Tag: Faculty

  • Arts & Culture

    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

    Sociologist Lawrence-Lightfoot’s inspiring book says that ages 50-75 are prime time for adventure. Forty interviews with people living in their “third chapter” show how fulfilling life can be then.

  • Arts & Culture

    Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

    Tatar plumbs the lore and enchantment of children’s stories, revealing their power to ensnare imaginations, and highlights the magic of reading and what children take from it.

  • Science & Tech

    Wizard at circuits, physics

    Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

  • 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.

  • Campus & Community

    Voluntary retirement program

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.

  • Arts & Culture

    Addiction: A Disorder of Choice

    A sobering book, sure to draw ire: This psychologist posits that addiction is voluntary.By analyzing buckets of research, Heyman offers insight on how we make choices, and how we can stop ourselves from going too far.

  • Arts & Culture

    Purgatory

    This is Zurita’s harrowing chronicle of General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile, along with the writer’s subsequent arrest and torture. It’s a visually stunning book of unforgettable poems.

  • Campus & Community

    Chronicler of history’s sweep

    Erez Manela’s study of 20th century international history ranges from Woodrow Wilson’s advocacy of self-determination in the 1910s to ending smallpox in the 1970s.

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has launched an initiative to assist the professional development of tenure-track faculty.

  • Campus & Community

    Robert David Utiger

    Robert D. “Bob” Utiger, M.D., a beloved physician, researcher, mentor, educator, and editor died on June 29, 2008 at his home in Weston, Massachusetts. He was the epitome of the Academic Physician, a scholar, physician, teacher, and friend and a role model for each of us to emulate.

  • Campus & Community

    Julius Benjamin Richmond

    Julius Benjamin Richmond, M.D., Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine was born in Chicago, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, on 26 September, 1916. He died at his home in Brookline, MA on 27 July, 2008. Few individuals have had as great an impact on health, health care, and the well-being…

  • Campus & Community

    Renowned HMS cardiologist Donald Baim dies at 60

    Donald Baim, renowned cardiologist, medical device executive, and former Harvard Medical School professor, died on Nov. 6 at the age of 60.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty diversity on the rise

    Harvard University has made steady progress toward a more diverse faculty and the numbers of women and minority members stand at all-time highs, according to the annual report of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D).

  • Campus & Community

    Darrel B. Hoff dies at 76

    Darrel B. Hoff, 76, who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for six years, died on Nov. 2 at the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, Iowa.

  • Campus & Community

    Labor intensive

    Newly tenured, the first full-time Americanist in the history of the Department of History of Art and Architecture enjoys how her studies can touch on literature, the sciences — even bird-watching.

  • Campus & Community

    Alexander Hamilton Leighton

    Alexander Hamilton Leighton, whose respectful, attentive, and scholarly approach to other species colored his distinguished career in cross-cultural psychiatry at the Harvard School of Public Health, died on Aug. 11, 2007 at the age of 99.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 21

    At its fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 21, the Faculty Council spoke with President Drew Faust, reviewed the Dean’s Annual Report, and discussed a report from the Standing Committee on pedagogical improvement.

  • Campus & Community

    Funds available for faculty conducting research on Kuwait and the Gulf

    The Harvard Kennedy School is now accepting applications for the fall 2009 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.

  • Campus & Community

    Economist Duesenberry dies at 91

    James Stemble Duesenberry, an eminent economist who was an authority on monetary policy and a faculty member of Harvard University’s Department of Economics for more than half a century, recently passed away at his home in Cambridge at the age of 91.

  • Health

    What makes a successful society?

    New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, or drugs.

  • Campus & Community

    Foster elected to Trustees of Reservations board of directors

    Harvard Forest’s David Foster elected to the Trustees of Reservations board of directors at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner on Sept. 26.

  • Campus & Community

    Rubin elected a corresponding fellow by British Academy

    Donald B. Rubin was elected a corresponding fellow for distinction in research at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy on July 16.

  • Science & Tech

    Big-picture view of nanoscale

    After 25 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a pioneer in the fabrication of miniature electronic and photonic devices takes up residence at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  • Arts & Culture

    In pursuit of everyday excellence

    Stacey M. Childress and David A. Thomas are two Harvard Business School professors who wrote a book on how a struggling school system in Maryland turned itself around.

  • Campus & Community

    Glazer to give Lipset lecture, Nov. 4

    Nathan Glazer will give the Seymour Martin Lipset Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4. Glazer’s talk is titled, “Democracy and Diversity: Dealing with Deep Divides.”

  • Campus & Community

    Around the Schools: Harvard Business School

    The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.

  • Campus & Community

    Robert D. Leffert

    Robert Leffert, who died on Dec. 7, 2008, at the age of 75, is remembered for being a spectacular physician who in his time at the Massachusetts General Hospital became a major force in rehabilitation medicine and also in the management of upper extremity disorders.

  • Campus & Community

    Charles Paul Segal

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 13, 2007, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Charles Paul Segal was placed upon the records. Segal is regarded as one of the most prolific 20th century interpreters of classical literature and poetry.

  • Arts & Culture

    Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy

    This thoughtful tome assesses the growth of government and subsequent outsourcing of work to private organizations. Freeman and Minow dig deep and ask: What’s efficient and who’s accountable?

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held on Sept. 30

    At its third meeting of the year (Sept. 30), the Faculty Council heard a review of the Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. The council also continued a discussion of the nomenclature of the Harvard Extension School and its degrees, as well as a proposal to change some of the procedures of the…