Tag: ” Colleen Walsh

  • Nation & World

    Drawing wisdom from drawings

    A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums offers up a diverse sampling of the museums’ rich collection of drawings, while highlighting the creativity of Harvard’s classrooms.

    5 minutes
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    A study in contrast: Copley’s America, America’s Copley

    Historian Jane Kamensky’s new book explores the life and times of painter John Singleton Copley.

    8 minutes
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    A family of common zeal

    Of the many items in a new Radcliffe exhibit devoted to a family of social reformers, one in particular points to the attitudes and assumptions they repeatedly overcame. It’s a…

    4 minutes
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    Smirk central

    The Harvard Lampoon’s creative irreverence on full display in exhibit marking its 140th anniversary

    8 minutes
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    Turning the brain green

    Harvard neurosurgeon Ann-Christine Duhaime thinks a better understanding of the brain’s reward system might help encourage greener living.

    7 minutes
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    Janet Yellen, honored by Radcliffe, ponders economy

    Janet L. Yellen, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the country’s central banking system, accepted the Radcliffe Medal at a luncheon in Radcliffe Yard, and discussed economic concerns.

    5 minutes
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    A sunny day and even brighter futures

    On a perfect sunny day in Harvard Yard, the University held its 365th Commencement in Tercentenary Theatre, with an emphasis on congratulations, rituals, and, most of all, celebrations.

    17 minutes
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    Appetite for change

    Tommy Tobin, set to graduate with degrees from the Law School and the Kennedy School, hopes to work on food policy.

    3 minutes
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    Drawing power

    “Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt” serves as an intimate study of art in progress.

    5 minutes
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    Divided by trade

    UPenn political scientist Diana Mutz spoke at Radcliffe on the gap between how citizens and economists view global trade.

    3 minutes
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    Ensler puts her life on stage

    Playwright and activist Eve Ensler returns to the A.R.T. with a one-woman show, exploring how her work with women brutalized by sexual violence in the Congo helped her fight uterine cancer.

    3 minutes
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    Photographing Native American cultures

    “Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Stories of Native American Women” is on view through May 28 at the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery. The exhibit features 25 photos of Native American women, with interviews, written narratives, music, and song.

    5 minutes
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    Taking his thesis on the road

    Michael Meo, who will graduate from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in May, led 22 people of all ages and abilities on a grueling 1,000-mile bicycle trek through the Mexican desert, which became the subject of his master’s thesis.

    7 minutes
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    An A.R.T. season to provoke, immerse, entertain

    The American Repertory Theater’s new season takes aim at some important topics, including class, gender identity, turning points in Irish and Argentinian history, and the crisis facing American education.

    5 minutes
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    The costs of inequality: A goal of justice, a reality of unfairness

    America’s prison system houses huge numbers of inmates, many of them serving lengthy mandatory sentences, but research finds little evidence that it produces criminal deterrence.

    24 minutes
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    New face for the $10 bill

    Three Harvard scholars talk about the role of symbolism in the announcement that a woman will replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.

    5 minutes
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    Behind the findings

    The student group Science in the News recently held a daylong conference as part of its mission to make the research behind important breakthroughs accessible and understandable to non-scientists.

    3 minutes
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    Sea of Crimson, canopy of green

    The sights and sounds of Harvard’s joyful 364th Commencement in the Yard.

    21 minutes
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    Youthful wisdom, times 3

    Student orators plan messages of hope, kindness, commitment, and perspective.

    7 minutes
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    A.O. Scott reviews himself

    In a question-and-answer interview, New York Times film critic and Harvard alumnus A.O. Scott explains his craft, and how he came to it.

    17 minutes
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    Grasping a rung on the ladder

    The Rev. Jonathan Walton spent close to two weeks in January taking part in the Mamelodi Initiative, an education and community-enrichment program co-founded several years ago by Harvard graduate Richard Kelley ’10. The program helps prepare students for college.

    4 minutes
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    Death penalty, in retreat

    Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker is devoting her Radcliffe Fellowship year to working on a book with her brother about the past half-century’s experiment with the constitutional regulation of capital punishment in America.

    16 minutes
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    Art’s shining future

    The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums reopen on Nov. 16 with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that unites the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under one shining glass roof.

    32 minutes
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    Harvard’s new home for art

    After six years, the Harvard Art Museums will reopen to the public on Nov. 16. The renovation and restoration has united the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under a spectacular glass roof. Get an inside look at the Harvard Art Museums’ transformation in Monday’s daily Gazette, which will feature…

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    Star-spangled beauty

    Harvard scholars reflect on the lyricism, the language and the legacy of the national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” on its 200th anniversary.

    6 minutes
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    The rise of ISIS

    A question-and-answer session with political scientist Harith Hasan al-Qarawee on the rise of the Sunni extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

    9 minutes
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    Snapshots of a sun-splashed day

    A roundup of capsule stories and photos surrounding Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

    18 minutes
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    Beyond the horizon

    Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.

    1 minute
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    A light touch for Rothko murals

    Abstract artist Mark Rothko’s series of Harvard murals will be displayed in November using a digital technology that casts light on the paintings to restore their faded colors.

    8 minutes
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    ‘What could be more interesting than how the mind works?’

    Interview with Professor Steven Pinker as part of the Experience series.

    29 minutes