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34 unusual facts about Harvard University


Arthur Korb

He attended Harvard UniversityMaster of Arts there.

Benjamin J. Kaston

After a summer research fellowship at Harvard University, Kaston joined the faculty of the Zoology Department of Syracuse University in 1945.

Benjamin Tregoe

Dr. Tregoe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Whittier College and a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University.

Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship

In 2012, the college with the largest number of previous Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship winners currently enrolled as undergraduates is Harvard University.

Charles Edward Munroe

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard, graduating in 1871.

Charles H. Munro

He was born in West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, the son of William Munro and Helen Henderson, and educated at Harvard University.

Clarence Chant

He earned his Master's degree in 1900, and was granted a leave of absence to study for a Doctorate at Harvard University.

Claude Bernard

Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".

College Now Greater Cleveland

A few individuals in the Top 50 Program (as of the 2011-2012 school year) have been accepted to such universities as Harvard and Stanford, showing the success of the program.

Domestic terrorism in the United States

From 1978 to 1995, Harvard University graduate and former mathematics professor Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski – known by the codename "UNABOM" until his identification and arrest by the FBI – carried out a campaign of sending letterbombs to academics and various individuals particularly associated with modern technology.

Gacha Gacha

A super genius with and IQ of 200, she graduated from Harvard at the age of 13, and came to the Rose Corporation for a job as an S Class programmer.

George W. Comstock

He graduated from Antioch College in 1937 with honors in biology and chemistry and obtained his medical degree from Harvard in 1941.

Guy Boutilier

Boutilier earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Education from St. Mary's University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.

Henri Nouwen

After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to work with mental and physically handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada.

Hervey White

A scholarship to Harvard University, where he read the works of the socially-conscious art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900), solidified his burgeoning libertarian ideals.

Hydrothermal synthesis

George W. Morey at the Carnegie Institution and later, Percy W. Bridgman at Harvard University did much of the work to lay the foundations necessary to containment of reactive media in the temperature and pressure range where most of the hydrothermal work is conducted.

Irvine Bulloch

Filled with his mother and uncle's stories, by the time T.R. went to Harvard, he was already dreaming of writing a book on a neglected aspect of American Military History, role played by the US Navy during the War of 1812.

Jean Arp

In 1950, he was invited to execute a relief for the Harvard University Graduate Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and would also be commissioned to do a mural at the UNESCO building in Paris.

John Jay Gergen

From 1930 to 1933 he was a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard University, and from 1933 to 1936 he was an assistant professor at the University of Rochester.

Ken W. Clawson

He became a labor reporter for the Toledo Blade newspaper, and was honored for his work there, winning a Nieman Fellowship to attend Harvard University in 1967.

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower

Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower MBE (27 January 1913- 25 December 1997), universally known as "LCB Gower" in his writings, was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the University of London and sometime visiting Professor at Harvard University.

New Spirit Party

It was founded and registered with the Central Elections Committee in October 2010 by Harvard University graduate Shpend Ahmeti, Ilir Deda, Director of the Kosovo Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) and others, and supports Kosovo in becoming a new generation political state.

Nino Pirrotta

He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1956 where he held the posts of both the Naumburg Professor of Music and Chief Music Librarian.

Porter Sargent

The next year he went to study at Harvard University, where he obtained his bachelor's (1896) and masters (1897).

Sidney Spivak

Spivak was born to Jewish parents, Malick and Rose Spivak, in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and Harvard University.

Southwark

Harvard University maintains a link, having paid for a memorial chapel within Southwark Cathedral (his family's parish church), and where its UK-based alumni hold services.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

In 2009, the foundation awarded the first Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences (a citation, a medal, and a monetary award of $250,000) to George M. Whitesides of Harvard University for his work in the field of materials chemistry.

The Given Institute

Other donations towards construction costs came from Harvard University and other schools.

Thomas Chrostwaite

A native of Ashley Borough, Mr. Chrostwaite was an 1898 graduate of Harvard University and went on to serve as a school administrator for several years in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

TRO Jung Brannen

Harvard University School of Dental Medicine Faculty Practice Clinic, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Tuesday's Children

The camp uses a curriculum designed by Harvard University Law School's Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program as well as a dignity model developed at the Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

William Ernest Castle

Castle entered the senior class of Harvard University in 1892 and in 1893 took a second A.B. degree with honors.

William J. Abernathy

William J. Abernathy (21 November 1933 – 29 December 1983) was an US-American professor at the Harvard University Business School.

William L. Slayton House

In 1948, he wanted to become the patron of "the greatest unknown architect in the country", so he consulted with Nelson Rockefeller and embarked on a search which ended in his hiring I.M. Pei, who was then an assistant professor at Harvard University.


A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times

Harvard University professor John Henry Wright was the editor and translator, while authors included Charles McLean Andrews, John Fiske, Heinrich Theodor Flathe, Gustav Hertzberg, Ferdinand Justi, Julius von Pflugk-Harttung, Martin Philippson, Hans Prutz, and Frederick Wells Williams.

Alex Kronemer

Three years later Kronemer went on to pursue a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University.

Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa

A visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh (1979–1982), and at Harvard University, USA (1983), Prof. Daffa' was twice elected President of the Union of Arab Mathematicians and Physicists (1979–1981 and 1986–1988).

Basque-Icelandic pidgin

Recently, a fourth Basque-Icelandic glossary has been found at the Houghton Library at the Harvard University.

California textbook controversy over Hindu history

But then a strong objection to such changes arrived from a group of U.S. scholars, led by Michael Witzel, the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University.

Catherine Cesarsky

She graduated with a PhD in Astronomy in 1971 from Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass., USA), and for several years worked at the California Institute of Technology.

Cluny Abbey

Modern excavations of the Abbey began in 1927 under the direction of Kenneth John Conant, American architectural historian of Harvard University, and continued (although not continuously) until 1950.

Dominique Moïsi

He was a co-founder and is a senior advisor of the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and the chairholder for Geopolitics at the College of Europe, the oldest educational institution in European affairs, in Natolin.

Elizabeth Binmore

She received further post graduate education from Harvard University.

Felipe Osterling

In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and New York.

Gabriel Leung

After that, he moved to Canada, where he received his medical degree from University of Western Ontario, master from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from University of Hong Kong.

Galaxie 500

Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time as students at Harvard University.

Homo Academicus

The program features 4 Harvard University students who travel the world visiting culturally historic areas and places of learning.

Jaipur School

Students have gone on to join Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cardiff University, Indian Institutes of Technology, National Defence Academy (India), and other engineering, medical, defence, liberal arts and business management programs.

James W. Bryce

In 1937 Bryce was approached by Howard Aiken of Harvard University, who persuaded IBM to fund a programmable calculator which became the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), better known as the Harvard Mark I.

Jerry L. Bona

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation.

Jillian York

In 2008, she joined the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace, where she worked on the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations, and Herdict, and conducted research on distributed denial-of-service attacks.

John J. Garstka

In addition, he has lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of California at Irvine, University of Maryland, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

Johnny Lovewisdom

Dr. David Davies of University College London, and Dr. Alexander Leaf of Harvard University, both gerontologists, visited Lovewisdom due to his many articles on the longevity of the Vilcabamban people.

June Goodfield

She was consultant at Harvard University's Department of Education (1960-65), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College (1966-69), Professor of Human Medicine and Philosophy at Michigan State University (1969-78), Senior Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University (1977-82), and Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Kathleen Butler-Hopkins

Butler-Hopkins has studied chamber music with Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, and members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Tokyo, and Budapest String Quartets, and received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven with Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University.

Lawrence A. Mysak

from the University of Adelaide in 1963 (where he was supervised by George Szekeres ) and his Ph.D., also in applied mathematics, from Harvard University in 1967.

Leland Stowe

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Stowe also received the Légion d'honneur, the Military Cross of Greece, and honorary degrees from Harvard University, Wesleyan, and Hobart College, amongst other honors.

Lucius Littauer

Littauer graduated from Harvard University in 1878 and was the school's first head football coach, guiding the Crimson to a record of 5–1–2 in 1881.

M. Lee Pelton

Pelton also holds, or has held, positions on several educational boards and committees: the American Council on Education, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Health & Science University Foundation, American Association for Higher Education, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and National Collegiate Athletic Association among others.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Manoj Datta

He has visited Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT in the US, Imperial College, Cambridge University and Cardiff University in UK, Tianjin University in China, IHE and TU Delft in Netherlands and Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada.

Marie Mendras

Marie Mendras was educated at the University of Essex, Sciences-Po University and Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Mischer Neuroscience Institute

His internship at Harvard University was followed by residency at UCSF and fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery and skull base tumors at University of Florida.

National Competitiveness Report of Armenia

The first ACR was published in 2008; the preface for the report was written by Armenia’s Minister of Economy, Nerses Yeritsyan, and Harvard University Professor, Michael E. Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy and international competitiveness.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Oksana Antonenko

Antonenko holds degrees from Moscow State University in Political Economy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) MPP in International Affairs and Security.

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Precordial thump

James E. Pennington and Bernard Lown's cardiology group at Harvard University are credited with formalizing this technique in the medical literature.

Raleigh Ashlin Skelton

During a sabbatical leave in 1962-63, he served as consultant and Acting Map Curator at Harvard University in the Widener Library.

Ramon Magsaysay, Jr.

He pursued post-graduate studies in 1962 at Harvard School of Business Administration in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent another year in New York University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Roger Sherman Greene II

Two of their other children achieved prominence, Evarts Boutell as an American historian at Columbia and Jerome Davis Greene as a foundation administrator, banker, and secretary of the Corporation of Harvard University.

Sameh El-Saharty

He graduated from Cairo University School of Medicine in 1982 and received a Master of Sciences in Public Health from the Military Medical Academy in Egypt in 1988, a Certificate in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo in 1988, and Master of Public Health in International Health Policy and Management from Harvard University in 1991.

Suzanne Scotchmer

Scotchmer has held visiting and teaching positions at Harvard University, University of Auckland, Cergy-Pontoise University, Tel Aviv University, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the University of Toronto Law School, University of Southern California, New School of Economics, Moscow, and the Stockholm School of Economics.

The Anatomy of Power

The Anatomy of Power is a 1983 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

Theodore W. Richards House

The house was built in 1900 by Warren, Smith & Biscoe and was the home of Harvard University chemist and 1914 Nobel Prize winner, Theodore William Richards.

Thom Mayne

He has held teaching positions at many institutions including Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

William Augustus Hinton

He was the first black professor in the history of Harvard University.

Wu Mi

With Mei Guangdi's help, Wu enrolled in the School of Comparative literature in Harvard University where he studied with Professor Irving Babbitt.

Þorsteinn Gylfason

Þorsteinn graduated from the Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík gymnasium in 1961 and subsequently received a grant to study at Harvard University.