Eleven Harvard undergraduates welcomed as inaugural KRANIUM participants

Eric Jacobsen, the Sheldon Emory Professor of Organic Chemistry, will receive the 2024 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry for his research into speeding up chemical reactions and understanding how reactions work. The prestigious award honors the value of chemical research contributions and promote basic chemical research. “Professor Jacobsen is a trailblazer in the field of chemistry,…

Fourteen professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards honor faculty members for their contributions to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art. The Cabot Fellowships are traditionally given to professors in the arts and humanities, along with some social…

Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced that Timothy R. Barakett has been appointed to chair its board of directors, effective July 1, 2024. Current chair Paul J. Finnegan will remain on the HMC board as a director. Members of HMC’s board of directors and its chair are appointed by the President and Fellows of Harvard College…

The first Student Affairs Professional Development Summit took place on Thursday, June 6 in Harvard’s Northwest Building. The summit, which welcomed 115 attendees, offered a chance for student affairs professionals across the University to come together to network, share stories and tips and build on their skills.   “I was delighted to participate in our inaugural…

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has named astrophysics professor David Charbonneau a winner of the 2024 Kavli Prize, which recognizes innovative scientific research that transforms humanity’s understanding of “the big, the small, and the complex.” One of eight scientists awarded, Charbonneau received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his work on extrasolar planets,…

Professor Paul Reville, founder and faculty director of The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education, today announced several key appointments and promotions within the leadership team at EdRedesign. Rob Watson will become the inaugural executive director, Tauheedah Jackson will become deputy director, and Bridget Rodriguez will become senior adviser. “I am delighted to…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., announced today three of the four productions that will comprise its 2024/25 subscription season as well as an additional world-premiere music-theater production to perform at a location on Harvard’s campus to be…

Zoe Marks, lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and leading scholar on conflict and peacebuilding in Africa, has been named Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies (CAS). “I am delighted that Zoe Marks has agreed to serve as the next director of the Center for African Studies,” said University interim…

Karen Thornber, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, will be the next Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Hopi Hoekstra, Edgerley Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced today. Thornber begins her role July 1. “Karen is a global scholar, an innovative and passionate…

Norman Yao, professor in Harvard’s Department of Physics, has been named a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator by the Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech. As one of eight awarded mid-career faculty working on fundamental challenges in the physical sciences, Yao will receive up to $2 million over five years. The award will fund Yao’s…

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the inaugural scholars awarded placement in the Kempner Institute Post-Baccalaureate Program. The 2024 post-bac scholars are Haylin Diaz, Lyndon Lam, Maceo D. Richards and Leilany Torres Diaz. Designed to support students seeking access to advanced coursework and research opportunities, the…

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced Aden Barton as the 2024 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government. Barton won for his thesis, “The Causal Effect of Welfare Retrenchment: Evidence from Medicaid and SNAP.” He is graduating from Harvard College…

The leadership teams of the Jewish Students Association (JSA: Amit Botzer, Aliza Ohnouna, Rebecca Sichel, and Daniel Silberwasser) and Middle East and North Africa Club (MENA: Loujaine AlMoallim, Line Hachem, and Abdullah Mahomed), along with Teresa Danso-Danquah, all members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) M.B.A. Class of 2024, as well as Martin Aragoneses, a…

Students from the Harvard Business School (HBS) graduating Class of 2024 honored four faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards. Juan Alcacer, Ryan Buell, David Moss, and Sophus Reinert were recognized for their excellence and dedication to teaching, and for the positive impact they had both in and out of the classroom. Students were asked to identify professors who have enhanced their…

Harvard Business School has announced the 2024-2025 cohort of its Leadership Fellows Program. The program is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with cross-sector experience who are committed to addressing societal issues throughout their careers. Since 2003, it has placed over 300 fellows at organizations such as the…

Three graduating seniors — Yaoquan Chen, Rivers Sheehan, and Erik Zou — have been awarded the 2024 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning. The Taliesin Prize, which is awarded to three graduating seniors annually, is named for the sixth-century poet associated with enlightenment and inspiration, and was established by the Division of Arts…

Can sea level rise be slowed? A new project called Sea Level Investigation and Management (SLIM), made possible by a generous gift from Cornelius “Neil” Prior Jr., LL.B. ’62, aims to find out. Over pumping of aquifers causes about 10 percent of sea level rise. Peter Huybers, chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary…

EdRedesign and Opportunity Insights announced the launch of a new joint research fellowship for Harvard University doctoral students. The Upward Mobility Fellowship represents a unique partnership between two Harvard-based organizations. EdRedesign provides catalytic support to the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field to drive systems-level change and open personalized pathways to opportunity for children, youth, and families.…

The Winston Churchill Foundation has named recent Harvard College graduate Andrew Van Camp ’23 one of 16 Churchill Scholars in science, math, and engineering for the 2024-25 academic year. Van Camp will pursue a one-year M.Phil. degree in biological sciences at Cambridge University, conducting research on the microbiome at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. “I was…

Five Harvard College students have been awarded this year’s General Education Prize, an award for undergraduates who went above and beyond in their learning. Seniors Ashton Body and Justin Hu, juniors Shira Hoffer and Shane Rice and sophomore Manar Abrre were all chosen as 2024 winners. The General Education Prize was established by the Program in General…

Peace in the world. Contentment among all people. Abundant harvests. In a one-hour ceremony, set in the courtyard outside the Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, these petitions were formally submitted to the three highest deities of the Daoist religion.  “I thought it was fitting, given what’s going on in the world, and…

At the corner of Broadway and Inman streets in Cambridge is a white, three-story Victorian house with black shutters and a red door. The house is the home of On The Rise, an organization that advocates for and provides daytime services to unhoused women and transgendered/non-binary people in the Boston area. For Alex, who asked…

Two Harvard University faculty members won the prestigious Carnegie Fellowship this week, a recognition of their work on U.S. democracy and political divisions. The 2024 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows includes a total of 28 scholars delving deeper into the current state of polarization — as well as possible pathways to strengthening cohesion. Taeku Lee,…

Ronnie Levin, an instructor in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been named by Time as among the 100 individuals who most influenced global health in 2024. The inaugural Time 100 Health list, published May 2, recognizes the impact, innovation, and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals in…

The EdRedesign Lab’s Institute for Success Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced its third cohort of cross-sector teams from across the country joining its 2024 Success Planning Community of Practice.   There are sixteen total communities invited to participate in the 2024-2025 Success Planning Community of Practice, including six communities from cohort…

Laila Nasher ’25, a history and social anthropology concentrator with a secondary in ethnicity, migration, and rights, was named as a 2024 Truman Scholar. Nasher joins a cohort of 60 new Truman Scholars who were selected from 709 candidates from 285 institutions. “Resourceful, patriotic leaders, today’s Truman Scholars would make President Truman proud,” said Terry…

Nine Harvard University faculty members are among the 120 individuals elected recently to the National Academy of Sciences. In an announcement last week, the NAS named five new members affiliated with Harvard Medical School, three with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and one with the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They are:   Flaminia Catteruccia, professor…

Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its second annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned organic chemist who passed away last year, Yoshito Kishi. The symposium, which took place on April 30, was attended by approximately 100 people, including faculty…