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Campus & Community
Evans wins Welch Award in Chemistry
David A. Evans, the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, was awarded the 2012 Welch Award in Chemistry in recognition of his pioneering research.
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Nation & World
Freedom’s just another word
The poor often have too many basic choices, which can sap their resources and energy, economist says.
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Nation & World
Getting students to enroll, stay in college
A panel of education experts convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore what it will take to reach the Obama administration’s goal of reclaiming the world’s top college graduation rate by 2020.
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Campus & Community
Old Quincy Test Project breaks ground
Alumni, students, and leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences donned hard hats and plunged shovels into the earth to mark the launch of the Old Quincy Test Project.
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Nation & World
Helping teachers hone their techniques
Ronald Heifetz of HKS led the final seminar in this year’s “Talking about Teaching” series, a University-wide effort to explore pedagogical connections across disciplines and Schools.
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Science & Tech
Rules of attraction
Nicholas Christakis, whose research explores how everything from obesity to smoking to happiness spreads among our social networks, is turning his attention to the past, exploring why and how we became the social animals we are.
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Campus & Community
Class Day speakers cover comedy, politics
The Class of 2012 will hear from one of popular culture’s rising stars and get a window into the way Washington works when “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) cast member Andy Samberg and Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank speak on Senior Class Day, May 23, in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Arts & Culture
When the smartphone’s turned off
HBS professor’s experiments and book show the advantages of workplace teams getting together to share responsibility for down time, while keeping productivity high.
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Science & Tech
From Iraq and back, via 9/11 and Harvard
A Harvard authority on ancient Iraq spent several years studying clay tablets looted from that nation, which had been stored in a World Trade Center building that was destroyed on 9/11. The tablets eventually were retrieved, restored, translated, and returned.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Lowell House
Lowell House residents like to de-stress in their free time by doing yoga.
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Campus & Community
Bathing in Chinese language and culture
Expanding language program connects students with broader fields, such as history, art, and culture.
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Campus & Community
The oldest endowed professorship
The product of a gift from a London merchant in 1721, the chair set a tone for how American universities teach students.
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Campus & Community
Alumni’s lives are in her hands
As an editor of Harvard’s hallowed Red Books and obituary writer for Harvard Magazine, Deborah Smullyan finds the beauty and wisdom in a parade of graduates’ retrospectives.
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Nation & World
Improving the world is a serious business
The finalist teams in the first-ever President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship are tackling the problems of nonprofits with the playbook of for-profits.
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Campus & Community
From novel scientists to novel writers
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced the 51 women and men — from across the University and around the world — who will be convening as next year’s Radcliffe Institute fellows.
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Arts & Culture
An art exhibit replete with diversity
“Attached” is this year’s display of senior theses in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Their work is on display through May 24.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College Professors named
Five faculty members were recognized for their excellence in undergraduate teaching this week by being awarded Harvard College Professorships.
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Campus & Community
Making commitment count
A student finds that her involvement in Athena, a gender-empowerment group, has helped to build confidence and community. She has given many hours, and gotten back much.
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Campus & Community
Hits, misses for softball, baseball teams
It’s been an up-and-down season for the women’s softball and men’s baseball teams, both of which hope to cobble together late-season surges.
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Campus & Community
Architecture of experience
Harvard’s distinctive House system, a baker’s dozen of smaller communities, nurtures undergrads to find their passions, and themselves.
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Science & Tech
Crime probe
A Harvard engineering class helps find a metric for a computer scheme that tracks gang violence.
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Campus & Community
Coming Home to Cabot House: Krystal Tung ’13
Find out why Cabot House resident Krystal Tung ’13 says that the place where she lives is also the place where she explores, creates, connects, and, above all, learns.
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Arts & Culture
Love Poems
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story).”
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Nation & World
Educating Harvard, MIT — and the world
Harvard and MIT are joining forces to launch edX, an open-source, online education platform. Leaders from both universities discussed how they hope to transform teaching and learning on campus and around the globe.
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Arts & Culture
‘Breaking Boundaries’ at Arts @ 29 Garden
“Breaking Boundaries: Arts, Creativity and the Harvard Curriculum” was featured at Arts @ 29 Garden, which is an interdisciplinary space where Harvard faculty, students, and visiting artists come together to make art that enhances, embodies, and re-imagines learning.
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Campus & Community
MIT and Harvard announce edX
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.
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Campus & Community
Embracing the arts
The 20th anniversary of Harvard’s Arts First festival, presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Office of Governing Boards, featured 100 music, dance, theater, and multimedia events in a dozen venues.
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Campus & Community
A heroic return
After a three-year hiatus, the Harvard Heroes Recognition Program — which celebrates Harvard staff members who make extraordinary contributions “above and beyond” — will return in a ceremony June 5.
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Nation & World
Middle class woe
The American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists in a Harvard forum on April 27.
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Campus & Community
Exemplary women
Faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on April 26 to honor Emmy Award-winning producer Rebecca Eaton and Harvard undergraduate Naseemah Mohamed ’12, the recipients of the 2012 Women’s Leadership Awards.
