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Tag: Faculty
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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.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 9
At its ninth meeting of the year on Feb. 9, the Faculty Council approved a motion regarding mail ballots. They also heard an overview of the College Fellows Program, an analysis of pre-term planning, and an update on the General Education Program.
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Campus & Community
Anthology includes two articles by Blier
Two articles by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, have been included in an online anthology of The Art Bulletin.
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Campus & Community
Ernst Badian, professor of history emeritus, 85
Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1.
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus and naturalist Edward O. Wilson has received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the ecology and conservation biology category.
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Campus & Community
AIMBE inducts Ingber to College of Fellows
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Feb. 4 that its founding director, Donald E. Ingber, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.
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Campus & Community
HLS appoints Gertner, Shay as professors of practice
Harvard Law School has announced the appointments of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner and Stephen Shay, deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as professors of practice.
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Campus & Community
HMS professor receives honors for reconstructive microsurgery
Julian Pribaz of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery’s 2011 Harry J. Buncke Lecturer.
