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Campus & Community
CfA shows schoolchildren the stars
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is giving middle school children in three Massachusetts towns a taste of astronomy, using robotic telescopes they control themselves to fuel their interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Arts & Culture
Women on the move
A new Schlesinger Library exhibit, “To Know the Whole World,” introduces an interactive Web site on women’s travel writing.
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Arts & Culture
In defense of books
Harvard Library director pens book that in itself is an ode to books.
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Science & Tech
Wizard at circuits, physics
Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.
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Nation & World
Citizen spies, spied-on citizens
An exhibit of Czech secret-police photos from the Communist era, at Harvard through Dec. 21, shows Big Brother as unintentional artist.
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Health
Turning genetic trash to treasure
John Rinn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Broad Institute, overcame a rocky start in life through a passion for biology and discovered a new category of RNAs.
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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
Around the Schools: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering a wealth of short courses, seminars, and events designed to provide more work or more play, depending on your preference, from Jan. 4 to 24.
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Campus & Community
Lohre named NCC president-elect
Kathryn M. Lohre has been elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches (NCC) by the NCC Governing Board.
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Campus & Community
Rockefeller Fellows chosen for 2010-11
Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard on Nov. 20-21, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
Two Harvard Business School professors, Nancy F. Koehn and Rajiv Lal, have weighed in on the Harvard Business School Web site with their best estimates of how the holiday shopping season will play out. One sees a flat or slightly improved sales period, while the other is guardedly optimistic.
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Nation & World
Writers at Risk
A Harvard instructor, concerned about literary artists threatened overseas, proposes Writers at Risk, an academic harbor.
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Campus & Community
Niall Ferguson wins International Emmy for ‘The Ascent of Money’
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson’s four-part documentary, “The Ascent of Money” (2009), was named Best Documentary at the 37th International Emmy Awards in New York City on Nov. 23.
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Campus & Community
Wassarman named director of AEP
Rebecca Wassarman has been named director of Academic Engagement Programs at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Campus & Community
PBK welcomes new members
The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, has elected 48 seniors to its Class of 2010.
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Campus & Community
Coming and going at Harvard
Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation presents 2009 conscience and integrity award
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard presented the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to slain Sri Lankan newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge and the journalists of Afghanistan on Nov. 17.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Law School
Hundreds of Harvard Law School (HLS) students, faculty, and staff gathered in the School’s Pound Hall for a “Thanksgiving for the Troops” event on Nov. 18 to raise money and collect items for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute awards Japanese studies prizes
The Reischauer Institute names Audrey Ji-eun Kim ’09 and Kathryn Handlir, A.M. ’09, winners of its annual award for outstanding essays on Japan-related topics.
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Campus & Community
Forests focus of gift
Paul Zofnass ’69, M.B.A. ’73, has become the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s (HMNH) largest donor since its founding in 1998.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College has launched a new online Plan of Study tool to help undergraduates outline the courses they will take throughout their four years at Harvard.
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Health
Forward into the past
As it celebrates its 150th anniversary, the Museum of Comparative Zoology is acknowledging its past and looking to its future as a source of zoological knowledge.
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Campus & Community
Seeding new ventures at Radcliffe
The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study will look to advance research and promote cooperation among faculty members by providing resources and space that foster collaboration.
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Nation & World
Drawing attention
Jytte Klausen, author and research associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, explored the cartoon controversy over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper in 2005, offering her take on the unrest chronicled in her new book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World.”
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Health
Obesity trends will snuff out health gains from decline in smoking
If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by Harvard and…
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Campus & Community
Voluntary retirement program
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offered a customized voluntary retirement program to 127 eligible faculty members. At the same time, four of Harvard’s graduate and professional schools unveiled similar plans to eligible members of their faculties.
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Health
Mesoamerican health plan
Jaime Sepulveda, former Mexican health official and a current director at the Gates Foundation, outlined plans to improve health for the poorest residents of Mesoamerica.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with retiring HBS Dean Jay Light
On Dec. 2, Jay Light, who has been dean of the Business School for the past five years, told the HBS faculty that he is retiring in June. After shepherding the School through some of the most demanding times in its history, he said he was looking forward to having more time to write, to…
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Campus & Community
Cool science. Interesting art?
It’s hard to tell whether the microscopic worms Brian Knep experiments with and portrays in his show at Judi Rotenberg Gallery are his material or his collaborators. And ultimately, that’s problematic.