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Of art and the Civil War
Harvard joins with three other universities and five theaters in the National Civil War Project, a multiyear collaboration that will use the arts to re-imagine America’s transformative conflict of 150 years ago.
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Shifting perspectives in gun debate
NRA President David Keene and Jonathan E. Lowy presented their views on gun policy during visits to Harvard.
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Harvard filmmakers in Berlin
Filmmakers with Harvard ties are showing, speaking, and mingling at the Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Saga of a Civil War surgeon
A lecture series on medicine in the Civil War continues at Harvard Medical School with a look at Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a descendant of an iconic American founding family who served heroically as both a doctor and an infantry officer.
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A remembrance of things Proust
Ahead at Harvard is a semester of celebrating Marcel Proust, whose landmark “Swann’s Way” was published in 1913.
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Violence, meet nonviolence
Starting in 2014 at the Mahindra Humanities Center, a three-year, interdisciplinary seminar and lecture series, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will investigate the interdependence of violence and nonviolence.
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Widening the Wheelwright
Every year since 1935, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has awarded one of its graduates the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, praised by generations of recipients for enriching careers in most cases already under way.
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An idea that changed the world
Harvard celebrates the 100th anniversary of a computational principle that was little noticed in its time, but that underlies all of modern science.
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When King came to Harvard
Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights icon whose national day of commemoration is Monday, was no stranger to Harvard University.
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Nothing but a breakthrough
The Harvard Film Archive leads off its 2013 screenings with “Nothing But a Man,” a landmark 1964 film by two Harvard graduates.
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Wonders of Wintersession
Wintersession and Winter Break offer many chances to try out a new skill or return to a passion.
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A military base, reborn
Harvard design students imagine multiple futures for a longtime New England military base.
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Battle cries of freedom
A Countway Library exhibit at Harvard Medical School brings the suffering of the Civil War to light.
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Holmes’ suite home
In a pioneering first, the Harvard Law School Library has used its eight collections on celebrated jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to aggregate a hyperaccessible digital “suite” that scholars and the public can search, browse, and tag.
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A fall snapshot of Arab Spring
Short on certainties, a Harvard panel convenes nearly two years after the start of the Arab Spring to offer perspectives on the past, present, and future.
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To understand, make a map
“Cartographic Grounds,” an exhibit of new and old mapmaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, intends to inspire a new generation of designers to draw, with precision, what they see, and to present, with art, what they imagine.
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Taking Charge with cellphones
Harvard architecture student Jeffrey Mansfield launches a project designed to combine solar power and smartphones to protect the Amazon basin, link forest entrepreneurs, and give Amazonian people a voice in the world.
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A collection unlike others
Harvard’s newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection is the largest of its kind in the world, centuries of art, literature, and popular culture artifacts related to the chief avenues to altered states of mind: sex and drugs.
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Crossing the river of myths
Grasp the right facts, said a renowned medical statistician, and the world is more complicated and interesting, with fewer myths that divide one region from another.
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Calm rising through storm
Harvard officials started getting ready for Hurricane Sandy’s roundhouse punch last week, and by Monday they were supplied, staffed, watching, and responding.
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Chinese cities, by design
A new three-year, three-city course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design gives students an immersive learning experience in some of China’s fast-growing frontier cities.
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The art of saving art
Works by Le Corbusier and Joan Miró are back at the Carpenter Center after painstaking repair work by conservators at the Weissman Preservation Center.
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A middle way on Tibet
Despite a grim situation now, says the Harvard-trained leader of Tibet’s government in exile, frank talks could yet unlock decades of turmoil with China.
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Nobel ties in physics
Harvard has early connections to both winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics.
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Library in transition
A new Harvard Library portal opens the window on a library reorganization that preserves the print past and embraces the digital future.
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A welcome to the military
In an annual fall tradition, Harvard rolls out the welcome mat for its new students and fellows who are veterans or who are still in the service.
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Speaking volumes
Over two days Harvard hosted a cohort of scholars in medieval sermon studies, a pursuit that helps illuminate the social and intellectual currents of the Middle Ages.