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Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Campus & Community
Alastair Graham Walter Cameron
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 19, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Alastair Graham Walter Cameron, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Alastair Cameron’s theory is now the accepted one for the origin of the Moon.
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Science & Tech
Study: Polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming
A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth’s sea level, carried out by scientists at Harvard and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, employs a novel statistical approach that reveals the planet’s polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting even under moderate global warming scenarios. Such melting would…
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Campus & Community
New director of I Tatti
Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced Dec. 16 that Lino Pertile will become director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, beginning next summer.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College has launched a new online Plan of Study tool to help undergraduates outline the courses they will take throughout their four years at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Voluntary retirement program
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has launched an initiative to assist the professional development of tenure-track faculty.
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Campus & Community
Gough named Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art
Maria Gough, a scholar of the Soviet and Russian avant-garde, has been appointed Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.
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Health
Researchers ‘NOTCH’ a victory in war on cancer
Normal 0 0 1 819 4673 38 9 5738 11.1282 0 0 0 Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be “undruggable,” meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in today’s edition of the journal Nature, lays the foundation for…
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Arts & Culture
The Lab experiment
The Lab, a three-year experiment orchestrated by David Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, offers a “forum to help catalyze ideas” across many fields. Stemming from his course “Idea Translation” (ES 147), the exhibition of student-based experiments is designed to morph into an ongoing series of events and “idea nights” open…
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Science & Tech
Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms
Harvard physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published this week in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made…
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Science & Tech
Materials scientists find better model for glass creation
Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass. Glasses form through the process of vitrification, in which a glass-forming liquid cools and slowly becomes a solid whose molecules, though they’ve stopped moving, are…
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Health
Orphan army ants join nearby colonies
Normal 0 0 1 415 2369 19 4 2909 11.1282 0 0 0 Colonies of army ants, whose long columns and marauding habits are the stuff of natural-history legend, are usually antagonistic to each other, attacking soldiers from rival colonies in border disputes that keep the colonies separate. But new work by a researcher at…
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Science & Tech
Facing your preferences
Researchers discover that similar qualities of observation drive gay and straight men in their judgments on attractiveness.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Green ’13 is a new initiative from the class of 2013 that aims to change the culture of personal behavior, starting with being more sustainable.
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Campus & Community
Donald Harnish Fleming
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald Harnish Fleming, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Donald Fleming was a scholar of intellectual history and the history of science and medicine.
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Science & Tech
Harvard scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, Harvard researchers have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions. The work is described this week in in a letter in the journal Nature Nanotechnology by scientists led by Bozhi Tian and Charles…
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Health
From stem cells to functioning strip of heart muscle
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has taken a giant step toward the possibility of using human stem cells to repair damaged hearts. http://www.kaltura.com/p/616782/sp/61678200/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/5415041/partner_id/616782 The researchers led by HSCI Principal Faculty member Kenneth Chien, M.D., PhD, report using…
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
As part of an effort to develop creative solutions to Harvard’s projected long-term budget deficit, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard College recently launched an online Idea Bank where community members can submit recommendations for reducing costs and generating revenues.
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Campus & Community
Charles Paul Segal
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 13, 2007, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Charles Paul Segal was placed upon the records. Segal is regarded as one of the most prolific 20th century interpreters of classical literature and poetry.
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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…
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Health
Three Harvard teams to receive $9 million each in federal funding for stem cell research
Three teams of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers are slated to receive $27 million over seven years in National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) grants for the development of stem-cell based tools and treatments to understand and treat cardiovascular and blood disorders. The NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium will consist of nine research…
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Health
Harvard team reports major step forward in cell reprogramming
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in treating diseases in patients. “This demonstrates that we’re halfway home, and remarkably we got halfway home with just one chemical,” said Kevin Eggan, an HSCI…
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Health
Jack Szostak 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Jack Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work in the discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that protects chromosomes from degrading. The work not only revealed a key cellular function, it also illuminated processes involved in…
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Health
How does a worm build a throat?
Mention worms to most people, and they probably think of fishing, gardening, or trips to the vet. Mention them to Susan E. Mango, and she begins telling you how “absolutely beautiful” they are, how she marvels at their development from single cells into the six chromosome, 20,000 gene organisms upon which she has built a…
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Campus & Community
Caroline Elkins named professor of history
Historian Caroline Elkins, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her book “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” has been named professor of history at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
In the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, faculty and staff are honing in on saving energy and materials, helping the University to significantly reduce its greenhouse emissions by 2016.
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Campus & Community
Five FAS faculty members receive tenure
Five FAS faculty members have been named full professors with tenure.
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Campus & Community
Kirwan ’79, M.P.P. ’84, appointed FAS dean for administration and finance
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith Sept. 25 announced the appointment of Leslie Kirwan as the new FAS dean for administration and finance, effective Nov. 2, 2009. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Kennedy School, Kirwan has served as the secretary of administration and finance for the commonwealth of…