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Skills and grit: HHI’s 3-day field simulation offers emergency training
When I pull into the lot at the Harold Parker State Forest in North Andover at 8 a.m., the early morning fog still burning off, people in camouflage and combat…
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Cassidy Wald wins Dean’s Award for service to the School and society
Cassidy Wald, from the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2023, has been named the recipient of the School’s Dean’s Award. This award celebrates the extraordinary achievements of a…
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Five HBS faculty receive Class of 2023 teaching award honors
Students from the Harvard Business School (HBS) graduating Class of 2023 honored five faculty members with Faculty Teaching Award honors. Tony Mayo, Sophus Reinert, Charlotte Robertson, Tom Nicholas, and Meg Rithmire were recognized for their…
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Business School’s M.B.A. Class of 2023 fetes Class Day
Baker Lawn was filled with smiles, applause, and sunshine as all 984 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2023 gathered to celebrate Class Day on Wednesday.…
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Harvard Business School professors win Wyss Awards
Two Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members, Professor Michael Norton and Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks, have been awarded Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring. Now in its 15th year, the Wyss Awards…
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Harvard Business School celebrates 113th Commencement
Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 113th Commencement exercises Thursday with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. After an all-University celebration in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre in the morning,…
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Harvard Business School announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
Harvard Business School has announced the 2023-24 cohort of its Leadership Fellows Program. The program is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates…
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Conference explores flourishing in the post-pandemic workplace
The SHINE Summit returns to campus this fall bringing together researchers, leaders of industry, and public policy advocates to explore what organizational flourishing means in the post-pandemic workplace. “Revisiting the…
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Mossavar-Rahmani Center announces 2023 Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize winner
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is pleased to announce the 2023 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in…
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Three senior students awarded Taliesin Prize
Seniors Isaac Heller, Cecilia Zhou, and Deepak Singh have been awarded this year’s Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning. The prize, named for the sixth-century poet, was…
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Avi Loeb’s book ‘Extraterrestrial’ wins 2023 Cosmos Award
Professor Avi Loeb, who heads the Galileo Project and is the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University, was awarded the 2023 Cosmos Prize in Italy…
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Xiaowei Zhuang wins Dreyfus Foundation’s highest honor
Xiaowei Zhuang, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, has received the 2023 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. This year the Dreyfus Prize…
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Harvard GSD shortlists four architects for 2023 Wheelwright Prize
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce four shortlisted architects for the 2023 Wheelwright Prize. The Wheelwright Prize is an international competition for early-career architects. Winners receive…
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SHINE joins Human Flourishing Program to advance well-being in the workplace
On May 1, the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Netpositive Enterprise (SHINE) joined the Human Flourishing Program and is now part of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where SHINE…
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Carvalho appointed interim director of Mahindra Humanities Center
Bruno Carvalho, professor of Romance languages and literatures and African and African American studies, has been named interim director of the Mahindra Humanities Center for the 2023-24 academic year. Carvalho…
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Announcing 2023 Kempner Institute research fellows
The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Kempner Institute Research Fellowships. The 2023 recipients are David Brandfonbrener,…
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2023 Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa awards announced
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for African Studies, have announced…
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Three Harvard faculty among 31 inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars
Three Harvard University faculty — Kizzmekia S. Corbett, Josefina del Mármol, and Kara L. McKinley — are among 31 new Freeman Hrabowski Scholars selected from across the U.S. by the…
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Travis Johnson ’24 named Truman Scholar
Travis Johnson ’24 wants to even the playing field. After all, the government concentrator, who has just been named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation scholar, knows something about inequity.…
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CCB hosts first undergraduate research symposium
The Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology held its first-ever undergraduate research symposium, showcasing the innovative research projects of some of the brightest young minds in the field. The…
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Ben Hartley appointed executive director of Silkroad
Silkroad announced today the appointment of Ben Hartley to the position of executive director, beginning on May 15. Hartley succeeds Kathy Fletcher, who left the position in December 2022 to…
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Beerbohm appointed director of Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics
Eminent political theorist Eric Beerbohm, professor of government and faculty affiliate in the Department of Philosophy, has been appointed as the next director of Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center…
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Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund to advance solutions for global impact is launched
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University have announced the launch of the Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund and supporting…
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In uncertain times, members of Gen Z craft their own ‘plausible futures’
“When you say the American dream you see a picket fence, you see a suburban house, you see one boy, one girl and two parents, you see all those things,”…
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Harvard Climate Action Week set to accelerate climate solutions
The impacts of climate change are all around us. Next week, the solutions will be, too. From May 8-12, climate experts, leaders from business and government, advocates, organizers, academics, and…
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Endeavor and Harvard University partner to launch Versity
Global sports and entertainment company Endeavor (NYSE: EDR) and Harvard University today announced the launch of Versity, a premium platform that brings together Harvard’s world-class professors and subject-matter experts with…
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How building design can improve people’s well-being
On Oct. 22, 2013, Flora Jiaxuan Xu woke up in her hometown of Harbin, in northern China, to a white world. “At first I thought it was snow coming really…
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Chenoweth, Marks named faculty deans of Pforzheimer House
Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana has announced the appointment of Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks as the new faculty deans of Pforzheimer House. They will begin their new…
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Two from GSD designed next phase of American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has revealed its Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. The center is designed by Studio Gang, the…
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Faculty Council meeting — April 26, 2023
On April 26 the Faculty Council discussed the divisional structure of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They also approved a proposal to dissolve the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees…