Featured series 
Year: 2009
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Arts & Culture
The Race Between Education and Technology
Goldin and Katz discuss the U.S. educational and technological meltdown circa 1980, and examine the glory days of the 20th century when the country’s educational system made it the richest in the nation.
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Arts & Culture
Casablanca: Movies and Memory
Conley translates this French anthropologist’s spellbinding narrative on his love affair with film and how our memories closely connect to the cinematic. Here’s lookin’ at you, kids.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
As part of an effort to develop creative solutions to Harvard’s projected long-term budget deficit, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard College recently launched an online Idea Bank where community members can submit recommendations for reducing costs and generating revenues.
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Campus & Community
Gates honored with literary award
Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepted the 2009 Sarah Josepha Hale Award on Oct. 3 at the Newport Opera House in Newport, N.H.
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Health
Plant diversity, altitude leave collectors breathless in China
China’s Hengduan Mountains are a biodiversity hotspot; so the Harvard Herbaria’s Dave Boufford and a team of colleagues went there and discovered 30 new species.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
Political operative Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Kennedy School, spoke last week at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum and regaled the audience with some of last year’s election bloopers.
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Arts & Culture
Ripple effect
A new permanent art installation in Weld Boathouse is turning heads. Artist Ellen Kennelly ’85 took a crash course in flameworking and began these masterpieces in glass.
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Campus & Community
HSPH professor Stephen Lagakos dies at 63
Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years old.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Graduate School of Design
At the Graduate School of Design, there’s plenty of learning still going on inside classrooms. But, as in many other areas, the Web is also proving to be a gateway to novel ways of sharing ideas and building teamwork.
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Arts & Culture
Islam’s mystical dimensions take flight
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology explores the mystical dimensions of Islam with a series of photographs and multilayered, mixed-media compositions.
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Arts & Culture
ACT UP encore
A new exhibit at the Carpenter Center titled “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993” examines the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power through a series of powerful graphics created by various artist collectives that were part of the influential group.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
The guest list for the Radcliffe Institute’s 10th anniversary symposium was a motley mix of former fellows including journalist Susan Faludi ’81, RI ’09, who read from a story she wrote for the Harvard Crimson as a freshman.
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Campus & Community
Economist Duesenberry dies at 91
James Stemble Duesenberry, an eminent economist who was an authority on monetary policy and a faculty member of Harvard University’s Department of Economics for more than half a century, recently passed away at his home in Cambridge at the age of 91.
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Health
What makes a successful society?
New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, or drugs.
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Campus & Community
Foster elected to Trustees of Reservations board of directors
Harvard Forest’s David Foster elected to the Trustees of Reservations board of directors at the organization’s annual meeting and dinner on Sept. 26.
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Campus & Community
Rubin elected a corresponding fellow by British Academy
Donald B. Rubin was elected a corresponding fellow for distinction in research at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy on July 16.
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Campus & Community
Weld Boathouse
Harvard’s Weld Boathouse has been enchanting rowers and residents for more than 100 years.
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Science & Tech
Big-picture view of nanoscale
After 25 years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a pioneer in the fabrication of miniature electronic and photonic devices takes up residence at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Forest announces Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research for 2009-10
Harvard Forest recently announced the 2009-10 Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research. The fellowship program was established in 1962 to support the advanced research of individuals who show promise in making important contributions to forestry.
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Arts & Culture
New Muslim cool
“New Muslim Cool” documents an American Muslim’s rise from the tough streets and hip-hop beats to a creed of mercy and forgiveness.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service to be held for Hastings
A memorial service for Hanna Machlup Hastings, former House master and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) administrator, will be held at 2 p.m. on Oct. 17.
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Campus & Community
Rock of ages
Anderson Lab manager Lenny Solomon is retiring in December after more than three decades helping guide people and projects.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe fellow Brown receives Whiting Writers’ Award
Jericho Brown, a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego, will receive the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award on Oct. 28 at a ceremony in New York City.
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Campus & Community
Faculty and staff to be honored for 25 years of service
On Oct. 15, Harvard will hold the 55th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony in historic Sanders Theatre, honoring faculty and staff from across the University who have served Harvard for 25 years.
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Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites applications for 2010-11 fellowships
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications for 2010-11.
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Campus & Community
Glazer to give Lipset lecture, Nov. 4
Nathan Glazer will give the Seymour Martin Lipset Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4. Glazer’s talk is titled, “Democracy and Diversity: Dealing with Deep Divides.”
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Arts & Culture
In pursuit of everyday excellence
Stacey M. Childress and David A. Thomas are two Harvard Business School professors who wrote a book on how a struggling school system in Maryland turned itself around.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Business School
The Business School has named Nobuo Sato (MBA ‘82) executive director for its Japan Research Center in Tokyo.
