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Campus & Community
Heinrich Dieter Holland
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Heinrich Dieter Holland, Harry C. Dudley Professor of Economic Geology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Holland was one of the founding fathers of the geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits.
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Campus & Community
William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March, 5, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William N. Lipscomb, Jr., Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Lipscomb was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976 for his studies…
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Campus & Community
Mary Ellen Avery M.D.
Dr. Mary Ellen Avery died on December 4, 2011 at the age of 84. She was best known to the world for her ground breaking research on the cause of hyaline membrane disease (later called Respiratory Distress Syndrome), an illness that claimed the lives of an estimated 10,000 infants in the United States each year.…
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Campus & Community
The creative crusader
Radcliffe Day featured a celebration of the arts and the award of the Radcliffe Medal to actress and arts activist Jane Alexander, as well as a panel discussion that explored the challenges artists face.
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Health
Mouthful of clues
Harvard researchers have demonstrated that the levels of barium in teeth correspond with breast-feeding. Importantly, they said, the barium levels can remain in fossils that are thousands of years old. This provides new opportunities to study breast-feeding behavior among Neanderthals and early humans.
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Campus & Community
Dorrit Cohn
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 2, 2013, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Dorrit Cohn, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cohn was internationally recognized as a major literary theorist and was one of the first women to…
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Campus & Community
Mary Ellen Wohl
Dr. Mary Ellen Wohl, known internationally for her research in pediatric pulmonary diseases, passed away at age 77 in October, 2010 at Rogerson House in Jamaica Plain. Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, she had served as Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseases at Children’s Hospital Boston for 22 years and Director of…
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Science & Tech
Songs from the stars
Gerhard Sonnert, a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has created a new website that allows listeners to literally hear the music of the stars.
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Campus & Community
Sharing a love for science
Nearly 400 local eighth-grade students came to Harvard’s campus for SEAS’s third annual Science and Engineering Showcase.
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Campus & Community
Mission accomplished
The Class of 2013 arrived in 2009 eager, wild-eyed, and excited — and four years later, they would leave just the same way.
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Campus & Community
Winfrey’s Commencement address
Oprah Winfrey, the Afternoon Program’s principal speaker at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement, addressed the Class of 2013. This is the text of her speech as delivered on May 30.
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Campus & Community
Winfrey: Failure is just movement
Harvard Commencement speaker Oprah Winfrey addressed the Class of 2013 under sunny skies and called for them to accept failure, and then triumph over it. During the Afternoon Program, Harvard President Drew Faust recapped the year and called for increased federal funding for research universities.
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Campus & Community
Oprah Winfrey Commencement Speech | Harvard Commencement 2013
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and media entrepreneur, addresses graduates at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement on May 30, 2013.
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Campus & Community
To graduate from Harvard | Harvard Commencement
This video captures the tradition and emotion, the pomp and circumstance of Commencement Day at Harvard — through the eyes of a graduating student.
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Campus & Community
Conferring of Honorary Degrees | Harvard Commencement 2013
The conferring of honorary degrees at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement at Tercentenary Theatre on May 30, 2013.
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Campus & Community
Board of Overseers 2013 election results
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association today announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
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Arts & Culture
Shining a light on an era
A new work at the American Repertory Theater, developed by members of the A.R.T. Institute and part of the four-year National Civil War Project, explores the story of escaped slave Anthony Burns and the work of the Boston abolitionists.
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Campus & Community
Joy by the Yard
Snapshots of Harvard’s 2013 Commencement, a day marked by sunshine and warmth as well as rituals, honors, and good wishes.
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Campus & Community
Latin Oration Fanaye Yirga | Harvard Commencement 2013
Latin Speaker Fanaye Yirga speaks at the 362nd Harvard Commencement Ceremony at Tercentenary Theatre on May 30, 2013.
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Campus & Community
Graduate English speech Jon Murad | Harvard Commencement 2013
Graduate Speaker Jon Murad speaks at the 362nd Harvard Commencement Ceremony at Tercentenary Theatre on May 30, 2013.
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Campus & Community
Undergraduate Speaker Felix de Rosen | Harvard Commencement 2013
Undergraduate Speaker Felix de Rosen speaks at the 362nd Harvard Commencement Ceremony at Tercentenary Theatre on May 30, 2013.
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Campus & Community
Harvard China Fund offers student opportunities in China
Established in late 2006, the Harvard China Fund (HCF) is Harvard’s “academic venture fund” for China. In service of the entire University, it supports teaching and research on China and promotes Harvard’s presence there.
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Campus & Community
Harvard degrees, certificates for 2013
Harvard issued 7,365 degrees and certificates at its 362nd Commencement on May 30.
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Campus & Community
He made the most of his opportunities
A biomedical engineering concentrator and Quincy House resident, Scott Yim’s senior project explored using naturally derived materials such as bamboo to help reduce the cost of medical devices and biomaterials in the developing world.
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Campus & Community
‘A lifetime of limitless possibility’
Carl F. Muller ’73, J.D. ’76, M.B.A. ’76, is stepping down as president of the Harvard Alumni Association and Catherine A. Gellert ’93 will take his place.
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Campus & Community
The path to fighting injustice
Lillian Langford, graduating with degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, plans to use her experience working in international law and human rights and her experience at Harvard to continue fighting injustice.
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Nation & World
Take-home lessons
Viridiana Rios is a native of Mexico City. Rios, a graduating doctoral student in Harvard’s Department of Government, also is an adviser to Mexico’s minister of finance.
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Campus & Community
A year of change, month by month
2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute funds student research, travel in Japan
Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RI) promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.