Tag: Harvard Faculty Club

  • Nation & World

    A passion for motocross

    When not overseeing shipping and receiving at the Faculty Club, Dan White loves to compete in motocross.

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    How the garden grows

    Thanks to an abundant garden, the Harvard Faculty Club is saving money and producing even better-tasting food.

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    Joining the quarter-century club

    Harvard feted 139 faculty and staff — physics professors and dining hall checkers among them — for their longtime service to the University at the annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony.

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    A quarter-century, and still going strong

    Annual ceremony honors 142 longtime employees, the keepers of Harvard’s institutional identity. But they’re more than just the guardians of a legacy — sometimes they’re guardian angels, too.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ready to make a difference

    Ten students have been awarded the first grants from Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship. The program supports returning undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing public service work during the summer.

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    Suffering, through an Asian lens

    Several Asian scholars and historians gathered at the Faculty Club Nov. 5 to discuss the cultures of suffering produced by war and tragedy, as shown in the book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” by Harvard President Drew Faust.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Human rights at a crossroad

    The decade-old University Committee on Human Rights Studies was disbanded in June, having largely achieved its goals of promoting cross-disciplinary research and creating human rights-centered courses for undergraduates. In that light, Tuesday’s annual reception became a tone-setting event for the next phase of human rights scholarship.

    4 minutes
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    Bringing faculty together

    Provost-sponsored events seek to bring together faculty from across the University and spur cross-disciplinary ventures.

    2 minutes
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    Food for thought, and testing

    Health and safety ninja Valerie Nelson makes sure campus meals are safe.

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    Harvard Graduate School of Education awards six Conant Fellowships

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education presented six outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on May 31. Each of the recipients will receive one year of study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

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