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161 stories in April, 2011
Diagnosis on state health care
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick defended Massachusetts’ health care reforms, saying during an appearance at The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health that they’ve successfully extended coverage to 98 percent of state residents.
Harvard sophomore Andrew Kennard discusses his love of jazz and his experience mentoring students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preparing with them for the arrival of Wynton Marsalis at Harvard.
As part of a two-year lecture and performance series, jazz great Wynton Marsalis performed with a seven-piece band at Sanders Theatre.
Poet and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Anna Maria Hong takes the traditional sonnet form and breaks it wide open in her new volume of poetry.
A panel discussion that included some of the top leaders in American homeland security and the military pondered the nation’s readiness for unexpected disasters.
Director of Innovation Lab named
Gordon S. Jones has been named the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a new and innovative initiative set to launch in late 2011 that will foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities, and provide a forum, both physically and virtually, for interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community.
President Drew Faust names Lizabeth Cohen as interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The current dean, Barbara J. Grosz, will step down at the end of this academic year.
In what is believed to be the largest gathering of uniformed students at the University since Winston Churchill spoke on campus in 1943, more than 170 Harvard veterans from all the service branches gathered at Cambridge's Sheraton Commander Hotel April 25 for a dinner honoring students who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
At a photo exhibit on Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster, viewers get glimpses of both hope and horror.
Five receive Derek C. Bok Award
Five graduate students have been awarded the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates.
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