Tag: Faculty
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Arts & Culture
What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.

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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
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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
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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.

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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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Campus & Community
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.

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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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Campus & Community
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.

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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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Campus & Community
Six from Harvard receive Guggenheim Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to six faculty members from Harvard.
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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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Campus & Community
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.

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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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Campus & Community
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.

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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.

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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.
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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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Campus & Community
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.

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Campus & Community
Kaelin among Canada Gairdner Award recipients
William Kaelin, a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been named one of seven recipients of the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.
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Campus & Community
Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley
The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School’s John Spengler, and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment.

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Campus & Community
Walton appointed assistant professor of African American religions
Social ethicist and African American religious studies scholar Jonathan Walton has been named assistant professor of African American religions at Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1.

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Arts & Culture
The invention of childhood innocence
In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.

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Campus & Community
Celebrating the life of Allan Richard Robinson
A celebration honoring the life of Allan Richard Robinson, the Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Emeritus in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will be held at the Memorial Church on May 7 (2 p.m.).

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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 14
At its 12th meeting of the year on April 14, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of the College’s academic dishonesty policy and discussed the voting status of senior lecturers. In addition, the council reviewed reports on the Ph.D. programs in systems Biology and social policy.
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Campus & Community
János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration
János Kornai, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard, on March 15 was presented with Hungary’s highest state decoration, the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.


