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Tag: Faculty
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Campus & Community
Radhika Nagpal nets prestigious NSF award for up-and-coming researchers
Radhika Nagpal, assistant professor of computer science in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The honor is considered one of the most prestigious for up-and-coming researchers in science and engineering.
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
May symposium to honor HMS’s Melvin J. Glimcher Porter article selected McKinsey Award winner
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its 14th meeting of the year on April 18, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of a proposal for mandatory course evaluations, considered a proposal to reclassify the Standing Committee on Mind, Brain and Behavior as an instructional committee, and discussed next steps in the general education legislative process.
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Campus & Community
Albert Szabo
Albert Szabo was born in 1925 in New York City and grew up in a household where design mattered, his father being a pattern maker for the renowned dress designer Claire McCardell. Albert studied science, then fine arts at Brooklyn College between 1942 and 1947, with an interruption for military service as an aviation cadet.…
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Campus & Community
Frank H. Westheimer, major figure in 20th century chemistry, dies at 95
Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, at Harvard University and one of the key figures in 20th century chemistry, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.
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Campus & Community
OfA, OCS name inaugural Artist Development Fellowship recipients
Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) and Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2006-07 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship. This new program supports the artistic development of students demonstrating unusual accomplishment and/or evidence of significant artistic promise.
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Campus & Community
KSG dean announces new appointments and promotions
Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced several new faculty appointments and promotions.
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Campus & Community
John Lyell Sanders Jr.
John Lyell Sanders, Jr., served on the Harvard faculty for a total of thirty seven years and as Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics for over thirty years from 1964 until his retirement in 1995.
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Campus & Community
Mason Hammond
Mason Hammond was born in Boston on February 14, 1903, the son of Samuel Hammond, Class of 1881, and Grace Learoyd, and died in Cambridge on October 13, 2002, four months short of his one hundredth birthday.
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Campus & Community
William Henry Bond
William Henry Bond, last of the American scholar-librarians, was born in York, Pennsylvania, on August 14, 1915, only child of Walter Laucks Bond, a manufacturer of pianos, and his wife Ethel Bane (Bossert) Bond.
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Campus & Community
Kuwait Program Research Fund now accepting grant proposals
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.
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Campus & Community
Five receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards
Five Harvard affiliates are among the 189 artists, scholars, and scientists to be selected fellowship award winners by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Nation & World
Government holds seeds to its own reform
The seeds of a new, more efficient government able to nimbly handle the challenges of a new century are sprouting in the corridors of today’s slow-moving bureaucracy, according to Elaine Kamarck, a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Campus & Community
Provost Hyman names Buckley, Porter top administrators for HUSEC
Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman has selected two individuals with both broad and deep experience in Harvard science administration to provide administrative leadership and structure for the newly created Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC).
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its 13th meeting of the year on April 4, the Faculty Council considered a proposal for mandatory course evaluations and planned for the upcoming faculty discussion of a motion and proposed amendments on general education.
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Campus & Community
Nye presented honorary degree from King’s College London
Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has been named honorary doctor of social science at King’s College London.
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Campus & Community
Edmund Chi Chien Lin
Edmund Chi Chien Lin, Professor emeritus in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, died peacefully in Boston on March 6, 2006.
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Campus & Community
James L. McKenney of Business School, 77
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus James L. McKenney, an expert in management information systems and the use of computer systems for teaching management, died on March 28 in Belmont, Mass. He was 77 years old.
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Campus & Community
Memorial to honor Stubbins, professor of architecture
A memorial service for Hugh Stubbins Jr., an alumnus and professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), will be held April 11 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Following the service, there will be a reception in the Stubbins Room of Gund Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. Stubbins died…
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Campus & Community
Landscape Institute to transition to new leadership
John Furlong, director of the Landscape Institute at the Arnold Arboretum, will step down from his position in order to devote time to teaching and private practice, it was recently announced. This transition will occur following the arrival of a new director in the coming months.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s George to deliver Peabody Lecture
William W. George, Harvard Business School (HBS) professor of management practice and former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic Inc., will deliver the prestigious Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Harvey Mansfield named 2007 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities
Political scientist Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard, will travel to Washington, D.C., in May to deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Campus & Community
Schauer appointed director of Safra Foundation Center
Interim President Derek Bok announced today (April 5) that Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, has been appointed director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
$2.5 million endowment fund to honor Sidney Verba
Friends and colleagues of Sidney Verba, Harvard’s Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, have established a $2.5 million endowment fund in his honor.
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Campus & Community
Skocpol to step down as Graduate School dean
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol announced today (March 27) that she will step down as dean at the end of the academic year. In making the announcement, Skocpol said she has achieved the goals she set when taking the position two years ago, and that “it makes sense for incoming University…
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Campus & Community
Whittenberger, HSPH chair, dies at 93
James Whittenberger, who chaired the Department of Physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) from 1948 to 1980, passed away March 17. He was 93 years old.
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Campus & Community
Gipson to receive Friedenwald
The 12,000-member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has selected Harvard Medical School Professor of Ophthalmology Ilene K. Gipson as the recipient of the Friedenwald Award.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its 12th meeting of the year on March 21, the Faculty Council considered draft legislation concerning general education and met in camera with President-elect Drew G. Faust to discuss the Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean search.
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Campus & Community
Edward Willett Wagner
Edward Willett Wagner, Professor of Korean Studies at Harvard for thirty-five years and founder of Korean studies in the United States, passed away at the age of 77 on December 7, 2001. He left his wife, Namhi Kim Wagner; two sons, Robert Camner and J. Christopher Wagner; three stepdaughters, Yunghi Choi Wagner, Sokhi Choi Wagner,…
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Campus & Community
Bradford Cannon
Bradford Cannon, a caring, talented, imaginative plastic surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) was an acknowledged surgical pioneer for much of the twentieth century. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1907, to Walter Bradford Cannon born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and Cornelia James Cannon of Cambridge, MA. A year later his father…