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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2022-2023

05/22/2023

Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients! Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly...
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Melanie Matchett Wood Recipient of 2022 MacArthur Fellowship

10/12/2022

Earlier today, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2022 MacArthur Fellows, recipients of the so-called “genius grant.” The Fellowship—including a generous stipend bestowed over the course of five years with no conditions—is awarded annually to talented...
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The Human Nature of Mathematics

09/19/2022

On Thursday, October 6, the Harvard Human Flourishing Program will bring Dr. Francis Su to Sever Hall to talk about mathematics for human flourishing. Su received his A.M and Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in the early- and mid-90s,...
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