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Campus & Community
How inviting!
The Common Spaces Chairs Project has returned those colorful chairs to the Yard and booked events through the month of April.
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Nation & World
Summers takes the long view
Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers touches on the economy, his time in the White House, and the future of the American job market during a talk at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Nation & World
Pointing youth toward change
Harvard undergraduate group helps to teach leadership skills through after-school workshops in Boston schools and during a trip to Bhutan.
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Campus & Community
John J. Collins Jr.
At Harvard Medical School, John J. Collins Jr. was appointed Assistant in Surgery in 1968 and rose steadily through the academic ranks, serving as Professor of Surgery from 1977 until his retirement as Professor of Surgery, Emeritus in 1999.
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Arts & Culture
Thinking outside the gilded frame
Far from icons of the past, Bettina Burch’s paintings of the HGSE and CGIS community — from janitors to students to deans — gently upend the concept of the “Harvard portrait.”
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Arts & Culture
A passion for unloving art
Australian native Maria Gough, the Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard, studies the Russian and Soviet avant-garde periods because they portray “what the function of the artist is in a revolutionary climate.”
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Campus & Community
Abraham Freedberg
Abraham Freedberg had a long and illustrious medical career at Harvard. He was outstanding in all the metrics of academic excellence. In addition to his research, teaching and patient care, Al (Freedberg preferred to be called Al or A. Stone) had a multidimensional fourth quality that set him apart.
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Campus & Community
J. Richard Gaintner
In 1983, J. Richard Gaintner joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he rose to Professor of Medicine.
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Arts & Culture
Fleeing America
In “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” historian Maya Jasanoff reveals the lesser-known history of loyalists after the Revolution.
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Campus & Community
Planting a research center in the arboretum
With the opening of the Weld Hill facility at Arnold Arboretum, staff members and lab equipment are filling the long-awaited space dedicated to botanical research.
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Science & Tech
A match of climate and history
Professor Michael McCormick has been working with tree-ring experts, bringing the perspective of long-ago writings to understanding environmental conditions.
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Campus & Community
At college, but almost home
When freshman Anna Kelsey realizes she needs something from home, she just walks seven minutes to get it.
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Arts & Culture
All that jazz
In four days of festivities, Harvard celebrates four decades of dedication to a great American musical form.
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Health
Debunking a myth
Studying dead women’s cut-up bodies was not what Katharine Park originally set out to do. But a trip to Florence opened a new chapter in the scholar’s life.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Currier House
The crest of Currier House shows a field of red, representing Harvard, surrounding a simple golden tree. Within their own communal “tree,” Currier residents have been “greening” the way they live.
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Campus & Community
On the go
Freshmen Morgan Powell and Mariah Pewarski balance schoolwork with playing two sports — and wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Campus & Community
Robert M. Goldwyn
Robert M. Goldwyn graduated from Harvard Medical School and later returned there and became Senior Surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Israel Hospitals.
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Nation & World
Fresh paths to success
A dean, a professor, and a former journalist are shaking up education and policy circles with a report that asks: What if not everyone had to go to college to have a good life?
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Nation & World
Making a difference
Across the University, public service programs are thriving, reinforcing Harvard’s founding mission of providing assistance to others.
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Nation & World
Teachers as part of the solution
President of the American Federation of Teachers outlined her “theory of action” for how to improve the nation’s public school system.
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Campus & Community
A moving tribute
Friends and colleagues offered heartfelt remembrances during a memorial service for the Rev. Peter J. Gomes.
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Science & Tech
Regimes won’t halt climate change
Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, says the world should stop waiting for governments to solve the global warming problem. He called on academics to band together to find workable solutions.
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Arts & Culture
Objects of instruction
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and some of Harvard’s leading faculty convened at Harvard Hall on Friday (April 1) to participate in “Teaching with Collections,” a discussion of the University’s treasures and their use in the classroom.
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Campus & Community
Long a Harvardian, now an American
For Marina Betancur and 15 other Harvard employees, a celebration dinner with President Drew Faust was a victory lap on a long, arduous, and rewarding path to citizenship.
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Campus & Community
Faust named 40th Jefferson Lecturer
Drew Faust, eminent historian and president of Harvard University, will deliver the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 2.
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Campus & Community
Belfer Center hosts 2011 Fisher Fellows
The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, announced the spring 2011 Fisher Family Fellows on April 4.
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Campus & Community
Learn to sail with the Crimson Sailing Academy
The Crimson Sailing Academy will host an open house for potential summer campers on May 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The academy is open to youth ages 10-16, and teaches kids how to sail in a safe, fun environment.
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Science & Tech
Fuel cell breakthrough
Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and SiEnergy Systems LLC have demonstrated the first macro-scale thin-film solid-oxide fuel cell. This is the first time a research group has overcome the structural challenges of scaling up the technology to a practical size with a proportionally higher power output.
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Arts & Culture
Secret identity
Michael Fosberg learned of his African-American roots as an adult, and will tell his story at Harvard on April 6 in his one-man play “Incognito.”
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Campus & Community
Poehler express
Comedian Amy Poehler, star of “Parks and Recreation” and a former cast member of the late-night sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live,” has been selected as the 2011 Senior Class Day speaker.
