Tag: scholar

  • Nation & World

    Stephen Greenblatt wins Holberg Prize

    Professor Stephen Greenblatt has been honored with the Holberg Prize his extraordinary body of writing and its profound impact on humanities scholarship.

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  • Nation & World

    Funding the next generation of scholars

    Twenty undergraduates from around the world will have the chance to get hands-on experience in Harvard labs this summer, thanks to a four-year renewable grant to expand the Amgen Scholars Program to the University.

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  • Nation & World

    Serafín Moralejo

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 3, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Serafín Moralejo Álvarez, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Fine Arts, was placed upon the records. Professor Moralejo, a distinguished scholar of medieval art, devoted the greater part of his energies…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Two named Hill-Stephens Scholars

    Sophomores Alexander Moore and Joshua Scott have been selected as the 2013 Hill-Stephens Scholars, an honor awarded annually to two African-American sophomores or juniors at Harvard College who display exceptional commitment to academic achievement and community involvement.

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  • Nation & World

    Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

    A new book by scholar Stephen Greenblatt probes topics that the playwright pushed to their limits: beauty and the cult of perfection, murderous hatred, the exercise of power, and artistic autonomy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Damrosch named professor of comparative literature

    David Damrosch, a scholar of world literature, has been appointed professor of comparative literature in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2009.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Scholar, critic, poet, prize winnner Vasiliauskas is off to the other Cambridge

    Emily Vasiliauskas may be the only undergraduate at Harvard who has learned German specifically so she could read the poetry of Paul Celan.

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