Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Gardner wins accolade for research

    Howard Gardner has been bestowed with the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.

  • Health

    The battle of the butts

    Gregory Connolly and the HSPH Center for Global Tobacco Control conduct research around the world to illuminate ongoing health problems caused by tobacco.

  • Arts & Culture

    Rescuing ancient languages

    Harvard Linguistics Professor Maria Polinsky and her lab team work to understand and preserve ancient Mayan tongues, with the help of native speakers.

  • Campus & Community

    Reinhold Brinkmann

    Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music at Harvard University from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, serving, after 1990, as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music and, from…

  • Campus & Community

    Barrington Moore Jr.

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Barrington Moore, Jr., retired Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center and Senior Lecturer on Sociology, was placed upon the records. Moore was a leader in comparative historical sociology and…

  • Arts & Culture

    Tocqueville’s Discovery of America

    Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.

  • Campus & Community

    HAA announces Harvard Medalists

    The Harvard Alumni Association will award the Harvard Medal to Albert Carnesale ’78 (hon.), Frances Fergusson ’66, Ph.D. ’73, and Peter Malkin ’55, J.D. ’58, on May 26.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Aging Intellect

    In this important book, Douglas H. Powell, a clinical instructor in psychology, discusses lifestyle habits and attitudes linked to cognitive aging, and provides evidence-based strategies to minimize mental decline.

  • Arts & Culture

    Andrew Johnson

    Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed tackles one of the worst presidents in American history, claiming that his own racism was to blame for his shoddy performance during the Reconstruction era.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College Professorships for 5

    Honor provides support for research, recognizes outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

  • Arts & Culture

    What books mean as objects

    Most literature professors focus on the interpretation of texts, but Professor Leah Price wants to explore other uses to which books can be put, in the evolving interplay between reading and handling.

  • Campus & Community

    Jill Johnson appointed dance director

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Music Department have announced the appointment of Jill Johnson as director of the OFA Dance Program and senior lecturer in the Department of Music.

  • Nation & World

    The influence of neighbors

    Where we live and who we know can affect our voting patterns, Harvard researcher suggests.

  • Campus & Community

    NHC names Jason Stevens a fellow

    Harvard Assistant Professor of English Jason Stevens has been named a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service for Eli Shapiro

    A memorial service for Eli Shapiro, the former Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Investment Management at Harvard Business School, will be held on May 7.

  • Campus & Community

    Second annual Burke Global Health Fellows named

    The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced the selection of the second annual Burke Global Health Fellows.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Foundation sends 1,000 blankets to Japan

    The Harvard Foundation recently sent more than 1,000 new wool blankets and other relief items to the victims of the catastrophic March earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

  • Campus & Community

    Director of Innovation Lab named

    Gordon S. Jones has been named the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a new and innovative initiative set to launch in late 2011 that will foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities, and provide a forum, both physically and virtually, for interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Korean Nobel Prize’ goes to Choi

    Augustine M.K. Choi, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was selected as the 2011 Ho-Am Laureate in Medicine, often referred to as the “Korean Nobel Prize.”

  • Campus & Community

    “The Young Ones” nominated for BAFTA

    “The Young Ones,” a BBC series filmed with Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen Langer, which replicates her Counterclockwise study using British celebrities, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 27

    At its last meeting of the year, the Faculty Council approved Extension School courses for 2011-12, the courses of instruction for 2011-12, and changes to the handbook for students for 2011-12. They also approved a description of the standing committee on public service and a proposal for study abroad and discussed campaign planning and an…

  • Campus & Community

    Renato Tagiuri, HBS professor emeritus, 91

    Renato Tagiuri, professor of social sciences in business administration emeritus at Harvard Business School, died on April 15 at the age of 91.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard announces plans to mark 375th anniversary

    Harvard University, the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning, will mark its 375th anniversary with a yearlong celebration highlighting its rich history and its dedication to teaching, learning, innovation, and research.

  • Campus & Community

    Richard Lazarus named professor of law

    Richard J. Lazarus, J.D. ’79, one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental law and also a leading practitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court, will join the Harvard Law School faculty this summer as a tenured professor of law.

  • Campus & Community

    Muhsin Mahdi

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Muhsin Mahdi, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Mahdi was respected for both his scholarship in Islamic philosophy and his critical translations of The…

  • Arts & Culture

    Understanding Global Trade

    Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade Elhanan Helpman discusses the revolutions in trade theory, showing how scholars shifted their trade flow analyses from sectoral levels to business-firm levels to clarify the growing roles of multinational corporations, offshoring, and outsourcing in the international division of labor.

  • Arts & Culture

    Why and how

    Professor Marjorie Garber’s new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn’t need to have an application someplace else in order to be definitive in its talking about human life and culture.”

  • Campus & Community

    Samuel Hutchison Beer

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Samuel Hutchison Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Beer was one of the world’s leading experts on British politics and also served…

  • Campus & Community

    American Academy elects 20 faculty

    Twenty from Harvard are among the 212 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.

  • Campus & Community

    William Lipscomb dies at 91

    William Nunn Lipscomb Jr., emeritus professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1976, died at age 91 in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday (April 14) of pneumonia and other complications resulting after a fall.