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Tag: Staff
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Campus & Community
Not afraid to switch focus
IT technician Jeff Mayes tries and masters new fields, from computers to photography.
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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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Campus & Community
The piano man
Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.
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Campus & Community
Rock of ages
Anderson Lab manager Lenny Solomon is retiring in December after more than three decades helping guide people and projects.
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Campus & Community
Bringing plants, technology together
Donna Tremonte of the Harvard Herbaria loves plants so much that she travels to far-flung locales like Africa and Venezuela to study them. But that’s just part of her job.
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Campus & Community
Putt, putt, putting green to work
Every day and all year round, Adams House dining hall general manager David A. Seley commutes to Harvard on a moped — a lesson in green transportation that he hopes engenders thought and promotes action.
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Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Campus & Community
Community Gifts raises money for 400-plus charities
The annual Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign has raised more than $600,000 via personal contributions from Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees. Over 400 charities, most in Massachusetts, were recipients of these funds.
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Campus & Community
University offers staff a bridge to somewhere
Melani Bizarria cries when she talks about Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program. “I need to say thank you so much for the opportunity,” says Bizarria after a recent English class, her eyes welling up with tears. “I’m trying to do my best, but I don’t have words to explain my feelings. I am…
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Child-care programs, aid to continue at Harvard
Harvard University will continue a number of programs designed to help meet specific child care needs at the University. In 2006, the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering issued a final report that pointed to the need for increased University support for child care. Subsequently, several…
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Campus & Community
Voluntary early retirement offered
Harvard is offering an early retirement incentive package to staff across the University as one of many steps toward managing the challenges of the economic downturn.
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Campus & Community
HUHS continues to offer flu vaccination clinics
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is conducting free vaccination clinics.
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Campus & Community
Zeph Stewart
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 18, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Zeph Stewart, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Stewart was an effective and beloved teacher.
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Campus & Community
Money Mondays to help staff
The Office of Human Resources will be offering a special series of “HARVie chats” on banking, benefits, investing, and other financial topics. Harvard staff are invited to visit http://harvie.harvard.edu/chats/upcomingchats.shtml to get information that may help in navigating through the current economic downturn.
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Celebration honors faculty and staff for 25 years of service to the University
One hundred fourteen Harvard employees were honored on Monday (Oct. 20) for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 54th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony — a unique event in that it recognizes both faculty and staff from across the entire University — was held at Sanders Theatre.
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Gewertz memorial service Friday
A memorial service will be held 3 p.m. Friday (Oct. 24) at the Memorial Church for Ken Gewertz, who died on Sept. 7 at his home in Watertown, Mass. He was 63.
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Gazette writer Gewertz dies at 63
Ken Gewertz, teacher, editor, and longtime staff writer for the Harvard University Gazette, died of cancer on Sept. 7 at his home in Watertown, Mass. He was 63. Gewertz gave 22 years of service to the University. As a reporter for the Gazette, he covered almost every aspect of life at Harvard, concentrating on the…
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Campus & Community
Harvard News Office writer Ken Gewertz dies at 63
Longtime writer for the Harvard News Office Ken Gewertz died on Sept. 7 at his home in Watertown, Mass. He was 63.
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Harvard alumni and friends contribute $651M in fiscal year 2008
Harvard University announced today (Sept. 11) that gift receipts totaled nearly $651 million last year — a $37 million increase over fiscal year 2007. Fiscal year 2008 fundraising results were the second-best in Harvard’s history, ranking only behind fiscal year 2001, when the University raised $658 million.
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Harvard Heroes honored for exceptional work
President Drew Faust led Harvard University in honoring staff members who made outstanding contributions during the past year at the Harvard Heroes celebration in mid-June.
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Rambelje, Physics Department, 90
Harry Rambelje, an assistant in the department of physics, died on March 1. He was 90.
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Bowen, 54, was Straus Center’s deputy director
Craigen Weston Bowen, deputy director of the Straus Center for Conservation at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum and an accomplished rock climber and gardener, died at her home in Lexington, Mass., on March 1, 16 months after being diagnosed with cancer. She was 54.
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Tenney Kelley Lehman, 90, headed Nieman Foundation
Tenney K. Lehman, 90, died on Jan. 7 at Coolidge House nursing home in Brookline, Mass. She was on the staff of Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 1968 to 1985, retiring as executive director. Her life was defined by devotion to her family, dedication to finding meaning through poetry and writing, and determination…
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HMS Dean Flier hails new, cooperative era in Harvard science
Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier said Friday (Nov. 2) that new approaches are needed to advance the fight against disease and embraced cross-institutional collaborations at Harvard as a way to bring new thinking to old problems.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Community Gifts kicks off season of giving Vendor fair to explore the ease of being green HILR’s new Green Committee spotlights transportation Upcoming Goethe-Institut concert to feature Harvard composer Safra Foundation seeks fellowship applicants Holyoke group art show seeks submissions Arboretum seeks T-shirt designs for Lilac Sunday
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HUHS flu vaccination clinics
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is offering free flu shots to members of the Harvard community.