Tag: Staff

  • Campus & Community

    Staffer publishes second novel

    Harvard Kennedy School staffer Matthew Salesses has published “I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying,” a novel in flash fiction.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Using privilege helpfully

    Acknowledging one’s privilege — and using that advantage to help level the playing field for everyone — is essential in the fight against racism and sexism, activist Peggy McIntosh told a crowd of Harvard faculty and staff in the second of this year’s FAS diversity dialogues.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Joining the quarter-century club

    Harvard feted 139 faculty and staff — physics professors and dining hall checkers among them — for their longtime service to the University at the annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Help with kids. And pets. And …

    The WATCH Portal, an online network launched last year to connect Harvard parents with University-affiliated baby sitters, is expanding its marketplace to include tutoring, pet care, and a host of other services for busy employees in a pinch.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    ‘Having it all’ at Harvard

    After an Atlantic magazine cover story launched a national debate on how women balance career and family, a group of Harvard women is continuing the conversation, and is looking for new ideas on how to make the work-life juggling act a little less stressful.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Imagine if everyone gave

    The Harvard Community Gifts campaign launched on Nov. 7. Faculty and staff can choose to donate by payroll deduction by Dec. 7, or may elect to give by check or credit card through Jan. 15. Harvard has established a user-friendly website where individuals can select their charity and donation amount.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Seeds of inspiration

    An artist and curatorial associate at Arnold Arboretum fuses material she has gathered during her 25-year Harvard career into evocative works of art. Hardy Brown’s first solo exhibit at the Arboretum, “Ex Herbario: Recent Works by Susan Hardy Brown,” is now on view at the Hunnewell Visitor Center through Sept. 16.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A really cool treat

    Harvard employees enjoyed ice cream and the Olympics on Friday during a gathering sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Barbara Lindsay Norton, 20-year staffer, dies

    Barbara Lindsay Norton, a longtime Harvard employee, died on Feb. 17 in North Andover, Mass., after illness.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    2–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    2–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    4–6 minutes