Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Robert Dorwart

    Robert Dorwart was an academic of the highest rank and a physician committed to understanding and improving the lives of those who could not access quality health care.

  • Campus & Community

    Classicist, Loeb Library trustee Stewart dies at 86

    Distinguished American classicist Zeph Stewart, who was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Harvard University, passed away at his home in Watertown, Mass., on Dec. 1 at 86.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The diverse ways history can be written’

    Relocating to a foreign city for a new job can be stressful in the most congenial circumstances. Trying to depart your home country in the middle of a Communist coup? As Serhii Plokhii, Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, can tell you — that’s downright complicated.

  • Campus & Community

    David Maybury-Lewis, eminent anthropologist and scholar, 78

    David Maybury-Lewis, a Harvard anthropologist who served as a tireless advocate for indigenous cultures and peoples, died Dec. 2 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 78.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its fifth meeting of the year on Nov. 28, the Faculty Council considered proposals for mandatory course evaluations and for restructuring and renaming the joint Ph.D. program in Information, Technology, and Management, and voted on the proposed Harvard Summer School Courses of Instruction for 2008. The council next meets on Dec. 5. The preliminary…

  • Campus & Community

    Standing committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Upon the recommendation of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard President Drew Faust has approved and announced the following Standing Committees. Standing Committees of the faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the faculty, and can be dissolved only by…

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    Newsmakers

    Ryan Travia recognized for Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers program Harvard’s Director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services Ryan M. Travia was named one of five “National Outstanding Advisers” at a national convention held in Atlanta earlier this month. The annual event was sponsored by an international network of colleges and schools dedicated to promoting…

  • Campus & Community

    Four named to Institute of Politics advisory committee

    Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the appointment of four experienced political practitioners to the institute’s senior advisory committee. The committee is responsible for guiding and advising institute staff toward fulfillment of the IOP’s mission of inspiring young people to careers in politics and public service.

  • Campus & Community

    Charles L. Schepens

    Charles L. Schepens, long considered one of the giants of 20th Century ophthalmology and the unquestioned leader in retinal detachment surgery, died March 28th, 2006 at the age of 94 in Boston, MA.

  • Campus & Community

    Sidney Coleman dies at 70

    Sidney Richard Coleman, a member of the Harvard faculty for 43 years and a giant of theoretical physics, died on Nov. 18 after a five-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 70.

  • Health

    Telling the arthropod tale of life

    They had sifted through the forest floor’s leaves and dirt for days, looking for a tiny type of daddy longlegs native to New Zealand, but had little more than dirty hands to show for it.

  • Campus & Community

    HMC Board names Kaplan interim CEO

    The Harvard Management Company (HMC) Board announced on Nov. 9 that Robert Kaplan, professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School (HBS) and former vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, has been appointed the interim CEO of the Harvard Management Company and will serve in that capacity until the new president and CEO…

  • Campus & Community

    White House awards Pipes and Wisse Humanities Medals

    President George W. Bush awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medals for 2007 to Harvard faculty members Richard Pipes and Ruth R. Wisse during a Nov. 15 ceremony at the White House. In total, nine distinguished Americans and one cultural foundation were honored for their exemplary contributions to the humanities and were recognized for their scholarship,…

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    HMS’s Dohlman receives AAO’s highest honor

    Claes H. Dohlman, Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor of ophthalmology emeritus and cornea surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), received the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s most prestigious award, the Laureate Recognition Award, at the academy’s annual meeting Nov. 10-13 in New Orleans. In addition, a new HMS professorship named in his honor…

  • Campus & Community

    Hermes C. Grillo

    Hermes C. Grillo, M.D., world renowned Thoracic Surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital, died Saturday, October 14, 2006 near Ravenna, Italy in an automobile accident. He and his wife, Sue, were traveling in their beloved Italy visiting family and planned to attend the Italian Association for Thoracic Surgery, at which he was to be an…

  • Campus & Community

    Charles Frederick Mosteller

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 16, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Charles Frederick Mosteller, Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Mosteller made indelible contributions to statistics, to education and educational policy, and to health research.

  • Campus & Community

    Hay memorial set for Nov. 18

    A memorial service for Elizabeth Dexter Hay, embryologist and educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be held Sunday (Nov. 18) at 2 p.m. in the rotunda of HMS’s New Research Building at 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur. Hay died in August at the age of 80.

  • Campus & Community

    HMS’s Dohlman receives AAO’s highest honor

    Claes H. Dohlman, Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor of ophthalmology emeritus and cornea surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), received the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s most prestigious award, the Laureate Recognition Award, at the academy’s annual meeting Nov. 10-13 in New Orleans. In addition, a new HMS professorship named in his honor…

  • Campus & Community

    AAAS selects 15 Harvard faculty members as fellows

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the distinction of fellow to 15 Harvard faculty members. In all, 471 new members were named for their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

  • Campus & Community

    HMS Dean Flier hails new, cooperative era in Harvard science

    Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier said Friday (Nov. 2) that new approaches are needed to advance the fight against disease and embraced cross-institutional collaborations at Harvard as a way to bring new thinking to old problems.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its fourth meeting of the year on Nov. 7, the Faculty Council received an update on General Education, considered the role of the Faculty Council as raised by a Nov. 3 Boston Globe article concerning the Harvard University Art Museums, and was joined by Professor J. Lorand Matory for a discussion of the concerns…

  • Campus & Community

    Glendon named U.S. ambassador to the Holy See

    President Bush has appointed Harvard Law School (HLS) Professor Mary Ann Glendon as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. The president announced his intention to nominate Glendon on Nov. 5.

  • Campus & Community

    David Clarence McClelland

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences October 16, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    Hay memorial set for Nov. 18

    A memorial service for Elizabeth Dexter Hay, embryologist and educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be held Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in the rotunda of HMS’s New Research Building at 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur.

  • Health

    AAAS selects four faculty members as fellows

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently awarded the distinction of fellow to four Harvard faculty members. In all, 471 new members were named for their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

  • Campus & Community

    Hay memorial set for Nov. 18

    A memorial service for Elizabeth Dexter Hay, embryologist and educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be held Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in the rotunda of HMS’s New Research Building at 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur.

  • Campus & Community

    Berkman named director of Center for Population and Development Studies

    Social epidemiologist Lisa Berkman has been appointed director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (Oct. 26).

  • Campus & Community

    James Harriman Jandl

    Dr. James H. Jandl died on July 17, 2006 after a prolonged illness. He spent his entire career at Harvard Medical School where he became one of the world’s premier experimental hematologists. He was also a highly effective teacher and a renowned textbooks author.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard-Yenching Institute names doctoral fellows

    Initiated in the 1960s, the Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Doctoral Scholar Program (DSP) now consists of two branches — Harvard-DSP and Non-Harvard DSP. Each year the institute invites Harvard departments of the humanities and social sciences to nominate candidates for the Harvard-DSP scholarship. Although not necessarily faculty members or researchers, these candidates must be from Asia.

  • Campus & Community

    HUHS flu vaccination clinics

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is offering free flu shots to members of the Harvard community.