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HBS’ Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society names inaugural cohort of visiting fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the inaugural cohort of the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) Visiting Fellows, who will be joining the School this…
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U.S. early warning system aims to track emerging health threats
Since August 2021, Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been working to strengthen the U.S.…
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Two Harvard students named Truman Scholars
Students Amisha Kambath ’22, a social studies concentrator, and Oksanna Samey ’23, an integrative biology concentrator, were selected as 2022 Truman Scholars. They are part of a cohort of 58…
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Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans’ class of 2022
The board of directors of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced the program’s 2022 fellows, including 11…
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HBS announces 2022 Class Day speaker
Robert L. Ryan, MBA ’70, the retired senior vice president and chief financial officer of Medtronic, Inc., will be Harvard Business School’s Class Day speaker on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.…
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Faculty Council meeting — April 13, 2022
On April 13 the Faculty Council continued their discussion of a proposal regarding conduct inquiries for externally recruited tenured faculty. They also approved changes to the description of the Standing…
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Harvard Business School announces Robert K. Kraft Family Fellowship Fund
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the establishment of the Robert K. Kraft Family Fellowship Fund, which will benefit promising young leaders with high potential but limited means to attend…
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HURI launches non-residential fellowships to support Ukrainian scholars
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is partnering with Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) to offer non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars displaced as a result of Russia’s war of aggression…
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Harvard Athletics welcomes Carrie Moore, new Women’s Basketball Coach
Carrie Moore was officially welcomed as The Friends of Harvard Women’s Basketball Head Coach in Lavietes Pavilion today (April 6). Moore becomes the fourth head coach in program history, succeeding…
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Announcing the launch of the Philosophy, AI, and Society Consortium
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become critical infrastructure, shaping our personal, social, and political lives, influencing everything from geopolitics, to industry, to the meaning of friendship. As we grow increasingly reliant…
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HKS establishes Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School has received a $5 million gift to establish the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy at the School’s Malcolm…
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2022 Lemann Brazil Research Fund awardees announced
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the results of the 2022 competition for awards…
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Fellowship examines social issues at the forefront
Fellows at the Forefront is an innovative faculty-led summer pilot program where students work together on a series of research, policy, and advocacy projects that focus on some of the…
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Harvard Radcliffe Institute announces 2022–23 exploratory seminars
Harvard Radcliffe Institute has awarded its 2022–2023 Exploratory Seminars. Emerging from multiple disciplines and applying bold cross-disciplinary perspectives, the awardees — all Harvard faculty members or Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellows…
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HBS exhibit celebrates 100 years of the case method
Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library Special Collections announced today the opening of a new exhibit, From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method, an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of…
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Moldova President Maia Sandu to deliver HKS graduation address
Maia Sandu MC/M.P.A. ’10, who waged a decade-long anti-corruption campaign that led to her becoming the president of Moldova, will deliver the 2022 graduation address at Harvard Kennedy School on…
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Brendan Kelly appointed director of Introductory Mathematics
Brendan Kelly has been appointed director of Introductory Mathematics. The newly formed position was created to support the tradition of excellence in the Harvard Department of Mathematics’ introductory courses. There are…
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Gary R. Hilderbrand appointed chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design announces Gary R. Hilderbrand, M.L.A. ’85 as new chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, effective July 1, 2022. Hilderbrand is the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor-in-Practice…
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EdRedesign to launch Institute for Success Planning
EdRedesign at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has received a $200,000 grant from the Barr Foundation and an anonymous gift of $3 million to establish an Institute for Success Planning to help communities…
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HDS program aims to create new spaces for the spiritually marginalized
Historically, professional organizations in the study of religion have ignored the experiences and practices of marginal and new religious movements. The new Program for the Evolution of Spirituality (PES) at Harvard Divinity…
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Harvard Art Museums receive significant gift of American silver
The Harvard Art Museums announce a transformative gift of 21 works of 18th-century American silver from the collection of Daniel A. Pollack and Susan F. Pollack. The gift comprises a…
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Poet Kevin Young publishes children’s book
Kevin Young ’92 — poet, author, poetry editor at The New Yorker, and Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — released…
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Celebrating 40-year tenure of Women’s Basketball coach
The Friends of Harvard Women’s Basketball Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who has led the program since 1982, coached her 40th and final season in 2021-22, which concluded March 11 with…
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Harvard Business School announces Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Fund
Harvard Business School (HBS) has received a $10 million gift from Howard Cox (MBA 1969) to support the School’s Health Care Initiative with the goal of improving the quality and driving down…
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Harvard researchers launch alternative meat startup
“Do you like meat?” That was the first question Kit Parker, the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and…
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Sheila Jasanoff wins prestigious Holberg Prize
Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded the 2022 Holberg Prize, among the world’s most prestigious awards for academic work…
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Lisa Kewley named director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Lisa J. Kewley has been named the director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA), effective July 1, 2022. A world leader in the theoretical modeling and…
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Proposals sought for new Climate Research Clusters Program
As part of the Presidential initiative on climate and sustainability, the Office of the Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability invites proposals from Harvard University ladder faculty for the new…
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Faculty Council meeting — March 9, 2022
On March 9 the Faculty Council heard a proposal regarding changes to the description of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Policy. They also discussed a draft FAS…
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Marilyn Touborg, 77, former director of communications at Harvard
Marilyn “Merry” Reynolds Duffy Touborg, 77, director of communications for the Office of Human Resources from 1990 to 2004, passed away on March 3. Born on April 14 1944 in…