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Tag: Drew Gilpin Faust
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Nation & World
‘Living witness’ to a country’s turbulent progress
Memoir details Drew Gilpin Faust’s coming-of-age amid the transformations of mid-century America.
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‘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.
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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.
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New faculty: Robert Reid-Pharr
Q&A with Robert Reid-Pharr as part of a series introducing new faculty members.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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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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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…