Tag: Faculty

Campus & Community
Carroll E. Wood, Jr.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Carroll E. Wood Jr., Professor of Biology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Carroll Wood’s innovative research project, the Generic Flora of the Southeastern United States, took a biological approach to…

February 17, 2011
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.

February 15, 2011
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.

February 15, 2011
Campus & Community
Ernst Badian, professor of history emeritus, 85

Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1.

February 14, 2011
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.

February 14, 2011
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.

February 8, 2011
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.

February 7, 2011
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.

February 4, 2011
Campus & Community
HBS’s Herzlinger addresses House Republican Conference

Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently addressed the annual House Republican Conference retreat in Baltimore regarding health care.

February 4, 2011
Arts & Culture
Troubled youth

Linda Schlossberg’s debut novel, “Life in Miniature,” depicts a mother’s mental illness and a daughter’s coming of age.

February 3, 2011
Arts & Culture
In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field

Jonathan Losos, Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, edits this collection of essays by leading scientists, including Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman and Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard historian Janet Browne, and many others.

February 3, 2011
Campus & Community
History in the making

When the Berlin Wall fell, student Mary Lewis knew she should study the past. Now a professor, she is an authority on how France evolved.

February 3, 2011
Arts & Culture
An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France.

February 3, 2011
Campus & Community
HRES establishes 2011-12 rents for Harvard University housing

In accordance with the University’s fair market rent policy, Harvard Real Estate Services has announced the proposed rent for Harvard University Housing for 2011-12.

February 3, 2011
Nation & World
Changing how teachers improve

A new initiative headed by a Harvard scholar aims to transform the way teachers improve their performance, and to overhaul the nation’s public schools in the process.

February 3, 2011
Campus & Community
Help on the home front

Harvard programs assist employees trying to juggle careers and families, bridging coverage gaps.

January 31, 2011
Arts & Culture
Identity issues

In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.

January 28, 2011
Campus & Community
Daniel Bell, social scientist, 91

Daniel Bell, the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and one of America’s most dynamic thinkers, died on Jan. 25. He was 91.

January 27, 2011
Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 26

The Faculty Council met on Jan. 26 and heard reviews of the chemical biology program, the standing committee on writing and speaking, and the rules concerning honors.

January 27, 2011
Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson to receive Thoreau Prize

PEN New England will present this year’s Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing on Feb. 8 to author Edward O. Wilson in recognition of his exceptional talents.

January 26, 2011
Campus & Community
Walter H. Abelmann, professor of medicine, emeritus, 89

Walter H. Abelmann, professor of medicine emeritus at Harvard Medical School and member of the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences Technology, died on Jan. 6. He was 89.

January 25, 2011
Campus & Community
Astronomers honored for excellence, research

Harvard astronomers Robert P. Kirshner and Gaspar Bakos were honored this month (Jan.) by the American Astronomical Society.

January 20, 2011
Campus & Community
BIDMC’s Pandolfi to receive cancer research award

Cancer geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the recipient of the 2011 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research.

January 19, 2011
Campus & Community
Miss Conduct to conduct online chat

Harvard will host an online chat with Robin Abrahams, the Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct, who also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School, on Jan. 18 at noon. The chat is part of a HARVie series that offers Harvard community members the opportunity to learn from experts across campus.

January 14, 2011
Campus & Community
Kafadar nabs Turkish honors

Turkish President Abdullah Gül presented in December the 2010 Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts to Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar for history.

January 13, 2011
Campus & Community
NARSAD awards $720,000 to Harvard researchers

Twelve from Harvard are among 214 researchers named NARSAD Young Investigators.

January 13, 2011
Campus & Community
Institute of Politics director named

Trey Grayson, who is completing his second term as secretary of state in Kentucky, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University. Grayson will assume his post on Jan. 31.

January 13, 2011
Campus & Community
AAAS announces 15 Harvard fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded 15 Harvard faculty members the distinction of being named an AAAS Fellow on Jan. 11.

January 11, 2011
Campus & Community
New Arboretum director hosts meet and greet

In his first month as the Arnold Arboretum’s new director, William Friedman is hosting two meet and greets and has established a Director’s Lecture Series.

January 6, 2011
Campus & Community
Gregory Verdine wins prize for cancer research

Gregory Verdine has won the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.

January 6, 2011