Ann Blair, along with three other FAS faculty members, were named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching. The Harvard Gazette story can be found here.
Emeritus Professor David Herbert Donald died this past Sunday. His obituary was published today in the Boston Globe and New York Times.
Information about memorial services and ways to honor his memory is forthcoming.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Prize Office has announced that eight History seniors are among the eighty-five winners of this year’s Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, given annually for the purpose of “promoting, improving and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under Faculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the Faculty.”
The department congratulates its eight winners and their thesis advisers, who are also recognized for the quality of their mentoring. The winners and their advisers are: Pierpaolo Barbieri (Prof. Niall Ferguson), Audrey Kim (Prof. Niall Ferguson), Roy Kimmey (Profs. Jonathan Bolton [Slavic Languages and Literatures] & Alexander Rehding [Music]), Evan Kornbluh (Mr. Robert Karl), Shi Lin Loh (Prof. Andrew Gordon & Mr. Jeremy Yellen), Ana Mendy (Prof. Vincent Brown), Christopher Miller (Ms. Kathryn Boodry), and P. Justin Rossi (Mr. Alex More).
Complete information on the Hoopes Prize competition is available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~secfas/prize_HoopesInfo.htm.
Professors Henrietta Harrison and William Kirby both appear in the May 7-13, 2009 edition of the Harvard Gazette in the article entitled: “‘Enormous changes’ in thirty years”.
Alison Frank, Maya Jasanoff and Trygve Throntveit are three of the “15 Faculty Hot Shots: Harvard’s Hottest Young Professors” featured in The Harvard Crimson Magazine, published Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
Professor Ernest May was one of eleven faculty who contributed to article Obama’s first 100 days featured in the April 30-May 6, 2009 edition of the Harvard University Gazette.
