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Nation & World
Spotlight on Harvard in Brazil
President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Brazil, she is reconnecting with alumni, exchanging ideas with the leaders of local universities, and meeting with Brazilian students who have studied alongside Harvard students or with Harvard faculty in Brazil.
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Campus & Community
Six Harvard students receive Soros Fellowships
Six from Harvard University have been awarded 2011 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.
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Campus & Community
AHA honors Ruhul Abid’s research
A paper by Ruhul Abid was recently selected by the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology as the most outstanding vascular biology paper of 2010.
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Campus & Community
HMS fellowship open for applicants
Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Junior Faculty Merit Scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held March 23
At its 11th meeting of the year on March 23, the Faculty Council heard a review of the joint A.B./M.M. program with the New England Conservatory. They also voted to amend the rules concerning study out of residence and to update the faculty’s media policy. Finally, they heard reports on the activities of undergraduates and…
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Campus & Community
A champion of democracy
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Kennedy School alumna who has restored stability to her war-torn nation, will be the speaker at Harvard’s 360th Commencement, a choice lauded by faculty.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s 360th Commencement
Ticketing and viewing information for alumni/ae, parents, and others regarding Harvard’s Commencement Exercises on May 26.
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Campus & Community
Harry Z. Mellins
Harry Z. Mellins was recruited in 1969 to be chief of diagnostic radiology and residency program director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — a position he held until his death in 2009.
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Science & Tech
Tracking your friends and idols
Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.
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Arts & Culture
Digitizing the classics
Professor works to transform ancient Greek texts and their Arabic translations into an open-access, computerized format that could provide important insights into the development of science.
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Campus & Community
Finding a sense of place
A Harvard undergrad who was a summer intern for a nonprofit in Europe returns for another dose of experience in January.
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Health
‘Circuits of sense and sensibility’
A Harvard biologist succeeds in mapping a neural network for learned olfactory behavior, using a roundworm model to trace the dislike of a particular smell to the reaction that avoids it.
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Nation & World
The road to Chile, Brazil
On her South American trip, Harvard President Drew Faust meets with government and academic leaders, reconnects with Harvard alumni, and views the tangible benefits of the University’s research.
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Campus & Community
Together again
Aisha and Shayna Price are sisters from Hawaii who rock it out in the swimming pool for Harvard’s water polo team.
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Health
A fate in the stars
Astronomy Professor David Charbonneau is as enthusiastic about explaining his field to students as he is about researching faraway planets.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Dudley House Co-op
Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept.
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Arts & Culture
Theater’s new frontiers
Offbeat Director John Tiffany, whose company stages productions in unlikely locales, is using a fellowship year at Radcliffe to explore the ways that people communicate, complete with tics.
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Nation & World
Do ask, do tell
Former Army helicopter pilot finds a home at Ed School, hopes that reversal of policy on gays in military may allow her return to service.
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Campus & Community
Designing a stronger safety net
A new series of free financial planning seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Benefits Office, aims to get employees thinking about retirement long before the last paycheck comes. The next session is April 7.
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Arts & Culture
Just the fax
A traveling exhibition at the Carpenter Center shows off the humble fax as a medium for art, displacing the art of the hand with the foibles of electronic transmission. The exhibition continues to April 10.
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Nation & World
The tipping point
Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.
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Arts & Culture
Breaking the sound barrier
Aaron Dworkin, violinist and founder of the Sphinx Organization, spoke at Harvard about his movement to bring diversity to classical music.
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Campus & Community
On the ball
The Harlem Globetrotters, children from the Martin Luther King School in Cambridge, and Harvard now have something in common — CHEER. And there was plenty of cheering during the Globetrotter’s appearance at Harvard’s Malkin Athletic Center.
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Campus & Community
The snow man
Paul Smith, associate manager of landscape services, leads the ever-ready crew that digs Harvard out all winter.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s efforts to help Japan
The University responds to the tragedy that struck Japan in myriad ways — with a benefit concert, discussions by experts, and a web portal to ease information flow.
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Campus & Community
HKS announces winners of Neustadt and Schelling Awards
One of the nation’s most eminent economists and a dynamic young development economist are recipients of the 2011 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.
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Arts & Culture
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
Jeffrey Quilter, a senior lecturer on anthropology and deputy director for curatorial affairs and curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, introduces the Moche civilization and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.
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Arts & Culture
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
Paul Lawrence, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, offers an integrated explanation of both human behavior and leadership using a scientific approach — and Darwin, too! — to illustrate how good, bad, and misguided leadership are natural to the human condition.
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Arts & Culture
Among the missing
Harvard Extension School instructor Sarah Braunstein’s new novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” plumbs the vulnerability of childhood.
