Featured series 
Year: 2011
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Nation & World
A room fit for a president
A Winthrop House suite that once housed the young John F. Kennedy gets a facelift, and recreates the room as the future U.S leader would have known it.
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
In this wave-making book, Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt takes into account “On the Nature of Things,” an eerily modern poem by the ancient Roman writer Lucretius, which helped shape the great thinkers of the Renaissance, even if fewer than three copies of the poem were known to exist at the time.
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A magic wand for artists’ dreams
With an annual program administered by the Office for the Arts, Harvard undergraduates explore extraordinary opportunities for growth in their fields.
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Enduring inspiration
Richard Olivier, son of famed actor Sir Laurence Olivier, used Shakespeare’s “Henry V” to teach Harvard students about the role of identity in conflict in Sever Hall Oct. 24. The presentation was part of “Negotiation and Conflict Management,” a course that focuses on the emotional and identity-based aspects of conflict that often confound easy resolution.
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A gala for Dudley at 20
Dudley House, thriving and lively at age 20, is the “Mother House” model for Ivy League grad school centers.
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A Boston school turnaround
The Boston Public Schools’ Greenwood Academy has shown major improvement in two years, aided by the HASI program and Step UP, the five-university initiative that provides resources for 10 underperforming Boston public schools.
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Fewer drops to drink
With water scarcity a growing worldwide worry, Harvard programs, faculty, staff, and students are exploring ways to protect precious supplies, both globally and on campus.
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Nose to nose with mental illness
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall talked to a Harvard audience about his struggles with mental illness in a forum at Emerson Hall Oct. 24.
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Lessons from a Kenyan slum
A sprawling urban pocket of poverty offers a timeless lesson: talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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Historic theater to be renamed
Harvard University announced today that it will rename its historic New College Theatre building Farkas Hall in recognition of the generosity of alumnus Andrew L. Farkas ’82.
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‘The Creation of Mather’
In celebration of the creation of Mather House some 40 years ago, Co-Masters Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten have organized a retrospective exhibit of the House’s design and construction in the Sandra Naddaff and Leigh Hafrey Three Columns Gallery.
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A tool to touch the sun
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics researcher Justin Kasper has designed an instrument that will peek out from behind a heat shield to touch the sun’s atmosphere on a NASA solar probe designed to get far closer to the sun than any before.
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French Consul honors Adams House affiliate
Norman R. Shapiro ’51, an affiliate of Adams House, was recognized by the French Consul for a lifetime dedicated to translation and the spread of French culture.
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Gestational BPA exposure growing concern
Exposure in the womb to bisphenol A (BPA) — a chemical used to make plastic containers and other consumer goods — is associated with behavior and emotional problems in young girls, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health.
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Food reform to fight obesity
Panelists at a Harvard School of Public Health Forum Oct. 20 said that changing agriculture policy may be necessary to reform the nation’s diet, which is blamed for worsening current epidemics of obesity and diabetes.
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Small changes, big effects
More than 50 administrators and staff gathered in University Hall Oct. 20 for the first of three Diversity Dialogues, a series of seminars focusing on ways to build and maintain a diverse community throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Harvard’s 375th birthday party
Drenching rain doused the revelers celebrating Harvard’s 375th anniversary in Tercentenary Theatre and other venues on Oct. 14. But spirits never dampened as alumni, students, faculty, and staff noshed on pretzels dipped in chocolate and ice cream made with liquid nitrogen.
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Hidden Spaces: Newell Boathouse
Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. This installment is Harvard’s Newell Boathouse. Possibly nowhere on Harvard’s campus will you find a place as untouched and nostalgic as Newell.
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Frank look at marijuana laws
Prohibitions on marijuana use do more harm than good, and it’s time the federal government stepped away from the issue altogether, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told a crowd at Harvard Law School Oct. 18.
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A child’s memory in military time
Harvard specialists discussed research on memory development during a seminar aimed at helping military families talk to their children about deployments and homecomings.
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Achievement recognized by academy
Twenty Harvard professors are among 179 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at an Oct. 1 ceremony in Cambridge.
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For $1,000, who won on ‘Jeopardy!’?
Sure, Harvard undergraduates have the opportunity to learn from leaders in their fields, including Nobel laureates, global leaders, and world-class scholars, who all teach in the University’s classrooms. Thanks to Joon Pahk, a preceptor in physics, students can add a new academic feat to that list: seven-time “Jeopardy” champion.
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$40 million gift supports new university-wide initiative for innovation in learning and teaching
Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given Harvard University $40 million to establish a new initiative that will support innovative teaching and learning across the University.
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You’re not so anonymous
Prescription data stripped of identify information seems not so anonymous after all. Researcher Latanya Sweeney aims to make such personal data more secure and to provide recourse for people who are harmed by privacy breaches.
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Education and innovation
Harvard University announced today that Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser have given the University $40 million to support excellence and innovation in learning and teaching at Harvard.
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Bailyn receives Samuel Eliot Morison Award
Adams University Professor Emeritus Bernard Bailyn received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the USS Constitution Museum’s highest recognition for scholarship.
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Norman Paul, family therapy pioneer, 85
Norman Paul, an innovator in the use of family therapy to treat mental illness, died on Oct. 14.
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Molecules as motors
Scientists from around the world gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Oct. 14 for a symposium on advancing efforts to study and design molecules as motors.
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Colon cancer connection
Scientists at Harvard-afilliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute have found strikingly high levels of a bacterium in colorectal cancers, a sign that it might contribute to the disease and potentially be a key to diagnosing, preventing, and treating it.
