Campus & Community

Five-year partnership strengthens ties

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Five years after Harvard and Boston struck a community benefits cooperation agreement, the University’s neighbors in Allston-Brighton point to an enhanced partnership that has resulted in a vibrant Harvard Allston Education Portal, workforce preparation classes for adults, mentoring for students, and a wide variety of other programs.

Tags: Allston, Alvin Powell, Boston Public Library, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Campus & Community, Cooperation Agreement for the Harvard University Allston Science Complex, Ed Portal, Erica Herman, Gardner Pilot Academy, Harvard Allston Education Portal, Harvard Allston Workforce Development Collaborative, Harvard Ceramics Program, Honan-Allston Branch, In the Community, John Hoffman, Linda Kowalcky, Ray V. Mellone Park, Stephanie Connolly, The Fishing Academy

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Style and substance

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

The culmination of the Harvard Horizons initiative was a symposium in which eight Ph.D. students each offered five-minute presentations, styled on the popular TED talks, about a specific aspect of their current research.

Tags: Campus & Community, Communication, Doctoral Students, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Students, GSAS, Harvard, Harvard Horizons, Kuriyama, Meng, Mentoring, News by School, Peter Reuell, presentation, Reuell, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Student Research, Training, Xiao-Li Meng

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New masters for Pforzheimer House

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Professor Anne Harrington and her husband, MIT Museum Director John Durant, have been appointed master and co-master of Pforzheimer House.

Tags: Anne Harrington, Campus & Community, Department of the History of Science, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Harvard College, House Masters, Houses, On Campus, Pforzheimer House

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Three honored as HAA medalists

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced that James V. Baker ’68, M.B.A. ’71, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., J.D. ’43, LL.D. ’96, and Georgene Botyos Herschbach, A.M. ’63, Ph.D. ’69, are the recipients of the 2013 Harvard Medal.

Tags: Campus & Community, Commencement, Commencement 2013, Dudley Herschbach, Georgene Botyos Herschbach, HAA, Harvard Alumni Association, Harvard Medal, James V. Baker, President Drew Faust, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.

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With inclusion as the goal

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Harvard staff attended a workforce management conference to learn skills to communicate, solve problems, and innovate effectively across cultures.

Tags: 16th Workforce Management Conference, : Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, Campus & Community, Culture, Diversity, Harvard staff, Human Resources, Ibis Consulting Group, Inclusion, Marilyn Hausammann, Race, Shilpa Pherwani, Skill development, Staff & Administration, Valerie Vande Panne

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Innovation in the arts

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Judges on Thursday gave an innovative Harvard group $30,000 and the grand prize in the inaugural Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Tags: Awards, Campus & Community, Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge, Diana Sorensen, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Business School, Jennifer Doody, Mukti Khaire, Nitin Nohria

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Putting local youth to work

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Harvard’s Summer Youth Employment Program puts local high school students from Boston and Cambridge to work on campus during the summer months. For many young people, it’s their first job.

Tags: Bill Cain, Boston, Boston Private Industry Council, Cambridge, Campus & Community, Community, Employment, In the Community, Massachusetts Executive Office of Workforce Development, Summer jobs, Summer Youth Employment Program, Thomas Menino, youth

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Students win BSC’s Barrett Award

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Ruth Goins ’13 and Kabungo “Yanick” Mulumba ’15 were presented with the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony on Wednesday.

Tags: Awards, Bureau of Study Counsel, Campus & Community, Joseph L. Barrett Award, Kabungo “Yanick” Mulumba, Ruth Goins, undergraduate students

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Murnane named acting GSE dean

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Richard J. Murnane, the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will serve as acting dean of the HGSE, President Drew Faust announced May 9.

Tags: Academy of Arts and Sciences, Acting dean, Campus & Community, David Autor, Dean Kathleen McCartney, Faculty, Frank Levy, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Irvine, Richard J. Murnane, University of California

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