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Nation & World
In the clutches of the Taliban
New York Times reporter David Rohde discusses the seven months he was held captive by the Taliban on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
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Science & Tech
Global warnings
Harvard Kennedy School panelists say that the slippage in mainstream media outlets means more voices argue about environmental issues, prompting the public to have difficulty sorting out the cacophony and even to doubt global warming.
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Science & Tech
National Institute on Aging funds two new “Roybal Center” programs at Harvard
Harvard Medical School professor Nicholas Christakis, whose work focuses on social networks, and economics professor David Laibson, who examines how and why people make the decisions they do regarding savings…
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Campus & Community
Art for students’ sake
With an assist from the Graduate School of Design, student art exhibit brightens Mass Hall corridor.
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Arts & Culture
One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
The Harvard Business School’s Marco Iansiti teams up with Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky to disclose collaborative knowhow on strategizing and mobilizing large-scale operational projects, using 2009’s unleashing of Windows 7 as a prime example.
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Arts & Culture
The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children — And Its Aftermath
Susan Clancy controversially bucks the norm with new research on child sexual abuse, which suggests that well-meaning professionals’ assumptions about abuse are wrong, and can actually do more harm than good.
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Arts & Culture
New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to Antinoos
Those marvelous ancient Greeks. Thousands of years later, Christopher P. Jones uncorks even more of their allure, probing how mortals became demigods, and why these ancient heroes and heroines were idolized after death.
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Nation & World
Listen to the people
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the public has turned on both political parties in the last three years, in each case because it thought it was being ignored. When politicians do that, he said, they will suffer the consequences.
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Arts & Culture
Red hot for bluegrass
Harvard hosts one-day symposium on bluegrass music, past and present on Saturday (Feb. 6).
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Health
A molecule that destroys normal metabolism is found
Overeating in mice triggers a molecule once considered to be only involved in detecting and fighting viruses to also destroy normal metabolism, leading to insulin resistance and setting the stage…
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Campus & Community
FAS continues greening its scene
With a sweeping program in place to reduce energy use, FAS is making major inroads in savings, both in power and money.
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Campus & Community
The Cynthia Wight Rossano Endowed Prize Fund
A new endowed prize fund, established by Daniel Pierce ’56, has been named in honor of Cynthia Wight Rossano for her services to Harvard University and to commemorate Harvard’s history.
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Campus & Community
Not afraid to switch focus
IT technician Jeff Mayes tries and masters new fields, from computers to photography.
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Campus & Community
HRES establishes 2010-11 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 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces spring resident fellows
Six individuals have been selected for resident fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP).
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Campus & Community
The Tennis Academy at Harvard provides tennis instruction for all ages
The Tennis Academy at Harvard (TAH), which offers summer instruction for children and adults, will start its third season on June 14 at the Soldiers Field Athletic Complex.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Forest conservation finance initiative seeks to protect water
The Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET), one of the largest funding sources in Massachusetts for water quality projects, recently conferred a $25,000 grant to Harvard’s center for research and education in forestry and ecology, the Harvard Forest.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
Last year, pirates off the coast of Somalia attacked 217 ships, hijacked 47, and snatched $60 million in ransom.
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Campus & Community
Center for the Study of World Religions names Francis X. Clooney next director
Francis X. Clooney, a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus, has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1.
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Campus & Community
M-RCBG fellows and scholars welcomed for 2010 spring semester
A former Brazilian electricity regulator and a management professor from the Indian Institute of Technology are among the incoming visitors being welcomed this spring at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Scott Duke Kominers receives 2010 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize
Scott Duke Kominers ’09, a student in the Harvard Business Economics Ph.D. program, was awarded the 2010 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student on Jan. 14 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.
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Campus & Community
Jack Strominger receives AAI mentoring award
Jack Strominger, the Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, was recently honored with the AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award “in recognition of exemplary career contributions to a future generation of scientists,” by the American Association of Immunologists.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Staff Artists Community to host first meeting on Feb. 24
The Harvard Staff Artists Community (HSAC) invites all staff artists to its first meeting on Feb. 24 from noon to 1 p.m. at Area 1 in the Gutman Library conference center.
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Campus & Community
Poussaint to receive the Camille O. Cosby World of Children Award
Alvin F. Poussaint will be honored with the Camille O. Cosby World of Children Award on March 13 at the 2010 World of Children Award Celebration.
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Campus & Community
Arts Medalist named
Kicking off the Arts First festivities, visual artist, writer, and curator Catherine Lord ’70 will receive the 2010 Harvard Arts Medal.
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Arts & Culture
The future is now
Harvard senior reflects on his filmmaking, including a Siberian documentary and a futuristic fantasy.
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Campus & Community
Interpreter of cultures
Harvard professor Ali Asani uses art to spread understanding of Islam and its underpinnings.
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Nation & World
Getting Haiti to stand again
Harvard authorities probe what needs to happen now, in six months, in a decade.
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Nation & World
Break, but no vacation
Harvard students volunteer for service projects overseas — targeting malnutrition and aiding literacy and athletics — during winter break.
