Featured series 
Month: June 2010
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Campus & Community
To market, to market
Harvard reopens its seasonal farmers’ markets with a bounty of fresh produce and local, handmade products.
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Arts & Culture
Where art and advertising collide
A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.
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Campus & Community
Panel ponders digital divide
University administrators gather to explore the issues surrounding the expansion of digital scholarship.
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Arts & Culture
Food for thought
A weeklong seminar at the Radcliffe Institute examines cookbooks through the centuries, and what they say about the practices, resources, and cultures of their times.
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Nation & World
When China’s doors reopened
Retired diplomat Nicholas Platt ’57 weighs in on China then and now, and on the durability of U.S. ties to that nation.
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Campus & Community
A park by the river
Cambridge and Harvard officials dedicate Riverside Community Park, the city’s newest open space, and the result of years of cooperative effort.
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Campus & Community
50 receive Dean’s Distinction awards
Fifty FAS staff members and managers receive first Dean’s Distinction awards, in recognition for strong contributions during difficult times.
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Campus & Community
ACLS awards fellowships to Harvard bunch
Harvard faculty members and doctoral candidates are among those awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Campus & Community
National Humanities Center names fellows for 2010-11
The National Humanities Center (NHC) recently named Harvard’s Suzannah Clark, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music, and James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, among the 2010-11 class of 36 distinguished scholars.
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Campus & Community
Mind/Brain/Behavior awards seniors
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Mind/Brain/Behavior recognized seniors in a ceremony held at the Harvard Faculty Club on May 26.
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Campus & Community
Scientists hit on universal theory of bubbles
James Bird, a graduate student at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, finds that bubbles just don’t disappear.
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Campus & Community
Three winners of the Howard T. Fisher Prize announced
One undergraduate and two graduate students will receive the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.
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Nation & World
The mystique of merit pay
Scholars, educators, and politicians gathered for a two-day seminar at Harvard Kennedy School to explore the complicated issue of performance pay in the nation’s public schools.
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Campus & Community
Students selected for Ash summer fellowships and internships
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School recently announced the students selected for Summer Fellowships in Innovation, research internships in Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as independent student research projects.
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Campus & Community
Reading and study strategies course open for registration
The Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day reading course is now open for registration.
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation for Journalism announces fellows for 2011
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 25 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 73rd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes journalists who work in print, radio, television, photography, and online.
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Campus & Community
Cambridge Health Alliance’s David Bor receives Art of Healing Award
David Bor, Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was recently honored with the third annual Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Art of Healing Award.
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Campus & Community
Details, details
Amidst the bustle of daily activities at Harvard, still lives of stone, bronze, iron, and glass surround us. Artistic and architectural details on campus boast a dizzying array of fine craftsmanship — both ornamental and functional — ranging across centuries. With the quiet calm of the attentive photographer, teacups, tomes, and the steadfast hands of…
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Campus & Community
All-USA College Academic winners defy expectations
Harvard social studies major and ROTC member Christopher Higgins, 22, stumbled onto his passion in 2007 while interning at New Hope, an orphanage in Uganda
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Health
New type of human stem cell may be more easy to manipulate
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine (MGH-CRM) have a developed a new type of human pluripotent stem cell that can be…
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Campus & Community
Harvard University: Year in Pictures 2009-2010
In her Commencement remarks, President Drew Faust celebrated the year’s achievements, which included expanded public service, blossoming arts programs, broadened community outreach, and myriad academic accomplishments. Here, she discusses the year that was, with, as backdrop, a photo diary of life at Harvard, which bookends students arriving with pillows and graduating with hugs.
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Arts & Culture
T.S. Eliot, warts and all
An intimate exhibition at Houghton Library offers a revealing look at the early life of poet T.S. Eliot, who had his troubles as a Harvard student.
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Health
New drug extends life of melanoma patients
A therapy that multiplies the effect of a natural disease-fighting antibody has extended the lives of patients with metastatic melanoma in a large, international clinical trial.
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Nation & World
Then and now
In conjunction with Radcliffe Day (May 28), a panel examines the history and present of feminism, looking at what has changed and what obstacles remain.
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Nation & World
Affordable housing advocate
Julie Leadbetter, a dedicated affordable housing advocate, arrived at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) midcareer program eager to stretch her skills and forge new relationships with big thinkers. She’s leaving this spring with an M.C./M.P.A. degree and a first place award in a local affordable housing development competition.
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Campus & Community
Harvard extends benefits in advance of health reform deadline
Harvard University is extending medical and dental benefits to eligible employees’ dependents who otherwise would become ineligible for continued coverage. This extension began June 1.
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Science & Tech
Replicating nature’s design principles
In nature, cells and tissues assemble and organize themselves within a matrix of protein fibers that ultimately determines their structure and function, such as the elasticity of skin and the contractility of heart tissue. These natural design principles have now been successfully replicated in the lab by bioengineers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired…
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Campus & Community
Child weight loss reduces diabetes risk
Researchers at Harvard University find that overweight girls who lose weight before adulthood reduced their risk of diabetes.
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Arts & Culture
Innovations from southern Europe
Gabriel Paquette, author and research associate at Harvard’s DRCLAS, says southern Europe and its Atlantic colonies in the 18th century were hardly the backward regions that people believe they were.
