Two Harvard researchers have been selected for the fifth cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, a postdoctoral fellowship program focused on harnessing the power of interdisciplinary science for the public benefit. The Harvard winners include graduate students Alexander Heyde and Jason Qian. Heyde is a Ph.D candidate in mathematical biology, studying the evolutionary dynamics of morphogenesis…

Eileen Reynolds ’86 and Daniel Deschler have been named interim faculty deans for Leverett House, Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced today. “Eileen and Daniel are extraordinarily caring and compassionate individuals,” Khurana said. “They are committed to ensuring that Leverett House is an inclusive community where every student belongs, where people of diverse…

Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Robert Livingston hopes his book “The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations,” will start the discussion. Robert Livingston began his talk for the HKS Executive Education program last month with a startling fact: in a study to identify racial bias in…

Three graduating seniors — Aditi Chitkara, Christopher Gilmer-Hill, and Ana Luiza Nicolae — received the 2022 Taliesin Prize in the Art of Learning. Chitkara concentrated in applied mathematics with a secondary in art, film, and visual Studies, Gilmer-Hill studied neuroscience with a secondary in East Asian studies, and Nicolae held a special concentration in geography…

Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and professor of African and African American Studies, and professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T. Chan School of Public Health, will be the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at Spelman College for the 2022-23 academic year. The…

Thirteen faculty members have been awarded 2022 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications: Dan Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, “Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790- 1870,” (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021). Teju Cole, Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing, “Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time,”…

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters named Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides as one of 11 recipients of the 2022 Kavli Prize in recognition of his contributions to the field of nanoscience. The award celebrates Whitesides’ contributions to the development of self-assembled monolayers, a process that controls how molecules arrange themselves on a surface.…

The EdRedesign Lab (EdRedesign) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has named Tauheedah Jackson (Ed.M. ’22) as the inaugural director of its Institute for Success Planning and has announced the first cohort of cross-sector teams joining its Success Planning Community of Practice. “EdRedesign’s Institute for Success Planning will partner with communities that are…

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is pleased to announce the 2022 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government. Alejandro Jimenez has won for his thesis, “Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring:Burden-Sharing, Haircuts, and the Creditor’s Outside Option.” He graduated in May…

Two Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members, Professor Francesca Gino and Associate Professor Charles C.Y. Wang, received one of the 14th annual Wyss awards for Excellence in Mentoring for their work with students in the Doctoral Programs. Additionally, senior faculty member Ryan Buell, professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and junior faculty member Ryan Raffaelli, the…

Students from the Harvard Business School (HBS) graduating Class of 2022 honored four faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards. Mattias Fibiger, Nori Gerardo Lietz, Emily McComb, and David Moss 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…

Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) Faculty Director Joseph P. Gone has announced Kelli Mosteller (Citizen Potawatomi) as the new executive director of HUNAP. Mosteller is an esteemed leader in the preservation of Citizen Potawatomi Nation history and a strong voice in the advancement of Native American and Indigenous communities. For over a decade, Mosteller…

Three Harvard seniors have been named recipients of the 2022 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University recently announced. Shoshana F. Boardman, a senior in Winthrop House, was awarded first place for her essay “Babylonian Incantation Bowl Onomastics.” Sonia F. Epstein, a senior from Eliot House,…

The recipients of the 2022 Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies were announced by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Shoshana F. Boardman, a senior in Winthrop House, and Jonathan Louis Katzman, a senior in Dunster House, won the Starr Prize for their exceptional senior theses. Boardman, a joint concentrator in…

The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that it has named Mathew Alexander and Brandon Busuito as its 2022-2023 Grossman Fellows. The Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowship, made possible by a generous gift from the Grossman Family, honors the life and legacy of Jerome Grossman, who dedicated his career…

Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced four shortlisted architects for the 2022 Wheelwright Prize. Now in its 10th cycle, the Wheelwright Prize supports innovative design research, crossing both cultural and architectural boundaries, with a $100,000 grant intended to support two years of study. Previous winners have presented diverse research proposals, including studies of…

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has announced its 2022–2023 Visiting Scholars and Fellows and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors, a group of scholars and practitioners who bring multidisciplinary perspectives to the challenges facing Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States. They hail from — or work on…

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced a new 12-month degree, the Master in Real Estate (M.R.E.), for individuals seeking to acquire core real estate skills while learning how real estate can advance beneficial spatial, social, and environmental outcomes in cities and metropolitan areas worldwide. The program will accept applications in fall 2022…

Gale Fulton Ross tells the story of how she created the James I. Cash portrait that now hangs in Cash House. Many months in the making, the oil painting is the most recent addition to the HBS Art Collection. Fulton Ross describes the challenges along the way and the joy she felt seeing the portrait…

Reflecting on 27 years of resumed diplomatic relations, Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính visited Harvard Kennedy School on May 14 for a discussion on the U.S.-Vietnam relationship and the country’s evolving economic outlook. Chính, who was invited to campus by the Vietnam Program at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation,…

Eve Blau, a renowned scholar of architecture and urbanism, has been named the director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Blau, who is the first woman to serve as the center’s faculty director, will begin her three-year term July 1. “The Davis Center today plays a vital role in understanding geopolitical events…

Haim Sompolinsky, visiting professor at the Center for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named as one of four recipients of the 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, an international award given for seminal contributions to the fields of computational and theoretical neuroscience. Sompolinsky, who is also the director of Harvard’s Swartz…

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced today that it will produce in its 2022/23 season the North American premiere of “Life of Pi,” the acclaimed theatrical adaptation by Lolita Chakrabarti of the best-selling novel by Yann Martel. Max Webster will direct, with Tony Award winner Tim Hatley providing scenic and costume design and…

“Everything we do at the GSD,” Dean Sarah Whiting said, “is affected by or affects cities.” On April 22, the Harvard Graduate School of Design hosted the concluding event of the 2022 Just City Mayoral Fellowship, a collaboration between the Mayors Institute on City Design (MICD) and the Harvard GSD’s Just City Lab, supported by…

A collaboration between Harvard University with scientists at QuEra Computing, MIT, University of Innsbruck and other institutions has demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum processors to solve problems of practical use. The study was co-led by Mikhail Lukin, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard and co-director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative,…

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Harvard Center for African Studies, have announced the 2022 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa. The Motsepe Fund was inaugurated in the 2020-21 academic year. After a very successful…

Iconic global brand Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) has published a “Worker Well-being Guidebook,” which offers new approaches for corporations and factory owners to improve the health and well-being of apparel workers — some of the most vulnerable populations — around the world.  The guidebook, which provides insight into strategies for identifying locally relevant ways…

Sixteen scholars from the Harvard community were among the 261 new members elected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The news was announced April 28. Carolyn Abbate Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Sven Beckert Laird Bell Professor of History, FAS Eve Blau Adjunct Professor of…

Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has named Danielle Allen as its 2022 Class Day speaker. Allen will address the GSD’s class and their families during the School’s 2022 Class Day exercises on Wednesday, May 26 at 3:30  p.m. in the Gund Back Yard. Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and…