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Tag: Staff
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Extraordinary performers
A juggling janitor, an inspirational minister, all-star fundraisers, and a dining hall checker were among 49 University employees feted at Sanders Theatre June 5 as Harvard Heroes, a longstanding tradition at the University that returned this spring after a three-year hiatus.
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Alumni’s lives are in her hands
As an editor of Harvard’s hallowed Red Books and obituary writer for Harvard Magazine, Deborah Smullyan finds the beauty and wisdom in a parade of graduates’ retrospectives.
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A heroic return
After a three-year hiatus, the Harvard Heroes Recognition Program — which celebrates Harvard staff members who make extraordinary contributions “above and beyond” — will return in a ceremony June 5.
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At Herbaria, a new career blossoms
Museum exhibition designer Danielle Hanrahan always loved art and nature. A late-in-life career move to the Harvard Herbaria allowed her a chance to explore the latter.
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Social media, but not just for fun
Social networks can be time-savers, not just time-wasters. A series of popular courses gives Harvard faculty and staff members Web tools that are useful for professional gain and creative collaboration.
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At long last, literary success
Peter Brown gave up the vagabond life of a poet for a family and a stable IT career in the Harvard Economics Department. Twenty years later, his dark fiction found unexpected success.
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If he builds it, the artists come
Ed Lloyd inherited a famous gallery designed by the architect Le Corbusier. As the Carpenter Center’s exhibitions manager, he regularly transforms that space to bring current works of art to life.
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FAS recognizes outstanding staff members
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith honored the 44 recipients of the third annual Dean’s Distinction awards in a ceremony and reception March 1 in the Faculty Room of University Hall.
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Barbara Lindsay Norton, 20-year staffer, dies
Barbara Lindsay Norton, a longtime Harvard employee, died on Feb. 17 in North Andover, Mass., after illness.
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Neighbors for the 21st century
Once a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.
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Helping scholars find library nooks
Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.
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The right way to report wrongdoing
The University’s comprehensive new policy on whistleblowing aims to make reporting legal or ethical breaches both safe and easy for all members of the Harvard community.
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A quarter-century, and still going strong
Annual ceremony honors 142 longtime employees, the keepers of Harvard’s institutional identity. But they’re more than just the guardians of a legacy — sometimes they’re guardian angels, too.
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Taking the pulse of Harvard
Harvard is launching a University-wide staff survey for the first time since 2008. The brief questionnaire will gauge employees’ opinions on Harvard as a workplace.
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All in the Harvard family
The WATCH Portal, a new online child-care service, aims to connect Harvard parents with a vast pool of potential babysitters, from undergraduates and graduate students to the teenage children of employees.
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Health care changes ahead
Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.
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The grad students’ guru
Over three decades, Cynthia Verba has advised hundreds of advanced students at Harvard. A scholar of French Enlightenment music in her own right, her guidance comes with more than a grain of salt.
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A smarter Harvard marketplace
An online procurement system rolls out across Harvard, saving the University $5.4 million in its first year and making life a little easier for thousands of researchers and administrators.
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Come on, Eileen
Workers at Harvard’s Biological Laboratories organize a team to raise funds for cancer research, and to support ill colleague Eileen Snow.
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Long a Harvardian, now an American
For Marina Betancur and 15 other Harvard employees, a celebration dinner with President Drew Faust was a victory lap on a long, arduous, and rewarding path to citizenship.
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Designing a stronger safety net
A new series of free financial planning seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Benefits Office, aims to get employees thinking about retirement long before the last paycheck comes. The next session is April 7.
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38 honored with Dean’s Distinction
Some of Harvard’s most impressive “unsung heroes” took the spotlight on Wednesday (March 2), when 38 Faculty of Arts and Sciences staff members were honored with Dean’s Distinction awards.
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Harvard Neighbors Gallery seeks artists for 2011-12 season
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is seeking Harvard artists for the 2011-12 season. Located at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St., Harvard Neighbors provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show their works.
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A lift before the move
Low-interest loans, provided by the Harvard University Employees Credit Union through the the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, offer University employees an added monetary boost when life hits.
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An unexpected career move
From her early days as a labor organizer to her current role advocating for laid-off employees, union official Joie Gelband has made a career of handling workers’ issues.
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Gazette staffer wins poetry prize
For the second year in a row, Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has won a poetry prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.
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Julia Budenz, poet and Harvard staffer, 76
Poet and Harvard staff member Julia Budenz died in Cambridge on Dec. 11 at the age of 76.
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Sticking together
Maintain Don’t Gain and Team Fitness Challenge are team-oriented programs that help Harvard employees avoid gaining weight during the winter months. A new session of Team Fitness Challenge starts Jan. 31.
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Max R. Hall, writer and editor, 100
Max R. Hall, a former journalist, writer, teacher of writing, and scholarly book editor, died in Cambridge on Jan. 12 at 100 years of age. Until his retirement, Hall was editor at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, social sciences editor at Harvard University Press, and editorial adviser at Harvard Business School.
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Expert etiquette
Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School and Boston Globe columnist, answered Harvard employees’ questions on workplace etiquette in a HARVie chat in January.
