Tag: Faculty

  • Campus & Community

    Task force proposes ‘compact’ for excellent teaching

    In recent years, Harvard scholars have worked energetically and with great success to create bridges between departments and between faculties, the better to share ideas and foster interdisciplinary approaches to tough, complex issues.

  • Arts & Culture

    The many lives of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Most of us only get one life. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – whose 200th birthday bicentennial is this month – has had four. In the first, he arrived in Cambridge in 1837, fresh from a six-year professorship at Bowdoin College. Longfellow, sporting long hair, yellow gloves, and flowered waistcoats, cut quite a romantic, European-style figure in…

  • Campus & Community

    AMS awards Veblen Prize to Harvard professor

    The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry last month to William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics Peter Kronheimer (along with his collaborator Tomasz Mrowka of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Given every three years, the Veblen Prize is one of the field’s highest honors for work in geometry or topology.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its eighth meeting of the year on Jan. 24, the Faculty Council was joined by Christopher Gordon and Kathy Spiegelman of the Allston Development Group for a discussion of the Allston Master Plan, and heard an overview of the report of the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development from Dean Theda Skocpol. The…

  • Campus & Community

    Franklin L. Ford

    Franklin L. Ford served as a major participant in this Faculty’s business throughout his career, as Assistant and Associate Professor, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from fall l962 through spring 1970.

  • Campus & Community

    Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96

    Richard A. Musgrave, widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance and an adviser on fiscal policy and taxation to governments from Washington to Bogotá to Tokyo, died Monday (Jan. 15) in Santa Cruz, Calif.

  • Campus & Community

    Elkan Blout, former HSPH academic affairs dean, 87

    Elkan Blout, a former dean for academic affairs at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), National Medal of Science winner, and a leading contributor to the development of instant film, died on Dec. 20, 2006, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The cause was pneumonia. He was 87.

  • Campus & Community

    HSPH’s Andrew Spielman dies at 76

    When Andrew Spielman was a graduate student in a malaria lab at Johns Hopkins University in 1952, his future was anything but certain. The use of DDT and other insecticides suggested a dramatic curtailing of the spread of mosquitoes – the carriers of the malaria pathogen and additional diseases. But, true to form, the insects…

  • Campus & Community

    KSG community pays tribute to Frank Stanton

    Broadcast legend Frank Stanton, longtime president of CBS and a former chair of the Kennedy School’s Visiting Committee, is being remembered by the Kennedy School community following his death Dec. 24, 2006, in Boston. He was 98 years old.

  • Campus & Community

    Ash Institute awards faculty grants

    The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University has awarded $245,000 in grants for faculty research and retreat in 2007, director Gowher Rizvi recently announced. Each of the nine projects funded supports the goals of the institute by seeking to advance good government and to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide…

  • Campus & Community

    Winnie returns to take helm of Office of International Programs

    Students looking to study abroad have a new ally as Catherine Hutchison Winnie takes the reins of the Office of International Programs (OIP) this month. No stranger to Harvard, Winnie spent two years of her childhood in Winthrop House as the daughter of former House masters William Hutchison and Virginia Quay Hutchison, and returned as…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard creates new, University-wide committee to guide interdisciplinary efforts in science

    The Harvard Corporation has authorized the establishment of a new, University-wide standing committee on science and engineering to guide the University into a new era of collaborative, cross-disciplinary science initiatives. The Corporation also created a $50 million fund to provide initial support for the committee’s work, pending the submission of a budget by the committee.

  • Campus & Community

    Classicist, medievalist Bloch dies at 95

    Herbert Bloch, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died on Sept. 6 in Cambridge, Mass. Bloch was born in Berlin on Aug. 18, 1911. He studied ancient history, classical philology, and archaeology at the University of Berlin (1930-1933), which he left for Rome. Owing to the vicissitudes of fate, his brother Egon…

  • Nation & World

    RFK Visiting Professor comes to DRCLAS

    Merilee Grindle, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, recently announced the arrival of Cuban scholar Rafael M. Hernández Rodríguez as the 2006-07 Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies. Grindle, who is also the Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the Kennedy School…

  • Campus & Community

    HMS’s Szostak wins prestigious Lasker

    Jack W. Szostak, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, is among this year’s Lasker Award winners. Now celebrating its 61st anniversary, the Lasker Awards are the nation’s most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research, as well as for special achievement in the medical research enterprise.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 13, the Faculty Council welcomed new members and elected subcommittees for 2006-2007, discussed the status of a proposal for general education,…

  • Campus & Community

    Jill Carroll among fall fellows at Shorenstein

    The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its fellows for the fall. These Shorenstein Fellows will work on research projects while at the center.

  • Campus & Community

    Shonkoff named professor at HSPH, GSE

    Jack Shonkoff, the former dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, has been appointed professor of child health and development at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and at the Graduate School of Education (GSE).

  • Campus & Community

    Bloxham named FAS divisional dean

    Geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham has been named dean for the physical sciences in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Dean Jeremy R. Knowles announced Aug. 10.

  • Campus & Community

    Power named first Anna Lindh Professor

    The Kennedy School of Government has announced that Samantha Power has been named Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, the first faculty member to hold the chair honoring the longtime Swedish political and civic leader who was assassinated in 2003.

  • Campus & Community

    HMS grant search is on

    Each year, numerous postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. These include the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program in Aging, and the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Program, among others. Nominations…

  • Campus & Community

    HMS Dept. of Ophthalmology awarded RPB grant

    The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology was recently awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) for $110,000 to help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness.

  • Campus & Community

    Hempton named first McDonald Family Professor

    David N. Hempton, a renowned social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe and North America, has been named as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.

  • Campus & Community

    Women far behind in patent awards

    Women who strive to make new biological discoveries at universities are awarded less than half the number of patents than their male colleagues.

  • Arts & Culture

    Founder of Harvard’s Statistics Department, Frederick Mosteller, dies

    Pioneering statistician Frederick Mosteller, a retired Harvard professor whose broad-ranging work influenced public health, medicine, education, and even American history, died Sunday (July 23) at age 89.

  • Science & Tech

    Judah M. Folkman, MD

    In the early 1970s Folkman refined his theory that tumors have the capability to grow their own blood vessels, thereby obtaining the nourishment they need to keep growing in a body. Folkman never quit thinking about why this happens and how he might use that information to treat cancer patients.

  • Science & Tech

    E.O. Wilson, “Ant Man”

    E. O. Wilson reflects on insect societies, human society, and the importance of biodiversity.

  • Science & Tech

    Prof. Lene Hau: Stopping light cold

    In 2005, Professor Lene Hau did something that Einstein theorized was impossible. Hau stopped light cold using atoms and lasers in her Harvard lab.