Featured series 
Tag: Faculty
-
Nation & World
Best practices writ large
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen has built a storied career by, as he puts it, telling business leaders not what to think, but how to think about running their companies. In the two years since suffering a stroke, he’s tackled two other equally ambitious tasks: relearning how to speak, and teaching the rest of us how…
-
Nation & World
Tapping the body to fight disease
Researcher Biju Parekkadan is developing devices that employ cell therapy to help people with organ failure.
-
Nation & World
Daniel Aaron’s century
A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.
-
Nation & World
Battle won, but more to come
Harvard School of Public Health analysts probe the importance of the Supreme Court ruling upholding national health care, and explain the law’s next challenge: the November election
-
Nation & World
Win for Obama, but no let-up in debate
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday upholding the basis of national health care reform is far from the last word on the topic, Harvard faculty members said, and merely raises the curtain on act two: November’s general election.
-
Nation & World
William von Eggers Doering
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William von Eggers Doering, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Time called Professor Doering’s synthesis of quinine “one of the greatest scientific achievements in a century.”
-
Nation & World
Oleg Grabar
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 1, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Grabar was one of Islamic art and architecture’s most influential and insightful scholars.
-
Nation & World
Garber, Gawande elected into APS
Marjorie Garber and Atul Gawande have been elected members of the American Philosophical Society.
-
Nation & World
Counter knighted by King of Sweden
Noted neuroscience professor S. Allen Counter was appointed Knight of the Order of the Polar Star First Class by Carl XVI Gustaf, king of Sweden.
-
Nation & World
2012 Challenges to Democracy Grantees named
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the recipients of its annual Challenges to Democracy Grant program.
-
Nation & World
Harvard Ed Portal
The Harvard Allston Education Portal “Showcase” drew nearly 100 people, including Ed Portal mentors, the Allston youngsters they’ve worked with, family members, and Harvard faculty and staff, to celebrate the conclusion of yet another semester of learning. Both mentees and mentors demonstrated the special connections that form at the Ed Portal and how contagious the…
-
Nation & World
Ed Portal showcases work
Since 2008, the Harvard Allston Education Portal has fostered learning, exploration, and connections between Harvard and the Allston-Brighton community. The new Ed Portal Annex will triple the size of the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
-
Nation & World
Bathing in Chinese language and culture
Expanding language program connects students with broader fields, such as history, art, and culture.
-
Nation & World
Harvard College Professors named
Five faculty members were recognized for their excellence in undergraduate teaching this week by being awarded Harvard College Professorships.
-
Nation & World
Faculty Council meeting held April 25
At the April 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the Harvard Extension School courses for 2012-13 and Courses of Instruction for 2012-13. They also heard a review of the Ph.D. program in biostatistics and updates on College Standing Committees.
-
Nation & World
Memorial for Paul Doty
A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
-
Nation & World
Earth’s sister in the crosshairs
A new book by Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov explains the revolution in understanding the universe that views life as a natural part of planetary evolution and that has researchers on the brink of finding worlds that echo this one.
-
Nation & World
AACR honors Alan D’Andrea
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented Alan D. D’Andrea with the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his work in understanding cancer survival and progression.
-
Nation & World
Institute renamed after Kelman
The Vienna-based Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peace building was officially renamed the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation on Dec. 29, 2011.
-
Nation & World
A peek into Harvard classrooms
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is launching a new video series, called “Harvard’s Great Teachers,” which will highlight Harvard’s world-class faculty and offer a sampling of the exciting and innovative teaching experienced by Harvard students.
-
Nation & World
Paulus honored for directing excellence
The American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2012 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.
-
Nation & World
HKS presents Neustadt and Schelling Awards
Amartya Sen, one of the world’s most eminent economists and philosophers, has been named one of the recipients of the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.
-
Nation & World
A welcome home
After more than a decade away, Professor Eric Maskin returned to the Economics Department this semester to a warm reception — and with a Nobel Prize in tow.
-
Nation & World
Oscar Handlin
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 6, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Oscar Handlin, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Handlin was the most influential and creative historian of American social life in the second half of…
-
Nation & World
Memorial set for James Q. Wilson
A memorial service for James Q. Wilson, former Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, will be held on April 13.
-
Nation & World
Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
-
Nation & World
CUNY Law School honors Gates
Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.
-
Nation & World
REAI grants open for applications
The Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard is offering its second round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.