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Health
Challenge of finding a cure
A large, multidisciplinary panel has recently selected 12 pioneering ideas for attacking type 1 diabetes, ideas selected through a crowdsourcing experiment called the “Challenge,” in which all members of the Harvard community, as well as members of the general public, were invited to answer the question: What do we not know to cure type 1…
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Nation & World
The value of women
If slavery and totalitarianism were the great moral issues of the 19th and 20th centuries, then the worldwide oppression of women and girls will be the defining issue of the 21st, said Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, in a talk at Harvard Medical School’s Carl Walter Amphitheater.
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Campus & Community
High marks for doctoral programs
A national group rates Harvard’s doctoral programs highly in a sweeping new report.
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Campus & Community
Friedman named director of Arboretum
William “Ned” Friedman, an evolutionary biologist who has done extensive research on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants, has been appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum.
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Campus & Community
Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur Award
Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed wins MacArthur award, which she plans to use to further her research on race in America.
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Health
More from spores: How they spread
Researchers discover how fungi developed an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as possible.
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Campus & Community
Social Studies at 50
Nearly 400 gather to celebrate 50th anniversary of the social studies program at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Trials set for body-chilling anaesthesia
Medical researchers at Harvard say they are poised to begin human trials on a suspended-animation technique for surgery patients.
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Campus & Community
Two faculty receive Science of Generosity grants
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Assistant Professor of Psychology Felix Warneken have received grants of $149,000 and $150,000, respectively, from the Science of Generosity, an initiative at the University of Notre Dame.
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Campus & Community
Greyser wins Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School’s Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, has received the 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association in recognition of his “distinguished career contributions to the scientific understanding of sports business.”
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Campus & Community
Karen Putnam named Radcliffe’s associate dean for advancement
Karen Putnam has been appointed associate dean for advancement at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Putnam’s position became effective on Sept. 15.
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Campus & Community
Toffel awarded for environmental research
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.
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Campus & Community
Neuman elected to Human Rights Committee
Gerald Neuman ’80, the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, has been elected to the Human Rights Committee, the premier treaty body in the U.N. human rights system.
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Campus & Community
Center for the Environment welcomes 2010-12 fellows
The Center for the Environment welcomes an incoming group of environmental fellows for the 2010-12 academic years. These four new fellows will join a group of five scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships.
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Science & Tech
Sustainability at Harvard: We are a living lab
A video tour through five case studies of sustainability at Harvard, including: * Student Peer-to-Peer Programs Educate and Inspire * Innovative Solutions that Serve as Models for Other * Greener, Healthier, More Efficient Buildings * Rethinking Campus Operations * Building a Culture of Sustainability
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Campus & Community
Education scholar Gerald Lesser, 84
Gerald Lesser, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), died on Sept. 23 at the age of 84.
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Nation & World
Gordon Brown’s prescription
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prescription for a shaken world economy: Coordinate action, and write a global economic constitution that reflects morality while acknowledging business needs.
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Nation & World
Technology in governance
A two-day Kennedy School conference examined the need to integrate information technology training into the curriculum through a new, long-term initiative.
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Campus & Community
Gordon Brown: UK and US must coordinate economic policy
Gordon Brown warns in speech at Harvard that America and Europe risk a decade of high unemployment and low growth unless new policies are urgently taken to improve global co-operation.
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Nation & World
The oozing fog of war
During a Harvard panel discussion, three authorities on international conflict discussed the complexities on the ground and in international law because of the spreading fog of warfare.
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Science & Tech
Pondering energy’s future
Reducing dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases are the two major challenges facing U.S. energy systems, a visiting federal energy official told a Harvard audience.
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Campus & Community
2,600 miles and one screen apart
Harvard, Boston, and Cambridge officials join with a corporate partner to launch a program that will link distant schools along high-speed connections.
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Nation & World
A backdrop on Islam in America
A teach-in at Harvard tries to put the Ground Zero mosque controversy in a historical context.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, Cisco, BBN Technologies connect with Boston and Cambridge schools
Harvard University announced today (Sept. 22) a new partnership with the cities of Boston and Cambridge designed to bring the world to students — faster and clearer than ever.
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Campus & Community
Faust: Let’s break down boundaries
Harvard President Drew Faust took questions from television journalist Charlie Gibson, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School this year, in a Sanders Theatre forum intended to kick off the school year.
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Campus & Community
New endowed coaching position
A gift from Gregory Lee ’87 and Russell Ball ’88 establishes the Gregory Lee ’87 and Russell Ball ’88 Endowed Coach for Squash. Newly appointed director of squash Mike Way will be the first coach to hold the position.
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Campus & Community
Opening Year Dialogue with President Faust and Charlie Gibson
President Faust and Charlie Gibson’s Opening Year Dialogue was held on Tuesday, September 21, at Sanders Theatre at 4 p.m.
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Arts & Culture
The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’
In a panel discussion, Harvard scholars and performer Amanda Palmer examined the sinister sides and social significance of the American Repertory Theater’s new production of “Cabaret.”
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Campus & Community
Partnerships for Progress — Boston
This work is a key extension of the public service ethic called for in Harvard’s charter, and the University takes great pride in its longstanding partnerships with communities in Boston.
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Nation & World
TV races toward its future
Disney executive Anne Sweeney, Ed.M. ’80, looks at the speed, challenge, and creativity of modern television platforms.
