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Nation & World
2011 Harvard University Commencement Address by Liberian President Sirleaf
President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, speaks at Harvard’s 2011 Commencement afternoon exercises at history Tercentenary Theater on May 26, 2011.
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Campus & Community
2011 Harvard University Commencement Address by President Faust
President Drew Faust speaks at Harvard’s historic Tercentenary Theater during Commencement afternoon exercises on May 26, 2011
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Campus & Community
2011 Harvard University Class Day Speech by Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler addresses the class of 2011 during Commencement week at Harvard’s history Tercentenary Theater.
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Health
A focus on battling tuberculosis
Scientists from around New England gathered at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to discuss the latest research and findings about tuberculosis at the Fifth Annual New England Tuberculosis Symposium.
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Health
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire
Speakers at a Harvard School of Public Health conference on smoking hailed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s work to give the Food and Drug Administration new regulatory power over tobacco products and said, if wielded properly, it could prove a key weapon for better health.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy named senior associate provost
Mary Lee Kennedy, executive director of knowledge and library services at Harvard Business School, has been named senior associate provost for the Harvard Library.
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Science & Tech
From A to Zeega
Three Harvard affiliates nab a big new-media prize, and marvel at the University’s converging forces that mix the digital age with traditional scholarship.
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Arts & Culture
Art and the immigrants
Through an innovative program, immigrants explore the Harvard Art Museums’ galleries, polishing their English skills and learning lessons in American democracy.
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Health
For love of the creepy, crawly
Biologists from around the world are on campus this week for an international conference on invertebrate morphology sponsored by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
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Campus & Community
Q&A on Harvard in Allston
The leaders of Harvard’s Allston Work Team discuss their recommendations on how the University might proceed in planning for its properties in the neighborhood.
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Arts & Culture
A sound welcome
The arrival of the first components of the new Fisk Opus 139 organ for the Memorial Church was welcomed with song on June 20.
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Health
Clues on how flowering plants spread
Researchers at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum have highlighted female competition among plants, saying it is a new factor that could have driven the mystifying diversity of flowering plants.
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Campus & Community
Come on, Eileen
Workers at Harvard’s Biological Laboratories organize a team to raise funds for cancer research, and to support ill colleague Eileen Snow.
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Health
Cell’s linchpin protein found
After decades of failed efforts, researchers have discovered, through a combination of digital database mining and laboratory assays, the linchpin protein that drives mitochondria’s calcium machinery.
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Campus & Community
2011 Harvard Commencement Timelapse
Experience all the hard work and excitement that goes into setting up and closing down Commencement week in four minutes.
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Campus & Community
Recommendations for Allston
The Harvard University Allston Work Team presented its recommendations to Harvard President Drew Faust June 16. The report reaffirms the University’s commitment to Allston and points to development options in the next decade, including science facilities, housing, and a private-sector enterprise research campus.
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Science & Tech
In the Arboretum, another world
The Arboretum is so serene and languid it can seem almost imaginary. On a warm summer day, dogs and runners and bicyclists all share the nearly silent space under the shade of giant and rare trees of odd shapes and sizes.
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Campus & Community
Surrounded by nature & reflected in it
From the oversize windows in the room called “the Fishbowl” at Currier House, you can see lush green grass and blossoming trees on alternate sloping hillsides.
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Campus & Community
Ramanathan honored as Pew Scholar
Harvard University’s Sharad Ramanathan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Justice Goes Global
Michael J. Sandel, the Harvard University political philosopher, is a rock star in Asia, and people in China, Japan and South Korea scalp tickets to hear him..
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Campus & Community
TV time tied to diabetes, death
People who spend more hours in front of the television are at greater risk of dying, or developing diabetes and heart disease…
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Campus & Community
Century-old tortilla chip in a Harvard collection
Harvard has been collecting things for a long time, probably beginning with the donation of a library by its namesake, John Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Celebrating arts, athletics, scholarship
These photos offer an in-depth look into life at Winthrop House.
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Science & Tech
Hyper-public spaces
A symposium sponsored by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society explored the design of public and private spaces in the digital realm.
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Health
How ovarian cancer spreads
Harvard Medical School researchers find that ovarian cancer cells use mechanical force to move through tissue and colonize additional organs.
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Campus & Community
Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants announced
The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has announced the 2011 recipients of the Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants.
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Science & Tech
History shines through the glass
Researchers are examining the Harvard Semitic Museum’s collection of ancient glass for clues about the people who made it and their interactions with other societies through trade.
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Health
A living laser
In a new report, Harvard researchers Malte Gather and Seok-Hyun Yun describe how a single cell genetically engineered to express green fluorescent protein can be used to amplify the light particles called photons into nanosecond-long pulses of laser light.
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Campus & Community
Human cell becomes living laser
Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.