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Tag: Faculty
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Arts & Culture
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
Jeffrey Quilter, a senior lecturer on anthropology and deputy director for curatorial affairs and curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, introduces the Moche civilization and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.
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Arts & Culture
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
Paul Lawrence, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, offers an integrated explanation of both human behavior and leadership using a scientific approach — and Darwin, too! — to illustrate how good, bad, and misguided leadership are natural to the human condition.
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Campus & Community
Putnam awarded Rolf Schock Prize
The 2011 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy will be awarded on Nov. 2 to Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Gardner receives honorary degree
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, received an honorary degree from the University of Ploiesti in Romania on March 17.
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Campus & Community
Touring the Yard with John Stilgoe
Harvard professor John Stilgoe takes viewers on a tour of historic Harvard Yard and explores its many unique and exciting features.
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Science & Tech
Harvard Medical School researchers crawl a neural network
Scientists can finally look at circuits in the brain in all of their complexity. How the mind works is one of the greatest mysteries in nature, and this research presents a new and powerful way for us to explore that mystery.
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Health
Web-crawling the brain
Researchers in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School have developed a technique for unraveling these masses. Through a combination of microscopy platforms, researchers can crawl through the individual connections composing a neural network, much as Google crawls web links.
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Campus & Community
MPSA awards Daniel Carpenter
The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) has named Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, the winner of the 2011 Herbert Simon Award for his career scientific contributions to the study of public administration.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Neighbors Gallery seeks artists for 2011-12 season
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is seeking Harvard artists for the 2011-12 season. Located at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St., Harvard Neighbors provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show their works.
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Campus & Community
National Humanities Medals awarded
Emeritus professors Daniel Aaron and Bernard Bailyn are two of 10 winners of the 2010 National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama.
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Campus & Community
Obama honors Robert Brustein
The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2.
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Campus & Community
Leon Eisenberg
Leon Eisenberg was a professor of psychiatry and chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Arts & Culture
Cities on a hill
Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, who was raised in New York City, is an advocate of the metropolis, and upends the myths that cities are unhealthy, poor, and environmentally unfriendly in his book “Triumph of the City.”
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Arts & Culture
Constructing the International Economy
Rawi Abdelal, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and co-editors parse the ways political and economic forces are interpreted globally by agents, and seek to understand just how the economy is constructed.
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Campus & Community
Stuart T. Hauser
Stuart T. Hauser, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally acclaimed expert in adolescent development, died at age 70 on August 5, 2008, of complications following surgery for esophageal cancer. He was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Judge Baker Children’s Center, and Co-Director of the Clinical Research Training Program in Social and Biological…
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Arts & Culture
Imagination and Logos: Essays on C.P. Cavafy
Panagiotis Roilos, professor of Modern Greek studies and of comparative literature, edits this volume of essays by international scholars exploring the work of C.P. Cavafy, one of the most important 20th century European poets.
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Arts & Culture
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
Understanding attack strategies and how to prepare for them will help get your idea off the ground, according to this book by John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Emeritus, and co-author Lorne Whitehead.
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Campus & Community
Sidney R. Coleman
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 15, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sidney R. Coleman, Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. For much of his career, Professor Coleman was the preeminent teacher of quantum field theory in the world.
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Campus & Community
AAC&U names Skocpol a director
At its recent annual meeting in San Francisco, the Association of American Colleges and Universities named Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, a director.
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Science & Tech
Brenner awarded Ledlie Prize
Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Campus & Community
Get ready, think big
Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.
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Arts & Culture
Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology
Mayra Rivera Rivera, assistant professor of theology and Latina/o studies, and Stephen D. Moore compiled these essays by theologians and biblical scholars who react to Spivak’s postcolonial studies and theology.
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Campus & Community
Claudio Guillén
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Claudio Guillén, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Guillén was a tireless promoter of comparative literature.
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Arts & Culture
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Robert D. Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, and co-author David E. Campbell, plumb America’s modern history of religion, including the shift towards atheism, and current youth culture’s acceptance of diversity.
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Campus & Community
Ernest R. May
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American History, was placed upon the records. An expert in the field of U.S. foreign relations, Professor May held many leadership roles within the…
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Health
Nabokov’s blues
Ten years before his novel “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov published a detailed hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the Polyommatus blues butterflies. A team, led by a Harvard professor, is proving him right.
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Arts & Culture
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell examines witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather.
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Arts & Culture
He’s got a head start
In his new book, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman traces the human head’s perpetual makeover as it developed through the hominin fossil record.
