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College

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.

Faculty

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.

PBHA

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.

Tony Kushner 15Q
On Campus

8 Questions with Tony Kushner

“You want the ideas to be fluid and dialectical, dangerous.”

On Campus

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Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow asks Senator Elizabeth A. Warren about the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Celebration 60 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first women graduates of Harvard Law School.

Humanitarian of the Year
College

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.

On Campus

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Senator Elizabeth A. Warren describes her work involving the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Celebration 60 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first women graduates of Harvard Law School.

College

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Senator Elizabeth A. Warren answers questions about how she balanced her life as a mother with her law studies. Celebration 60 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first women graduates of Harvard Law School.

Science

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.

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Audience opens the ceremony by throwing paper airplanes onstage CMYK MDLF

Humanities Division

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.

Humanities Division

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President Barack Obama laughs with Robert Putnam as he awards him the the 2012 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of White House on Wednesday.

Theater

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Diane M. Paulus ’87-’88, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, accepts a Tony award for best direction in a musical for "Pippin" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday in New York.

Awards

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Governor General of Canada David Johnston '63 speaks after accepting the inaugural Fulbright Canada Award for Outstanding Public Service on Tuesday.

Arts

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Matt Damon ‘88-’92 speaks after receiving the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal at Arts First in Sanders Theater on April 25.

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