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Arts & Culture
Channeling Carson McCullers
Artists and performers Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik, along with Harvard graduate and director Kay Matschullat ’77, discussed their upcoming musical product at one of Harvard’s newest art spaces.
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Nation & World
The hard way
Four people who risked their careers and even their lives to stand on principle shared their stories in an event sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights.
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Nation & World
Nuclear weapons, primal fears
With 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world, analysts gathered at Harvard with a message: Just say none — but prepare for the worst.
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Health
Tracking molecules at video rate
A novel type of biomedical imaging, made possible by advances in microscopy from scientists at Harvard University, is so fast and sensitive it can capture “video” of blood cells squeezing through capillaries.
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Campus & Community
Registration open for 14-day reading course
Registration is open for the Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies. The fee is $150.
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Campus & Community
Sampson named to Office of Justice advisory board
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder named Harvard Professor Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, to the newly created Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board on Nov. 23.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 1
A summary of the Faculty Council meeting held on Dec. 1.
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Campus & Community
Generally, a happy anniversary
As Harvard’s Gen Ed curriculum expands, it’s drawing ever-widening interest from students and faculty after its first year.
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Nation & World
Echoes of Tiananmen Square
In her freshman seminar, lecturer Rowena He sheds light on the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on dissent by melding the personal with the academic.
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Arts & Culture
Making sense of the truth
Harvard philosophy professor Mark Richard explores the philosophy of language — and loves a good live music show.
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Health
Keeping HIV out of the cradle
A Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative trial that gave HIV-positive mothers in Botswana antiretroviral drugs during the months after birth showed a dramatic reduction in the transmission of the virus from mothers to breast-fed babies.
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Arts & Culture
Feeling the pinch
Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman’s gripping history of FDR’s most prominent — and turbulent — Supreme Court justices plays out in his book, “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices.”
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Kirkland House
Within the dark-paneled Junior Common Room of Kirkland House, comedic duo Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the masterminds behind the teenage hilarity in the films “Dumb and Dumber” and “There’s Something About Mary,” entertained a crowd recently as part of the popular series “Conversations with Kirkland.”
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Arts & Culture
Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror
Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried and his son, Gregory, chair of Suffolk University’s Philosophy Department, co-author this critique of government-sanctioned torture and surveillance.
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Health
Life support for medical faculty
Shore Fellowships provide important breathing room for junior faculty members pressed by the demands of work and home life.
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Arts & Culture
Yalta: The Price of Peace
Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History S.M. Plokhy uncovers the daily dynamics of the 1945 Yalta Conference and embroiders them with items behind subsequent recrimination about the conference results, such as FDR’s ill health and the presence of probable Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
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Campus & Community
Greening the Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School makes quick progress in efforts to conserve energy use, promote recycling.
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Campus & Community
In search of Captain Nemo
In this Student Voice column, a senior talks about how he learned to chart his own course while at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Choral director honors tradition
Harvard’s Holden Choirs use one word to describe their new director, Andrew Clark: energy. Clark and Kevin Leong conduct a holiday concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 10.
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Nation & World
Italy and Africa, entwined
Students in Giuliana Minghelli’s new course on cultural migrations between Italy and Africa get an up-close view of the colonial era, witnessing a performance by one of the assigned authors and developing their own creative responses.
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Science & Tech
Ice sheet in peril? Gravity to the rescue
Gravity’s surprising effects when the Earth’s ice sheets melt can help to stabilize ones, such as those found in West Antarctica, that are grounded below sea level.
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Campus & Community
Star count of the universe may triple, new study suggests
A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated.
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Campus & Community
Scholars venerable
Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.
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Health
Major step in autism testing
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and the University of Utah have developed the best biologically based test for autism to date. The test was able to detect the disorder in individuals with high-functioning autism with 94 percent accuracy.
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Campus & Community
‘100 Reasons To Give’
The Harvard Community Gifts campaign, which kicked off in December with a new theme — “100 Reasons To Give” — is accepting donations via payroll deduction until Jan. 21.
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Nation & World
Giant steps
Scholars and editors debate and celebrate the legacy of their late mentor, Samuel P. Huntington.
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Arts & Culture
Don’t stop the music
A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz explored the American musical in the 21st century during a discussion at Oberon.
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Campus & Community
Renewing Harvard’s library system
Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.
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Nation & World
Innovative education
In a speech, Arizona State president presents new ideas that could fuel higher educational innovation over the next 40 years.
