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Tag: S. Allen Counter
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Nation & World
A case study in portraiture
For 15 years, painter Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, has been quietly changing the walls of campus by adding dozens of portraits that better reflect Harvard’s diversity.
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Nation & World
A lasting legacy, now on view
The University unveiled a portrait of the late S. Allen Counter, founder of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
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Solange visits as Harvard Foundation’s artist of year
The Harvard Foundation honored Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Solange Knowles as 2018 Artist of the Year in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.
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Nation & World
In Memoriam: Saying goodbye to the Harvard Foundation’s founding director
Speakers and students shared their memories of S. Allen Counter during a service at the Memorial Church on Sept. 27.
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Nation & World
Remembering S. Allen Counter
S. Allen Counter, a neurophysiologist, educator, ethnographer, and founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, died on July 12.
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Nation & World
Harvard professor recognized with portrait
Professor Orlando Patterson is the 17th honoree of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ Portraiture Project.
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Nation & World
Actress Viola Davis named Harvard Artist of the Year
The Harvard Foundation has named Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis as the 2017 Artist of the Year for her powerhouse performances across TV, film, and theater and philanthropic dedication to her Rhode Island hometown.
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Nation & World
Rihanna named Humanitarian of Year
The popular singer Rihanna has been named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year, and will come to campus to accept the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at a ceremony Feb. 28.
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Nation & World
An opponent who prevailed
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives Harvard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year award.
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Nation & World
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi honored at Harvard
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was the general secretary of the newly formed National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar in 1990, will receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2016 Harvard Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award on Sept. 17.
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Nation & World
Painting unveiled of College’s first African-American graduate
Officials unveiled a painting of Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard College’s first African-American graduate, in Annenberg Hall.
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Lucy Liu applauds students for honoring cultural diversity
The Harvard Foundation honored Lucy Liu as its 2016 Artist of the Year.
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Nation & World
Deep into the past
Harvard’s traditional Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises showcased gifted graduates, gifted teachers, gifted members of the Class of 1965, and a poet and orator who both looked to the past to call up lessons for the future.
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Nation & World
Eva Longoria named Artist of the Year
Actress , businesswoman, and philanthropist Eva Longoria has been named Harvard University’s 2015 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation.
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Nation & World
A call for action, and for hope
Warning of myriad international problems, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Harvard faculty and students to continue research on such issues and use what they learn to help improve living and environmental conditions.
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Nation & World
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon honored
The Harvard Foundation has named U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a Harvard Kennedy School alumnus, the 2014 Humanitarian of the Year. The award will be presented to Ban at a ceremony on Dec. 2.
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Nation & World
A hidden risk
A new study by S. Allen Counter, clinical professor of neurology and director of the Harvard Foundation, shows that high levels of lead, as well as other toxic metals such as mercury and cadmium, can pass from mother to child through breast milk.
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Nation & World
Cool with a capital C
Hip-hop star and actor LL Cool J came to Harvard over the weekend, pulling double duty as host of the Cultural Rhythms festival and the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.
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Harvard loves LL Cool J
LL Cool J, recording artist, actor, author, and philanthropist, has been named the 2014 Harvard University Artist of the Year.
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Nation & World
A strong, new voice
On Oct. 9, 2012, Taliban gunmen shot 15-year-old Malaa Yousafzai in the head as she rode home from school on a bus. She was simply trying education. On Sept. 27, Yousafzai was in Cambridge to receive the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year Award.
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Nation & World
Malala Yousafzai is Harvard Humanitarian of the year
Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old Pakistani girl who was shot on Oct. 9, 2012, in an assassination attempt for expressing her philosophy of gender equality in education and who famously said, “I want every girl, every child, to be educated,” will receive the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award.
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Nation & World
Scherzinger honored for advocacy
Nicole Scherzinger, an advocate for people with special needs and breast cancer research, and a classically trained opera singer, was awarded the Harvard Foundation’s most prestigious medal Feb. 23 at the 28th annual Cultural Rhythms festival.
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Nation & World
Nicole Scherzinger Artist of the Year
Talented recording artist, television personality, and philanthropist Nicole Scherzinger has been named the Harvard Foundation’s 2013 Artist of the Year.
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Nation & World
A message of inclusion
Songs of struggle and freedom filled the vast sanctuary at Harvard’s Memorial Church on Monday as part of a celebration of the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. The event marked the start of the University’s third annual Interfaith Awareness Week.
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Nation & World
Crossing the river of myths
Grasp the right facts, said a renowned medical statistician, and the world is more complicated and interesting, with fewer myths that divide one region from another.
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Hans Rosling to receive Humanitarian Award
Renowned international public health scientist and medical statistician Hans Rosling will be awarded the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at Winthrop House on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m.
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Counter knighted by King of Sweden
Noted neuroscience professor S. Allen Counter was appointed Knight of the Order of the Polar Star First Class by Carl XVI Gustaf, king of Sweden.
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Counter named Living Legend
Professor S. Allen Counter will receive the Museum of African American History’s 2012 Living Legends Award alongside Massachusetts First Lady Diane B. Patrick and baseballer Jim Rice.
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Matthews, Silverman are Scientists of the Year
The Harvard Foundation will present the 2012 Scientist of the Year Award to Jessica O. Matthews ’10 and Julia Silverman ’10, co-founders of Uncharted Play Inc. and inventors of SOCCKET, at this year’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference.
