Featured series 
Month: May 2011
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BSC presents Barrett Award to senior
David Gootenberg ’11 was presented with the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony May 2.
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Farmers markets to return in June
The popular Harvard Farmers’ Market will return to campus on June 14.
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Parenting in context
In her Fellows’ Presentation, Nancy E. Hill, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, discussed her research into socialization and cultural development in relation to parents’ interaction with children and how this interaction varies across geography, income levels, and ethnicity.
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Arne Duncan named chief marshal
The Harvard Alumni Association announced that Arne Duncan ’86 has been elected by his classmates to be this year’s chief marshal for Commencement.
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New app connects alums
Harvard and Radcliffe College alumni/ae returning to campus for this spring’s reunions will be able to connect in more ways than ever, thanks to the new Harvard/Radcliffe Reunion app for smartphones.
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The battle of the butts
Gregory Connolly and the HSPH Center for Global Tobacco Control conduct research around the world to illuminate ongoing health problems caused by tobacco.
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A look inside: Dunster House
Of Dunster House’s three major yearly events, those being its “Messiah” sing, the Dunster House opera, and the spring goat roast, it is the tradition of the roast that sets it apart from the other Houses.
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Rescuing ancient languages
Harvard Linguistics Professor Maria Polinsky and her lab team work to understand and preserve ancient Mayan tongues, with the help of native speakers.
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Making the ‘ride’ choice
Two start-up companies have partnered with Harvard’s CommuterChoice Program to make auto use — for long trips, quick jaunts, or daily commutes — easier.
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Reinhold Brinkmann
Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music at Harvard University from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, serving, after 1990, as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music and, from…
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Radcliffe welcomes 2011-12 fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has selected 51 fellows for the 2011-12 year.
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Truth, beauty, goodness
In his latest book, prolific Professor Howard Gardner insists that the enduring values of truth, beauty, and goodness remain humanity’s bedrock.
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Barrington Moore Jr.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Barrington Moore, Jr., retired Senior Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center and Senior Lecturer on Sociology, was placed upon the records. Moore was a leader in comparative historical sociology and…
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Hail fellows, well met
The Harvard College Fellowship Program has proven to be a boon to students, academic departments across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the fellows themselves, many of whom have gone on to land tenure-track faculty positions in a tough job market.
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Committing to customer services
The new Campus Service Center has merged Harvard University Housing, ID Card services, and the Parking Office in one convenient Holyoke Center location.
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Tocqueville’s Discovery of America
Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor on Literature Leo Damrosch retraces the nine-month journey through America by historian Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” who cannily predicted the growing social unrest toward slavery in America.
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Old specimens, fresh answers
A project details changing levels of mercury in endangered albatrosses and highlights the importance of museum specimens in understanding past conditions.
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HAA announces Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association will award the Harvard Medal to Albert Carnesale ’78 (hon.), Frances Fergusson ’66, Ph.D. ’73, and Peter Malkin ’55, J.D. ’58, on May 26.
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Andrew Johnson
Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed tackles one of the worst presidents in American history, claiming that his own racism was to blame for his shoddy performance during the Reconstruction era.
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The Aging Intellect
In this important book, Douglas H. Powell, a clinical instructor in psychology, discusses lifestyle habits and attitudes linked to cognitive aging, and provides evidence-based strategies to minimize mental decline.
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Wholly (and holy) organic
Harvard Divinity School has a new blessing, a pluralist plot of paradise, in its own community garden.
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Athlete for life
Claire Richardson ’11 is an unusual example of what happens after college athletes graduate. Eligible to continue competing in college because of a year lost to injury, she’s headed to Georgetown for graduate school, and more running.
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Where money meets politics
James M. Snyder Jr., an economist and Harvard’s newest professor of government, is a student of American elections, where he finds that campaign contributions don’t have the sway you might suppose.
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Harvard College Professorships for 5
Honor provides support for research, recognizes outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
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Work by day, write by night
Matthew Salesses, a faculty and staff assistant at Harvard Kennedy School, moonlights as an up-and-coming fiction writer, editor, columnist, and, soon, a new dad.
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High yield for Class of ’15
Nearly 77 percent of students admitted to Harvard opt to attend the College, up from last year’s 75.5 percent.
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Venturing forth
Harvard Business School has long known that many of its graduates found companies. But in the wake of Wall Street’s recent meltdown — and at a time when starting a new venture has become far easier — campus culture is embracing entrepreneurship in a big way.
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More roads to travel
In an Askwith Forum address, longtime children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman said there are still many reasons to be alarmed at the grim landscape facing many African-American and Latino children, with 80 percent reaching high school without reading proficiency.
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The next big things
BOSS Medical Working with Johns Hopkins researchers and physicians, M.B.A. students Romish Badani and Derek Poppinga have developed a minimally invasive device to extract bone grafts. If approved by the…
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Honor for Native American
Harvard University plans to honor Joel Iacoomes, one of the first Native Americans ever to attend the College, with a special posthumous degree at its 2011 Commencement exercises on May 26. Iacoomes died shortly before Commencement in 1665.
