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The Harvard Corporation's decision to maintain the 2016 policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations was announced at a faculty meeting by President Drew Faust on Tuesday.

Policy on unrecognized single-gender social organizations to remain

Harvard Corporation vote seeks to uphold University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion

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DateDecember 5, 2017December 6, 2017

The percentages of women and minorities on the Harvard faculty have reached new highs, according to the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.

Progress in diversifying faculty

Percentages of women and minorities reach new highs, study says

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DateApril 25, 2017April 25, 2017

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 228 new members, including 13 Harvard faculty.

Harvard faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

New class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 7 in Cambridge

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DateApril 12, 2017September 7, 2017

Harvard Center for African Studies associate director Maggie Lopes (right) and center communications officer Mbessin Sonko (left) write notes of thanks during the Annual FAS Giving Thanks event at University Hall. “I started [at the Center for African Studies] about a month and a half ago and my team has really been that core of strength since I’ve gotten here,” said Sonko.

Giving thanks for each other

FAS gathers ahead of Thanksgiving to send notes of gratitude to colleagues

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DateNovember 22, 2016November 23, 2016

HHMI Faculty Scholars will receive grants of between $600,000 and $1.8 million over the next five years. Seven Harvard scientists have been recognized.

Ten from Harvard named HHMI Faculty Scholars

Grants back early career scientists in ambitious research

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DateSeptember 23, 2016September 7, 2017

2016 Cabot Fellows named

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DateMay 3, 2016

During the student-faculty dinner, David Elmer shared his story with Sabrina Yates '19 (center) and Sarah Angell '18. "I came close to going to Quantico and joining the FBI,” said Elmer, a professor in the Classics Department, recalling a period of uncertainty.

Professors get personal about their own career paths

Popular student-faculty dinners offer informal setting for sharing stories, insights

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DateMarch 18, 2016

Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 10

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DateFebruary 11, 2016

A report on diversity at Harvard found that the University's commitment to student diversity is not a new development. “Diversity and excellence go hand in hand. That’s something the College has known for a long time,” said Rakesh Khurana, the dean of Harvard College.

Support for a diverse student body

Faculty approves report on import of community interaction

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DateFebruary 2, 2016

Walter Kaiser, Harvard’s Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus

Walter Kaiser dies

Professor was a Renaissance scholar and former director of Villa I Tatti

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DateJanuary 12, 2016

After hiding from the Nazis as a young boy, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus Stanley Hoffmann wrote: “It wasn’t I who chose to study world politics. World politics forced themselves on me at a very early age.”

Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor and scholar, 86

Hoffmann was a leading public intellectual on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 50 years

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DateSeptember 14, 2015

David Grattan Hughes, 88

Musicologist was ‘a lifelong Harvard man’

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DateJuly 16, 2015

“I could not be more proud to serve as the inaugural Oppenheimer Faculty Director,” said Caroline Elkins. “The Center for African Studies aims to be the pre-eminent center for the study and teaching of Africa in the world, and the Oppenheimers’ generous support and pioneering vision has been an essential part of that process.”

Elkins receives named appointment at Center for African Studies

Pulitzer Prize-winning author has led the center since 2009

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DateJuly 6, 2015

"Most everyone who has used a camera understands that chance plays a big role in photography. An experienced photographer can make a great image, but so can a toddler wandering around and shooting haphazardly," said Harvard's Robin Kelsey, author of "Photography and the Art of Chance."

Compelled to create art

Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey was drawn to photography and teaching

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DateJune 12, 2015

Anita Berrizbeitia appointed chair of GSD’s Department of Landscape Architecture

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DateMay 14, 2015

Charles Whitlock spent his entire career at Harvard University, where he earned a master’s degree in English in 1947. A memorial service will be held May 2.

Charles Preston Whitlock service held

Onetime dean of Harvard College was 95

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DateMay 1, 2015

Faculty Council meeting held April 29

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DateApril 30, 2015

Where the spiritual and scholarly meet

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DateMarch 19, 2015

“Walter was a legend in our field. His knowledge was extensive, and his intuition was precise and always on the mark. It was not surprising that he served on the boards of many retail companies, and that his advice was much sought-after. I do not know of any academic who was revered as much by the retail industry,” observed HBS Professor Rajiv Lal of the late Walter J. Salmon (pictured).

HBS Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon, 84

Salmon was one of the world’s greatest experts on retailing and marketing

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DateMarch 12, 2015

Rulan Chao Pian

Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Memorial Minute

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DateFebruary 13, 2015

The Wolf Prize in Physics was awarded to Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner. It is an international award presented by the Wolf Foundation to living scientists and artists for “achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people.”

Robert Kirshner receives Wolf Prize

Guided the formation of the High-Z Supernova Search Team

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DateJanuary 30, 2015

Carol Oja, Harvard’s William Powell Mason Professor of Music, chair of the Music Department, and the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic, was in the midst of researching another book on Bernstein’s work when “I realized there was this whole really fascinating racial history” connected with the first production of "On the Town."

In 1944, Broadway subversion

Young, gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, professor recounts

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DateJanuary 26, 2015

Hotamisligil to receive Endocrine Society’s 2015 Laureate Award

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DateJanuary 23, 2015

At Houghton Library, Harvard Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt (far right), guides Humanities 10a students through a look at first editions and other treasures.

Glimpsing Dublin from the wine-dark sea

‘Hum 10’ guides students through literary masterworks

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DateDecember 12, 2014June 14, 2018

The gender-segregated signatures on this anti-slavery petition (image 1), sent to the 25th Congress from upstate New York, illustrate the “separate spheres” of household life in antebellum America. The work done by study co-author Daniel Carpenter (image 2), points to a trove of petitions now languishing in state and national archives. Another example (image 3) is a “Petition from Ladies of Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1835.”

Foreshadowing feminism

Petitioning against a congressional gag rule on slavery before the Civil War spurred generations of activists

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DateNovember 10, 2014

Oct. 25 marked the centennial of the poet John Berryman, who was Harvard's Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English from 1940 to 1943. Berryman jumped from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis in 1972 at the age of 57.

‘Dream Songs’ and demons

John Berryman centennial reintroduces Pulitzer-winning poet and onetime Harvard lecturer

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DateOctober 30, 2014

Maria Dolores León Torres (left), at home with her family in the La Vista neighborhood of Chapala, Mexico. She and her son Juan de Dios, age 4 (center), were part of a Harvard study investigating suspected contamination in fish from Lake Chapala. “We haven’t ever gotten ill,” she said. Photos by Ned Brown/Harvard Staff

The mystery of the lake

Harvard researchers probed whether fish in Mexican area were contaminated — and were harming mothers, children

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DateOctober 20, 2014February 13, 2018

Woody Hastings’ work has had relevance to naturalists, basic researchers, medical clinicians, industry, the human sleep lab, the child’s glow stick, and more, and earned him many awards and honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Woody Hastings, 87

Professor was an expert on bioluminescence

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DateAugust 8, 2014

Marc J. Roberts, a longtime professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, died July 26. Roberts’ most important book, “Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity,” has become a classic in the field of global health and has been translated into five languages.

Marc J. Roberts, 71

HSPH professor was a health care expert, political adviser

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DateJuly 29, 2014

A pilot study led by the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning placed a premium on person-to-person interaction. “The beauty of new digital teaching tools is that they provide us with the type of rich data that we haven’t been able to readily study before. This first iteration was a learning-by-doing adventure," said lead investigator Jenny Bergeron, director of educational research and assessment at the Bok Center.

A virtual analysis

Pilot study put blended-format courses to the test

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DateJuly 28, 2014

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