Tag: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

  • Nation & World

    Belarusian scholar enrolls at GSAS

    Volha Charnysh, a 2010 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholar, has enrolled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Charnysh has dedicated her life to nuclear disarmament and is editor of a publication for Belarusians in the United States.

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    Edmond J. Safra graduate fellowships in ethics 2011-12

    Applications are invited from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.

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    Improving the classroom experience

    Students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences can look forward to less shuffling between classrooms, more books on the shelf at the Coop, and a better experience in section thanks to a pre-term planning initiative implemented in October.

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    Doubting Thomas nation

    Why aren’t you listening? Scientists discuss the difficulty of transferring scientific consensus to the public.

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    High marks for doctoral programs

    A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.

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    Three winners of the Howard T. Fisher Prize announced

    One undergraduate and two graduate students will receive the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.

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    Benefiting society, scholarship

    For more than two decades, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded its Centennial Medal to a select group of graduates who have made significant contributions to society and scholarship: David Bevington ’52, Ph.D. ’59, English; Stephen Fischer-Galati ’46, Ph.D. ’49, history; Eric Maskin ’72, Ph.D. ’76, applied mathematics; Martha Nussbaum, Ph.D.…

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    Kedron Thomas awarded Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

    The Woodrow Wilson Foundation recently announced Kedron Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as one of 20 recipients of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year.

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    Ashford Fellowship Program thrives

    The Theodore H. Ashford Graduate Fellowships in the Sciences and the Theodore H. Ashford Dissertation Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences have supported 26 students in fields ranging from biophysics to film and visual studies.

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    Around the Schools: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering a wealth of short courses, seminars, and events designed to provide more work or more play, depending on your preference, from Jan. 4 to 24.

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    GSAS Medal awarded to biologist, physicist, social scientist, art expert

    A biologist who has led groundbreaking research efforts on proteins, an art expert who leads one of the country’s foremost museums, an astrophysicist whose theories guide the study of galaxies and planets, and a social sciences professor who has shaped the course of East Asian studies received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)…

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    DRCLAS awards 27 certificates, names thesis prize winners

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded nearly 30 certificates in Latin American Studies this year.

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    Four honored with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences medal

    A pioneer in computer science, an anthropologist who has revised our view of primate behavior, a Renaissance scholar who served as Harvard’s 26th president, and an economist who has helped ailing nations recover economic health received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal on Wednesday (June 6) at the Harvard Faculty Club.The medalists…

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    Teaching excellence honored at College

    When Benedict Gross was a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard, there was no Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Teaching fellows who wanted to know what was the most effective way to help undergraduates understand their course work were pretty much on their own.

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