Tag: Joint Center

  • Campus & Community

    Joint Center accepting research and design prize applications

    The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) is accepting applications for the Outstanding Student Research and Design Prize through May 1. The annual prize is offered for the best graduate-level research or design projects on housing that advance the field of housing studies as an academic endeavor. To be considered for either award the projects…

  • Nation & World

    Panel: Housing crisis is opportunity for action

    When housing prices on Main Street tumbled last year — who doesn’t know this? — tremors rumbled all the way to Wall Street, and beyond. For the first time in 40 years of record-keeping, the median price of a single-family home declined. In six months, the value of U.S. housing stock dropped $3 trillion. Credit…

  • Campus & Community

    Joint Center to offer the Meyer Dissertation Fellowship

    The Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) is accepting applications for the John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellowship, a yearlong fellowship award for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the center’s research agenda.

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    Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing sees remodeling potential

    The U.S. home improvement industry, much like the broader housing market, is experiencing a severe downturn, but prospects for growth are already developing, finds a new report released by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    JOINT CENTER ACCEPTING GRAMLICH FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS; ISRAELITE BREAD-MAKING DISCUSSION AT THE SEMITIC MUSEUM; KISSEL GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Obama names Summers director of National Economic Council; Honorary degree awarded to Professor Wei-Ming Tu; Retsinas honored by the Affordable Housing Hall of Fame; Lu wins grand prize in the 2008 Collegiate Inventors Competition; Business School’s Kanter receives honorary degree from Aalborg University

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Carbonari named chair, Fulton named vice chair of Harvard’s JCHS Policy Advisory Board; HSPH presents Q Prize to maestro

  • Nation & World

    Joint Center for Housing sees mortgage turmoil hitting rental market

    The current mortgage turmoil reaches deep into rental markets. New research on rental housing market dynamics from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies finds that the current housing debacle not only adds to the number of households competing for low-cost rentals but also threatens renters living in foreclosed properties with sudden eviction.

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    In brief

    HUHS flu vaccination clinics Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is offering free flu shots to members of the Harvard community.

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    Rothschild, Enlightenment scholar, named FAS professor

    Emma Rothschild, one of the leading historians of the Enlightenment whose extensive scholarly career has focused on the history of European economic ideas, has been appointed professor of history in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2007.

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    Harvard, Cambridge establish Joint Center for History and Economics

    Crossing academic disciplines and the Atlantic Ocean, the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and King’s College, Cambridge, have established the Joint Center for History and Economics (JCHE). The JCHE will facilitate and encourage interdisciplinary research and learning in the social sciences and the humanities.