Tag: Staff

  • Campus & Community

    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.

    1–2 minutes
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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.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    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.

    3–4 minutes
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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.

    1–2 minutes
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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.

    1–2 minutes
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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.

    3–5 minutes
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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.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    3–4 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

    3–4 minutes
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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.

    4–5 minutes
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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.

    3–4 minutes
  • 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.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Currier House

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

    2–3 minutes
  • 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).

    2–3 minutes
  • 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.

    3–4 minutes
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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.

    3–5 minutes
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    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.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Baby, you can drive my Zipcar

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

    1–2 minutes
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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.

    3–4 minutes
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    Harvard in stitches

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

    4–6 minutes
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    Strong finish

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

    1–2 minutes
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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.

    2–3 minutes
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    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.

    1–2 minutes
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    Hard science, soft verse

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

    2–3 minutes
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    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.

    1–2 minutes
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    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.

    2–3 minutes
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    Guardian of the House

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

    3–5 minutes
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    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.

    2–4 minutes