Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Samuel H. Beer, Harvard scholar, dies at 97

    Samuel Hutchison Beer, the distinguished Harvard political scientist, died in his sleep at the age of 97 on April 7. For years, Beer was the world’s leading expert in British politics, but he also studied the American political system, and was active in American politics as a lifelong Democrat and chairman of Americans for Democratic…

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard Kennedy School professors named 2009 Carnegie Scholars

    Associate Professor Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Assistant Professor Tarek Masoud of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) have been named 2009 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The honorees were selected for their compelling ideas and commitment to enriching the quality of the public dialogue on Islam.

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  • Campus & Community

    Samuel P. Huntington service set

    A memorial service for Samuel P. Huntington, who was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, will be held on April 22 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard and Radcliffe win Guggenheim Fellowships

    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its 2009-10 fellowship awardees on April 8. Five Harvard faculty members were named Guggenheim recipients, as well as one fellow from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The winners include: Peter Galison, Pellegrino University Professor; Ingrid Monson, the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music; Alexander Rehding, professor of…

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  • Campus & Community

    Mark Moore named first Herbert A. Simon Professor

    Mark Moore, a leading expert in criminal justice, police, management, nongovernmental organizations, and nonprofit management, has been appointed the first Herbert A. Simon Professor in Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), effective July 1. Moore will maintain his current appointment as the Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations at…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Scholar enjoys wrestling ‘the Great Bear’

    Some scholars are hard-pressed to identify what exactly drew them to their field. Others can point to a specific “aha!” moment when they found their academic calling. In Justin Weir’s case, it all began with a bit of bureaucracy.

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  • Campus & Community

    Morris Simon

    Morris Simon, MB, BCH, died suddenly and unexpectedly on January 17, 2005, one day after his 79th birthday. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and working regularly in the Department of Radiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as he had for almost a half century.

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  • Campus & Community

    Samuel P. Huntington service set

    A memorial service for Samuel P. Huntington, who was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, will be held on April 22 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. Huntington, a longtime Harvard University professor, an enormously influential political scientist, and a mentor to a generation of scholars in widely…

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  • Campus & Community

    Narayanamurti accepts spot at HKS’s Belfer Center

    Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti will be the new director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Belfer Center director Graham Allison announced April 1.

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its ninth meeting of the year on March 18, the Faculty Council was briefed by the Dean of the College on House renewal and on the review of the Undergraduate Council. The Council also considered a proposal to change the name of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies.

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  • Campus & Community

    Samuel P. Huntington service set

    A memorial service for Samuel P. Huntington, who was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, will be held on April 22 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. Huntington, a longtime Harvard University professor, an enormously influential political scientist, and a mentor to a generation of scholars in widely…

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  • Campus & Community

    Howard Koh tapped for assistant secretary for health

    President Barack Obama announced March 25 his intent to nominate Howard Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), to be assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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  • Campus & Community

    Blumenthal is national coordinator for health information technology

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced March 20 the selection of David Blumenthal as the Obama administration’s choice for national coordinator for health information technology.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Catalyst grants encourage greater faculty collaboration

    Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are measuring how patients’ posture affects MRI imaging of their breathing.

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  • Health

    Five named Early Career Scientists

    Five Harvard researchers are among 50 young scientists nationwide who will have their work supported for the next six years by a new initiative from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

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  • Nation & World

    Finance scholar Chetty named professor of economics

    Raj Chetty, a public economist whose work focuses on social insurance and tax policy, has been appointed professor of economics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective April 1.

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  • Campus & Community

    Five awarded membership to Royal Irish Academy

    Five Harvard faculty members were awarded honorary membership to the Royal Irish Academy on March 16. The honorary members include Harvard President Drew Faust, Lincoln Professor of History; Arthur Jaffe, Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science; Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies; Lisa Randall, professor of physics; and Amartya…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Night at the museum

    When the Arts Task Force appointed by Harvard President Drew Faust issued its recommendations last December, one of its main suggestions was to incorporate the museums into a more central role in the University and to find innovative ways for arts and non-arts faculty to collaborate.

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  • Campus & Community

    First Suzanne Murray Professor named

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Nancy E. Hill, a leader in the study of cultural influences on parenting and adolescent achievement, the first Suzanne Murray Professor. Hill has also been appointed a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where she has served as a visiting associate professor.…

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  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its seventh meeting of the year on Feb. 18, the Faculty Council discussed international centers and continued its discussion of the finances of the Faculty.

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  • Campus & Community

    Child-care programs, aid to continue at Harvard

    Harvard University will continue a number of programs designed to help meet specific child care needs at the University. In 2006, the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering issued a final report that pointed to the need for increased University support for child care. Subsequently, several…

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  • Nation & World

    HMS, HSPH Professor Kim named Dartmouth president

    Jim Yong Kim, tireless advocate for bringing Western standards of health care to the world’s poor and a professor of medicine and of public health at Harvard, has been named the 17th president of Dartmouth College.

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  • Campus & Community

    SEVEN HARVARD PROFESSORS RECEIVE SLOAN FELLOWSHIPS

    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced that seven Harvard professors are among the 118 recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowships for 2009. Sloan Fellowships “seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.” The fellows, who receive a $40,000 grant for the two-year fellowship, are selected for their distinguished performance…

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  • Campus & Community

    Walsh named to AAM board

    Christopher T. Walsh, the Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), has recently been elected by the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) to its Board of Governors — alongside five other newly elected microbiology scientists joining the board.

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  • Campus & Community

    Treister named program director

    Nathaniel Treister has been named the new Post Graduate Program director of the Division of Oral Medicine at the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity (OMII) at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM).

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  • Campus & Community

    Nicolae Iliescu

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 9, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nicolae Iliescu, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Iliescu’s scholarly work includes a study of the influence of Saint Augustine on the Canzoniere of Petrarch.

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  • Campus & Community

    Business School’s Marshall dies at 86

    Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Martin V. Marshall, a driving force in the development of the School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM) for entrepreneurs and a marketing and advertising expert whose practice-oriented approach to teaching and course development left a lasting impact on countless Harvard M.B.A. students and business leaders, died on Feb. 16 in…

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  • Campus & Community

    Winthrop House names master, co-master

    Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson have been appointed master and co-master of Winthrop House. Sullivan has been a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007. He is also director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, with areas of interest including criminal law, criminal proceedings, legal ethics, and race theory.…

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  • Campus & Community

    Red Book applications being accepted by Medical School

    Harvard Medical School (HMS) invites junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows to apply for fellowships and grants as part of the spring 2009 Red Book Awards.

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  • Health

    Kou is shaking up the world of statistics

    Harvard statistics professor Samuel Kou, now 34, grew up in Lanzhou, a city in China’s mountainous northwest near the border with Inner Mongolia. The altitude there is higher than Denver’s storied mile, and earthquakes rumble through town several times a year.

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