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Campus & Community
Stephen Greenblatt wins Holberg Prize
Professor Stephen Greenblatt has been honored with the Holberg Prize his extraordinary body of writing and its profound impact on humanities scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Hearty welcomes with a touch of rivalry
Every House is best: The Class of 2019 learns their housing fate.
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Campus & Community
Culture and community come together
Harvard Ed Portal filled its Cultural Connections evening with student groups that performed for an enamored audience in Allston.
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Campus & Community
Spielberg to speak at 365th Commencement
Steven Spielberg, one of the most illustrious filmmakers in the history of American motion pictures, will be the featured speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 365th Commencement on May 26.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held on March 9
On March 9 the members of the Faculty Council met with Provost Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty.
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Campus & Community
Robin Kelsey named dean of arts and humanities
Robin Kelsey, chairman of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, has been named dean of arts and humanities. He will begin July 1.
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Arts & Culture
Professor’s book selected for Canto Classics series
Harvard professor and Weatherhead faculty associate Robert Bates’ book “When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa” has been selected for inclusion in the Canto Classics series by Cambridge Univerity Press.
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Campus & Community
Professor shares the simplicity behind daily changes
At an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Donald Goldmann challenged his audience to be curious about how they do everyday tasks, helping them explore “improvement science.”
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Arts & Culture
Always a critic
The New York Times’ chief film critic, A.O. Scott, visits Harvard to discuss his new book, “Better Living Through Criticism,” on Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Two Deans’ Challenges garner 90 proposals
Ten student-led teams have been named finalists in the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge and the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge. Grand prize winners will be named on May 4.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Art Museums director named
Harvard University Provost Alan Garber announced the appointment of Martha Tedeschi as the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, beginning in July.
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Campus & Community
Assault Prevention Task Force recommendations
The Sexual Assault Prevention Task Force issued its final report and made recommendations to President Drew Faust about how best to confront this troubling issue.
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Science & Tech
Creating 3-D tissue and its potential for regeneration
“This latest work extends the capabilities of our multi-material bioprinting platform to thick human tissues, bringing us one step closer to creating architectures for tissue repair and regeneration,” says the study’s senior author, Jennifer A. Lewis of both the Wyss Institute and Harvard’s Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Arts & Culture
Engaging with Arendt
Four lectures focusing on Hannah Arendt, the political theorist best known for coining the phrase “the banality of evil” when she wrote about the trial of Nazi architect Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker in the early ’60s, will be held March 9 and 30 and April 6 and 20 at the Minda de Gunzburg…
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Science & Tech
The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power
In recent decades, women have made progress in pay and parity with men in such professions as medicine and law. But when it comes to running things at the highest levels, it’s generally still a man’s world.
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Campus & Community
A limit on football tackling
Harvard football coach Tim Murphy explains the unanimous vote by the Ivy League’s coaches to end full-contact practices, promoting safety.
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Nation & World
Leadership tips from ancient Rome
Harvard Business School M.B.A. students dig deep into texts of the Roman Empire to unearth lessons about leadership today.
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Nation & World
Retracing a path of destruction
Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale, talks about his new book, “Black Earth.”
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Campus & Community
President’s Challenge narrows field to 10 finalists
Ten teams have been selected as finalists for the 2016 President’s Challenge, President Drew Faust will award $100,000 to be shared among the grand prize winners on April 25.
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Campus & Community
Refresh, recuperate, reflect
A Harvard freshman considers the lessons of winter break.
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Arts & Culture
Humanities offer marketability in a competitive world
Harvard sophomore finds support for his concentration in Ancient History (Greek and Roman), which allows him to pursue his passions “while maintaining marketability in an increasingly competitive world.”
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Arts & Culture
Slavery’s chilling shadow
Toni Morrison delivered the first of six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures to an adoring crowd at Sanders Theatre on Wednesday. Morrison is the 58th scholar given the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.
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Science & Tech
Study that undercut psych research got it wrong
A study last year claiming that more than half of all psychology studies cannot be replicated turns out to be wrong. Harvard researchers have discovered that the study contains several statistical and methodological mistakes, and that when these are corrected, the study actually shows that the replication rate in psychology is quite high.
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Campus & Community
My buddy
Juniors Fatima Bishtawi and Amanda Mozea made lasting connections through the Best Buddies program.
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Health
Aspirin found to reduce overall cancer risk
An analysis of data from two long-term epidemiologic studies has found that regular use of aspirin significantly reduces the overall risk of cancer, an effect that primarily reflects a lower risk of colorectal cancer and other tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.
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Campus & Community
Philip Blackett tells teens what follows failure
Magnetic Interviewing founder and CEO Philip Blackett, an M.B.A. candidate at Harvard Business School, shared his failures and what can follow with students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing more
In his weekly 90-minute lectures, Professor Robin Kelsey brings historical awareness and contextual experience to 13 technologies that have transformed visual communication.
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Science & Tech
$1M in grants to support 10 climate research projects
Ten research projects driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.
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Campus & Community
President Faust’s climate initiative awards $1M in grants
The recipients of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust, were announced. The 10 winning projects are purposely diverse in focus, ranging from policy and law to science and health. Several use Harvard’s campus as a “living laboratory” — when possible — for testing and…
