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Tag: Faculty
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Campus & Community
Neuman elected to Human Rights Committee
Gerald Neuman ’80, the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the Human Rights Committee, the premier treaty body in the U.N. human rights system.
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Campus & Community
Education scholar Gerald Lesser, 84
Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), died on Sept. 23 at the age of 84.
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Campus & Community
John E. Murdoch, professor of history of science, 83
John E. Murdoch, one of the world’s top scholars of ancient and medieval science, died Thursday (Sept. 16) at age 83. He had been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1963, and professor of the history of science since 1967.
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Campus & Community
Baby, you can drive my Zipcar
New transportation options for Harvard affiliates are energy- and cost-efficient, and can be fun, too.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 15
At its Sept. 15 meeting, the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian, reviewed proposed changes to the Rules of Faculty Procedure, and heard a report from the Harvard University Retirement Plans Investment Committee.
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Arts & Culture
The 24/7 Baby Doctor: A Harvard Pediatrician Answers All Your Questions from Birth to One Year
This valuable handbook for new parents, written by McEvoy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, offers evidence-based solutions and covers everything from spit-up to vaccinations.
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Arts & Culture
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Youngme Moon, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, says mediocrity in competition is rampant, but it’s adventurousness that spells success. Just ask Google or Apple.
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson to lecture, co-host conservation benefit dinner
E.O. Wilson will host a lecture and dinner with biologist Daniel H. Janzen on Oct. 1 to benefit Area de Conservación Guanacaste, 163,000 hectares of tropical treasure in northwestern Costa Rica.
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Campus & Community
Strong finish
More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.
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Campus & Community
Collecting race, ethnicity data
In compliance with new government regulations, Harvard is required to collect ethnicity information from faculty and staff. In addition, Harvard employees will have an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their veteran status.
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Campus & Community
New January Innovation Fund Established
Harvard President Drew Faust today (Sept. 10) announced the creation of the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty, a special venture fund to support the development and implementation of creative academic or co-curricular experiences for students during the January break period.
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Campus & Community
Lunt, scholar of Slavic languages and literatures, dies at 91
Horace Gray Lunt, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, passed away on Aug. 11, in Baltimore, Md., scarcely a month short of his 92nd birthday.
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Nation & World
The problematic growth of AP testing
New book suggests that Advanced Placement teaching has expanded so much that it now serves many students who can’t handle the rigors of its coursework.
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Campus & Community
Easy blend of old and new
A group from the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement is taught Scratch, a basic programming tool, by teaching fellows and course assistants from CS50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” a popular Harvard course taught by David Malan.
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Arts & Culture
Vendler on Dickinson
Renowned critic Helen Vendler takes on Amherst’s own Emily Dickinson in her new book, “Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries.”
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 1
At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 1, the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2010-11, and discussed the work of the council in the new academic year.
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Campus & Community
Angeliki E. Laiou
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 11, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Angeliki E. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, was placed upon the records. Laiou was known for her path-breaking research in Mediterranean economic and women’s history.
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Campus & Community
Divinity School professor wins book award for excellence
Divinity School professor Kimberley C. Patton has received an award for excellence in religion for analytical-descriptive studies from the American Academy of Religion for her book “Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity.”
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Arts & Culture
Pecos Pueblo Revisited: The Biological and Social Context
Peabody Museum Associate Curator Michèle Morgan and authors review significant findings at the historical New Mexico reserve, answering many questions about the population and behavior of the Pecos pueblo.
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Arts & Culture
Saturday Is for Funerals
Max Essex, the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, and Unity Dow track the Botswana HIV/AIDS crisis through heartrending narratives of those affected by the disease — an estimated one out of four adults.
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Campus & Community
John C. Nemiah
John Case Nemiah, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at both Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School, died on May, 11 2009, at the age of 90, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Widely beloved as a teacher, editor, academic leader and friend, he served as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1968 to 1985.
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Campus & Community
Robert Smith
On November 25, 2009, Dr. Robert Moors Smith died two weeks before he would have been 97. A pioneer of modern anesthesia practice, he was considered the “Father of Pediatric Anesthesiology” in the United States.
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Nation & World
Tracing the roots of political thought
Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.
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Campus & Community
Copyright scholar Kaplan dies
Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.
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Campus & Community
Adrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology at Harvard University, effective next Jan. 1.
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Campus & Community
Guidelines for Schools’ conflict of interest policies
The new Harvard University Policy on Individual Financial Conflicts of Interest for Persons Holding Faculty and Teaching Appointments (University Conflict of Interest Policy) is built upon 12 principles that establish a framework to guide the Schools in developing their implementation plans.
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Campus & Community
HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain appointed to SEAS faculty
Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 has been appointed to the faculty of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as professor of computer science.
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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.
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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.