Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Australia-Harvard Fellowships taking applications

    The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2011 Australia-Harvard Fellowships, awards aimed at midcareer and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia.

  • Campus & Community

    ACLS awards fellowships to Harvard bunch

    Harvard faculty members and doctoral candidates are among those awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.

  • Campus & Community

    National Humanities Center names fellows for 2010-11

    The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently named Harvard’s Suzannah Clark, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music, and James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, among the 2010-11 class of 36 distinguished scholars.

  • Campus & Community

    Reimers appointed to U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

    Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and director of the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.

  • Campus & Community

    FAS names four full professors for 2010-11

    The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: David Charbonneau, Matthew Nock, James M. Snyder Jr., and Malika Zeghal.

  • Campus & Community

    Eck speaker for 138th Berea College Commencement

    Diana L. Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society and professor of comparative religion and Indian studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was the speaker for Berea College’s 138th Commencement on May 23, and will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

  • Campus & Community

    Graduate School of Design appoints three to faculty

    The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named Michael Hooper, Rahul Mehrotra and Joyce Klein Rosenthal to the GSD faculty, effective July 2010.

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    Eight from Harvard elected to American Philosophical Society

    The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, recently elected eight new members from Harvard into this year’s class of scholars.

  • Arts & Culture

    What they’re reading

    A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.

  • Campus & Community

    Extension School recognizes outstanding grads

    Each Commencement, the Harvard Extension School recognizes the notable accomplishments of its top graduates and outstanding faculty with numerous awards and prizes

  • Campus & Community

    Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows

    Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows

  • Campus & Community

    Alumni rally behind public service

    Outgoing HAA President Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland says the group’s interest in public service is expanding by leaps and bounds. Incoming President Robert R. Bowie Jr. plans to continue strengthening the alumni community.

  • Campus & Community

    Alfred Pope

    Alfred Pope, professor of neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School and senior neuropathologist at McLean Hospital, died on Feb. 13, 2009, at Fox Hill Village in Westwood, Mass., at the age of 94. Pope, one of the world’s most eminent neuropathologists, served at McLean for more than six decades.

  • Health

    The art of science

    Susan Mango, professor of molecular and cellular biology and MacArthur award winner, brings her unorthodox approach to research.

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    Raymond D. Adams

    Raymond Delacy Adams, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Oct. 18, 2008, at the age of 97. Adams was considered by his peers to be one of the pre-eminent neurologists of the 20th century.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvey Goldman

    Harvey Goldman, professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, died on April 6, 2009, from complications of a hematologic disorder. Goldman was not only a master educator, but also an outstanding surgical pathologist and investigator in the field of gastrointestinal pathology.

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    Michael W. Shannon

    Michael Shannon, the first African-American full professor of pediatrics in Harvard Medical School’s history, died on March 10, 2009, at the age of 55. At Children’s Hospital Boston, Shannon directed the largest pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program in the country and trained subsequent leaders in toxicology and emergency medicine.

  • Campus & Community

    National Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard

    Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors

    The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Stephen Burt, Peter Der Manuelian, David Howell, Martin Puchner, and Gu-Yeon Wei.

  • Campus & Community

    Peter Emanuel Sifneos

    Peter Emanuel Sifneos, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, died at his home in Belmont on Dec. 9, 2008, at the age of 88. He was an internationally renowned pioneer in the areas of short-term psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine.

  • Campus & Community

    Gokhan Hotamisligil receives honor for the Study of Obesity

    Gökhan Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, will receive the prestigious Wertheimer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity in July in Stockholm.

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    Six from Harvard receive Guggenheim Fellowships

    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to six faculty members from Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    Monica Higgins named professor of education at HGSE

    Associate Professor Monica Higgins has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Higgins’ expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and organizational change, and her work straddles higher education and urban public schools.

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    William Avison Meissner

    William “Bill” Avison Meissner, former Harvard Medical School clinical professor of pathology and emeritus professor of pathology at the New England Deaconess Hospital, died on Dec. 6, 2008, at age 95. Meissner’s expertise was in thyroid, soft tissue, and oropharyngeal tumors.

  • Campus & Community

    Nancy Rappaport wins book award

    Nancy Rappaport, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has won the 2010 Julie Howe Book Award for her memoir, “In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide.”

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    Paul C. Zamecnik

    Paul Charles Zamecnik, the Collis P. Huntington Professor of Oncologic Medicine Emeritus, died in Boston on Oct. 27, 2009, at the age of 96. During a research career that spanned more than 70 years, he made a series of scientific contributions that represented multiple fields of biochemistry and molecular biology.

  • Campus & Community

    Five awarded College Professorships

    Dean Michael D. Smith announced May 11 that five professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Harvard College Professorships in recognition of their outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held May 5

    At its 13th and final meeting of the year on May 5, the Faculty Council approved next year’s Handbook for Students and Courses of Instruction for the College and the courses for the University Extension School. The council also heard a proposal regarding the administration of final examinations.

  • Campus & Community

    Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s…

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    Steven Pinker wins George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience

    Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, was named this year’s winner of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, presented by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.