Awards
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey accepts the W.E.B. Du Bois medal during a ceremony held in Sanders Theatre Tuesday afternoon.
John Lewis and Deval Patrick
US Representative John Lewis and Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 embrace during the W.E.B. Du Bois ceremony, where Lewis was honored.
Math Professor Wins 'Genius' Grant
Mathematics professor Jacob A. Lurie ’00, along with three other Harvard graduates, was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship on Wednesday.
Lurie
Mathematics professor Jacob A. Lurie ’00 was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, a prize commonly referred to as the “Genius Grant,” Wednesday.
Instant Reactions: Emmy Awards 2014
This year the Emmys fall on a Monday so we're on campus early to give you full coverage live and on location. The live coverage is true. The location is Cambridge, Mass. in front of our television screen. We're going non-HD on this one so we can make sure there are no delays in transmission. Stay tuned throughout the night to get our instant reactions.
71 Students Awarded Hoopes Prizes
Harvard undergraduates were honored for their outstanding scholarly work or research, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Thursday.
Margaret Atwood Awarded 2014 Harvard Arts Medal
Acclaimed author Margaret E. Atwood was honored with the 2014 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony Thursday to mark the beginning of the 22nd Annual Arts First Festival.
PBK Announces ‘Junior 24’ for the Class of 2015
Phi Beta Kappa’s “Junior 24”—the first 24 members of the Class of 2015 to be elected to the organization’s Harvard chapter— were announced Tuesday.
Environmental Engineering Professor Named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
John Briscoe, a Harvard professor who specializes in water management and economic development, received the 2014 Stockholm Water Prize, a prestigious award for achievement in water policy and administration, on Friday.
Candy Crowley Receives Journalism Career Award
News anchor Candy A. Crowley was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Thursday evening.
Harvard's Cultural Explorer
Dr. Counter’s enduring legacy will be the students touched by his kindness and those he urged to believe in themselves and value their heritage.
Undergraduates Receive Collegiate Inventors Competition Award
Four Harvard undergraduates have received second place and a $10,000 award in the national Collegiate Inventors Competition for their development of a convenient, low-cost chemotherapy patch, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced Tuesday.
Physics Professors Win Prestigious Award
Physics professors Andrew E. Strominger ’77 and Cumrun Vafa were awarded the Milner Foundation’s Fundamental Physics Prize earlier this week.
U.S. Secretary of Housing Speaks at PBHA Coles Lecture
United States Secretary for Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan ’87 spoke about the impact that his volunteer experience at Harvard had on his career path in a speech in Memorial Church on Friday evening.
Humanitarian of the Year
Malala Yousafzai is honored as humanitarian of the year by Harvard on Friday in Sanders Theatre. Yousafzai , a Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban, is a public supporter for education rights.
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Puts Light-Hearted Spin on Science
Following a 22-year-old tradition, over one thousand audience members aimed their makeshift planes at a human target standing onstage. Cheers filled the theater every time one of the planes hit their target.
National Humanities Medal Winner Has ‘Great Fun’ at White House
Harvard Kennedy School professor Robert D. Putnam, the author of Bowling Alone, a social science book on the deterioration of American community, on Wednesday received a prestigious award and met a really awful bowler.