Three Harvard faculty have received Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced earlier this month. Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor of Economics: Economic Policies, Voter Understanding, and Political Support. Field: Economics Lauren K. Williams, Professor of Mathematics: Combinatorics of Hopping Particles and Statistical Physics. Field: Mathematics Michael Pollan, Writer, Berkeley, California; Professor of the Practice,…

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 fall. The institute was established this year to provide a research-based platform to address critical business and societal issues. By integrating and amplifying work already…

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. early warning system for health threats as director for science at the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA). Lipsitch and others were scheduled…

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 new Truman Scholars that were selected from 705 candidates nominated by 275 colleges and universities, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation announced on Thursday. “As…

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 with Harvard connections. Chosen from a pool of over 1,800 applicants, the 30 fellows will each receive up to $90,000 in funding to support their…

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. The ceremony, which will be in person for the first time since 2019, will take place on the Baker Lawn on the School’s campus in…

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 HBS. The fund is made possible through the generosity of HBS alumni Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), founder, chairman, and CEO of both the Kraft Group…

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 in Ukraine. HURI and IWM is jointly awarding 20 fellowships to Ukrainian scholars, cultural figures, and public intellectuals. These 5,000-euro non-residential scholarships are intended to…

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 Kathy Delaney-Smith, who retired this spring after a 40-year tenure. A crowd of nearly 100 colleagues, reporters, family, and friends greeted the Lathrup, Michigan, native.…

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 on digital technologies in ever more spheres of our lives, our dependence on the algorithmic systems that allow those technologies to adapt dynamically to new…

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 Wiener Center for Social Policy. The new Stone Program, which builds on the success of the Stone Ph.D. Scholars, will unite faculty, students, and researchers…

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 from the Lemann Brazil Research Fund. “We were once again delighted by the caliber of interested applicants in this invaluable opportunity,” said Vice Provost for…

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 world’s most pressing social issues. The first cohort, led by Dustin Tingley, focused on climate change and sustainability issues.   The concept was developed by Harvard’s…

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 — will hold intensive seminars over the course of the year to explore novel approaches to pressing issues using interdisciplinary research and inquiry. Since the…

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 the teaching practice. The exhibit runs through November 2022, in the North Lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the HBS campus. Since the…

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 Wednesday, May 25, Dean Douglas Elmendorf announced today. Sandu is the first woman to lead her country. After earning her mid-career master in public administration…

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 at the GSD, where he has taught since 1990, and Founding Principal and Partner of Reed Hilderbrand. Hilderbrand succeeds Anita Berrizbeitia, MLA ’87 professor of landscape…

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 redesign their systems of support and opportunity for children and youth. “These grants represent a huge step forward for EdRedesign. Every child deserves to be…

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 School is working to ameliorate the marginalization of these spiritual movements through associated courses, ongoing colloquia, and conferences that center the experiences and practices of…

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 range of finely made vessels and table implements intended for domestic use, including cups, bowls, spoons, tankards, and teapots crafted by noted silversmiths from Boston,…

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 his first book for children, “Emile and the Field,” this month. The lyrical picture book, illustrated by Nigerian American artist Chioma Ebinama, follows a young…

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 a semifinal loss in the Ivy League Basketball Tournament, hosted this year in Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion. Delaney-Smith finished her career with 11 Ivy League Championship…

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 the cost of health care in the United States. Cox, a venture capitalist and philanthropist who has been active in health care innovation in the…

“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 Applied Sciences (SEAS), asked Christophe Chantre when he interviewed for a position in Parker’s Disease Biophysics Group. Parker was looking for people to work on…

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 in the humanities and social sciences. The Holberg Prize Board announced Sheila Jasanoff as the 2022 laureate today in Oslo, Norway. The annual prize recognizes Jasanoff for…

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 observation of star-forming and active galaxies, Kewley brings 20 years of experience in astrophysics to the role. Kewley currently serves as the director of ASTRO…

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 Climate Research Clusters Program. The purpose of the Climate Research Clusters Program is to produce useful and impactful solutions to climate problems. Research clusters are…