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Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors
The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Stephen Burt, Peter Der Manuelian, David Howell, Martin Puchner, and Gu-Yeon Wei.
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Campus & Community
Six from Harvard receive Guggenheim Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to six faculty members from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What are the odds? It is statistically improbable that a Harvard teaching award open to all graduate students for the past four years would go to members of the same department. Adding to that improbability is the fact that the department in question is among the smallest at Harvard: Statistics.
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Campus & Community
Five awarded College Professorships
Dean Michael D. Smith announced May 11 that five professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Harvard College Professorships in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.
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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,…
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Campus & Community
Yielding strong results
More than three-quarters of the 2,110 students admitted to Harvard’s Class of 2014 say they will attend the College.
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Campus & Community
Triple appointment for historian
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed will return to Harvard in July as a professor at the Law School and of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She also will be the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Campus & Community
Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’
After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Rebels to some, achievers to others
For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.
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Campus & Community
Language of learning
With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Iconic musicals such as “Fiddler on the Roof” form the core of Carol Oja’s course “American Musicals, American Culture,” but students recently got an inside look at the contemporary scene through visits from composers Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”) and Joshua Schmidt (“The Adding Machine”).
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Health
Gene silencing may cause limitations of induced pluripotent stem cells
Scientists may be one step closer to being able to generate any type of cells and tissues from a patient’s own cells, according to the results of a new study by Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Treading the green carpet
One day after Earth Day, Harvard continued to celebrate the environment, rolling out a green carpet for the individuals, teams, projects, and Schools that have advanced the cause of sustainability.
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Nation & World
Sumner M. Redstone donates $1M
Harvard University today (April 23) announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Redstone, a graduate of both Schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–11 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Sumner Redstone donates $1 million to Harvard University
Harvard University today announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Mr. Redstone, a graduate of both schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–2011 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Lessons from the Earth
The new Harvard Community Garden, dedicated Sunday, is expected to inspire lessons in sustainability, community, and academic collaboration.
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Campus & Community
In last semester, ‘Last Lectures’
As a prelude to graduation, seniors organize a “Last Lecture” series to receive advice from favorite professors.
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Health
Killer mushrooms!
It is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of emperors. In parts of California’s forests, it is everywhere. It is the deathcap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, so filled with…
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Science & Tech
Posing the Big Questions
In 1900, renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 handpicked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. Since then, countless mathematicians around the world have struggled…
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Health
Treatment resistance in some cancer cells may be reversible
The ability of cancer cells to resist treatment with either targeted drug therapies or traditional chemotherapy may, in some cases, result from a transient state of reversible drug “tolerance.” In…
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Campus & Community
Taking finance up the Red Line
Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What big questions will occupy the world’s social scientists in the coming decades? On Saturday (April 10), a dozen “big thinkers” will share their thoughts on the hardest problems in social science.
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Campus & Community
A historic year for Harvard admissions
Harvard admits 2,110 out of more than 30,000 applicants to the Class of 2014, a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. More than 60 percent of the new students will receive need-based scholarships averaging $40,000.
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Campus & Community
Harvard increases undergraduate financial aid by 9 percent for 2010-11
Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates by 9 percent, to a record $158 million, for the upcoming 2010-11 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What do John Keats’ Shakespeare volumes, William Wordsworth’s library catalog, and Victor Hugo’s commonplace book have in common with primers and spellers and other historical materials about learning to read? Each item is among the 1,200 books and manuscripts that are now online at a site called in Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and…
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Campus & Community
Former director of computer services, Lewis Law dies, at 77
Lewis (Lew) Law, 77, former director of computer services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), died in Belmont on Feb. 14 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for many years.
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Campus & Community
Looking ahead
On Junior Parents Weekend, students’ mothers and fathers began to ponder what life might be like after graduation from Harvard.
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Health
It’s all in the cortex
Research suggests that the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument.
