Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    HBS faculty win McKinsey Awards

    Three Harvard Business School professors, Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice; and Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, were recently honored with 2009 McKinsey Awards, presented by the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm…

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  • Campus & Community

    HBS’s J. Sterling Livingston dies at 93

    J. Sterling Livingston, a retired professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), died on Feb. 14 from multiple organ failure. He was 93.

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  • Campus & Community

    American Chemical Society presents two with awards

    Robert J. Madix, a senior research fellow in chemical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and Sang-Hee Shim, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with her mentor Martin T. Zanni, an associate professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison, were…

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  • Campus & Community

    Andrew Mattei Gleason

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2010, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Andrew Mattei Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Gleason’s best-known work is his resolution of Hilbert’s Fifth Problem.

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  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service for Leon Kirchner

    A memorial gathering in remembrance of Leon Kirchner, the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus, will be held on Apr. 8 (7:30-9:30 p.m.) at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council holds March 24 meeting

    At its eleventh meeting of the year on March 24, the Faculty Council discussed a proposed conflict of interest policy and the report of the Committee to Review the Administrative Board.

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  • Campus & Community

    Augustus A. White III receives Tipton award for orthopedic leadership

    Augustus A. White III, the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the fifth annual William W. Tipton Jr. M.D. Leadership Award for his work as an educator, mentor, and champion of diversity initiatives.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Building a better brain

    New book chronicles how the mind works and how we can influence that to help ourselves succeed.

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  • Arts & Culture

    A Tenth of a Second: A History

    When clocks recognized a tenth of a second, the world would never be the same, says Jimena Canales, an associate professor in the history of science who melds technology, philosophy, and science in this heady history.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders

    Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, extracts wealth from his 30 years of work in comparative theology and proffers this field guide.

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  • Arts & Culture

    (Re)(Organize) for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business

    The customer is always right, but we’re always getting taken. Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, prods businesses to readjust their resilience and mend the bridge connecting consumers with companies.

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  • Campus & Community

    HKS seeks grant proposals on Kuwait

    The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now accepting applications for the spring 2010 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.

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  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service scheduled for James Stemble Duesenberry April 8

    A service in memory of James Stemble Duesenberry, the William Joseph Maier Professor of Money and Banking Emeritus, will take place at the Memorial Church on April 8 at 2 p.m. A reception will follow at Loeb House at 17 Quincy St.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held on March 10

    At its tenth meeting of the year (March 10), the Faculty Council discussed final exams and study abroad transcripts with Jay Harris, the Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies and dean of undergraduate education. The council was also briefed about Harvard’s digital dissemination efforts.

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  • Campus & Community

    E.O. Wilson awarded highest external honor by U.Va.

    E.O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, the highest external honor given by the University of Virginia.

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  • Campus & Community

    Henry Louis Gates Jr. honored with NAACP Image Award

    Henry Louis Gates Jr. received the 41st NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work (nonfiction) for his book “In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past.”

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 24

    At its ninth meeting of the year on Feb. 24, the Faculty Council discussed course planning and spoke with President Drew Faust.

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  • Campus & Community

    Surrendering their secrets

    Ann Pearson, professor of biogeochemistry, uses chemistry to understand ancient biology.

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  • Campus & Community

    Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 10, 2009, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Wales Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Ingalls had an enormous influence on the development of Sanskrit studies in North America.

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  • Campus & Community

    Amanda Claybaugh named professor of English

    Amanda Claybaugh, an expert on 19th century novels and on reformist writings from the United States and abroad, has been named professor of English at Harvard, effective July 1.

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  • Campus & Community

    HMS names William W. Chin new executive dean for research

    William W. Chin has been named the executive dean for research at Harvard Medical School. In the newly created senior position he will have the overarching responsibility of overseeing biomedical research at HMS

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  • Campus & Community

    Henry Ehrenreich

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 15, 2009, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Henry Ehrenreich, Clowes Professor of Science Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Ehrenreich was a prominent contributor to the science and the economics of alternative energy sources, especially solar and wind.

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  • Campus & Community

    David Maybury-Lewis

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 15, 2009, the minute honoring the life and service of the late David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maybury-Lewis was a humane defender of the rights of indigenous peoples.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 10

    At its eighth meeting of the year on Feb. 10, the Faculty Council heard a proposal to create a committee on Global Health and Health Policy and was briefed on the work of the Security Advisory Committee.

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  • Campus & Community

    Center for the Study of World Religions names Francis X. Clooney next director

    Francis X. Clooney, a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus, has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1.

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  • Campus & Community

    Jack Strominger receives AAI mentoring award

    Jack Strominger, the Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, was recently honored with the AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award “in recognition of exemplary career contributions to a future generation of scientists,” by the American Association of Immunologists.

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  • Nation & World

    Getting Haiti to stand again

    Harvard authorities probe what needs to happen now, in six months, in a decade.

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  • Campus & Community

    Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2010

    The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, recently announced four spring fellows for 2010.

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  • Campus & Community

    Michael Jensen receives AFA award

    Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), has received the 2009 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association (AFA) Award for Excellence in Financial Economics.

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  • Campus & Community

    Stephen Burt named National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

    Associate Professor of English Stephen Burt has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Criticism for his book “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry.”

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