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Aykroyd honored, student groups featured
Dan Aykroyd has got Cultural Rhythms and blues. As celebrity emcee of the 24th annual Cultural Rhythms Festival and the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year, a bespectacled Aykroyd dazzled the audience.
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Civil rights legend recognized for years of service
At times, the best way to truly honor those who have selflessly and tirelessly served is with a simple “thank you.”
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Truong new assistant director of Harvard Foundation
Loc V. Truong has recently been appointed assistant director of the Harvard Foundation. Truong, a former administrative fellow in the Office of the Associate Vice President Administrative Fellows Program (AFC), has served as assistant director of employer relations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for the past three years. Truong will assist the…
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Newsmakers
Rockefeller Fellows chosen; Hedley-Whyte wins AAMI award; Goldman invited to speak to Homeland Security Council; Steinkeller receives Humboldt award; Counter at Nobel Prize ceremony
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John U. Monro portrait is unveiled at PBH
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations has unveiled a ninth portrait in its Minority Portraiture Project. The latest honoree on canvas is John U. Monro, former dean of Harvard College. Monro’s portrait, painted by Stephen Coit ’71, was unveiled last week (Oct. 16) in Phillips Brooks House.
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Faculty, students honored for improving intercultural relations
The Harvard Foundation presented its 2008 Faculty/Administrator Award to Benedict H. Gross, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, at its annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards dinner in Quincy House on May 4.
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Harvard Foundation names Scientist of Year
The Harvard Foundation will present its 2008 Scientist of the Year Award to Stephanie D. Wilson, a NASA astronaut and 1988 Harvard College graduate, at this year’s annual “Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.” Wilson will be honored for her outstanding work in engineering and space exploration with…
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Master artist gives master class
Herbie Hancock radiated coolness — from his hip, all-black attire, to his trademark, slightly tinted glasses, to his deep soulful voice, to his calm, measured delivery. And as unmistakable as his aura of cool was his sincerity. Both qualities and more were on display Friday (Feb. 29) in the junior common room in Kirkland House…
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Jazz great Herbie Hancock takes home Artist of the Year
Music legend Herbie Hancock received the 2008 Cultural Artist of the Year Award from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations at the organization’s 23rd annual Cultural Rhythms celebration, an afternoon and evening of performances from a diverse cultural mix of 29 student groups. Hancock was feted at the first of two shows (March…
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Goodfellow Liotta visits University
Film actor Ray Liotta recently (Feb. 25) visited the Harvard Foundation as a special guest. He met with representatives of several student cultural organizations, including the Harvard Italian-American Cultural Society.
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Hancock named Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year
The Artist of the Year award will be presented to Herbie Hancock during the Harvard Cultural Festival on Saturday (March 1) in Sanders Theatre. He will receive the award during the afternoon show, which starts at 3 p.m.
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Pauletta Washington honored
There was no debating the glamour of the Harvard Foundation’s black-tie, red-carpet premiere of “The Great Debaters,” starring and directed by Denzel Washington, at the Harvard Film Archive at the Carpenter Center. Close to 200 students, faculty, and staff attended the Dec. 18 premiere, which was followed by a lively question-and-answer session with Washington and…
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Painting of Kiyo Morimoto is unveiled
The Harvard Foundation unveiled the portrait of Kiyo Morimoto, former director of the Bureau of Study Counsel in the Dunster House Dining Room last week (Feb 1). Morimoto served the bureau from 1958 to 1985 and is remembered as as a widely respected counselor by generations of students. A thoughtful listener, he offered soft-spoken, helpful…
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Harvard Foundation honors ASHA president
Noma Anderson, president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), will be honored today (Nov. 15) by the Harvard Foundation for her outstanding leadership and contributions to American education and health services. At a reception in her honor, Anderson will be presented with the Harvard Foundation Medallion.
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Harvard Foundation honors Andy Garcia
Acclaimed actor, producer, and director Andy Garcia was honored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations on a recent (Oct. 16) visit to the University. The special invited guest was recognized for his work with at-risk youth and people with cancer. Garcia is the director of the feature film “The Lost City,” in…
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Portrait of Amos unveiled
A portrait of Harold Amos, who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century, was unveiled by the Harvard Foundation on Oct.4 at the Courtyard Café in the Warren Alpert Building at Harvard Medical School. Amos was a member of both the Medical School Faculty and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was the…
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Harvard Foundation set to honor DR president
The Harvard Foundation will host Dominican Republic President Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna on Sept. 24. Fernández will receive the Harvard Foundation Medal for his creation of the Foundation for Global Democracy and Development. His visit is co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Weatherhead Center for International…
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Harvard Foundation honors Knowles, students
The Harvard Foundation recently honored members of the University community who have made outstanding contributions to improving intercultural and race relations at the College. More than 40 students and one distinguished faculty member were presented with awards at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Dinner held on May 4 at Quincy House in memory of…
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Harvard Foundation honors Knowles for ‘years of support’
The Harvard Foundation will present its 2007 Faculty/Administrator Award to Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards dinner on Friday (May 4). Knowles will be honored for his years of support of the Harvard Foundation…
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Harvard Foundation honors Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee — civil rights activist, star of stage and screen, and the surviving half of a pair who, for much of the 20th century, reigned as the first couple of African-American theater — made it to Harvard this week.
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Ruby Dee to receive Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award
Distinguished actress, writer, producer, and civil rights leader Ruby Dee will receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2007 Humanitarian Award when she delivers the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church on April 17 at 5 p.m.
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S. Allen Counter, Deval Patrick to receive leadership award
Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts (CBMM) will recognize Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Harvard University’s S. Allen Counter with the Paul Robeson Leadership Award for their “leadership and community service” at CBMM’s 2007 Andrew J. Davis Jr. Unity Breakfast.
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Harvard Foundation to welcome Esmeralda Santiago
The Harvard Foundation will host a lecture by Esmeralda Santiago ’76, author of the memoirs “When I Was Puerto Rican” and “Almost a Woman,” and the novel “América’s Dream.” The lecture will take place April 10 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Harvard Hall (Room 104).
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Fishburne feted at Cultural Rhythms
The phrase “rich ethnic and cultural diversity” seemed like an understatement at last Saturday’s (Feb. 24) Cultural Rhythms extravaganza. This year’s event was energized by the appearance of the Artist of the Year Laurence Fishburne, the mightily accomplished actor, director, producer, and humanitarian.
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Harvard Foundation names Laurence Fishburne the 2007 Artist of the Year
Actor, producer, and director Laurence Fishburne has been named the 2007 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Fishburne, the unanimous choice of the selection committee, will be awarded the foundation’s most prestigious medal at Harvard’s annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 24) at Sanders Theatre.
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Portrait unveiling
The late Eileen Jackson Southern, a music scholar and Harvard’s first black female tenured professor, is the subject of the latest painting in the Minority Portraiture Project, established in 2002 by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
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Portrait of former Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett is unveiled
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations has unveiled a seventh portrait in its Minority Portraiture Project.