Featured series 
Month: October 2009
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Arts & Culture
Hunting for rhythm’s DNA
Radcliffe Fellow Godfried Toussaint taps computer science in a search for the evolutionary development of world music’s basic rhythms.
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Campus & Community
President Faust on ‘Charlie Rose’
Harvard President Drew Faust was interviewed by broadcast journalist Charlie Rose on Oct. 14.
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Campus & Community
Flu, Me? Public Remains Wary Of H1N1 Vaccine
Fewer than half of Americans say that they are planning to receive the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine, according to recent polls — a trend that is leaving many health professionals at a loss. For one thing, there are many different reasons why people say they are unlikely to get vaccinated. Nearly a third are…
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Campus & Community
Delivering doses of sweet harmony
As musicians from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra played selections from Dvorak’s “American Quartet,’’ 50 Vietnamese immigrants, mostly in their 70s and 80s, sat in plush chairs at a Dorchester day-care center for the elderly, listening raptly. Tears welled in Mary Nguyen’s eyes. Never in her 72 years had she heard such music, she said…
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Campus & Community
Q&A on Harvard’s financial report
Harvard University’s treasurer, Jim Rothenberg, and its chief financial officer, Dan Shore, discuss the annual report and the lessons learned in a tough economic climate.
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Nation & World
Faust hosts African students
Harvard President Drew Faust hosts students from African countries to solicit their input and advice in advance of her November trip to South Africa and Botswana.
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Campus & Community
In Milliseconds, Brain Zips From Thought To Speech
An unusual experiment is offering some tantalizing clues about what goes on in the brain before we speak. The study found that it takes about half a second to transform something we think into something we say. And three very different kinds of processing needed for speech are all happening in a small part of…
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Campus & Community
Sculptor makes more than a ripple with scull artwork
Regardless of the race’s outcome, Kennelly will be celebrating. The school teacher turned cartoonist, pastry chef and finally sculptor will have her permanent installation, “Endurance,” on display at Radcliffe College’s Weld Boathouse. It was commissioned by the Friends of Harvard and Radcliffe Rowing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the boathouse.
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Campus & Community
Harvard team grows heart muscle
Harvard researchers have created a strip of pulsing heart muscle from mouse embryonic stem cells, a step toward the eventual goal of growing replacement parts for hearts damaged by cardiovascular disease.
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Campus & Community
Distinguished Harvard Professor Celebrates Historic Intellectual Relationship
A Harvard University professor and one of the US’s most distinguished orators yesterday delivered a far-ranging lecture about the historic relationship between Cambridge and Harvard to commemorate Cambridge’s 800th anniversary.
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Arts & Culture
‘Museum of Innocence’
At a Harvard panel, curators of both the fictional and the real explore the museum’s place in culture and literature.
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Health
From stem cells to heart muscle
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has taken a giant step toward possibly using human stem cells to repair damaged hearts.
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Health
From stem cells to functioning strip of heart muscle
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has taken a giant step toward…
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Nation & World
Stimulus funds provide research boost
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped stimulate research across the University, laying the foundation for future economic growth through innovation.
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Arts & Culture
A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before
Sunstein breaks down the Constitution by looking at the diverse ways and methods it is interpreted. A heady book on America’s revered — and debated — political blueprint.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University spotlights hunger as it kicks off Public Service Week
Harvard President Drew Faust says the University will begin a yearlong commitment to volunteer support of The Greater Boston Food Bank. The announcement comes on the eve of World Hunger Day and as Harvard prepares to launch its Public Service Week, Oct. 19 -25.
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Campus & Community
Ulrich receives Kennedy Medal
Harvard Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was honored Wednesday evening (Oct. 14) as the 10th recipient of the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society. She is the first woman given the award.
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Arts & Culture
The Race Between Education and Technology
Goldin and Katz discuss the U.S. educational and technological meltdown circa 1980, and examine the glory days of the 20th century when the country’s educational system made it the richest in the nation.
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Arts & Culture
Casablanca: Movies and Memory
Conley translates this French anthropologist’s spellbinding narrative on his love affair with film and how our memories closely connect to the cinematic. Here’s lookin’ at you, kids.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
As part of an effort to develop creative solutions to Harvard’s projected long-term budget deficit, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard College recently launched an online Idea Bank where community members can submit recommendations for reducing costs and generating revenues.
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Campus & Community
Gates honored with literary award
Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepted the 2009 Sarah Josepha Hale Award on Oct. 3 at the Newport Opera House in Newport, N.H.
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Health
Plant diversity, altitude leave collectors breathless in China
China’s Hengduan Mountains are a biodiversity hotspot; so the Harvard Herbaria’s Dave Boufford and a team of colleagues went there and discovered 30 new species.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
Political operative Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Kennedy School, spoke last week at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum and regaled the audience with some of last year’s election bloopers.
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Arts & Culture
Ripple effect
A new permanent art installation in Weld Boathouse is turning heads. Artist Ellen Kennelly ’85 took a crash course in flameworking and began these masterpieces in glass.
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Campus & Community
HSPH professor Stephen Lagakos dies at 63
Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years old.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design
At the Graduate School of Design, there’s plenty of learning still going on inside classrooms. But, as in many other areas, the Web is also proving to be a gateway to novel ways of sharing ideas and building teamwork.
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Arts & Culture
Islam’s mystical dimensions take flight
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology explores the mystical dimensions of Islam with a series of photographs and multilayered, mixed-media compositions.
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Arts & Culture
ACT UP encore
A new exhibit at the Carpenter Center titled “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993” examines the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power through a series of powerful graphics created by various artist collectives that were part of the influential group.
