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Tag: Faculty
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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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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting, Jan. 27
At its seventh meeting of the year on Jan. 27, the Faculty Council reviewed proposals to rename the Department of Literature and Comparative Literature and to establish a new concentration in biomedical engineering.
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Campus & Community
Xie to receive award from DOE
Harvard Professor Sunney Xie was one of six recipients of the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award.
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Campus & Community
Ihor Ševčenko
Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.
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Arts & Culture
Entrance, stage left
Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.
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Campus & Community
Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82
Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.
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Campus & Community
KITA and Harvard connect to advance Korean Scholarship
Harvard University and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) recently announced an agreement (Dec. 10) to advance modern Korean scholarship at the University.
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Campus & Community
Dowling awarded the Glenn A. Fry Medal in Physiological Optics
John E. Dowling, the Gordon and Llura Gund Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard, was awarded the Glenn A. Fry Medal in Physiological Optics during a ceremony at the Great Lakes Vision Research Conference in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 21.
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Campus & Community
Alastair Graham Walter Cameron
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 19, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Alastair Graham Walter Cameron, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Alastair Cameron’s theory is now the accepted one for the origin of the Moon.
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Campus & Community
Gates honored with Morry Award
Project Morry presented Henry Louis Gates Jr. with its annual award on Nov. 19.
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Arts & Culture
Learning Lessons: Medicine, Economics, and Public Policy
With more than 50 years of experience in the economics and policy worlds, Fein dishes the lessons he’s learned on government, decision making, and more, attempting to breathe new life into our nation’s welfare.