Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Department of Music’s Marvin set to retire after the school year

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.

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    Parmigiani and Dominici named professors of biostatistics at HSPH

    Giovanni Parmigiani and Francesca Dominici have been named professors of biostatistics at HSPH.

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    Oil workshop illuminates complex issue for teachers

    Elementary and high school teachers attend a weeklong Harvard workshop on oil and the economic, political, and environmental issues that accompany it.

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    Taking the next step

    Melissa McCormick reflects on her journey from modern dance to her current position as a newly tenured professor of Japanese art and culture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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    Laure Lebret, researcher, orthodontics teacher

    In an era when few dentists were women and even fewer specialized in orthodontics, French-born Laure Lebret became well known in the field as a researcher and practitioner.

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    Harvard’s DASH for open access

    Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship. DASH — Digital Access to Scholarship — is an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library.

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  • Campus & Community

    Kirschner and King named University Professors

    Gary King and Marc W. Kirschner have been named University Professors, Harvard’s highest professorial distinction.

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    Harvard Business School Professor Jesse W. Markham dies at 93

    Former Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Jesse W. Markham, an economist whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, N.H., at an assisted-living home. He was 93.

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    Two American religious historians appointed to the Faculty of Divinity

    Renowned scholars of American religious history R. Marie Griffith and Leigh Eric Schmidt have been appointed to the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty, effective July 1. Griffith will be the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, and Schmidt will be the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America.

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    Shukri F. Khuri

    Dr. Shukri F. Khuri passed away peacefully at the age of 65, surrounded by family and friends, on September 26, 2008, at his Westwood home, after courageously battling brain cancer for more than eighteen months. A gifted and spirited surgeon and researcher, his absolute love for life enabled him to achieve remarkable professional success and…

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    Six faculty named Cabot Fellows

    Six professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards recognize tenured faculty members for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history, or art, broadly conceived.

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    Berrizbeitia appointed professor of landscape architecture

    Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, announced the appointment of Anita Berrizbeitia as tenured professor of landscape architecture, starting in July.

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    Frans Spaepen named interim director of Center for Nanoscale Systems

    Frans Spaepen, director of the Rowland Institute, will serve as interim director of Harvard University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) starting July 1, upon completion of his term as interim dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

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  • Science & Tech

    ‘Water guy’ John Briscoe stays in motion

    For someone who deep-sixed his BlackBerry (instant e-mail was taking over his life) and traded the local newspaper for a good book (“What do I need to know about Celtics’ scores?”), John Briscoe ’76 is as worldly a person as you are ever likely to meet.

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    Martha Minow named dean of Harvard Law School

    Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become the dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, President Drew Faust announced today (June 11).

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  • Campus & Community

    Barnard College honors Winter

    Irene Winter, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, was honored on May 20 with a medal of distinction from Barnard College at commencement.

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    Ernest May, Harvard professor and eminent historian of international relations, dies at 80

    Ernest May, a renowned historian of international relations and foreign policy and professor of history at Harvard University, died on June 1 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from complications following surgery, according to his family. He was 80.

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    Judah Folkman

    Judah Folkman was born Moses Judah Folkman in 1933. The son of a rabbi, he became inspired to become a physician as a young boy when visiting ailing members of the congregation with his father. He soon became fascinated with science and medicine, and as a high school student he devised a perfusion system in…

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    Four faculty join FAS’s teaching elite

    Four professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Harvard College Professors in recognition of their contributions to undergraduate teaching, advising, and mentoring.

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    Hehir to receive honorary degree

    J. Bryan Hehir, the Parker Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), will be awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by Elms College at its annual commencement exercises on May 17.

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    Forstein honored with the Art of Healing Award

    Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a Harvard-affiliated public health care system, has recently presentedMarshall Forstein, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, with its second annual Art of Healing Award. The award recognizes an individual for exemplary leadership, advocacy, and innovation in healing.

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    YIVO to honor Dershowitz

    The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will honor Alan M. Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), on May 26 at its 84th annual benefit dinner. The ceremony will be held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Dershowitz will be honored alongside Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of…

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    William Curry Moloney

    William Curry Moloney was born in Boston on December 19, 1907. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and then Tufts Medical School and took up the practice of Hematology on the Tufts service at Boston City Hospital in 1932. He was married to the late Josephine O’Brien for more than 50…

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    Renowned Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald dies at 88

    David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus, died Sunday (May 17) of heart failure at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was 88. Donald, a leading historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, was born in 1920 in Goodman, Miss., then a segregated town,…

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    HOLOCAUST MUSEUM NAMES SULEIMAN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

    The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has named Susan Rubin Suleiman to be the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the museum for 2009-10.

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    Omeljan Pritsak

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Omeljan Pritsak, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Pritsak’s work transformed our understanding of East Slavic history.

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    Jeremy Randall Knowles

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jeremy Randall Knowles, Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and former Dean of the FAS, was placed upon the records. Knowles set the standard for selfless service and was a…

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    Business School’s Milton P. Brown, retail and marketing expert, 90

    Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Milton P. Brown, an expert in retailing and marketing who for almost half a century influenced thousands of M.B.A. students and executives through his skills as an extraordinarily talented teacher, died on April 25 in Exeter, N.H. He was 90 years old.

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    Waldheim appointed professor, chair of landscape architecture

    Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design Mohsen Mostafavi announced the appointment of Charles Waldheim as professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at GSD, effective July of this year.

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    Ruescher’s public service recognized

    Scott Ruescher of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) was honored by the Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV) with its annual Mack Davis Award on May 13. Ruescher is the program coordinator for the Arts in Education Program at HGSE. He was one of six volunteers to receive this award.

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