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| News | May 6, 2008 | FD&D's May newsletter is now available More higher education news |
| April 29, 2008 | FD&D's new video, Advancing Scholars: Transforming the Academy throught Faculty Development & Diversity, is now availible online | |
| April 1, 2008 | FD&D's April newsletter is now available | |
| March 10, 2008 | The Harvard University Faculty Climate Survey Report is available | |
| March 5, 2008 | FD&D's March newsletter is now available | |
| March 4, 2008 | Senior Vice Provost Evelynn Hammonds is named dean of Harvard College | |
| February 12, 2008 | Jeannie Suk, a professor at Harvard Law School and a member of the University Committee on Faculty Development and Diversity, discussed her article "Criminal Law Comes Home" in an interview with Toby Stock, HLS Assistant Dean of Admissions | |
| February 8, 2008 | Harvard faculty members, Dean Barbara Grosz, Prof. Frans Spaepen, and Prof. Zhigang Suo, elected to the National Academy of Engineering | |
| February 7, 2008 | FD&D's February newsletter is now available |
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| February 7, 2008 | The Harvard University Gazette reports on the Chemistry Department's newly-created Mary Fieser Postdoctoral Fellowships Program | |
| February 7, 2008 | HBS's Executive Education Program Update this month features research from two professors who demonstrate that diversity in business leads to performance and productivity gains | |
| January 29, 2008 | HBS Professor Debora Spar has been named President of Barnard College | |
| January 11, 2008 | FD&D's January newsletter is now available |
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| January 11, 2008 | PRISE 2008 applications are now open, visit the website to apply and read more about the program |
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| January 9, 2008 | The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity have created a new postdoctoral fellowships program that will promote the recruitment, development, and mentorship and women and underrepresented minorities. Press release |
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| December 3, 2007 | FD&D's December newsletter is now available |
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| November 1, 2007 | FD&D's November newsletter is now available | |
| October 19, 2007 | The Harvard Gazette reported on Beyond Bias and Barriers: A Symposium Based on the National Academies Report on Women in Science and Engineering |
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| October 1, 2007 | The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity will host a conference this coming April titled Advancing and Empowering Scholars, which will deal with faculty diversity | |
| September 25, 2007 | Harvard has been named one of the best employers in the country for working mothers, winning recognition for the flex time offered to employees, additional funding for work/life programs, and paid leave for new parents |
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| September 18, 2007 | The Office of FD&D has launched a new Pilot Fund to encourage Schools to develop programs that will advance diversity at the University. Read more about the program and submit applications |
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| September 14, 2007 | Faust Seeks Growth in Black Faculty and Staff, Pledges ‘A Different Harvard’ (Harvard Crimson) | |
| September 10, 2007 | FD&D's September newsletter is now available |
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| August 10, 2007 | Mohsen Mostafavi is named dean of the Graduate School of Design | |
| August 7, 2007 | The Harvard Crimson reports on the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity's second End of Year Report | |
| August 6, 2007 | The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity announces the details of the new Faculty Development and Diversity Pilot Fund |
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| July 11, 2007 | Jeffrey S. Flier named next dean of Faculty of Medicine | |
| June 25, 2007 | Senior Vice Provost Evelynn Hammonds released her second annual End of Year Report |
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| June 18, 2007 | NPR's Marketplace featured New England HERC in a story about dual-career couples in academia |
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| June 11, 2007 | FD&D's June newsletter is now available |
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| June 5, 2007 | President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust discusses her plans to unify Harvard's component pieces |
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| June 4, 2007 | Michael D. Smith named next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
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| May 31, 2007 | Mary Ann Mason, the outgoing dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, and her daughter Eve Mason Ekman, have written a new book offering advice for academic mothers on the fast track | |
| May 25, 2007 | Earlier this month, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an expert on gender and workplace policy, spoke to the Harvard community about her new book, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Harvard Business School Press Editor Melinda Merino spoke with Hewlett after the event about practices and policies that companies can adopt to keep from permanently losing valuable female employees. |
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| May 18, 2007 | The New York Times speaks with Sylvia Ann Hewlett about women re-entering the workforce after having children | |
| May 14, 2007 | FD&D's May newsletter is now available to download |
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| May 11, 2007 | Barbara J. Grosz named interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | |
| April 9, 2007 | FD&D's April newsletter is now available to download. |
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| April 6, 2007 | Yale University announced sweeping changes to its tenure-granting process in an effort to attract more talented junior faculty members. |
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| March 26, 2007 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, released its report on the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. The report provides information from the largest study ever about non-maternal child care and its links to child development. | |
| March 12, 2007 | FD&D's March newsletter is now available. |
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| March 8, 2007 | Dr. Lotte Bailyn gave her talk, "Beyond Bias and Barriers," part of the Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series at the Maxwell Dworkin building at Harvard. Dr. Bailyn's presentation. |
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| February 15, 2007 | The Women, Science, and Society Seminar Series kicked off its spring season with a talk delivered by Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, titled "Race, Gender, Science -- still questions after all these years." Dr. Fausto-Sterling's presentation, and Harvard Gazette article. |
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| February 13, 2007 | The FD&D Office's February newsletter is now available. | |
| February 1, 2007 | The Yard talks with students and instructors participating in the Harvard College PRISE program for undergraduate scientists. | |
| January 25, 2007 | A task force comprised of tenured professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has issued a set of goals and recommendations to further encourage excellent teaching and enhance student learning in the College and Graduate School.
Read the full report. |
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| December 19, 2006 | Harvard's Office of Work/Life Resources has launched its new website, Child Care @ Harvard. The site serves as a one-stop source for parents looking for information on local child care and schooling.
Whether you need information on center-based care, family day care, or in-home providers, the Office of Work/Life Resources can help you find the best options. |
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| December 19, 2006 | The New York Times published Women in Science: The Battle Moves to the Trenches | |
| December 11, 2006 | In the coming weeks, the University will distribute its first full faculty climate survey to all ladder and non-ladder faculty employed by Harvard. The survey will address mentoring, promotion, retention, workload, and work-life balance and will provide the University with quantitative data about the working environment for faculty, both in an absolute sense and relative to peer institutions. The climate survey is the result of a collaborative effort between the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the Institutional Research Office, and two faculty advisory committees with university-wide representation: the Advisory Group for Metrics and Analysis and the University Committee on Faculty Development and Diversity. In addition, the Deans of each School have reviewed the survey.
If you have any questions regarding the survey, please contact Kristin Knox, Or click here for FAQs. |
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December 8, 2006 |
The Office for Postdoctoral Affairs has launched its new website.
The postdoc office, an initiative of the Office for Faculty Development and Diversity, will serve as a portal to a wide range of resources for current and prospective fellows. |
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| December 1, 2006 | Dr. Joan Steitz delivered her lecture, "Lupus, Snurps and Women in Science," at the Conference Center at Harvard Medical School.
Steitz is the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. View the poster for Steitz's lecture here. |
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| November 29, 2006 | Dr. Robert Drago delivered his talk, "Work-Family Issues for Faculty: Problems, Opportunities, and Policies," at the Faculty Development & Diversity Committee Meeting.
Drago is Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and moderates the work/family newsgroup on the internet (lsir.la.psu.edu/workfam). Dr. Drago's presentation is available here. |
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| November 16, 2006 | Dr. Lorna Gibson delivered her lecture, "Engineering a Career at MIT," at the Conference Center at Harvard Medical School.
Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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| October 30, 2006 | "Stopping for Directions: A Conversation about Career, Family, and Success" panel event featuring 3 dual-career couples took place at the Kennedy School's Starr Auditorium. Listen to the discussion here.
Harvard University Gazette published article: Power Couples Share Life-Balance Strategies The Harvard Crimson published article: Power Couples: Both Dreams Matter |
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| October 19, 2006 | Dr. Pheobe Leboy, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine delivered the second lecture in the "Women, Science, and Society" seminar series tonight. Her talk is entitled “Analyzing the Leaky Pipeline: Why are Women Scientists Under-represented in Senior Positions?” Dr. Leboy's presentation is available here. | |
| October 3, 2006 | Dr. Charis Thompson, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Womens Studies and the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, gave the first lecture in the "Women, Science, and Society" seminar series presented by the Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity.
Dr. Thompson's presentation is available here. Harvard University Gazette published article: Stem cells, women's rights talk kicks off lecture series |
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| October 2, 2006 | Harvard University, in collaboration with 35 higher education institutions and affiliated teaching hospitals, including 12 of the region’s largest employers, announces the launching of New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (New England HERC).
Boston Globe published article: 3 dozen colleges team up to recruit Harvard University Gazette published article: Universities launch New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium |
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| September 18, 2006 | National Academy of Sciences released report "Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering." See coverage by New York Times here. | |
| September 12, 2006 | Applications are now available for child care scholarships, the Research Enabling Grants program, and the Dependent Care Fund for Short-term Professional Travel. For more information:
Faculty - please click here |
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| August 24, 2006 | Harvard Magazine published articles on the Harvard College Program for Science and Engineering (PRISE) and the FD&D End of Year Report | |
| July 1, 2006 | Resource (the Harvard workplace community newsletter) published article: New work-family benefits aim to fill gaps University addresses policies, benefits, childcare availability, affordability | |
| June 30, 2006 | The Harvard Crimson published article: Harvard Increases Funding for Childcare | |
| June 14, 2006 | New York Times published article: Women on Faculty Still Lag at Harvard, Report Finds | |
| June 13, 2006 | Senior Vice Provost Evelynn Hammonds today released the first annual End of Year Report on Faculty Development and Diversity. Full text of the report and the report's executive summary are available online. | |
| June 13, 2006 | Harvard University today announced a series of new and enhanced work/life programs and services designed to support faculty, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and staff as they balance the demands of work and family life. These initiatives represent new commitments of $7.5 million over the next three years. | |
| June 13, 2006 | Boston Globe published article: Harvard Staff Grants Aim to Boost Diversity | |