Year: 2011

  • Nation & World

    Wholly (and holy) organic

    Harvard Divinity School has a new blessing, a pluralist plot of paradise, in its own community garden.

    4 minutes
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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.

    3 minutes
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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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard College Professorships for 5

    Honor provides support for research, recognizes outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

    6 minutes
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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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    13 minutes
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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.

    3 minutes
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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…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    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.

    2 minutes
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    Radcliffe rugby crowned national champ

    The Radcliffe Rugby Football Club has been crowned the 2011 USA Rugby DII National Champion after an incredible matchup against Notre Dame.

    1 minute
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    Two Harvard students named Hertz Fellows

    The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced the selection of its 2011-12 Hertz Fellows, including Harvard students Megan Blewett and Jesse Engreitz.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    What books mean as objects

    Most literature professors focus on the interpretation of texts, but Professor Leah Price wants to explore other uses to which books can be put, in the evolving interplay between reading and handling.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Holder’s mission

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on May 6 talked to a Harvard audience about youth exposure to violence as a public health issue — and the need for a public health response.

    4 minutes
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    First U.S. full face transplant patient

    Dallas Wiens, who in March became the first person in the United States to receive a full face transplant, described the simple joys of holding his daughter, Scarlette, and smelling lasagna again as he prepared to leave Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital Monday (May 9) for his Texas home.

    4 minutes
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    Expanding student learning abroad

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced grants to six faculty members who are designing new international experiences for undergraduates, from new summer school programs in Kenya to studies in global health to other programs in Italy, Argentina, and Germany.

    8 minutes
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    360th Commencement

    Information on Harvard’s May 26 Commencement.

    1 minute
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    Jill Johnson appointed dance director

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Music Department have announced the appointment of Jill Johnson as director of the OFA Dance Program and senior lecturer in the Department of Music.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Turn off the Lights

    A sustainability music video produced by Harvard University students Akshay Sharma ’14, Maura Church ’14 and Molly O’Laughlin ’11 in anticipation of Earth Day 2011. It was presented at Harvard’s second annual Green Carpet Awards sustainability celebration and recognition event. Miranda J. Morrison ’14 also assisted with writing the lyrics.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    The influence of neighbors

    Where we live and who we know can affect our voting patterns, Harvard researcher suggests.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Top 25 Innovations in Government announced

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the Top 25 Innovations in Government in competition for the Innovations in American Government Award.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Health reform may require a crisis

    ABC’s medical editor Timothy Johnson, M.P.H. ’76, predicted sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system, but not before a budget calamity caused by rising health care costs forces politicians’ hands.

    5 minutes
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    Young pioneers of science

    Four hundred eighth-grade students from the Cambridge public schools visited campus to discuss their science experiments with the Harvard community.

    4 minutes
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    Focus on Pakistan

    What did Pakistani officials know about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and when did they know it? Were they complicit — or dumb? Or smart at playing dumb? Those questions were analyzed by a panel of foreign policy experts on Wednesday (May 4) at Harvard Kennedy School.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Taming nature, then man

    Humankind, after millennia of reluctance and ambivalence, surrendered finally to growing fixed crops — a precondition of modern states.

    7 minutes
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    Targeting leftover land mines

    Computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have designed an elegant system that assists humanitarian mine hunters by augmenting the information from their metal detectors.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Spring spruce-up

    Eighty from Harvard lend helping hands to the Allston-Brighton community during Boston Shines, the citywide cleanup effort.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lessons of the hunt

    Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    NHC names Jason Stevens a fellow

    Harvard Assistant Professor of English Jason Stevens has been named a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year.

    1 minute
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    Memorial service for Eli Shapiro

    A memorial service for Eli Shapiro, the former Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Investment Management at Harvard Business School, will be held on May 7.

    1 minute