Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Rihanna has been named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year and will be honored at the school during a special ceremony Tuesday.
"Rihanna has charitably built a state-of- the-art center for oncology and nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat breast cancer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados," Harvard Foundation director Allen Counter said in a statement.