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March 09, 2000Metaphors That Open Doors"Is the brain shaped and even changed by its experiences with language?" wonders Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. "Does language change the way people think?" Portrait of an Artist's Mind Melding the tools of cognitive development, developmental psychology, art, brain-imaging technology, and education, Kim Sheridan is trying to unlock the mystery of artistic taste. Dropping Dyslexia's Baggage Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefits–such as a sense of hope, that may come simply from the subjects’ participation in a brain-imaging experiment. Shifting Ground: Busing through the Eyes of a Southie Schoolboy In his book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael MacDonald chronicles his childhood in a predominantly poor, Irish-American neighborhood in Boston during the antibusing riots of the 1970s. This controversial moment in education continues to shape school desegregation efforts today and has had a profound impact on MacDonald himself, who initiated an annual vigil in South Boston where survivors remember family members and friends who died violently. He also helped launch the city’s successful gun-buyback program. At the Askwith Education Forum at GSE in October, MacDonald read excerpts from All Souls and reflected on his childhood. Looking Inside of Learning Michael Connell’s fascination with "neural networks"–computer programs that simulate the activity of brain cells or neurons and actually learn over time–stems in no small part from a "crystallizing moment" he experienced in ninth-grade trigonometry. Immersed in Words: Connie Juel Plans to Take Harvard into Schools Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is part of her overall plan to broaden the experience of Harvard’s graduate students. "There’s no better way to train reading teachers and reading supervisors than to bring them directly into the schools where children are most involved in the process of learning," she says. Envisioning the Ideal Education President In this season of presidential primaries, education has at long last become a critical component of the stump speech, superceding even crime and foreign affairs. Every candidate is eager to visit schools and talk about improving student achievement. But what are some of the real steps–both national and local–that can be taken to improve education? We asked the School’s dean and three senior faculty members to consider this simple question: What is your vision of an ideal "education president?" Honoring Two Former Cambridge Mayors President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also celebrating the launching of Harvard's 20/20/2000 affordable housing partnership, which includes a $10 million commitment to Cambridge. Photo by Rose Lincoln Bott Wins Israel's Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics
The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called "The Man from Whom All True Musical Wisdom Proceeded: Johann Sebastian Bach." The exhibit at the Houghton Library and Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library runs through May 20. Whirling at Wonderland Players Make Cancer Battle a Team Effort -- Student-athletes respond to Delaney-Smith's openness in her fight with breast cancer Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coach’s blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. Faculty Council Notice - March 8 At its 10th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Anne Taylor, Vice President and General Counsel, and University Attorneys Robert Iuliano and Allan Ryan, the present status of many issues.
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Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison ’60 (AM ’68) will receive the 2000 Harvard Arts Medal on May 6 as part of ARTS FIRST 2000, the eighth annual celebration of the arts at Harvard. Helping a Student-Run Homeless Shelter President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das '01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a pastor at University Lutheran, and Professor Helmut Koester, a member of the Capital Campaign Committee, look on. Rudenstine presented Engquist with a $25,000 check for the student-run homeless shelter. A $25,000 challenge grant matched funds donated by students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae. Photo by Kris Snibbe Housing Studies Fellowship Offered The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the Center’s research agenda. The award will provide a stipend of $10,000. Acceptance of the award comes with the understanding that the Joint Center for Housing Studies will have the option of publishing a portion of the paper as a Joint Center Working Paper or in the annual State of the Nation’s Housing Report. HRO To Host Outreach Concert for 1,000 Cambridge Schoolchildren It will be a field trip for the ears for as many as 1,000 Cambridge schoolchildren tomorrow. They’re invited to a lunchtime Outreach Concert hosted by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) at Sanders Theatre. Internet Conference Lottery Deadline Is March 17 The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual lives. Memorial Service Set for Kaplan A memorial service for Felicia Lamport Kaplan will be held on Monday, March 13, 2000 at 3 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. She died on Thursday, Dec. 23, 1999. Kovach Receives Goldsmith Award At KSG Tonight Bill Kovach will receive this year’s Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at an award ceremony tonight (March 9) at 8:00 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government. Laser Lights Way To Treating Advanced Lung Cancer The woman’s left lung had collapsed because a tumor blocked the airway leading to it. She could only survive in a hospital with the help of a machine that forced air into her lungs. This unfortunate condition made her an ideal candidate for a new procedure known as photodynamic, or light, therapy. Of Masks and Mirrors Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Newsmakers Police Log Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Provost Announces New Round of Grants To Promote Interfaculty Collaboration Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the University. The deadline for grant applications is Friday, April 14. Four Seniors Are Off to England as Harvard-Cambridge Scholars It’s not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee delivered the good news in person to the four Harvard seniors selected as this year’s recipients. Ben Shahn's New York The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world I knew through legend rather than experience. Harvard Wins Ivy Honors for Player of Week and Rookie of Week Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of Mercer Island, Wash., has earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors. 2000-01 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees Are Set Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvard’s package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees will increase by 2.9 percent, to $33,110. This marks the ninth consecutive year in which the rate of increase has declined; the percentage increase is the lowest since 1968. Practical Physics -- David Weitz works with real materials on real problems When David Weitz says his experiment is ready to fly, he means that literally. Like into space.
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