Featured series 
Year: 2009
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Nation & World
Managing disasters
The Kennedy School will offer a new course this fall on disaster recovery, largely focusing on New Orleans and the work the School has done there in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Campus & Community
A Stem Cell Discovery Could Help Diabetics
This week, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) reported the first success in generating new populations of insulin-producing cells using skin cells of type 1 diabetes patients.
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Campus & Community
Fine Arts Library reopens
The Fine Arts Library (FAL) is now open in its temporary space in the Littauer Building in the North Yard.
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Campus & Community
Department of Music’s Marvin set to retire after the school year
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Police Department releases security report
The HUPD has released a report which includes information on how to report a crime, HUPD’s crime prevention programs, and other important information about security and HUPD services on campus.
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Campus & Community
Davis Center announces 2009-10 visitors and award recipients
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics’ fellows and senior scholars
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has announced its new fellows and senior scholars for 2009-10. The faculty fellows were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.
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Campus & Community
Houghton adds 2,000th finding aid to OASIS Catalog
Houghton Library, Harvard’s main rare book and manuscript depository, has vast holdings collected over centuries. Yet until these available resources are cataloged, they are considered “hidden collections” — difficult to find.
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Campus & Community
Parmigiani and Dominici named professors of biostatistics at HSPH
Giovanni Parmigiani and Francesca Dominici have been named professors of biostatistics at HSPH.
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Campus & Community
IOP’s resident, visiting fellows for fall
The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its six resident fellows and three visiting fellows for the fall semester.
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Campus & Community
Oil workshop illuminates complex issue for teachers
Elementary and high school teachers attend a weeklong Harvard workshop on oil and the economic, political, and environmental issues that accompany it.
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Science & Tech
Two centers join fellowship programs
The Berkman Center and the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS) have joined their fellowship programs for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Taking the next step
Melissa McCormick reflects on her journey from modern dance to her current position as a newly tenured professor of Japanese art and culture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Nation & World
Bringing science back to Liberian classrooms
Adam Cohen, assistant professor in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Ben Rapoport, a student at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are bringing science to war-torn Liberia.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus
Harvard’s new American Repertory Theater director Diane Paulus ’88 takes a classic Shakespeare comedy for a spin on the disco floor with “The Donkey Show.”
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Arts & Culture
Child psychiatrist pens her past
Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport uncovers a relationship with the mother she scarcely knew in her powerful familial memoir. Infused with accounts of treating her own teenage patients, Rappaport plumbs the bond between parents and children while closing in on healing.
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Campus & Community
Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care
In recent town-hall meetings, President Barack Obama has called for a national debate on health-care reform based on facts.
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Arts & Culture
Helping others thrive
As the new executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program, Shelly Lowe plans to help Native American students utilize the resources that are available to them through the University.
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Campus & Community
Chairs, tables, performances come to the Yard
To enhance the Harvard community’s campus experience, the University will install tables and chairs within Harvard Yard and the Radcliffe Quad and host open-air performances.
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Science & Tech
What really matters
Outcomes matter more than intention when choosing to punish or reward individuals who’ve caused accidents, according to new research from Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson And Will Wright: Ant Lovers Unite!
Ants make some people cringe — but for E. O. Wilson and Will Wright, they provide never-ending fascination.
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Campus & Community
Laure Lebret, researcher, orthodontics teacher
In an era when few dentists were women and even fewer specialized in orthodontics, French-born Laure Lebret became well known in the field as a researcher and practitioner.
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Campus & Community
Holy cow! Bovine to visit Harvard Yard
“I’m reclaiming a tradition that almost got lost,’’ [Harvey Cox] said last week on the porch of his summer house in Woods Hole. “Why can’t we have cows grazing in Harvard Yard?”
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Campus & Community
Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants
Todd Byers was among more than 20,000 people running the San Francisco Marathon last month. Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, he might have blended in with the other runners, except for one glaring difference: he was barefoot.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s DASH for open access
Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship. DASH — Digital Access to Scholarship — is an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library.
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Campus & Community
Town halls, without the screaming or scripting
The chaos at town-hall meetings this month was just a vivid symptom of an older and much larger problem. Even at the outset of American democracy, the framers and average citizens alike were concerned about communication between elected officials and their constituents.
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Campus & Community
Beyond the Biopsy: A Tiny Monitor for Cancer
Doctors doing a needle biopsy to analyze tissue for cancer may one day add a second step to the procedure: depositing a tiny device at the site to report on growth of a tumor — and even the effects of chemotherapy.
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Campus & Community
Examining the roots of family tree
“The Human Family Tree,’’ airing tomorrow on National Geographic Channel, tells us when, where, and how humanity spread from Africa across the globe.