Tag: Drew Gilpin Faust

  • Nation

    ‘Living witness’ to a country’s turbulent progress

    Memoir details Drew Gilpin Faust’s coming-of-age amid the transformations of mid-century America.

    4–6 minutes
    Drew Faust
  • Nation

    ‘What you can do for your country’

    Future Harvard president leaves Virginia for Concord Academy, set on path by JFK inauguration speech, visit by MLK.

    11–17 minutes
    Drew Faust as a college student.
  • Nation & World

    How slavery still shadows health care

    “400 Years of Inequality” focused on how the effects of slavery have persisted, maintaining a basic disparity in health care.

    4–6 minutes
    Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle A. Williams (podium) addressed the audience at the “400 Years of Inequality" event. Linda Villarosa (from left), Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Mary Bassett shared in the discussion.
  • Campus & Community

    New faculty: Robert Reid-Pharr

    Q&A with Robert Reid-Pharr as part of a series introducing new faculty members.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A decade of leadership

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced that she will step down as president on June 30, 2018. The Gazette looks back on some memorable moments from the last 10 years.

    12–19 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    24–35 minutes
    Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Southeast Asia

    Harvard President Drew Faust traveled to Vietnam and Singapore in March to speak about the benefits of higher education.

    2–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    SurgiBox wins $70,000 President’s Challenge

    SurgiBox, a collapsible, safe, and aseptic surgery device, won this year’s $70,000 grand prize in the President’s Challenge.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Peter J. Gomes

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 7, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, was spread upon the records. In his four decades on campus, Reverend Gomes presided as teacher, preacher, and spiritual guide.…

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Glenn Beck, Joel Klein, Amar’e Stoudamire and Others Reflect on Their Education

    During the opening days of my freshman year at Bryn Mawr College in the fall of 1964, I joined my classmates in a large Gothic hall to be greeted by President Katharine McBride. After 22 years at the helm of the college, she was an intimidating presence, as well as a then-still-rare example of female…

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  • Science & Tech

    NIH resumes funding stem cell research – for now

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it is resuming funding embryonic stem cell research. “We are pleased with the…interim ruling” yesterday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ” which will allow promising stem cell research to continue while we present further arguments…

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  • Science & Tech

    President Faust issues statement supporting federal funding of stem cell research

    A temporary restraining order last month that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science that already is yielding clues to cures for a number of fatal illnesses and chronic diseases. Harvard has been in the vanguard of such research, and the University,…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Pres. Faust calls global health one of her main priorities for Harvard;

    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 announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at…

    6–10 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    ‘The art of seeing things invisible’

    “This is a wonderful story of collaboration and imagination,” said Harvard President Drew Faust, moments before cutting a ribbon yesterday afternoon to open the new Harvard Center for Biological Imaging (CBI). The facility, on the second floor of the BioLabs at 16 Divinity Ave., is not just another room filled with microscopes. For everything about the facility is unique, from…

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Open innovation challenge seeks solutions to type 1 diabetes

    The best scientific insights, which ultimately may lead to the solution of the world’s great puzzles, do not always come from the experts in the fields in question. Sometimes they come from outliers who approach a problem from an entirely new perspective — just as unknown English clockmaker John Harrison demonstrated that longitude could be…

    4–6 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Stimulus funds provide welcome research boost

    In remarks last month at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., President Barack Obama said not only do we need stimulus money to create thousands of jobs in the sciences and technology, but also to get the progress of the nation’s research back on track. “We can only imagine the new discoveries…

    8–13 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Hansjorg Wyss gives $125 million to create institute for biologically inspired engineering

    Engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss MBA ’65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Investigators at the Wyss Institute (pronounced “Vees”) will strive to uncover the engineering principles that govern living things, and use this knowledge to develop technology solutions for the most pressing healthcare…

    5–8 minutes