students will travel around the globe to explore their career interests and experience new cultures.

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  • Campus & Community

    Monica Higgins named professor of education at HGSE

    Associate Professor Monica Higgins has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Higgins’ expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and organizational change, and her work straddles higher education and urban public schools.

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  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    What are the odds? It is statistically improbable that a Harvard teaching award open to all graduate students for the past four years would go to members of the same department. Adding to that improbability is the fact that the department in question is among the smallest at Harvard: Statistics.

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  • Campus & Community

    Tips to help you enjoy 2010 Commencement, come rain or shine

    The following services will be in effect at the University on Commencement Day, May 27.

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  • Campus & Community

    Nancy Rappaport wins book award

    Nancy Rappaport, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has won the 2010 Julie Howe Book Award for her memoir, “In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide.”

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  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design

    A year ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) held a three-day international conference on the future of cities. “Ecological Urbanism” drew on disciplines as seemingly diverse as design, cultural history, medicine, economics, and literature.

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  • Campus & Community

    Paul C. Zamecnik

    Paul Charles Zamecnik, the Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine Emeritus, died in Boston on Oct. 27, 2009, at the age of 96. During a research career that spanned more than 70 years, he made a series of scientific contributions that represented multiple fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.

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  • Campus & Community

    Sherry Turkle to give centennial year Lowell Lecture May 14

    Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self, will give this centennial year’s Lowell Lecture, titled “The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,” on May 14 (8 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall), hosted by the Harvard University Extension School.

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  • Campus & Community

    Five awarded College Professorships

    Dean Michael D. Smith announced May 11 that five professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Harvard College Professorships in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Gazette uses QR codes as gateway to mobile web portals

    The Harvard Gazette has redesigned its mobile version of the Gazette Online, providing QR codes in the most recent print issues of the paper.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held May 5

    At its 13th and final meeting of the year on May 5, the Faculty Council approved next year’s Handbook for Students and Courses of Instruction for the College and the courses for the University Extension School. The council also heard a proposal regarding the administration of final examinations.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Black Men’s Forum presents annual awards

    The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF), which pays tribute to the contributions that black women have made to Harvard and to society at large, recognized former Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, among others, at its Celebration of Black Women event on April 29.

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  • Campus & Community

    Bench pressing for a cure

    On May 3, more than 250 Harvard athletes from 18 varsity teams took the Palmer-Dixon Gymnasium by storm for the second annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer Challenge, pumping iron and raising greenbacks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

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  • Campus & Community

    Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’

    After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.

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  • Campus & Community

    Living the lessons we have learned

    A graduating Harvard Kennedy School student, herself Native American, ponders the experiences of her predecessors, students at the Indian College in the 1660s.

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  • Campus & Community

    How to engineer change

    Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences makes rapid progress in reaching long-term energy-saving goals.

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  • Campus & Community

    HKS establishes professorship on the international financial system

    With the world’s attention focused on global financial reform and responsibility, the Harvard Kennedy School is establishing a professorship dedicated to addressing the challenges of the international financial system.

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  • Campus & Community

    Five from Harvard win DCPS case competition

    The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Rebels to some, achievers to others

    For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.

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  • Campus & Community

    It’s Arts First at Harvard

    The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.

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  • Arts & Culture

    What makes a life significant?

    A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.

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  • Campus & Community

    Ending on a high note

    After more than three decades as the head of Harvard’s choral program, Jim Marvin prepares to say farewell. In tribute to Marvin, more than 400 alumni from the choirs will return to campus this weekend (April 30 to May 2) to celebrate his long career with a series of receptions and group sings, and a…

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  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

    Two documentaries from this year’s Sundance Film Festival had an exclusive screening at the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).

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  • Campus & Community

    Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s…

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  • Campus & Community

    Enriquez named associate curator of modern and contemporary art

    The Harvard Art Museum announces the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the museum’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5.

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  • Campus & Community

    Evening with Champions

    With her spotlight purring like an old projector, Linda Yao ’10 used a steady hand to follow the cast of famed figure skaters as they shaved graceful ribbons into the ice during “An Evening with Champions.”

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