Tag: Drew Faust
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Junot Díaz gets personal — and political — at Harvard conference
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz read his story “The Money” at the Harvard conference Migration and the Humanities.
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College grad finds ‘endless’ opportunities in public service
Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.
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Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use
Members of Harvard climate change task force explain how they reached ambitious goals to end fossil fuel use on campus by 2050.
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New grants for climate solutions
Seven new research projects have been awarded funding in the fourth round of grants from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.
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Rogers to step down as VP for alumni affairs and development
Tamara Rogers will step down from her position as vice president for alumni affairs and development at the end of this calendar year, the University announced on Thursday.
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In Cincinnati, Faust makes case for college
Harvard President Faust makes the case for college to high school students in Cincinnati, speaks at alumni gathering.
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Bol to step down as vice provost
Peter K. Bol will step down at the end of the summer as Harvard’s vice provost for advances in learning to return to the faulty and to his teaching and research on China’s history.
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Tax on university endowments passes
Harvard President Drew Faust said that the tax bill represents an unprecedented attack on the tax-exempt status of nonprofits and charities because it taxes, for the first time, income for such an institution’s core mission — in this case, education.
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Title IX report released
Harvard University’s Title IX Office and the Office for Dispute Resolution released their 2016-2017 joint annual report today, highlighting the growth in University-wide educational outreach initiatives on Title IX policies and services.
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Taxing advanced degrees
Nobody enters a Ph.D. program to earn money. Students have long known that preparing for a career in research or academia often means trading financial reward today for the chance to tackle…
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Opening the gates, closing the education gap
In Washington, D.C., gathering, Faust and faculty discuss closing the education gap through equity.
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Looking for a person, and perspective
Bill Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, shared his views on the progress so far in the search for Harvard’s 29th leader and how the consultative process can help set the agenda ahead.
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Music and meaning, the Marsalis way
Wynton Marsalis was back at Harvard on Monday night to celebrate the release of the video version of his first lecture performance at Harvard from 2011, “Music as Metaphor,” and to discuss the importance of the arts.
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Heading off the post-antibiotic age
Antibiotic resistance has the potential to take millions of lives by 2050 if nothing is done to address the problem, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Harvard Business School.
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Calls for hope and action
With words of hope and rousing calls to action, the fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Medals ceremony brought the stars out at Sanders Theatre.
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Cohen to step down as Radcliffe Institute dean
Lizabeth Cohen, who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2011, announced she will step down from that post next June. She plans to return to teaching and research in Harvard’s Department of History following a year’s sabbatical.
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Alumni celebrate the arts
Generations of Harvard alumni came together on campus last weekend to celebrate the arts as a dynamic part of the University’s curriculum.
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Ryan to step down as Ed School dean
Dean James Ryan of the Graduate School of Education will depart Harvard at the end of this academic year to become president of the University of Virginia.
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For Faust, the road ahead
During her last year as Harvard president, Drew Faust said in an interview that she will focus on making the case for the University’s needs and values in Washington, ensuring progress on inclusion and belonging for all, completing The Harvard Campaign, and nurturing development of the emerging Allston campus.
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At Law School, honor for the enslaved
President Drew Faust and University officials unveiled a plaque to honor and remember slaves whose labor helped fund the bequest establishing Harvard Law School 200 years ago.
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Remembering S. Allen Counter
S. Allen Counter, a neurophysiologist, educator, ethnographer, and founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, died on July 12.
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Harvard launches presidential search
The Harvard Corporation has launched the search for a new president of Harvard University, in light of Drew Faust’s recent announcement that she will step down at the end of the 2017–18 academic year.
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With Faust as template, thoughts on the next president
Harvard Corporation member explains where the search for Drew Faust’s successor will focus, and how it will work.
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Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, has announced that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
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A nation shocked, haunted, changed
Harvard President Drew Faust explored the country’s history of mourning in a conversation at the September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.
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John Manning to lead Harvard Law School
John Manning, the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law and deputy dean at Harvard Law School, an eminent public-law scholar with expertise in statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law, will become the School’s next dean on July 1.
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Create a sense of purpose for all, Zuckerberg urges
One of Harvard’s most famous dropouts returned to receive a degree and encourage the Class of 2017 to go out and make a difference in the world.
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Departing as leaders
Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.
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The gift of the art of noticing
Graduating seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service, a tradition as old as Commencement.