Month: April 2010

  • Nation & World

    Trees tell of shifting world

    Trees from the Harvard Forest to the Amazon rainforest are experiencing changing climactic conditions, with rising temperatures potentially making tropical trees a significant source of carbon dioxide.

    5 minutes
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    Helping Haiti

    The world mobilized to help Haiti after that country suffered the deadliest earthquake in this hemisphere in over a century on Jan. 12, 2010. Faculty, staff, and other members of the Harvard community, including affiliates of Partners In Health and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, played a pivotal role in the worldwide effort to provide aid.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    More than just meat

    Vegan Carol J. Adams speaks about meat eating as more than violence against animals, saying that it’s also often an expression of violence against women.

    7 minutes
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    The nature of reality

    Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hogarty named VP for Campus Services

    Lisa Hogarty, a seasoned administrator with experience in academia and the health care industry, has been named vice president for Campus Services at Harvard University.

    3 minutes
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    A key player on the field and off

    Softball co-captain Melissa Schellberg ’10 leaves her mark on the Harvard community.

    4 minutes
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    Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’

    After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.

    4 minutes
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    Living the lessons we have learned

    A graduating Harvard Kennedy School student, herself Native American, ponders the experiences of her predecessors, students at the Indian College in the 1660s.

    5 minutes
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    How to engineer change

    Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences makes rapid progress in reaching long-term energy-saving goals.

    5 minutes
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    Getting a bird’s-eye view of the past

    The archaeological work of Harvard students, using satellite photos to locate ancient structures, is on display at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HKS establishes professorship on the international financial system

    With the world’s attention focused on global financial reform and responsibility, the Harvard Kennedy School is establishing a professorship dedicated to addressing the challenges of the international financial system.

    1 minute
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    Murty family gift establishes Murty Classical Library of India series

    The Murty family’s endowed series will bring the classical literature of India, much of which remains locked in its original language, to a global audience.

    3 minutes
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    Five from Harvard win DCPS case competition

    The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Rebels to some, achievers to others

    For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    It’s Arts First at Harvard

    The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What makes a life significant?

    A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.

    5 minutes
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    Ending on a high note

    After more than three decades as the head of Harvard’s choral program, Jim Marvin prepares to say farewell. In tribute to Marvin, more than 400 alumni from the choirs will return to campus this weekend (April 30 to May 2) to celebrate his long career with a series of receptions and group sings, and a…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

    Two documentaries from this year’s Sundance Film Festival had an exclusive screening at the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).

    1 minute
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    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Kanter honored by Good Housekeeping Magazine

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair/director of the Interfaculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the “125 women who changed our world” over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue (released April 13) for the magazine’s…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Evening with Champions

    With her spotlight purring like an old projector, Linda Yao ’10 used a steady hand to follow the cast of famed figure skaters as they shaved graceful ribbons into the ice during “An Evening with Champions.”

    2 minutes
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    Enriquez named associate curator of modern and contemporary art

    The Harvard Art Museum announces the appointment of Mary Schneider Enriquez as Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the museum’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, effective April 5.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Peering into gearworks of FDA

    Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.

    3 minutes
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    Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Iconic musicals such as “Fiddler on the Roof” form the core of Carol Oja’s course “American Musicals, American Culture,” but students recently got an inside look at the contemporary scene through visits from composers Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”) and Joshua Schmidt (“The Adding Machine”).

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Steven Pinker wins George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience

    Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology, was named this year’s winner of the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, presented by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

    1 minute
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    EPA recognizes Harvard as a leader in green power purchasers

    Harvard University has been announced as one of three schools in the Ivy League that were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as 2009-10 Collective Conference Champions for using green power.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Shinagel receives service citation

    Michael Shinagel, Harvard dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, is the recipient of the 2010 Walton S. Bittner Service Citation from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Kaelin among Canada Gairdner Award recipients

    William Kaelin, a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been named one of seven recipients of the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.

    1 minute
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    Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley

    The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School’s John Spengler, and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment.

    1 minute