Tag: Cherry A. Murray

  • Campus & Community

    Murray nominated to senior role at Department of Energy

    Cherry A. Murray, former dean of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was nominated by President Obama to be director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy, a key administration post.

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    Departing SEAS Dean Murray reflects

    A Q&A with Cherry A. Murray, who will depart Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the end of December.

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    U.S. honors Cherry Murray

    Cherry A. Murray, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, White House

  • Campus & Community

    Meeting the challenges

    Harvard University has announced 18 student-led teams as finalists in three deans’ innovation competitions focused on cultural entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and design.

  • Science & Tech

    The promise of ‘big data’

    Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.

  • Science & Tech

    Engineering a better life

    When Kathy Ku ’13 proposed to build a water-filter factory in Uganda for $15,000 last year, her contacts advised her to double her budget. If all goes to plan, by next August Ku and her classmates will have created a fully functional and self-sustaining water-filter factory, supplying clean water at half the cost of imported…

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    A 21st-century campus

    Supporting the development of a robust campus, one that enhances Harvard’s mission of innovative teaching and learning, while simultaneously fostering connections across the University and the broader community will be an important goal of The Harvard Campaign.

  • Science & Tech

    Advancing science and technology

    The National Science Foundation is awarding grants to create three new science and technology centers this year, with two of them based in Cambridge. The two multi-institutional grants total $45 million over five years.

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    A new master’s program

    Harvard will offer a master’s degree in computational science and engineering.

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    Early-stage venture fund launches

    Today, the Experiment Fund, a new seed-stage investment fund, opens its doors with backing from storied venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Designed specifically to support student start-ups and nurture novel technologies and platforms created in Cambridge (or by innovators educated in Cambridge), the Experiment Fund will eventually include additional strategic angel investors and…

  • Science & Tech

    Ethics and genetics in the digital age

    Two panel discussions, organized by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, examined the “promise and perils” of creating digital repositories of genetic records and considered the policy implications of an individual’s right to access, control, and interpret his or her own genetic data.

  • Science & Tech

    Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award

    The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today (March 9) named Leslie G. Valiant the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.

  • Science & Tech

    Brenner awarded Ledlie Prize

    Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

  • Science & Tech

    Deep water, deep trouble

    Two insiders view the BP oil spill as a failure of management — but also as an incident that revealed deep regulatory and safety failures.

  • Campus & Community

    High marks for doctoral programs

    A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.

  • Campus & Community

    In good taste

    Harvard launches “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.” The class, open only to undergraduates, is part of the new Gen Ed curriculum, which introduces students to subject matter and skills from across the University.

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    HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain appointed to SEAS faculty

    Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 has been appointed to the faculty of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as professor of computer science.

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    Harvard launches on iTunes U

    Harvard University today launched its own content on iTunes U, a dedicated area within iTunes that allows students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to tap into the University’s wealth of public lectures and educational materials on video and audio.

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    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, hosted her first “all-hands” community meeting on Oct. 16 to outline her ambitious 10-year plan for the School.

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    Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    President Drew Faust and FAS Dean Mike Smith welcomed Cherry A. Murray as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a formal reception on Sept. 8. Murray began her post as dean on July 1.

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    2008-09: A look back

    As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at highlights of the year that was.