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Tag: Drew Faust
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Campus & Community
A fresh look at College life
A few weeks into college, families reunite for speeches, panels, and entertainment at Freshman Parents Weekend.
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Nation & World
Seeking a finer balance
In a two-day conference a group of Harvard scholars joined leaders in the private and public sectors to explore gender gaps in societal, political, and economic realms, as well as the means of developing policy, corporate practices, and leadership strategies to foster gender diversity.
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Nation & World
Focus on the world’s problems
The World Economic Forum came to Harvard in an effort to engage the academic community, particularly its students, in the pressing issues of the day, from the international monetary system to trade to the population explosion.
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Campus & Community
Business School announces Tata gift; two initiatives
A pair of building projects supported by the Harvard Business School takes aim at fostering leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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Campus & Community
Partying like it’s 1985
Dozens of Harvard employees were honored at the 56th Annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Oct. 13.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 13
At the October 13th meeting of the Faculty Council, its members met with President Drew Faust to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.
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Nation & World
Undoing the damage
Harvard panel examines fiscal problems of the past two years, and what it will take to restore the economy to health.
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Campus & Community
25 years of service
Viva Fisher and Clif Colby are two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual recognition ceremony.
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Nation & World
Bright ideas
Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.
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Campus & Community
‘The Economic Crisis, Two Years Later’
Harvard panel on Oct. 12 will review the harsh economy and the nation’s responses to it.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Corporation looks ahead
It is a time of change for the Harvard Corporation. In recent months, the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, has welcomed a new member and a new senior fellow, even as it has undertaken a probing look at its own role and practices. President…
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Health
Challenge of finding a cure
A large, multidisciplinary panel has recently selected 12 pioneering ideas for attacking type 1 diabetes, ideas selected through a crowdsourcing experiment called the “Challenge,” in which all members of the Harvard community, as well as members of the general public, were invited to answer the question: What do we not know to cure type 1…
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Campus & Community
High marks for doctoral programs
A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, Cisco, BBN Technologies connect with Boston and Cambridge schools
Harvard University announced today (Sept. 22) a new partnership with the cities of Boston and Cambridge designed to bring the world to students — faster and clearer than ever.
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Campus & Community
New January Innovation Fund Established
Harvard President Drew Faust today (Sept. 10) announced the creation of the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, a special venture fund to support the development and implementation of creative academic or co-curricular experiences for students during the January break period.
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Campus & Community
A message of inclusion
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first Morning Prayers of the new school year with a message of inclusion for both the University and its students.
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Campus & Community
Teach for America taps talent
More than three dozen Harvard graduates will join Teach for America this fall, as the University remains among the nation’s top contributors to the national education program.
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Campus & Community
Wanted: Big thinkers
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem accepts this year’s Radcliffe Institute Medal, bringing with her a sense of history, humor, and hope.
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Campus & Community
Morning glories
Pomp and circumstance abound as Harvard celebrates its 359th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Faust emphasizes public service
Concluding a year of expanded volunteer efforts at Harvard, president announces new fellowships that will allow students to do well by doing good.
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Campus & Community
Baccalaureate service 2010
In her Baccalaureate Address, Harvard President Drew Faust encouraged seniors to embrace having unscripted lives.
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Campus & Community
Commence wonderment
Harvard’s foundation is built on years of traditions and Commencement offers a collection of the some of the most intriguing. Here’s the back story on today’s events.
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Campus & Community
Intellect, rigor, tradition
The Literary Exercises, Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa tradition, honor 72 seniors for their achievements.
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Science & Tech
Faust calls global health one of her main priorities
Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…
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Campus & Community
Message delivered
The Civil Rights Movement spurred Harvard President Drew Faust to youthful activism and influenced her choice to become a historian of the American South, Faust told the Harvard Business School’s first-year class, urging students to keep their desire to make a difference at the forefront of their minds.
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Arts & Culture
Her own creation
Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.
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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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Campus & Community
Campaign to turn Crimson green
Harvard makes great strides in cutting its everyday energy use, saving money and greening the campus in the process.
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Arts & Culture
A march toward the arts
The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.
