Featured series 
Year: 2010
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Nation & World
Reclaiming Port-au-Prince
Weeks after the earthquake, as populations of Haiti’s tent camps grow, so too does the threat of disease.
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Science & Tech
Time to change the menu
Climate change, population growth present fresh challenges to a global food supply system already showing cracks.
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Campus & Community
Harvard study of Charlotte schools finds teacher training, not degrees, help kids learn
Harvard University researchers who have been studying a North Carolina school system to learn what makes teachers effective are reporting their findings.
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Arts & Culture
Archives and electrons
In a discussion titled “Writing History Now,” sponsored by the Harvard University Extension School, a panel of historians examines the shifting landscape of recording history, as the Internet changes the ways that data is saved and valued.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to participate in career mentoring program for military vets
Harvard University today (Feb. 23) announced it will participate in the American Corporate Partners (ACP) mentoring program to help returning veterans transition from the armed services back to the workplace through career counseling and social networking.
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Campus & Community
Finance expert Gordon Donaldson dies at 87
Gordon Donaldson, an influential Harvard Business School (HBS) professor, mentor, researcher, and administrator from 1955 to 1993, died on Feb. 12 in Parkland, Fla., at the age of 87.
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Campus & Community
Winning and losing
Harvard men’s basketball falls to first-place Cornell, but triumphs against Columbia.
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Nation & World
Advising the president
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett offered a personal look at President Barack Obama, as well as a take on some of the troubles in Washington, during a talk at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.
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Campus & Community
Mind power
As one of the featured speakers, offering a weekend-long seminar, was a senior professor at Harvard University, Ellen Langer. Langer is a famous psychologist poised to get much more famous, but not in the ways most researchers do.
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Nation & World
Slavery in 2010
Harvard Kennedy School program looks at ways to prosecute and prevent modern-day slavery, and to protect the millions now in bondage.
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Science & Tech
Another piece of cancer puzzle falls into place
An international team of researchers has created a genome-scale map of 26 cancers, revealing more than 100 genomic sites where DNA from tumors is either missing or abnormally duplicated compared to normal tissues.…
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Health
Hey squash, time for your close-up
Bruce Smith, of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, discusses the rise of agriculture in a talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Campus & Community
Business Schools Tap Veterans
Five years ago, Augusto Giacoman was commanding about 30 soldiers and leading raids in Iraq. Now he spends his days in classrooms alongside former bankers, engineers and other civilians earning a master’s in business administration.
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Arts & Culture
Songs without words
Independent composer Erin Gee replaces recognizable text in her vocal works with sounds based on the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Nation & World
Knitting Europe together
Top Obama official discusses the need to integrate the nations of southeastern Europe into the rest of the continent.
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Arts & Culture
Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams
With vivid writing on her stories and colorful past, Williams offers an autobiography to make lazy folks blush. Professor emeritus at the Kennedy School, this lifelong lady of politics has done it all, and it’s all here.
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Arts & Culture
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University
In this relevant release, Menand, an English professor, argues that most universities are out of touch and calls for their dire makeover. Menand touches on everything from problem solving to curriculum, to faculty and diversity, and more.
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Arts & Culture
Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace
Holder of dual appointments in Harvard’s Business and Law Schools, Subramanian utilizes theories of negotiating and auctioning to deliver this guide to successful transactions in today’s marketplace.
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Science & Tech
Turning to the wind
In a quest for cheaper power, HBS professor helps Maine islanders get wind turbine project off the ground.
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Nation & World
Working the night shift
Volunteers assist with a variety of medical skills, from nursing to orthopedics to medical equipment repair, playing a critical role in the response to the Haitian earthquake.
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Nation & World
The road to Khelshala
A member of the Harvard women’s squash team recounts the squad’s combination training and service trip to India during winter break, and how team members were changed in the process.
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Science & Tech
Virtually connected
Making good use of the Web, students from the Harvard Graduate School of Education are using virtual internships to gain valuable experience without leaving home.
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Nation & World
A bridge to somewhere
Bady Balde, a learned émigré from Guinea, uses Harvard’s Bridge Program to go from Dining Services worker to bank teller to Harvard Kennedy School graduate student.
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Campus & Community
Surrendering their secrets
Ann Pearson, professor of biogeochemistry, uses chemistry to understand ancient biology.
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Campus & Community
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 10, 2009, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Wales Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Ingalls had an enormous influence on the development of Sanskrit studies in North America.
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Campus & Community
New fellowship fund
To honor the memory and intellectual legacy of Samuel P. Huntington, one of the most influential political scientists of his generation, a group of generous alumni and friends has established the Samuel Huntington Fellowship Fund at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Farmer’s Tiyatien Health wins mental health competition
Tiyatien Health, a social justice organization co-founded by Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School, was named the grand prize winner in the Ashoka Foundation’s “Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing” competition, which seeks “the best solutions to improve mental health in communities around the world.”
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Campus & Community
History of Science Society awards Sarton Medal to John Murdoch
Professor of the History of Science John E. Murdoch has been awarded the Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society.