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Year: 2007
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Nation & World
Author, cultural critic Albert Murray awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medal
Novelist, cultural critic, and poet Albert Murray has been awarded the Du Bois Medal by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The announcement was made April 23 by the institute’s director, Henry Louis Gates Jr., in recognition of Murray’s “contributions to the arts, culture, and the life of the mind.”…
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Kennedy School’s Rodrik claims SSRC’s inaugural Hirschman Prize
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has selected Dani Rodrik, the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, as the first recipient of its newly instituted Albert O. Hirschman Prize.
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GSD awards waterfront project its Green Prize
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to…
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Sports in brief
League picks Shelly Madick pitcher of the week Second-place NEISA finish sends women sailors to nationals Baseball splits with Bears Gilligan Memorial Road Race changes date to May 5
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GSD awards waterfront project its Green Prize
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to…
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SUP builds safe, exciting, productive summers for kids
As summer heats up and school lets out, public officials throughout the Boston area scramble for new ways to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble through summer jobs and activities. As in years past, Harvard undergraduates are answering the call, mentoring low-income children, and recruiting and working with teenage counselors throughout Boston…
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Ursano: Stopping post-traumatic stress disorder before it happens
Mental health professionals are aware of the importance of understanding the kinds of illnesses — such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — that can result from disasters both natural and human-made. But perhaps even more crucial, according to Robert J. Ursano, is that they understand the behaviors associated with such events.
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Verbal beatings hurt as much as sexual abuse
Sticks and stones may break my bones, But names will never hurt me. …
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Corpus team overcomes scanning snags
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela. On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves adept: improvising.
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Big cities are havens for aging population
The phrase “retirement communities” calls to mind a number of different kinds of places — high-end gated communities or whole cities built from scratch in Sun Belt states like Florida and Arizona. Or perhaps even dismal trailer parks under the hot breath of a developer who wants to turn the whole place into high-rise condos.
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Building homes — and understanding
From March 24 to April 2, a unique group of volunteers came together in the community of Ghor Al Safi, Jordan, to build two homes in that community through Habitat for Humanity Jordan. The group consisted of 12 women from Harvard University in the United States and 12 from Dar Al-Hekma College in Saudi Arabia.
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PON honors business leader Wasserstein with Great Negotiator Award
The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School (HLS) presented its 2007 Great Negotiator Award to Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and CEO of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm, on April 2. Wasserstein was selected in August 2006 to receive the award by the executive committee of PON — a network of…
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MacKinnon: ‘Women are not human’
Women are not in charge. Worldwide, it is men — not their gender counterparts — who have power over families, clans, villages, cities, and nations.
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Corpus team overcomes scanning snags
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela Monday (April 23). On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves…
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OFA names Arts First grant winners
OfA grants for dance OfA grant for literature OfA grants for multidisciplinary arts OfA grants for music OfA grants for theater OfA grant for traditional cultural arts OfA grants for visual arts
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OfA announces undergraduate prize winners
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the winners of the annual undergraduate arts prizes presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2006-07 academic year.
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HGSE makes creative efforts visible
The eighth annual anthology of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s ALANA (African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American Alliance) organization was released Friday afternoon (April 20) in a multimedia celebration in the Eliot Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall.
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Vanished kingdoms redux
Janet Elliott, the daughter of a turn-of-the-century railroad tycoon and a member of New York’s social register, had her life pretty well mapped out for her, and aside from deciding which of the eligible young men of her class she would consent to marry, it wasn’t a life with a whole lot of choices.
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Mexico: Expedition to Yaxchilan
Harvard scholars travel to Central America in their mission to preserve ancient Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions and iconography.
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Mexico: Ian Graham, explorer
As an explorer, archaeologist, draftsman and photographer, Graham has devoted his life to making the ancient comprehensible.
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Harvard professor of economics awarded the John Bates Clark Medal
The American Economic Association has announced that Susan Athey, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard University, is the 2007 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal.
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Advances in genetics can help kids learn
Education was becoming a no-brainer, some people at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) complained. Kurt Fischer and his colleagues looked at the revolution in brain scanning, genetics, and other biological technologies and decided that most teachers and students weren’t getting much benefit from them.
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Radhika Nagpal nets prestigious NSF award for up-and-coming researchers
Radhika Nagpal, assistant professor of computer science in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The honor is considered one of the most prestigious for up-and-coming researchers in science and engineering.
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Women in science: Good news, bad news
It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. At Harvard’s fourth National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science, it was clear why female scientists need to keep meeting like this.
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When fish first started biting
Before fish began to invade land, about 365 million years ago, they had some big problems to solve. They needed to come up with new ways to move, breathe, and eat.
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Researchers develop ALS mouse stem cell line
A team of Harvard researchers has used embryonic stem cells, derived from mice carrying a human gene known to cause a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), to create an in vitro model of the always-fatal neurodegenerative disease.
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Kennedy Scholarship Program to expand
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced today (April 13) a plan to expand the Kennedy Scholarship Program, which brings scholars from the United Kingdom to the two institutions.
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Military model may help close gap
Does the military have anything to teach educators? Absolutely, said Brookings Institution senior fellow Hugh Price, who, 18 months out of Yale Law School in 1968, gave up his career to become a youth counselor.