Year: 2010

  • Nation & World

    Harvard Black Men’s Forum presents annual awards

    The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF), which pays tribute to the contributions that black women have made to Harvard and to society at large, recognized former Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, among others, at its Celebration of Black Women event on April 29.

    1 minute
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    Bench pressing for a cure

    On May 3, more than 250 Harvard athletes from 18 varsity teams took the Palmer-Dixon Gymnasium by storm for the second annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer Challenge, pumping iron and raising greenbacks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

    4 minutes
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    Rising seas, raising hopes

    Harvard design students, capping a two-year project, encourage the Dutch to look beyond engineering to cope with rising sea levels.

    7 minutes
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    The last notes

    In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.

    4 minutes
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    Adults’ suicide risk similar for all antidepressants

    People have about the same risk of having suicidal thoughts or attempting suicide when starting out on antidepressants no matter what type of pill they’re prescribed, new research shows.

    1 minute
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    From the cosmos to the cell

    A conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study examined the prevalence of patterns in the natural world, from enormous ones that order the cosmos to cellular and molecular patterns in living things.

    4 minutes
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    Nitin Nohria named next dean of Harvard Business School

    Nitin Nohria, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School’s 10th dean, President Drew Faust announced today (May 4).

    6 minutes
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    Unseen victims of war

    Mental health ailments are widespread among Iraqi children and teenagers, a problem compounded by a lack of mental health treatment facilities and inattention to the problem, an Iraqi psychiatrist says.

    3 minutes
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    Her own creation

    Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.

    4 minutes
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    Hip-hop’s global reach

    A two-day conference explores the global reach of hip-hop and examines how teachers can use it in the classroom to convey important lessons about art, culture, language, and society.

    3 minutes
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    Harvard and Banco Santander announce letter of intent

    Harvard University and Banco Santander announced a letter of intent today that will enable Harvard to support master’s candidates and visiting fellows from China through participation in Banco Santander’s Marco Polo Program.

    2 minutes
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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