Tag: Faculty

  • Nation & World

    What makes a successful society?

    New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, or drugs.

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    Foster elected to Trustees of Reservations board of directors

    Harvard Forest’s David Foster elected to the Trustees of Reservations board of directors at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner on Sept. 26.

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    Rubin elected a corresponding fellow by British Academy

    Donald B. Rubin was elected a corresponding fellow for distinction in research at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy on July 16.

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    Big-picture view of nanoscale

    After 25 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a pioneer in the fabrication of miniature electronic and photonic devices takes up residence at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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    In pursuit of everyday excellence

    Stacey M. Childress and David A. Thomas are two Harvard Business School professors who wrote a book on how a struggling school system in Maryland turned itself around.

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    Glazer to give Lipset lecture, Nov. 4

    Nathan Glazer will give the Seymour Martin Lipset Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4. Glazer’s talk is titled, “Democracy and Diversity: Dealing with Deep Divides.”

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    Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

    The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.

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    Robert D. Leffert

    Robert Leffert, who died on Dec. 7, 2008, at the age of 75, is remembered for being a spectacular physician who in his time at the Massachusetts General Hospital became a major force in rehabilitation medicine and also in the management of upper extremity disorders.

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    Charles Paul Segal

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 13, 2007, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Charles Paul Segal was placed upon the records. Segal is regarded as one of the most prolific 20th century interpreters of classical literature and poetry.

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    Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy

    This thoughtful tome assesses the growth of government and subsequent outsourcing of work to private organizations. Freeman and Minow dig deep and ask: What’s efficient and who’s accountable?

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    Faculty Council meeting held on Sept. 30

    At its third meeting of the year (Sept. 30), the Faculty Council heard a review of the Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. The council also continued a discussion of the nomenclature of the Harvard Extension School and its degrees, as well as a proposal to change some of the procedures of the…

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    The story from beginning to end

    Norton Greenberger, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has written a book about the hidden world of digestion — and no holds are barred.

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    Carpio rising

    Worlds of poverty and wealth, constraint and liberation, bring literary scholar Glenda R. Carpio to Harvard stardom.

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    Five FAS faculty members receive tenure

    Five FAS faculty members have been named full professors with tenure.

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    Charles McCabe

    Charles McCabe, senior surgeon and senior physician in emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died July 7, 2008, after a protracted battle with melanoma, lymphoma, and multiple sclerosis.

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    Liem, professor of ichthyology, dies at 74

    Karel Frederik Liem, an expert on the functional anatomy, evolution, and physiology of fishes and curator of ichthyology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died on Sept. 3 at the age of 74.

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    Ernest Edward Williams

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 19, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ernest Edward Williams, Professor of Biology, Emeritus, and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Ernest Williams’ work on anole evolution synthesized a wide variety of fields.

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    Leon Eisenberg, pioneering child psychiatrist, dies at 87

    Leon Eisenberg, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died on Sept. 15 at the age of 87.

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    New faculty introduced

    Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Kirsten Bomblies is among 70 new faculty members who are joining the University’s various Schools this year. With the start of the new year, Harvard has hired 41 new assistant professors, six associate professors, and 23 new full professors, and promoted 20 existing faculty members to tenured professor…

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    Practice, education, activism

    The Graduate School of Design at Harvard celebrates one of its own, the late J. Max Bond Jr., a pioneering architect.

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    NIH funds risky, potentially transformative research by Harvard faculty members

    Eighteen faculty members at Harvard and Harvard-affiliated institutions are among 115 scientists nationally whose promising and innovative work was recognized today with the announcement of three grant programs by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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    Leon Kirchner; Harvard teacher wrote bold, daring music, won Pulitzer; at 90

    Leon Kirchner came to Harvard in 1961, after teaching at Mills College, and eventually assumed an endowed chair previously held by the composer Walter Piston.

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    On Rumors

    Rumors affect political outcomes, tarnish reputations, even ruin lives. Cass R. Sunstein delivers this treatise on how misinformation is easily accepted and rapidly spread, and how, in the Internet age, some stories can’t be undone.

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    Visiting faculty bring their art along

    The “Visiting Faculty 2009-10” exhibit highlights the work of eight visiting faculty at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

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    Robert Timmons McCluskey

    Robert T. McCluskey, a pioneer in the field of immunopathology, died June 29, 2006 at the age of 83. McCluskey was a leader in academic pathology and nephrology and his major scientific contributions were related to the immunopathogenesis of renal diseases.

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    FAS names six full professors with tenure

    From a professor of comparative literature to a professor of Chinese history, the FAS has announced six new tenured professors.

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    Service for Ernest May, Sept. 23

    A memorial service for Ernest May, a renowned historian of international relations and foreign policy and professor of history, will be held Sept. 23, in Memorial Church.

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    HSPH’s Bloom named recipient of national award

    Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, will receive the 2009 Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum award at a ceremony on Sept. 30.

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    Lloyd M. Aiello receives Alpert Prize for preventing blindness in diabetic patients

    Lloyd M. Aiello, a Harvard Medical School clinical professor of ophthalmology at Joslin Diabetes Center’s Beetham Eye Institute, will receive the 2008-09 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize on Sept. 29.

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    Greyser honored by Institute for Public Relations

    Steven A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received a special award for his contributions to public relations education and research from the Institute for Public Relations.

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