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Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Nation & World
Alumni win Nobel Prize for economics
Two alumni of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who received their Ph.D.s from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won the Nobel Prize for economics Oct. 10, 2011 for their work on change and the macroeconomy.
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Campus & Community
FAS presents Diversity Dialogues
Leadership in a diverse community, unintended bias, and the impact of devaluing messages that can impair productivity are among the issues that will be addressed in Diversity Dialogues, a series of seminars to be offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Arts & Culture
All things baseball
Harvard Professor Jill Lepore led off a murderers’ row lineup of six Harvard professors for “GenEd at Bat: A Discussion of America’s Favorite Pastime with the Faculty of Gen Ed” at Science Center A on Tuesday.
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Campus & Community
Early excellence, rewarded
Two young Harvard scientists will each receive $2.54 million or more in National Institutes of Health grants that will support research and overhead costs through a new program intended to accelerate the entry of outstanding junior investigators into independent researcher positions.
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Campus & Community
Funding innovation
Nine researchers from across Harvard have received more than $15 million in special National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants designed to foster innovative research with the potential to propel fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved public health.
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Health
Animal scents
A Harvard study of how mice respond to scent cues from potential mates, competitors, and nearby predators has laid a foundation for further investigations that may eventually lead to a greater understanding of social recognition in the animal brain, with implications for a host of human disorders ranging from autism to post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Campus & Community
Two named University Professors
Rebecca M. Henderson of the Harvard Business School and Douglas Melton of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Medical School were named University Professors in recognition of their dedication to teaching and scholarship that crosses academic boundaries.
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Campus & Community
The naked truth
Archaeologist studies classical Greek art, including nudity, and what it reveals about the cultures interpreting it.
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Campus & Community
The grad students’ guru
Over three decades, Cynthia Verba has advised hundreds of advanced students at Harvard. A scholar of French Enlightenment music in her own right, her guidance comes with more than a grain of salt.
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Campus & Community
Starting out green
With a green tour and “brain break,” Harvard freshmen learn early about the importance of living sustainably.
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Science & Tech
Intuitive? Try God
Harvard researchers exploring the roots of religion have found that intuitive thinking leads to belief in God, while more reflective thinking points toward atheism.
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Campus & Community
A smarter Harvard marketplace
An online procurement system rolls out across Harvard, saving the University $5.4 million in its first year and making life a little easier for thousands of researchers and administrators.
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Health
Giving hybrids some respect
Harvard researchers have used genetic analysis to confirm that the Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly arose through hybridization of two other species, the Canadian and Eastern tiger swallowtails, highlighting a rare case of speciation through hybridization in animals.
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Campus & Community
Graham to step down as Divinity dean
After almost a decade as dean of Harvard Divinity School, William A. Graham plans to step down at the end of this academic year. He will take a year’s leave and then return to teaching.
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Science & Tech
With the Earth as teacher
Students in Earth and Planetary Sciences kicked off their academic year early, spending a late-August week in paradise, observing Hawaii’s volcanoes, green and black sand beaches, and overarching geologic splendor.
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Campus & Community
How doctors think, past and present
Physician and historian David Jones works to bridge the gap between medical science and the social forces that shape it, as Harvard’s first A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine.
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Campus & Community
University leaders welcome freshmen
Harvard’s annual convocation ceremony gives members of the Class of 2015 their first taste of the University’s history and traditions.
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Science & Tech
Connecting with freshmen
Harvard College freshmen got their first taste Aug. 26 of the world of ideas awaiting them over the next four years in a talk by Professor Nicholas Christakis, who delivered the 2011 Opening Days Lecture, “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.”
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Campus & Community
Ten professors named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.
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Health
Strength in numbers
Harvard researchers have created an analogue of what they think the first multicellular cooperation might have looked like, showing that yeast cells — in an environment that requires them to work for their food — grow and reproduce better in multicellular clumps than singly.
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Arts & Culture
When three is also one
The renovated and expanded facility of the Harvard Art Museums eventually will link the University’s collections under one roof.
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Science & Tech
For Harvard, an IT summit
From across the University, members of the information technology community gathered for the first Harvard IT Summit.
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Health
Clues on how flowering plants spread
Researchers at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum have highlighted female competition among plants, saying it is a new factor that could have driven the mystifying diversity of flowering plants.
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Campus & Community
A gathering of goals
A growing community of campus support groups, especially minority affinity groups, are helping the University to understand and embrace diversity.
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Campus & Community
Bringing up the rear
Mike Lichten, FAS associate dean for physical resources and planning, has shepherded graduating seniors through Commencement exercises for a quarter century.
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Campus & Community
Two are Abramson winners
Kevin Eggan, associate professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, and David Elmer, assistant professor of the classics, are the winners of the 2011 Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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Campus & Community
Shape of things to come
The renewal of Old Quincy, the neo-Georgian section of that student House, will re-create the space as more comfortable, modern, and better able to host academic and social activities. The project will begin next May and wrap up in the summer of 2013.
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Campus & Community
Reinhold Brinkmann
Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music at Harvard University from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, serving, after 1990, as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music and, from…
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Campus & Community
Barrington Moore Jr.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Barrington Moore, Jr., retired Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center and Senior Lecturer on Sociology, was placed upon the records. Moore was a leader in comparative historical sociology and…
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Health
Old specimens, fresh answers
A project details changing levels of mercury in endangered albatrosses and highlights the importance of museum specimens in understanding past conditions.
