The Harvard Gazette

Year: 2010

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“I was a little excited, but a bit skeptical that it would actually be new,” said Myrna Perez, who, alongside lecturer Alistair Sponsel stumbled across a previously unknown letter from Charles Darwin to his colleague and later nemesis, zoologist Richard Owen.

Across 160 years, Darwin speaks

Discovery of letter sheds light on murky part of the naturalist’s life

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 20, 2019

Faced with a seven-game losing streak, Harvard hockey coach Ted Donato is unfazed. “We’re confident that if we focus on continuing to improve, we’ll have success and we’ll be competitive within our league and on a national level,” said Donato.

Room for improvement

Hockey squad hopes to reverse course after tough start

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DateDecember 16, 2010

The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective

<h4>Belknap Press, March 2010</h4><h5>By Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel J. Sargent</h5>

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DateDecember 16, 2010

Administrator by day, singer by night

Massey augments interest in aiding research by performing onstage

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 18, 2019

“I am deeply grateful to Nancy for her leadership and her exemplary service to Harvard,” said Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith. “The new vision for the Harvard Library we are now embracing, and the profound and positive changes this vision will bring, are an important part of her legacy, in keeping with the many advances she has forwarded over her long career here."

Harvard College Librarian, Nancy Cline, to retire

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DateDecember 16, 2010July 19, 2019

Isaac Cherry (left), manager of Endowment and Gift Funds, and FAS recruiter Kim Ohman listen to various scenarios during the "Bystander Awareness Workshop," part of the Diversity Dialogue Series.

Don’t just stand there

Workplace strategies on what to do when diversity is challenged

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 21, 2019

Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

<h4>Harvard University Press, January 2011</h4><h5>By Augustus A. White III with David Chanoff, contributor</h5>

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DateDecember 16, 2010

Unraveling Reconstruction

Professor sifts post-Civil War writings for societal cues

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 21, 2019

"In conversations at school, there’s often an uncomfortable silence when I reveal that I’ve just returned from 'the war.' Many Kennedy School classmates and Cambridge residents have never even met a soldier, much less one involved in the war. The truth is, though, we are just like you."

Back from Afghanistan

When a sharp noise pierces the air, a ‘soldier-scholar’ still ducks

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DateDecember 16, 2010

Children from Boston's West End House, which aims to transform the lives of immigrant and urban youth, celebrate at last year's Christmas party. West End House offers its members leadership and life skills, literacy programs, jobs, and more.

Aid groups that make a difference

Community Gifts program provides key funds for three agencies

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DateDecember 16, 2010May 15, 2019

Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility releases annual report

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DateDecember 16, 2010

Research for early modern scholars was painstaking, says Ann Blair, author of "Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age." "They worked by candlelight early in the morning, and deep into the night, sharpening quills by knife, and drying the ink afterward with a sprinkling of sand. Everything was written out by hand, and if you wanted to store information in more than one place, or include it in a letter, you had to copy it out that many times.”

Ye olde information overload

Author finds being inundated with data is centuries-old phenomenon

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 18, 2019

Can't be late to the party! Rob Schaaf makes his way to dinner at Kirkland House, decorated for the season.

A look inside: Kirkland House

At the holidays, a celebration

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DateDecember 16, 2010

Imaging technician Lily Brooks breathes new life into a Theodore Roosevelt manuscript inside Widener Library's digital lab.

Digital drive

Technological breakthroughs are changing scholarship all across campus

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DateDecember 16, 2010July 18, 2019

The above schematic represents the relationship between intra-building collaboration and citations. The height of each building reflects the average number of publication citations originating there, and the color reflects the degree to which authors on those publications cohabitated (from gray=low to blue=high). The graphic depicts that, in general, buildings with more intra-building collaborations produced studies with higher citation rates.

Nearer, better

Link found between physical proximity of researchers, impact of work

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DateDecember 15, 2010March 20, 2019

Because of a lack of investment in infrastructure, the developing world is already vulnerable to effects that climate change is expected to make worse, Mark Montgomery told his audience at Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies. The professor of economics from Stony Brook University used last summer’s flooding in Pakistan, which left millions of people homeless and destroyed bridges, homes, schools, and hospitals, as an example.

Poor prospects

Cities in developing world stand to suffer most from global warming

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DateDecember 15, 2010July 26, 2019

Dudley House Jazz Band to perform rarely heard “Zodiac Suite”

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DateDecember 15, 2010March 19, 2019

Nieman conference on secrecy and journalism

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DateDecember 15, 2010March 20, 2019

Provost Steven E. Hyman, who spurred an expansion of interdisciplinary research at Harvard and has overseen the revitalization of the University’s libraries and many of its museums and cultural institutions, plans to leave his post at the end of the academic year.

Hyman to step down as provost

After decade in post, he will spend sabbatical year at Broad Institute

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DateDecember 15, 2010July 18, 2019

Harvard’s latest LEED green buildings

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DateDecember 14, 2010March 5, 2019

Larsen Librarian Nancy Cline to retire

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DateDecember 14, 2010March 20, 2019

Law firm honors deceased partner

Creates endowed HLS fund

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DateDecember 14, 2010

Rockefeller fellows chosen for 2011-12

Six seniors receive traveling fellowships

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DateDecember 14, 2010

Called a "magnetic sponge," a novel macroporous ferrogel is shown being compressed by an applied magnetic field. The reversible compression quickly forces out the drugs, cells, or proteins embedded in the ferrogel.

Squeezing life into patients

‘Magnetic sponge’ could be a new form of cell and drug delivery

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DateDecember 13, 2010July 8, 2019

The CS 50 fair celebrated a semester’s worth of programming toil by hundreds of Harvard students, most of whom had taken their first foray into computer programming.

Like computer science, only cooler

Creative vibe colors enormous CS 50 innovation fair

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DateDecember 13, 2010March 18, 2019

Harvard-Yenching’s 2010 holiday cards now available

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DateDecember 13, 2010March 19, 2019

Kristin Stoklosa receives Ishimoto Award

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DateDecember 13, 2010March 19, 2019

Composed of faculty members and administrators from across the University, the new Harvard Library Board will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated management structure.

10 named to new Harvard Library Board

Group will oversee recommended changes to broad system

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DateDecember 10, 2010March 5, 2019

In his new role, Michael P. Burke will lead and oversee the Office of the Registrar for FAS, which serves both Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He will work closely with faculty, staff, and students across and beyond FAS.

Michael P. Burke appointed FAS registrar

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DateDecember 10, 2010July 19, 2019

Perspectives on global health

Turner, Frenk christen forum by updating challenges ahead

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DateDecember 10, 2010July 26, 2019

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