Tag: Staff

  • Campus & Community

    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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  • Campus & Community

    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.

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  • Campus & Community

    Miss Conduct to conduct online chat

    Harvard will host an online chat with Robin Abrahams, the Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct, who also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School, on Jan. 18 at noon. The chat is part of a HARVie series that offers Harvard community members the opportunity to learn from experts across campus.

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  • Campus & Community

    Don’t just stand there

    It’s easy enough to say you value diversity, but honoring that goal can be tricky in context. A workshop on bystander awareness offered strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged in the workplace.

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    Aid groups that make a difference

    The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.

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    ‘100 Reasons To Give’

    The Harvard Community Gifts campaign, which kicked off in December with a new theme — “100 Reasons To Give” — is accepting donations via payroll deduction until Jan. 21.

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  • Campus & Community

    Hardly the retiring kind

    A vital resource, the Harvard University Retirees Association keeps former employees connected to the University’s vast resources, and to each other.

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    A look inside: Currier House

    Security guard Yohannes Tewolde does his job with flair at Currier House.

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  • Campus & Community

    Giving thanks to each other

    Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is giving staff members an opportunity to show their gratitude to one another at this week’s first-ever Giving Thanks Open House (Nov. 16-18).

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  • Campus & Community

    Food for thought

    Harvard graduate and Food Literacy Project administrator Dara Olmsted loves working with food and helping others connect to the environmental and nutritional implications of what they eat.

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    Keeping students in the loop

    Getting Harvard graduate students to connect with each other and the vibrant offerings at Dudley House keeps its longtime administrator Susan Zawalich, a tap dancer with a love for Godzilla and toys, busy.

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  • Campus & Community

    25 years of service

    Viva Fisher and Clif Colby are two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual recognition ceremony.

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  • Campus & Community

    Baby, you can drive my Zipcar

    New transportation options for Harvard affiliates are energy- and cost-efficient, and can be fun, too.

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    They save horses, don’t they?

    A meeting with a wild stallion set Harvard curator Castle McLaughlin on a journey involving an endangered horse breed and a complex exhibition.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard in stitches

    Knitting’s popularity continues to grow — even at Harvard, where at least 20 informal knitting circles meet once a week.

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  • Campus & Community

    Strong finish

    More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.

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    Crossing that bridge

    On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

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  • Campus & Community

    Collecting race, ethnicity data

    In compliance with new government regulations, Harvard is required to collect ethnicity information from faculty and staff. In addition, Harvard employees will have an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their veteran status.

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  • Campus & Community

    Hard science, soft verse

    Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.

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  • Campus & Community

    Staff art is focus at Radcliffe Institute

    This time, the Radcliffe art show at Byerly Hall is by staff members, and will be on display through the summer.

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  • Campus & Community

    The gym unlocker

    Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.

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  • Campus & Community

    Guardian of the House

    Quincy House security guard Paul Barksdale doubles as a friend, confidante, and adviser to undergraduates.

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  • Campus & Community

    Giving back

    Marie Trottier handles accessibility issues at Harvard for the disabled, but she’s also involved in establishing a hospice, and acts on the side.

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    Not afraid to switch focus

    IT technician Jeff Mayes tries and masters new fields, from computers to photography.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Staff Artists Community to host first meeting on Feb. 24

    The Harvard Staff Artists Community (HSAC) invites all staff artists to its first meeting on Feb. 24 from noon to 1 p.m. at Area 1 in the Gutman Library conference center.

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    Thompson wins writing grant

    Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson wins creative-writing fellowship to research her book project on how the Polynesians came to settle the Pacific region.

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    Bruno, Hierl receive Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service

    Thomas Bruno, head of resource sharing at Widener Library, and Sebastian Hierl, librarian for Western Europe, have been named the winners of the 2009 Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service in the Harvard College Library (HCL).

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    Coming and going at Harvard

    Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.

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  • Campus & Community

    Food for thought, and testing

    Health and safety ninja Valerie Nelson makes sure campus meals are safe.

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