Awards
Panelists Connect Environmentalism and Workers' Rights
Experts looked at connections between environmental protection and workers' rights and honored a fellow panelist for her work promoting safer conditions in nail salons.
Meeting the Demand: Harvard’s Economics Department Works Past Challenges
The Economics Department had " a particularly dark year" in 2015, the department chair said. Now, things are changing.
Harvard Economics Professor Oliver Hart Wins Joint Nobel Prize
Economics professor Oliver Hart became the most recent in a long line of Harvard faculty members to earn the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, receiving the award in conjunction with MIT professor Bengt Holmström “for their contributions to contract theory."
English Prof. Louis Menand Receives National Humanities Medal
Harvard English professor and Pulitzer-winning writer Louis Menand will receive the National Humanities Medal for his writings on cultural history.
Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Award As Students Protest
The Harvard Foundation named Nobel laureate and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi its 2016 Humanitarian of the Year in a ceremony Saturday, while students from the Harvard Islamic Society stood outside to protest.
64 Undergraduates Receive Annual Hoopes Prize
Sixty-four undergraduates learned Wednesday that they had received the College’s Hoopes Prize, an award that recognizes outstanding scholarly work or research. The majority of this year’s awardees received the prize for their senior theses or senior projects.
Carrie Fisher Accepts Humanist Award
Writer and Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher accepts the Humanist Hub’s Lifetime Achievement award as part of a ceremony held in Memorial Church Monday evening.
Pulitzer Prize winner at Bookstore
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks at Harvard Bookstore about his books, which center around the Vietnam War or, as it’s called in Vietnam, the American War. His debut novel The Sympathizer was just awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Goldsmith Career Award
Walter Issacson gives the keynote address at the Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism hosted by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy on Thursday evening evening. Issacson, who is also a Harvard Overseer, accepted the 2016 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Harvard Art Medal Honors Architect Gehry’s Innovations in Urban Development
Frank O. Gehry will be the first architect to receive the annual Harvard Arts Medal.
Pham Named Sixth 2016 Rhodes Scholar from Harvard
Yen H. Pham ’15-’16 has received a 2016 Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, the Rhodes Trust announced on Sunday, bringing the total number of Harvard undergraduates to win the prestigious award this year to six.
Five Harvard Seniors Win Rhodes Scholarship
Five Harvard undergraduates are winners of the 2016 Rhodes Scholarship, up three from last year when two Harvard students won the award.
Lampoon Crowns Jimmy Fallon ‘Emperor of Comedy’
The semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine presented Jimmy Fallon with the Elmer Award for Excellence in Humor on Saturday.
Professor wins "genius" grant
Associate professor of sociology and social studies Matthew S. Desmond recently won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. As an ethnographer and social scientist, he studies the connections between poverty and eviction.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley Honored for Flag Removal
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley received an award of appreciation for her calls to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol.
W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony
The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research presents Marian W. Edelman with the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Sanders Theater on Wednesday afternoon.
Nas and Eric Holder Honored With W.E.B. Du Bois Medal
Harvard presents the medals annually to individuals in recognition of extraordinary contributions to African American culture and the “life of the mind.”
Following Rise in Teaching Awards, Some Question Criteria
In the last 15 years, recipients for the Certificate of Distinction for TFs, TAs, and CAs has increased dramatically, from 350 in the spring of 1999 to 513 in the spring of 2015.
The Ig Nobel Awards
Master of Ceremonies Marc Abrahams, dressed in a suit and a top hat literally topped off with duct tape, announces the winners of the 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes. The extravagant event featured nobel laureates, musical performances, and former prize winners in a crowded Sanders Theatre.
History Professor Receives National Humanities Medal
Evelyn B. Higginbotham received the 2014 National Humanities Medal for her research in African American history.
To Applause and Admiration, Ginsburg Receives Radcliffe Medal
Joined on the stage by former Stanford Law School dean Kathleen M. Sullivan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed landmark cases she argued during her career as a litigator.
Junior Faculty Win Abramson Award for Teaching
Associate professors Ruth Bielfeldt and Sarah S. Richardson were awarded the annual Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
68 Undergraduates Win Hoopes Prize
The annual grant seeks to award students for “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education...in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subject,” according to the Hoopes prize website.
Two Projects Win Social Entrepreneurship Conference
The course, which is taught by GSE professor Fernando M. Reimers, meets at the Harvard Innovation Lab and seeks to promote sustainable educational innovations.
Fryer Awarded Clark Medal
The first African-American to receive the award, Fryer was recognized for his contributions to research on the economics of race and inequality.