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Arts & Culture
How the West was written
Western poet Katie Peterson, a Radcliffe Fellow, shares her sense of desert life on a vast canvas with startling intimacy.
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Arts & Culture
Where the Renaissance still lives
At Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, more than 30 scholars gather for three to 10 months to pursue their studies on the Italian Renaissance: its music, history, economics, science, politics, and art.
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Health
Light used to map effect of neurons on one another
Harvard scientists have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons’ ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons interact…
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Campus & Community
Poetry in motion
A novice poet learns her craft by presenting her work in front of open-mic audiences at Adams House.
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Campus & Community
HUL names deputy director
Helen Shenton, the head of collection care for the British Library, has been appointed deputy director of the Harvard University Library.
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Campus & Community
Tracking insects for work and play
Gary Alpert, entomology officer for Environmental Health and Safety, helps to manage pests and environmental standards at Harvard, but in his free time he’s an ant biologist.
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Science & Tech
Web wizardry
Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.
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Science & Tech
Accelerator Fund boon to research
The Harvard Office of Technology Development’s Accelerator Fund helps researchers advance their work to the point where it’s attractive to private industry.
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Campus & Community
The personal side of economics
Harvard’s newest tenured economics professor tries to craft policy solutions that match the ways that we behave.
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Arts & Culture
A tale of two continents
English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.
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Nation & World
When the economy crashes
Harvard Business School exhibit examines “Bubbles, Panics, and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s.”
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Campus & Community
SmartTALK Family Night
Harvard-assisted SmartTALK evening at Dorchester school helps students to develop homework skills, with family participation.
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Arts & Culture
Entrance, stage left
Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.
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Campus & Community
Taming the energy beast
Greenhouse gas emissions drop 10 percent as Harvard eyes 2016 goal.
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Arts & Culture
‘Shakespeare Exploded’
A.R.T. leads effort to keep Shakespeare’s plays relevant for modern times, with its primary mission what his likely was: to lure audiences into the theater.
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Arts & Culture
All fired up
The Harvard Ceramics Program turns 40 this year and says goodbye to its longtime director Nancy Selvage.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
For the January Experience, Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is offering students two opportunities to “dig in.”
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Campus & Community
Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82
Dell H. Hymes, 82, an influential linguistic anthropologist and folklorist who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1960, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 13.
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Campus & Community
Burgin awarded fellowship
Angus Burgin, who received A.B, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, is among eight individuals who have been awarded fellowships as part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Visiting Scholars Program for 2009-10.
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Campus & Community
Spurling named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week
Freshman forward Kaitlin Spurling of the Harvard women’s hockey team was named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week on Dec. 15 after netting the game-winning goal in the second period of the Crimson’s 2-1 victory over UConn.
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Campus & Community
KITA and Harvard connect to advance Korean Scholarship
Harvard University and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) recently announced an agreement (Dec. 10) to advance modern Korean scholarship at the University.
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Campus & Community
Lin takes home Ivy League Player of the Week award
Jeremy Lin ’10 was named Ivy Player of the Week for the third time this season.
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Campus & Community
Dowling awarded the Glenn A. Fry Medal in Physiological Optics
John E. Dowling, the Gordon and Llura Gund Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard, was awarded the Glenn A. Fry Medal in Physiological Optics during a ceremony at the Great Lakes Vision Research Conference in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 21.
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Campus & Community
Harvard School of Public Health predoctoral grant available
Predoctoral training slots are available for the spring 2010 term on the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) training grant “Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Biodefense.” HSPH students from all departments are encouraged to apply.
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Campus & Community
HSPH honors The New York Times
The Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) Center for Health Communication honored The New York Times at a luncheon event at the Harvard Club of New York City on Dec. 4 for “distinguished journalism in public health.”
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Campus & Community
Jordan scholars honored at luncheon
Longtime supporters of Harvard College financial aid, Gerald R. (Jerry) Jordan Jr. and his family established the Gerald Jordan Family Scholarship in 1995-96 to ensure that undergraduate students in need of financial support are able to attend the College.
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Campus & Community
Fulbright Scholars Program awards 21 from Harvard with grants
Twenty-one foreign scholars and professionals from Harvard have been named Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipients for 2009-10.