The Harvard Gazette

Faculty

Page 2 of 33

Maria Dolores León Torres (left), at home with her family in the La Vista neighborhood of Chapala, Mexico. She and her son Juan de Dios, age 4 (center), were part of a Harvard study investigating suspected contamination in fish from Lake Chapala. “We haven’t ever gotten ill,” she said. Photos by Ned Brown/Harvard Staff

The mystery of the lake

Harvard researchers probed whether fish in Mexican area were contaminated — and were harming mothers, children

World|

DateOctober 20, 2014April 15, 2019

Woody Hastings’ work has had relevance to naturalists, basic researchers, medical clinicians, industry, the human sleep lab, the child’s glow stick, and more, and earned him many awards and honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Woody Hastings, 87

Professor was an expert on bioluminescence

News|

DateAugust 8, 2014

Marc J. Roberts, a longtime professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, died July 26. Roberts’ most important book, “Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity,” has become a classic in the field of global health and has been translated into five languages.

Marc J. Roberts, 71

HSPH professor was a health care expert, political adviser

News|

DateJuly 29, 2014

A pilot study led by the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning placed a premium on person-to-person interaction. “The beauty of new digital teaching tools is that they provide us with the type of rich data that we haven’t been able to readily study before. This first iteration was a learning-by-doing adventure," said lead investigator Jenny Bergeron, director of educational research and assessment at the Bok Center.

A virtual analysis

Pilot study put blended-format courses to the test

World|

DateJuly 28, 2014March 21, 2019

Seymour Slive (left) was awarded an honorary degree during Harvard's 363rd Commencement in May. Slive passed away in June. Among his many roles at Harvard, Slive was a former director of the Fogg Art Museum.

Art historian Seymour Slive, 93

Professor emeritus was at Harvard in May to receive honorary degree

News|

DateJuly 16, 2014

“We’re sharing Harvard research with everybody with an Internet connection,” said Peter Suber, director of the Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication, which administers Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, or DASH — the free and open repository for peer-reviewed literature written by Harvard faculty.

Scholarly access to all

Harvard digital repository draws millions of readers, ranging from the academic community to the global public

Science|

DateJuly 15, 2014May 6, 2019

This week, Harvard is hosting a pilot program presented by the Warrior-Scholar Project. The nonprofit group organizes academic boot camps for veterans thinking of making a transition from the military to college. Among the guest faculty was Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., (photo 1). President Drew Faust (photo 2) said the new program provided “a chance for me to express my enthusiasm and my support for the path you have taken, and the commitment you are exhibiting to higher education.”

Academic boot camp

Harvard hosts program that smoothes way for veterans to attend college

World|

DateJuly 8, 2014March 21, 2019

Filmmaker Robert Gardner, 88

Anthropological filmmaker helped pioneer film studies at Harvard

News|

DateJuly 7, 2014June 19, 2019

Mahzarin R. Banaji (above), the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, has been named a Harvard College Professor along with David Cutler, Hopi Hoekstra, Melissa McCormick, and Greg Morrisett.

5 named Harvard College Professors

Annual honors recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching

Campus|

DateJune 20, 2014

Robert Richardson Bowie

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 11, 2014

Nathan Keyfitz

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 11, 2014

James Thompson

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 11, 2014April 1, 2019

Wallace MacCaffrey

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 11, 2014

Serafín Moralejo

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 11, 2014

John Huchra had a rare combination of joie de vivre and sitzfleich that allowed him to deal with teams of lawyers on tough problems of scientific administration with cheerful energy.

John Peter Huchra

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 11, 2014February 8, 2019

James Newton Butler

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJune 9, 2014

Arthur Spirling and Stacey Combes are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Abramson Award to Spirling, Combes

Social science, biology professors honored for excellence in undergraduate teaching

News|

DateJune 6, 2014June 5, 2019

Yeats and Bishop made Bret Anthony Johnston's summer reading list but, he said, "I’m eager to happen upon unexpected used bookstores, tag sales, and library fundraisers, where I often buy books outside of my typical reading inclinations."

Summertime, and the reading is easy

Faculty members outline what they’ll be perusing during their downtime

Arts|

DateMay 26, 2014

“A University is only as good as its faculty, and we want Harvard to be the best place on Earth to be a faculty member,” said Judith D. Singer, senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. “We very much want to use these results to ensure that they feel this is an environment that fosters their best work, and understand how Harvard can improve the quality of life for our faculty.”

Survey finds faculty satisfaction rate at 81 percent

Quality of students and opportunities to innovate in their teaching top list

Campus|

DateMay 21, 2014March 6, 2019

Faculty Council meeting held May 14

Campus|

DateMay 20, 2014

Faculty Council meeting held April 30

News|

DateMay 1, 2014

The discovery of the waves had been “one of the most important goals in cosmology,” said John Kovac, Harvard associate professor of astronomy and the project leader of the BICEP2 telescope at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

Kovac makes a ‘Big Bang’ on Time’s list

Astronomer honored by magazine for discovery of gravitational waves

Science|

DateApril 25, 2014

“We wanted to invite extraordinary writers to participate in conversations with our student writers,” said Bret Anthony Johnston (from left, center chairs), the curator of Writers in the Parlor, which brought writers Laura van den Berg and Paul Yoon to campus in March.

For writers and students, a break from solitude

Series a continuous conversation on craft, aspirations

Arts|

DateApril 21, 2014

Faculty Council meeting held April 9

News|

DateApril 10, 2014

When government ponders helpful policies, Harvard faculty members are front and center. Professor Daniel Schrag (from left) is the director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment; Cherry Murray, dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, sits on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board; and Professor James McCarthy chairs the board of directors for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Advising on climate change

When government ponders helpful policies, Harvard faculty members are front and center

Science|

DateApril 7, 2014April 26, 2019

Visitors lined up to see Horizon House (photo 1) last November in remote Taiki-cho, Japan, just after this sustainable rural retreat was completed. The computer simulation Zero-House shows the transformation from an ordinary house in suburban France (photo 2) to a surplus-energy dwelling (photo 3).

Less energy, more creativity

GSD students design two sustainable houses, win awards for their work

Science|

DateMarch 31, 2014May 21, 2019

Faculty Council meeting held March 26

Campus|

DateMarch 27, 2014

"If you make the humanities available to everyone, everyone has something to say, everyone has something to give, everyone has something to learn," said Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free, nationwide course available to individuals experiencing adverse conditions or economic hardship. McCarthy holds the course's first endowed chair.

Teaching on campus and off

For years, Tim McCarthy has taught students in Dorchester, in a program where he now has an endowed chair

Campus|

DateMarch 25, 2014

Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 26

Campus|

DateFebruary 27, 2014

While in Japan to receive an award for their Tohuka Recovery entry, "Here Today, Here Tomorrow," Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kristen Hunter (from left), Trevor Johnson, Maria Arrasate, and Karina Gilbert went to the Tohoku Regional Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, which was the command center during the March 2011 disaster.

Out of disaster, a new design

Harvard team wins contest for fresh ideas to speed recovery from Japanese quake, tsunami

Science|

DateFebruary 24, 2014July 26, 2019

Page

1
2
3
4
…
33