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Tag: Faculty
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Campus & Community
5 named Harvard College Professors
Their scholarly interests range from the design of programming languages to health economics to the molecular changes that influence evolutionary fitness. One thing the five faculty members who were awarded Harvard College Professorships in recent weeks have in common is a gift for instilling passion for education in their students.
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Campus & Community
Robert Richardson Bowie
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Robert Richardson Bowie, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bowie, who founded the Center for International Affairs, combined distinguished academic achievement with professional service at…
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Campus & Community
Nathan Keyfitz
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 4, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Considered the…
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Campus & Community
James Thompson
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 5, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Burleigh Thompson, Jr., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Thompson predicted the possible existence of several hypothetical silicate minerals that were subsequently found in…
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Campus & Community
Wallace MacCaffrey
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Wallace Trevethic MacCaffrey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor MacCaffrey, a definitive authority on the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was awarded the American Historical Society’s…
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Campus & Community
Serafín Moralejo
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 3, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Serafín Moralejo Álvarez, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Fine Arts, was placed upon the records. Professor Moralejo, a distinguished scholar of medieval art, devoted the greater part of his energies…
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Campus & Community
John Peter Huchra
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 1, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late John Peter Huchra, Robert O. and Holly Thomis Doyle Professor of Cosmology, was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
James Newton Butler
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Newton Butler, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Butler was acclaimed for his research on ionic equilibrium and pelagic tar in the North…
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Campus & Community
Abramson Award to Spirling, Combes
Arthur Spirling, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Government Department, and Stacey Combes, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award.
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Arts & Culture
Summertime, and the reading is easy
A look at what Harvard faculty members will be reading in their downtime this summer.
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Campus & Community
Survey finds faculty satisfaction rate at 81 percent
The vast majority of Harvard faculty report that they are satisfied with their positions here, according to the latest Faculty Climate Survey released today by the Office for Faculty Development and Diversity.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held May 14
On May 14 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss a student disciplinary case.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 30
On April 30 the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2014-15 and Courses of Instruction for 2014-15.
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Science & Tech
Kovac makes a ‘Big Bang’ on Time’s list
Time magazine has named John Kovac to the 2014 Time 100, its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Arts & Culture
For writers and students, a break from solitude
Writers in the Parlor connects accomplished novelists and story writers with students.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 9
On April 9 the members of the Faculty Council discussed multi-year financial planning and continued their conversation about University finances.
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Science & Tech
Advising on climate change
In addition to conducting research and teaching about climate, energy, and the environment, Harvard faculty members also serve as expert advisers to policymakers, putting their science to work to improve laws and regulations and to foster understanding between the worlds of government and academics.
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Science & Tech
Less energy, more creativity
Two teams of students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design provided a close look — part celebration, part cerebration — at two house designs that won international competitions.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held March 26
On March 26 the members of the Faculty Council approved a proposal on course credits and a proposal regarding academic integrity. They also continued their discussion on simultaneous enrollment.
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Campus & Community
Teaching on campus and off
Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy teaches a free American history course to low-income adult students as part of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, for which he now holds the first endowed chair.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 26
On Feb. 26 the members of the Faculty Council approved a proposal to change the name of the undergraduate concentration organismic and evolutionary biology to integrative biology. They also heard a report from the Committee to Study the Faculty Council Election Procedures and a presentation on the University’s financial context.
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Science & Tech
Out of disaster, a new design
A team of students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, just back from Japan, took home first prize in an international competition for solutions to sustainable recovery in a region of Japan devastated by a triple disaster in 2011.
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Arts & Culture
Big skies, dusty trails
“Fortunes of the Western,” a new series at the Harvard Film Archive, draws back the curtain on the golden age of Westerns following World War II. The series continues through March 22.
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Arts & Culture
Bernard Berenson, recalled
Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, a treasure of Italian Renaissance scholarship since 1961, has launched an oral history site on its origins with Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, and its transition from villa to a center for scholars.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 5
On Feb. 5 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss three student disciplinary cases.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 29
On Jan. 29 the members of the Faculty Council heard reports from the Committee on Academic Integrity and the Committee on Outside Activities in the Online Environment.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Thinking Hand’
A visit by a master of traditional Japanese carpentry launches an unusual Harvard exhibit of tools, techniques, and woods that have been used for centuries.
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Science & Tech
Architectural fever dreams
Master’s degree students in architecture present thesis topics in a traditional daylong January event that draws critical crossfire and praise.
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Nation & World
Core objectives
Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Paul Reville talks about the new national standards for K-12 education, known as the Common Core State Standards, and the recent controversy surrounding their implementation.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 20
On Nov. 20 the members of the Faculty Council approved the Harvard Summer School course list for 2014.