The Harvard Gazette

Year: 2012

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Toni Morrison.

Good, but never simple

Toni Morrison illuminates concepts of virtue, and its opposite

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DateDecember 7, 2012August 7, 2019

In January, journalist Paul Salopek plans to begin a seven-year, 22,000-mile trip to follow the path of the first massive human migration around the world. The Out of Eden project began to take form while Salopek was a visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

30 million footsteps

Journalist plans to re-create the human trek that settled the world

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DateDecember 7, 2012March 21, 2019

Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, gave a talk on the art of picture-taking as part of the Harvard Allston Ed Portal’s faculty speaker series, which brings Harvard professors to the Ed Portal to present on subjects from the General Education curriculum.

Different perspectives

Exchange of ideas at photography event typical of Ed Portal lectures

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DateDecember 7, 2012March 18, 2019

“Men and women benefit equally from participation in AA, but some of the ways in which they benefit differ in nature and in magnitude,” said John F. Kelly, Harvard Medical School associate professor of psychology and the associate director of the MGH-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine.

AA benefits vary between sexes

Study finds differences in how they participate an important factor

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DateDecember 7, 2012

James Geary named deputy curator at Nieman Foundation

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DateDecember 6, 2012March 19, 2019

Students use case studies to explore information law, policy

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DateDecember 6, 2012March 21, 2019

Nora Allen-Wiles (right) and Hilken Mancini run Boston's Girls Rock Camp inside the back room of Mancini's Jamaica Plain vintage clothing store. The two spoke about the rock ’n’ roll camp during movie night at the Schlesinger Library on Wednesday evening following a screening of the documentary “Girls Rock!”

Girls who rock out

Summer camp encourages participants to find their inner musicians

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DateDecember 6, 2012March 18, 2019

Alex Palmer ’12 (left) and Aditya Balasubramanian ’13 are among the 34 Marshall Scholars chosen nationwide. “My time at Harvard transformed a personal interest into my academic focus,” said Balasubramanian, who will attend the London School of Economics and Political Science. Palmer plans to pursue a master’s degree in conflict, security, and development at King's College London and a master of letters degree in Middle Eastern and Central Asian security studies at the University of St. Andrews.

Two named Marshall Scholars

Harvard senior, recent grad will study international issues

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DateDecember 6, 2012

Flame retardants associated with neurobehavioral problems in children

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DateDecember 6, 2012July 26, 2019

“Given what’s going on with the current budget negotiations, it’s hard to think of the United States right now existing in a moment in which large-scale planning can be successfully accomplished. But what something like urban sea level rise demands is large-scale planning, chiefly at a national level,” said Harvard Law School Professor David Barron.

Reality of rising sea levels

HLS professor urges urban planning at national level

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DateDecember 5, 2012March 19, 2019

A sophisticated imaging system, multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry (MIMS), demonstrates cell division in the adult mammalian heart. Researchers were surprised to find that new heart muscle cells primarily arose from existing heart muscle cells, rather than stem cells.

Birth of new cardiac cells

Advanced technology yields some surprises

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DateDecember 5, 2012March 21, 2019

Modern-day slavery: New book provides detailed look at bonded labor

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 21, 2019

Library staff members honored for 25 years of service

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 21, 2019

In a lecture at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East expert Jon Alterman said that people are either inspired or concerned when they look at Egypt today. The inspiration comes from the nation’s ability to throw off the 30-year rule of former President Hosni Mubarak during the uprisings that started in January 2011. The concern comes from what has happened since.

Egypt’s revolution: A work in progress

Despite fresh protests, analyst sees signs that there's hope for change

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 21, 2019

Jane Pickering has been named executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, a new consortium that will draw on faculty and staff expertise and the collections of six partner museums.

A director for Museums of Science and Culture

Jane Pickering to lead new six-partner consortium

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DateDecember 4, 2012May 16, 2019

Microsoft Surface tables installed, tested in three Harvard libraries

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 21, 2019

Student conference focuses on strategies for tackling corruption

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 19, 2019

Berkman Center releases report on teens, parents, and online privacy

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 19, 2019

Joseph Greene (right), assistant director of Harvard's Semitic Museum, and Adam Aja, assistant curator of collections, re-create a ceramic lion that likely flanked an image of the goddess Ishtar in a temple in Nuzi. The project will blend fragments of the original statue held by the museum with pieces created through 3-D scans of its intact mirror image.

An ancient statue, re-created

Through technology, museum augments shards of ceramic lion

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DateDecember 4, 2012March 20, 2019

“I think one of the first lessons the students have learned from this experiment is that there are as many disagreements within the countries as between them ...," said Harvard Professor Michael Sandel in describing the latest incarnation of his class "Justice," where he uses the Internet and iPads to connect his Sanders Theatre students with students from around the world.
Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

A class open to the world

Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations

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DateDecember 3, 2012February 13, 2018

“It’s been a great privilege to serve on the Corporation these past seven years and to work with valued colleagues in helping to guide a university that means so much to the world,” said Harvard Corporation member Patricia A. King, J.D. '69, who will be stepping down in December.

Corporation member steps down

Patricia King to conclude service on Harvard Corporation

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DateDecember 3, 2012

Erin K. O’Shea, the director of the FAS Center for Systems Biology, has been named vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. O'Shea will maintain her lab at Harvard, where her research has focused on the way cells sense changes in their environment and respond appropriately.

HHMI taps Erin O’Shea

New HHMI VP and chief scientific officer will maintain Harvard lab

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DateDecember 3, 2012March 18, 2019

Madeline Meehan, Harvard's director of events for Campus Services, helped to turn her mother's labor of love, "We Care Blankets," into something all of Harvard could support through Community Gifts. The nonprofit charity provides handmade blankets to children who are going through chemotherapy at Harvard-affiliated hospitals.

Blankets to warm the heart

Mother's blanket-making efforts prompt Community Gifts support

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DateDecember 3, 2012March 20, 2019

A senior research fellow in ecology at Harvard Forest, Aaron Ellison discussed his new book, “A Field Guide to the Ants of New England,” to an enthusiastic crowd that included members of the Harvard community and local fans of ecology.

The ants come marching

First field guide identifies 132 kinds in New England

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DateDecember 3, 2012

HMC earns LEED Gold for office renovation

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DateDecember 3, 2012

Harvard President Drew Faust (left) and Senior Fellow Robert Reischauer discussed the progress that has been made since the Harvard Corporation underwent a series of governance reforms in 2010.

Governance reform, two years in

Faust, Reischauer reflect on impact of expanded Harvard Corporation

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DateDecember 3, 2012

Ronald F. Thiemann dies at 66

Former Harvard Divinity School dean, noted scholar, theologian

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DateNovember 30, 2012March 21, 2019

Journalist John Harwood named new Nieman board chair

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DateNovember 30, 2012March 19, 2019

In his time, Abraham Lincoln was adored and admired, considered an empathetic leader and first-rate listener. At the same time, those closest to him also found him cold, removed, and manipulative, said screenwriter Tony Kushner, who sat down with President Drew Faust to dissect Lincoln’s legacy following a Harvard-sponsored screening of Kushner's new biopic of the legendary leader.

Lincoln’s dimensions

Kushner, Faust discuss the man and the film at Harvard screening

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DateNovember 30, 2012March 20, 2019

Shahab Ahmed, an associate professor of Islamic studies at Harvard, called the Arab Spring the “second phase” of the 20th century’s national liberation struggles, which decades ago suggested to the West a world divided into “a small number of human beings and a large number of natives.”

A fall snapshot of Arab Spring

Panelists say effects of rolling revolutions will take years to play out

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DateNovember 30, 2012March 19, 2019

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