Tag: Larry Bacow
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New institute to unite, advance Harvard efforts to stem tide of climate crisis
Gift from Melanie and Jean Salata to fund Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.
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Larry Bacow, University’s 29th president, to step down next June
The 29th president of Harvard University announced that he will depart on June 30, 2023.
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A call to public service
The Classes of 2020 and 2021 finally got their day under the trees of Tercentenary Theatre Sunday morning.
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Newly minted military officers warned of global threats to democracy
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Mark Milley swears in Harvard ROTC cadets, midshipmen.
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Bacow urges seniors to embrace the unexpected
On Tuesday, Harvard seniors filed into Tercentenary Theatre to attend the Baccalaureate ceremony, which had been canceled for the past two years due to COVID.
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Skocpol tells PBK students: World of trouble awaits you. Fight to fix it.
The 230th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises were held Tuesday at Sanders Theatre.
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One lie leads to another until we tell the truth
Harvard Radcliffe Institute held a daylong conference, “Telling the Truth About All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond,” on Friday.
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Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now University must act
University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.
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Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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Entering a second decade of innovation
The 11th annual President’s Innovation Challenge names 25 finalists.
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Bacow discusses role of higher education institutions in 21st century
Harvard President Larry Bacow spoke at Imperial College London about the future of universities, the war in Ukraine, world crises, free speech.
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Taking best of innovations, lessons of pandemic education
Task force releases report on how Harvard can create more engaging, equitable learning experiences.
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Starting up University’s new climate, sustainability efforts
Faculty advisory panel members offer progress report on their efforts, along with those of new vice provost Jim Stock.
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Biggest hurdle to U.S. energy policy revamp? Millions of displaced workers
MIT-Harvard project is sending teams to explore how to ease the effects of the coming energy transition in parts of the U.S. that most heavily depend on fossil fuel-related industries.
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Higher ed, civil rights leaders decry high court decision to hear admissions case
Experts from higher education and beyond react to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the admissions case.
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A growing partnership for 150 years
Clones of a 73-year-old dawn redwood tree were planted at the residence of Harvard’s president to help celebrate the Arnold Arboretum’s 150th anniversary and honor its relationship with Harvard.
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Need to embrace pandemic lessons
During the first Morning Prayers of the semester, Harvard President Larry Bacow reminded his listeners of the incredible challenges faced during the pandemic and called on them to remember the countless ways people across campus and beyond have supported each other in such difficult times.
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The future of teaching and learning
The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.
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Glynn to retire as CEO of Harvard Allston Land Co.
Glynn was instrumental in advancing Harvard’s vision for the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston
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Global alumni community gather for first virtual annual meeting
The Harvard Alumni Association virtually convened the 151st Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Friday.
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Finishing the work left undone in America
Ruth Simmons, one of the nation’s top higher education leaders and president of Prairie View A&M University, called on Harvard and its graduating Class of 2021 to fight to close the chasm of inequality that recent years have illustrated still exists in America.
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Bacow tells seniors COVID-19 brought losses, but also growth
President Larry Bacow offered poignant reflections during the Baccalaureate Service honoring the Harvard College Class of 2021.
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Matthew Potts named Pusey Minister at Memorial Church
Matthew Ichihashi Potts, a professor of religious studies and literature, an Episcopal priest, and an active member of the Harvard community, has been named Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, effective July 1.
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13 ventures receive top prizes in President’s Innovation Challenge
Thirteen winners of the 10th annual Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge awarded $510,000 from Bertarelli Foundation.
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Two named to lead Board of Overseers
Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a leader in consumer health care and retail, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2021-22 academic year. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, a developmental psychologist and former vice provost for academics at Northwestern University, will be vice chair of the board’s executive committee.
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Launch of pioneering Ph.D. program bolsters Harvard’s leadership in quantum science and engineering
Today, the University launched one of the world’s first Ph.D. programs in the subject of quantum science and engineering.
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A poem for Venus
In her poem “The Story of Venus,” Suzannah Omonuk imagines what life may have been like for the young enslaved woman living on campus in the 18th century.