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Campus & Community
HMS professor receives honors for reconstructive microsurgery
Julian Pribaz of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery’s 2011 Harry J. Buncke Lecturer.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s Herzlinger addresses House Republican Conference
Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently addressed the annual House Republican Conference retreat in Baltimore regarding health care.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College senior wins Churchill Scholarship
Jonathan P. Wang ’11 has won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship for students in science, math, and engineering.
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Campus & Community
Melvin R. Seiden, I Tatti Council member, dies at 80
I Tatti Council founding member Melvin R. Seiden died suddenly on Jan. 14.
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Health
Killing the ‘fiery serpent’
International health workers are on the verge of eliminating guinea worm disease from the planet, marking the second time humanity has eliminated a malady that once plagued millions.
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Campus & Community
Finding a campus rhythm
Sgt. Kevin Bryant has studied everything from the Bible to Buddhist meditation to kenpo karate. As HUPD’s diversity and community liaison, he brings an appreciation for Harvard’s many cultures to his police work.
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Arts & Culture
Troubled youth
Linda Schlossberg’s debut novel, “Life in Miniature,” depicts a mother’s mental illness and a daughter’s coming of age.
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Arts & Culture
In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field
Jonathan Losos, Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, edits this collection of essays by leading scientists, including Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman and Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard historian Janet Browne, and many others.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Currier House
Unlike the other undergraduate residences at Harvard, Currier House on the Radcliffe Quadrangle is named solely for a woman.
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Campus & Community
Medical School mends its ways
Harvard Medical School has just kicked off its five-year, $20 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan and expects to start realizing savings as soon as the spring.
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Campus & Community
History in the making
When the Berlin Wall fell, student Mary Lewis knew she should study the past. Now a professor, she is an authority on how France evolved.
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Arts & Culture
Art by degrees
Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.
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Arts & Culture
Scholarship beyond words
Harvard classes and a new journal embrace an emerging wave of doctoral learning beyond the written word that uses film, photo, audio, and other communication channels.
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Arts & Culture
Glimpses of screenwriting
Harvard grad Roland Tec, a filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and Harvard graduate, explored the inner workings of his craft during a January arts intensive.
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Nation & World
Shock amid the service
A winter break trip to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico shows the realities of poverty to a group of Harvard undergraduates.
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Arts & Culture
An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France.
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Arts & Culture
What Is Mental Illness?
Richard McNally, a professor of psychology, explores the many contemporary attempts to define what mental disorder really is, and offers questions for patients and professionals alike to help understand and cope with the sorrows and psychopathologies of everyday life.
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Nation & World
Turning on the lights
Like much of Africa, Liberia relies on ineffective, dirty sources of energy. Coming off a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey has one big goal: to transform the country’s electrical grid from the bottom up.
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Campus & Community
HRES establishes 2011-12 rents for Harvard University housing
In accordance with the University’s fair market rent policy, Harvard Real Estate Services has announced the proposed rent for Harvard University Housing for 2011-12.
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Campus & Community
From Russia, with love
A Harvard student leader travels to Russia for a firsthand look at how that country’s government works.
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Nation & World
Changing how teachers improve
A new initiative headed by a Harvard scholar aims to transform the way teachers improve their performance, and to overhaul the nation’s public schools in the process.
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Science & Tech
Guiding discoveries to the public
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development tries to ensure that the public sees the benefits of Harvard’s research by licensing new technology to companies.
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Science & Tech
Innovate, create
From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.
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Campus & Community
A break with the past
Harvard undergraduates and College administrators are looking back on winter break 2011 to evaluate the many new programs, and to ponder changes. One thing is already clear: winter break provided experiences not usually available to students during the semester.
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Campus & Community
Winter storm update: Normal business operations and class schedules to resume
Snow removal and storm related operations will continue this afternoon and tonight across the University to ensure roads, sidewalks, and buildings are accessible. Harvard will resume normal business operations and…
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Arts & Culture
The master’s chair
Liz Glynn is this year’s Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, a visiting artist position in place at VES since 1986. The idea: welcome a working artist for a week of intense interchange with students.
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Campus & Community
‘Made of fire’
Harvard wrestlers work toward a turnaround after an early-season losing streak.
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Campus & Community
Winter storm update: Modified scheduling and staffing plans
In response to the winter storm moving through the area, many Schools will either be canceling classes or operating on modified schedules on Wednesday. Students, faculty, and staff should check…
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Campus & Community
Help on the home front
Harvard programs assist employees trying to juggle careers and families, bridging coverage gaps.
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Arts & Culture
Identity issues
In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.
