Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Ed Portal

    The Harvard Allston Education Portal “Showcase” drew nearly 100 people, including Ed Portal mentors, the Allston youngsters they’ve worked with, family members, and Harvard faculty and staff, to celebrate the conclusion of yet another semester of learning. Both mentees and mentors demonstrated the special connections that form at the Ed Portal and how contagious the…

  • Campus & Community

    Ed Portal showcases work

    Since 2008, the Harvard Allston Education Portal has fostered learning, exploration, and connections between Harvard and the Allston-Brighton community. The new Ed Portal Annex will triple the size of the Harvard Allston Education Portal.

  • Campus & Community

    Bathing in Chinese language and culture

    Expanding language program connects students with broader fields, such as history, art, and culture.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College Professors named

    Five faculty members were recognized for their excellence in undergraduate teaching this week by being awarded Harvard College Professorships.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 25

    At the April 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the Harvard Extension School courses for 2012-13 and Courses of Instruction for 2012-13. They also heard a review of the Ph.D. program in biostatistics and updates on College Standing Committees.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial for Paul Doty

    A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

  • Science & Tech

    Earth’s sister in the crosshairs

    A new book by Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov explains the revolution in understanding the universe that views life as a natural part of planetary evolution and that has researchers on the brink of finding worlds that echo this one.

  • Campus & Community

    AACR honors Alan D’Andrea

    The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented Alan D. D’Andrea with the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his work in understanding cancer survival and progression.

  • Campus & Community

    Institute renamed after Kelman

    The Vienna-based Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peace building was officially renamed the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation on Dec. 29, 2011.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS faculty win big

    Three members of the Harvard Business School faculty have won awards in the 2012 ecch Case Awards Competition.

  • Campus & Community

    A peek into Harvard classrooms

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is launching a new video series, called “Harvard’s Great Teachers,” which will highlight Harvard’s world-class faculty and offer a sampling of the exciting and innovative teaching experienced by Harvard students.

  • Campus & Community

    Paulus honored for directing excellence

    The American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2012 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.

  • Campus & Community

    HKS presents Neustadt and Schelling Awards

    Amartya Sen, one of the world’s most eminent economists and philosophers, has been named one of the recipients of the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.

  • Nation & World

    A welcome home

    After more than a decade away, Professor Eric Maskin returned to the Economics Department this semester to a warm reception — and with a Nobel Prize in tow.

  • Campus & Community

    Oscar Handlin

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 6, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Handlin was the most influential and creative historian of American social life in the second half of…

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial set for James Q. Wilson

    A memorial service for James Q. Wilson, former Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, will be held on April 13.

  • Campus & Community

    Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87

    Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.

  • Campus & Community

    CUNY Law School honors Gates

    Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.

  • Campus & Community

    REAI grants open for applications

    The Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard is offering its second round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Innovators – Innovation at Harvard

    Throughout the Harvard community, students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae are working every day across disciplines and around the globe to generate innovative ideas and solutions. Here are just a few examples.

  • Campus & Community

    Incubator of Innovation – Innovation at Harvard

    Medicine, business, politics….You never know where the spark of innovation may originate at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Nature by Design – Innovation at Harvard

    What can termites teach us about building complex computer systems?

  • Campus & Community

    Bench to Bedside – Innovation at Harvard

    Harvard researchers and clinicians collaborate across disciplines and around the globe to craft solutions to the world’s toughest health challenges.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Campus & Community

    Patrick appoints Barron, Reimers

    Gov. Deval Patrick announced the appointments of Harvard professors David J. Barron and Fernando M. Reimers to the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.