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Tag: Faculty
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Campus & Community
Innovation Motivation – Innovation at Harvard
In lecture halls, laboratories, and spaces across Harvard, dedicated teachers including Kevin Kit Parker, Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, are creating fertile environments for innovation, championing bold ideas and encouraging students to think in new ways.
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Campus & Community
A New Way to Look at the Past – Innovation at Harvard
In a powerful new approach to scholarship, researchers at Harvard are creating a digital “fossil record” of human culture by tracking the frequency with which words appear in digitized books. Culturomics, a…
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Campus & Community
Giza in Another Dimension – Innovation at Harvard
What if you could enter a decorated tomb chapel in a Giza pyramid, descend down an ancient burial shaft, or see 5,000-year-old inscriptions come to life—without ever having to travel?
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Campus & Community
Theater Reimagined – Innovation at Harvard
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is seeking new ways to redefine and reimagine theater for the Harvard community and beyond.
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Campus & Community
Ronold W. P. King
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ronold W. P. King, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor King, a dedicated teacher and scholar, was an expert on linear antennas.
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Campus & Community
Allan R. Robinson
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 6, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Allan R. Robinson, Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Robinson’s insights into the Gulf Stream, the evolution of ocean eddies, and the dynamics…
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Campus & Community
Vogel wins Gelber Prize for book
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Ezra F. Vogel has won the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.”
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Campus & Community
Historian’s book a prize finalist
Professor Maya Jasanoff is one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” published by Knopf.
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Campus & Community
Eight from Harvard headed Down Under
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has announced fellowship awards to eight accomplished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2012, and to two Australian researchers headed to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Sabeti named Young Global Leader
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Pardis Sabeti has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 15
At the Feb. 15 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members considered proposals for a Ph.D. program in education and to change the schedule of regular meetings of the Faculty in the rules of faculty procedure. They also met with President Drew Faust to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.
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Campus & Community
Immersed in the body politic
Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard Gregorian Chant
Members of the Harvard community gather regularly in the basement of the Memorial Church for an informal hour of Gregorian chant singing under the guidance of Thomas Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music.
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Campus & Community
White House awards three medalists
Robert Darnton and Amartya Sen were among nine honored by President Barack Obama as 2011 National Humanities Medalists, while Harvard Overseer Emily Rauh Pulitzer was a recipient of the 2011 National Medal of Arts.
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Campus & Community
HILT Symposium 2012
The inaugural HILT Symposium opened a Harvard-wide conversation, engaging faculty and students in dialogue, debate, and the sharing of ideas about pedagogical innovation. The event convened invited members of the Harvard community and presenters from within Harvard and externally who offered interesting and informative perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education, with an emphasis…
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Campus & Community
Neighbors for the 21st century
Once a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.
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Campus & Community
Bhabha awarded by India president
Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, has been awarded a Padma Award, India’s highest civilian award.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 25
At the Jan. 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the 2012-13 faculty meeting schedule.
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Campus & Community
NAS honors four faculty
Michael J. Hopkins, Jonathan B. Losos, Andrew H. Knoll, and Jason P. Mitchell have been honored by the National Academy of Sciences for their extraordinary scientific achievements.
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Campus & Community
Great Teachers trailer
A preview of Harvard University’s “Great Teachers” series which will be launched in March of 2012.
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Campus & Community
Land-use law pioneer, Charles M. Haar, 91
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus Charles M. Haar ’48, a pioneer in land-use law whose scholarship focused on laws and institutions of city planning, urban development, and environmental issues, died on Jan. 10.
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Campus & Community
Music scholar, John Milton Ward, 94
John Milton Ward, Harvard’s William Powell Mason Professor of Music from 1961 to 1985, died quietly at home in Cambridge on Dec. 12. He was 94 years old.
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Campus & Community
Donald Ingber wins 2011 Holst Medal
Donald Ingber, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has been awarded the 2011 Holst Medal.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service for Bernie Wolfman
Harvard Law School will host a memorial Service in honor of Bernie Wolfman on Feb. 3.
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Campus & Community
Abraham Zaleznik, HBS professor, 87
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, a renowned authority on leadership and social psychology, died in Boston on Nov. 28 at the age of 87.
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Campus & Community
Harvard paleontologist awarded
Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus Alfred W. Crompton received the A.S. Romer–G.G. Simpson Medal from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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Campus & Community
Charles M. Williams dies at 94
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Charles M. Williams, a renowned authority on commercial banking and a master of the art of case method teaching who influenced the lives and careers of thousands of M.B.A. students and executives around the world, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 17. He was 94.
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Campus & Community
Ihor Ševčenko
The news of Ihor Ševčenko’s death, on the day after Christmas 2009, elicited a spontaneous international reaction that befitted his stature as a towering intellect and hugely admired scholar in the fields of Byzantine and pre-modern Slavic studies.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s startup upstart
Gordon Jones, director of the new Harvard Innovation Lab, has ideas on how to foster an entrepreneurial mentality at the country’s oldest university.
