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GSE’s EdRedesign appoints inaugural director of fellowship; announces cohort of fellows
The EdRedesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has appointed Denisse Arias as the inaugural director of the Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders — a visiting fellowship launched…
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Faculty Council meeting — Sept. 4, 2024
On Sept. 4 the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed the history and policies of the Faculty Council, and elected the Docket Committee for 2024–25. They also discussed the University’s…
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Harvard Business School announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2024 recipients of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (M.B.A. 1959),…
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Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces fall 2024 Resident Fellows
The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School today announced the appointment of six Resident Fellows who will join the IOP for the fall 2024 semester. The fellows bring diverse…
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High schoolers at the cutting edge of chemistry
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the successful completion of the third iteration of its Pathways program, an immersive and transformative initiative designed to provide high school…
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M-RCBG’s Healthcare Policy Program announces 2024-2025 Grossman Fellow
The Healthcare Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School has named Claire Morton as the 2024-2025 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman MD…
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Weatherhead Scholars Program welcomes members for 2024–2025
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs announced its 2024–2025 scholars and fellows of the Weatherhead Scholars Program (WSP). This year’s cohort comprises 20 members, including six postdoctoral fellows, five visiting…
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Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, & Health brings climate optimism and inspires global action
Each summer, the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) joins forces with Putney Pre-College to bring together…
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New study pairs immunolabeling with connectomic data
Harvard researchers have developed a technique for adding color-coded localization data for pinpointing different biomolecules to high-resolution images of a mouse brain. Publishing in Nature Communications, first author Xiaomeng Han…
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Michael Puett appointed director of Asia Center
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of the Harvard University Asia Center.…
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ALARI conference provides ‘unique opportunities’ to discuss race in Brazil
More than a thousand scholars, artists, and leaders came together in July in a historic meeting for the advancement of the field of Afro-Latin American Studies. “Never before had so…
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Harvard Business School MBA is now STEM designated
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that its MBA Program has been reclassified to qualify as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree, effective this fall for the class of 2025 and…
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For Henry Louis Gates Jr., NAACP’s Spingarn Medal is ‘one of the greatest honors in my life’
At the recent NAACP Convention in Las Vegas, the storied Spingarn Medal was awarded to Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for…
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Gift helps advance work on LGBTQ Health Equity at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
For Mike Dillon M.P.H. ’23, there has never been a more crucial moment to address the public health crisis facing LGBTQ communities. LGBTQ individuals encounter significant challenges in accessing equitable…
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Kianté Brantley, Yilun Du and Michael Albergo to join the Kempner Institute
The Kempner Institute announced today the appointments of Kianté Brantley, Yilun Du and Michael Albergo as Kempner Institute Investigators. All three researchers, who will also hold faculty positions at the…
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Harvard Business School announces its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family…
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Global mayors gain leadership lessons from Harvard research
Thirty-nine mayors from 11 countries across five continents joined Harvard faculty and renowned management leaders in an immersive classroom experience this week to kick off the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership…
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Clark Atlanta University partners with Harvard to support next generation of HBCU presidents
Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative commit to increasing access to professional development for HBCU ELI’s community of fellows. In a landmark…
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Tackling the climate crisis: Local solutions for a global problem
The Harvard Climate Change and Health Collaborative hosted a second workshop on June 13-14 in partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute’s new Scholarly Working Groups program. Building on the…
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Corporate directors weigh AI ethics at first-of-its-kind forum
As artificial intelligence surges, corporate directors face a set of urgent ethical considerations. What role can they play in fostering responsible practices for using AI in the workplace? Are they already…
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Kempner Institute announces recipients of 2024 Graduate Fellowships
The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence today announced the names of 15 students chosen as the incoming 2024 cohort of Kempner Graduate Fellows. The 2024…
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Kempner Institute appoints two new associate faculty members
The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the appointment of David Alvarez-Melis and Patrick Slade as associate faculty members. Both Alvarez-Melis and…
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Five faculty elected to American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society recently announced the selection of 37 new members, including five faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The five elected members…
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Scientific symposium addresses advances and gaps in cholera research
Cholera, an ancient, yet treatable and preventable disease, continues to claim thousands of lives around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera…
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Geologist Paul Hoffman receives 2024 Kyoto Prize
Harvard geologist Paul F. Hoffman has been named a 2024 laureate of the Kyoto Prize. The Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Emeritus, Hoffman received the honor in recognition of his…
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Kempner Institute kicks off Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Eleven Harvard undergraduates welcomed as inaugural KRANIUM participants
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Eric Jacobsen receives 2024 Welch Award
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…
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Fourteen faculty named Cabot Fellows
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…
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Barakett to chair HMC Board of Directors
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…
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Optimizing student support
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…