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Year: 2011
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Harvard Foundation honors Kleinman, students
The Harvard Foundation honored Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, on May 3 with its 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Dinner in Quincy House.
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Registration for BSC summer course open
Registration is open for the Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day reading course in July.
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The humanities and war
Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, citing similarities between the Civil War and current conflicts.
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Celebrating the humanities
If scholars were celebrities, life might look a little bit like it does on the day of the annual Jefferson Lecture (May 2), with interviews and toasts in anticipation not of a concert or play but a speech on the humanities.
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Class act
Jazz great Wynton Marsalis played with young musicians from Harvard and Cambridge Rindge & Latin School in a master class.
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Thesis by creation
On view through May 26, “Oh, Pioneers!” offers a moment in the sun to Harvard’s graduating painters, installation artists, and filmmakers.
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Tough talk on education
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie discussed his tough-minded approach to education reform during a talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Second annual Burke Global Health Fellows named
The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced the selection of the second annual Burke Global Health Fellows.
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Reflecting other worlds
Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, Ed.M. ’71, receives the 2011 Harvard Arts Medal as part of the annual Arts First Festival.
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Harvard Foundation sends 1,000 blankets to Japan
The Harvard Foundation recently sent more than 1,000 new wool blankets and other relief items to the victims of the catastrophic March earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Diagnosis on state health care
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick defended Massachusetts’ health care reforms, saying during an appearance at The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health that they’ve successfully extended coverage to 98 percent of state residents.
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Jazz at Harvard
Harvard sophomore Andrew Kennard discusses his love of jazz and his experience mentoring students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preparing with them for the arrival of Wynton Marsalis at Harvard.
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In praise of America’s music
As part of a two-year lecture and performance series, jazz great Wynton Marsalis performed with a seven-piece band at Sanders Theatre.
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Breaking the sonnet barrier
Poet and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Anna Maria Hong takes the traditional sonnet form and breaks it wide open in her new volume of poetry.
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Planning for disasters
A panel discussion that included some of the top leaders in American homeland security and the military pondered the nation’s readiness for unexpected disasters.
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Director of Innovation Lab named
Gordon S. Jones has been named the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a new and innovative initiative set to launch in late 2011 that will foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities, and provide a forum, both physically and virtually, for interactions among students, faculty, alumni, and the surrounding community.
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An interim dean for Radcliffe
President Drew Faust names Lizabeth Cohen as interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The current dean, Barbara J. Grosz, will step down at the end of this academic year.
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Harvard honors veterans
In what is believed to be the largest gathering of uniformed students at the University since Winston Churchill spoke on campus in 1943, more than 170 Harvard veterans from all the service branches gathered at Cambridge’s Sheraton Commander Hotel April 25 for a dinner honoring students who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Art and catastrophe
At a photo exhibit on Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster, viewers get glimpses of both hope and horror.
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Five receive Derek C. Bok Award
Five graduate students have been awarded the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates.
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‘Korean Nobel Prize’ goes to Choi
Augustine M.K. Choi, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was selected as the 2011 Ho-Am Laureate in Medicine, often referred to as the “Korean Nobel Prize.”
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“The Young Ones” nominated for BAFTA
“The Young Ones,” a BBC series filmed with Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen Langer, which replicates her Counterclockwise study using British celebrities, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.
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Faculty Council meeting held April 27
At its last meeting of the year, the Faculty Council approved Extension School courses for 2011-12, the courses of instruction for 2011-12, and changes to the handbook for students for 2011-12. They also approved a description of the standing committee on public service and a proposal for study abroad and discussed campaign planning and an…
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A director of BGLTQ student life
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds will appoint a new director to coordinate resources and develop programming to support bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer undergraduates.
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Heating the kettle
During an appearance at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, tea party leaders said they hope to see their movement propel election of their eventual presidential candidate in 2012.
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Twin dangers: Malnutrition and obesity
Experts in nutrition gathered at Harvard Medical School to discuss the emerging “double burden” of malnutrition and obesity that is starting to affect the developing world.
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Cancer cells’ survival kit
Harvard-affiliated scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered new details of how cancer cells escape from tumor suppression mechanisms that normally prevent these damaged cells from multiplying.
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Harvard-trained Tibetan leader
Lobsang Sangay, a Harvard Law School graduate, wins office of Kalon Tripa, or Tibetan prime minister, of the government in exile. Earlier this week, he spoke at Harvard.
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OFA awards 8 students for artistic excellence
The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2011.
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Eradicating malaria a tall order
Eradicating malaria from the planet is a tall order, according to a roundtable discussion on the topic that marked World Malaria Day.
