Tag: Donald Pfister
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Campus & Community
Pickering named director of Peabody Museum
Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.
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Arts & Culture
Leafing through Glass Flowers
A new photo book on Harvard’s Glass Flowers collection will focus on the details that make the models so lifelike.
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Campus & Community
The road ahead for Title IX efforts
Though Harvard has been working to reduce sexual and gender harassment for years, it’s adding to its Title IX efforts.
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Health
At the Arboretum, a scientific swerve
A new species of truffle fungus, related to the delicacy prized in Southern Europe, was found at the Arboretum by an undergrad researcher.
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Campus & Community
For Harvard professors, these are a few of their favorite things
Harvard professors reflect on a few of their favorite things, and what makes them so.
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Campus & Community
Seeing through others’ eyes
In a question-and-answer session, Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, discusses Harvard College’s approaches to diversity, makes recommendations, and reaffirms the College’s priorities to foster a culture of inclusion.
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Campus & Community
The community builders
When the leadership of Harvard College changes hands later this summer from interim Dean Donald Pfister to incoming Dean Rakesh Khurana, undergraduates will find that while the life experiences and research backgrounds of the two couldn’t be more different, their focus on the job of dean is the same.
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Campus & Community
Lean in, speak out
At Class Day ceremonies, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg urged graduates to confront hard truths and address wrongs they find in the world.
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Nation & World
The groundwork for learning abroad
The President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences is supporting development by faculty members of courses in Sweden, Mexico, Turkey, Shanghai, and other locations abroad to enhance the international experiences offered to Harvard students.
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Campus & Community
Junior named Truman Scholar
Tianhao He ’15, a Mather House sociology concentrator, was named a 2014 Truman Scholar. The annual prize, which recognizes college juniors with an interest in a career in public service, provides up to $30,000 toward graduate school.
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Campus & Community
Get up, it’s Housing Day
Freshmen, who spend their first year living in and around the Yard, are sorted into one of Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses on Housing Day.
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Campus & Community
Moments to seize
Junior Parents Weekend drew more than 1,300 relatives and guests of the Class of 2015.
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Campus & Community
Midyear graduates recognized
Harvard College recognized 111 students who graduated midyear, outside the traditional Commencement cycle.
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Campus & Community
Serving, thanks, and giving
The annual “Giving Thanks” open house was an opportunity for members of the Harvard community to write notes of gratitude to fellow staff members and provide support for community programs.
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Campus & Community
Progress report
Harvard College interim Dean Donald Pfister and President Drew Faust welcomed the families of first-year undergraduates to campus Nov. 1 for the start of Freshman Parents Weekend, the annual two-day program of lectures, tours, and open houses.
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Campus & Community
Outlining academic integrity
A panel of faculty led a discussion about academic integrity with an audience of undergraduates, staffers, administrators, and other faculty members. This session was the first in a series of community-wide discussions on the topic.
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Campus & Community
Dialogue with the deans
Harvard College interim Dean Donald Pfister and Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde made themselves available to field questions from students in a “meet the deans” forum.
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Campus & Community
Welcoming the Class of ’17
At the annual Freshman Convocation Monday, Harvard President Drew Faust and other University officials told the Class of ’17 to embrace challenges, reach out to fellow students and others, and keep open minds about what the future should hold.
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Campus & Community
Boxes, bins, and bedding
Harvard Yard began to come alive again Monday morning as the Class of 2017 arrived on campus.
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Campus & Community
Eat, play, sleep
As freshmen move into dorms in and around the Yard, fellow students, faculty, and administrators offer their advice on how best to adjust to the Harvard experience. Their suggestions range from maintaining basic wellness to making sure to have fun.
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Campus & Community
Old Quincy, suddenly new
After 15 months of construction and renovation, Old Quincy is ready to welcome back students for the academic year.
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Campus & Community
A boost to international learning
Harvard’s President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences has provided a boost to four new programs, as well as providing renewal or extension funding to three other projects.
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Campus & Community
In the Yard, a changing of the guard
The trees of Harvard Yard are in the midst of managed change as the once-ubiquitous elms continue their decades-long decline. Mixed species, dominated by American trees, replace them.
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Campus & Community
A cuisine reigns supreme
Harvard Summer School students sharpened their knives, fired up the hibachis, and went to work for this year’s sixth annual Iron Chef Competition, a showcase of local ingredients and budding culinary talent.
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Science & Tech
They dig the past
Harvard Summer School students broke ground June 29 for the biennial archaeology class investigating the long history of Harvard Yard. Students will resume the search for traces of the Harvard Indian College, where the College’s first Indian students lived and studied.