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Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Campus & Community
House renewal and rebirth
House renewal is one of the largest and most ambitious capital improvement campaigns in Harvard College history, aiming to transform the student experience by ensuring that each House can strongly support the learning and living needs of the modern undergraduate.
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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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Campus & Community
Finnegan new Harvard treasurer
Paul J. Finnegan, a member of the Harvard Corporation, will become treasurer of the University in July. He will succeed James F. Rothenberg, who will stay on as a member of the Corporation.
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Campus & Community
Support on the cutting edge
Supporter James A. Star ’83 was on hand at a ceremony to honor the inaugural winners in the Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research.
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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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Science & Tech
Flipping the switch
Harvard researchers have succeeded in creating quantum switches that can be turned on and off using a single photon, an achievement that could pave the way for the creation of highly secure quantum networks.
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Science & Tech
Annals of climate
Professor Michael McCormick will lead a project aimed at constructing the most detailed historical record yet of European climate.
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Science & Tech
MRI, on a molecular scale
A team of scientists led by Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics Amir Yacoby has developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that can produce nanoscale images, and may one day allow researchers to peer into the atomic structure of individual molecules.
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Campus & Community
Physics Department wins $1M award
The Harvard University Department of Physics recently won a $1 million award from the Moore Foundation to study quantum systems.
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Campus & Community
House renewal in ‘full swing’
The renovation of Dunster House, which will be the first full House to undergo renewal, is to begin immediately after Commencement and last 15 months. The Dunster community will be relocated for the next academic year to “swing” facilities, with its temporary hub at the former Inn at Harvard, which is undergoing a complete renovation.…
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Campus & Community
Senior wins Churchill Scholarship
Harvard Senior Levent Alpoge ’14 will study mathematics at the University of Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship.
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Campus & Community
The Pershing Square Foundation awards $17M to Harvard
Harvard University announced today that New York–based The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF), founded by alumni Bill Ackman ’88, M.B.A. ’92, and his wife, Karen Ackman, M.L.A. ’93, has awarded the University $17 million to catalyze the work of its Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative.
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Campus & Community
Opening academia widely
In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.
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Health
Fair-minded birds
New research conducted at Harvard demonstrates sharing behavior in African grey parrots.
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Arts & Culture
A new chapter in verse
The Woodberry Poetry Room is sponsoring a series focused on rethinking the possibilities of the creative-writing workshop.
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Campus & Community
With distinction
FAS Dean Michael D. Smith recognized the hard work and contributions of 52 FAS employees during the fifth annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony and reception, held in University Hall on Thursday.
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Science & Tech
Hierarchical differences
Female academics are less likely to collaborate across rank, a Harvard study found.
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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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Science & Tech
Bringing order to the court
New Harvard research points to a sharper method for evaluating basketball players.
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Science & Tech
Heads for steel
In the Instructional Physics/SEAS Instrument Lab, a machine shop tucked in the basement of Lyman Laboratory, students learn to use a range of equipment — everything from lathes to laser cutters to 3-D printers.
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Science & Tech
Negative plus
Led by Professor David Liu, a team of researchers has developed a technique to continuously evolve biomolecules that uses negative selection — the ability to drive evolution away from certain traits — to create molecules with dramatically altered properties.
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Arts & Culture
Bach to Bach
Joint exhibitions at Houghton Library and Loeb Music Library mark the 300th anniversary of composer C.P.E. Bach’s birth and the first publication of his complete works, as well as discoveries and acquisitions that were made along the way.
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Science & Tech
Curves alter crystallization, study finds
A new study has uncovered a previously unseen phenomenon — that curved surfaces can dramatically alter the shape of crystals as they form.
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Science & Tech
Mars rover, slightly used, runs fine
Originally scheduled to operate on the Red Planet’s surface for 90 Martian days, the rover Opportunity has now logged more than 3,500 days, traveled nearly 39 kilometers, and collected a trove of data that scientists have used to study the planet’s early history, particularly any past traces of water.
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Health
Study ties fetal sex to milk production
A new study offers the first evidence that fetal sex can affect the amount of milk cows produce, a finding that could have major economic implications for dairy farmers.
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Health
‘On’ switches for cells
Scientists at Harvard have identified a previously unknown embryonic signal, dubbed Toddler, that instructs cells to move and reorganize themselves, through a process known as gastrulation, into three layers.
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Campus & Community
Dunster reimagined
Newly revealed plans for the renewal of Dunster House show significantly expanded social and program spaces and new horizontal corridors that will complement the traditional vertical entryways.
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Campus & Community
Hooked on humor
Wintersession is the time between terms that allows students who have returned before the start of classes to experience unique opportunities they may not otherwise pursue during the semester. Once again this year, undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and alumni came together to participate in a vast array of programming.
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Campus & Community
New Harvard College dean
Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and co-master of Cabot House, has been named the new dean of Harvard College.
