The Harvard Gazette

Year: 2012

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Mark Wolf (from left) of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, and Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit presided over the 102nd Ames Moot Court Competition. “Counsel in all their performances, written and oral, were so extraordinarily good that we had to draw some very, very fine lines,” said Souter ’61, LL.B. ’66.

Souter, back on the bench

Retired justice presides over Ames competition at HLS

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DateNovember 16, 2012April 16, 2019

Library Lab showcases innovative library projects

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DateNovember 16, 2012April 18, 2019

“Teachers do the most important job in the world, and one of the hardest,” author and educator Doug Lemov told a packed audience Thursday evening in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Longfellow Hall.

When ZIP code isn’t destiny

Small changes can offer big benefits for low-income students

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DateNovember 16, 2012

"Once I start thinking of all the people who deserve my gratitude, I realize that I have a lot of notes to write," said FAS Dean Michael D. Smith (right), who chatted with student volunteer Mackenzie Hild '14 in University Hall.

Taking a moment to give thanks

'Intentional pause' makes room for donations, cards of appreciation

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DateNovember 16, 2012April 8, 2019

Gutman Library renovation includes green ‘living walls’

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DateNovember 16, 2012April 18, 2019

It won't be just about football at Saturday's Harvard-Yale game. A pregame fly over by the Navy will kick things off and at the end of the first quarter, all attendees who have served, as well as all active members of the military, will be asked to stand and will be recognized for their service to the United States.

Stars and stripes at The Game

Harvard-Yale game to include special recognition of military

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DateNovember 16, 2012

Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman delivered the Dudley Herschbach Lecture at Harvard Tuesday, discussing science education in the 21st century.

Tipping science on its head

Princeton president says: Teach it early to attract talented students

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DateNovember 15, 2012April 18, 2019

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns showed clips from his latest film, “The Dust Bowl,” and fielded questions from the audience at Boylston Hall on Wednesday. The event was moderated by Robin Kelsey, the Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography and chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture.

When the sky turned black

Ken Burns discusses new film about ’30s storms that created Dust Bowl

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DateNovember 15, 2012April 16, 2019

To honor the lives of 72 murdered migrants, Alma Guillermoprieto established an online altar like those built for Día de los Muertos, the Mexican day of remembrance for the dead. “A true altar de muertos,” she explained, “is a site where we bring the dead back to life by talking about them, letting them know that we haven’t forgotten, letting them know that they’re welcome back into our home.”

Beyond mourning

Writer’s online altar honors migrant workers murdered in Mexico

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DateNovember 15, 2012

Pulitzer-winning composer Reynolds’ works to be performed

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DateNovember 15, 2012April 18, 2019

At Harvard Stadium in 2008, Bob (whose allegiance is to Yale, not Harvard) and Carolyn Cumings of Winchester, Mass., celebrate the 56th anniversary of their first blind date at a Harvard-Yale game. They have been together ever since.

The Game: A tradition since 1875

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DateNovember 15, 2012September 7, 2016

Chinese Language Program showcases student talent in poetry competition

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DateNovember 15, 2012April 16, 2019

Annenberg waste reduction efforts recognized with recycle award

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DateNovember 15, 2012April 18, 2019

Federal-tribal criminal justice is “a complex maze” of multiple systems, “created piecemeal over time,” “imposed,” and “alien to locals,” said Carole Goldberg (right), the 2006 Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard. “Major restructuring” needs to happen. Justice, she said, should be culturally appropriate and include intergovernmental cooperation, respect, and trust.

Law and disorder on the reservation

HLS conference spotlights challenges at intersection of federal and tribal systems

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DateNovember 15, 2012April 16, 2019

Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of biology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, died on Nov. 11. He was a distinguished vertebrate paleontologist, renowned for his fieldwork, who made seminal discoveries in respiratory physiology, bird flight, and the evolution of the earliest mammals. File photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72

Professor of biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology

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DateNovember 15, 2012

Wellesley College Professor Susan Reverby (far left) discovered documents that revealed how U.S. researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis during the 1940s in order to test new treatments. When the news came to light in 2010, no reparations were made. A Harvard Law School panel — including HLS Assistant Professor I. Glenn Cohen (right) and Holly Fernandez Lynch, executive director of the HLS's Petrie-Flom Center — discussed the case and highlighted options for reparations.

An experiment gone horribly awry

U.S. researchers helped to infect Guatemalans with syphilis to study disease

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DateNovember 14, 2012

Author discusses transformative battle with breast cancer at book launch

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DateNovember 14, 2012April 15, 2019

President Drew Faust (standing at right) joined Maria Cordon, principal of the Hennigan Elementary School in Jamaica Plain on Tuesday as part of Boston's “Principal for a Day." Faust shadowed Cordon (seated at left) on the principal’s daily routine of morning announcements and classroom visits, and spoke to a fourth-grade class about the Civil War. The program, run by Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools, brings business, civic, and educational leaders into the Boston public schools with the goal of inspiring partnerships with the schools. Harvard partners with the Hennigan in the areas of leadership and professional development, family engagement, after-school academic support, and science mentoring.

President is principal for a day

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DateNovember 14, 2012

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Director Robert J. Sampson (standing) shares information during the “Teaching Boston” workshop. BARI is an inter-university research partnership led by Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the city of Boston. Friday's workshop introduced an array of Web tools and data.

Boston neighborhoods talk

Academics, city government officials listen

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DateNovember 14, 2012April 16, 2019

Cass Sunstein returned to Harvard Law School more than three years after he left to serve as the Obama administration’s regulatory czar. In his talk on Nov. 7, he discussed behavioral-economics concepts, such as libertarian paternalism, choice architecture, and hard and soft paternalism, with real-world applications still at the front of his mind.

A nudge toward better outcomes

Sunstein outlines how behavioral economics can shift realities

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DateNovember 14, 2012

In order to get accurate maps, which are at the heart of the Taking Charge tool kit, Jeffrey Mansfield uses a kite to loft a cellphone 500 feet or more into the air, where it will take photos of the area.

Taking Charge with cellphones

Student taps smartphones, solar power to protect Amazon basin

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DateNovember 14, 2012

Robert Dorfman

Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateNovember 14, 2012

Inspired by a jellyfish’s long, sticky tentacles that are used to capture minuscule food flowing in the water, researchers have created a chip that uses a 3-D DNA network that can detect, bind, and capture certain molecules. “Our device has the potential to catch these cells in the act with its ‘tentacles’ before they may seed a new tumor in a distant organ,” says Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Medicine Jeffrey Karp.

Catch and release

Marine animals inspire device that can capture rare cancer cells

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DateNovember 14, 2012

News Pioneer Sandy Close wins Nieman’s I.F. Stone Medal

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DateNovember 13, 2012April 18, 2019

Painting the big picture on a Navajo reservation

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DateNovember 13, 2012April 16, 2019

This fall, the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard hosted "Imperfect Balance," a discussion of Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." Harvard Professor Francesca Dominici (pictured) led the discussion, which will continue at a follow-up meeting on Nov. 14.

‘Having it all’ at Harvard

Committee on women’s concerns launches look at work-life balance

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DateNovember 13, 2012April 18, 2019

In his lifetime, William Kaye Estes received almost every possible honor. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and was a William James Fellow of the American Psychological Society.

William Kaye Estes

Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateNovember 13, 2012

At Harvard Law, Rep. Sarbanes ’88 argues against big money in politics

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DateNovember 13, 2012April 18, 2019

Study participants who completed an eight-week meditation training course had reduced activity in the right amygdala (highlighted structure) in response to emotional images, even when not meditating.

Meditation’s positive residual effects

Imaging finds different forms of meditation may affect brain structure

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DateNovember 13, 2012March 22, 2019

Looking ahead, Celine Coggins (far right), founder and CEO of Teach Plus, said she envisions the president continuing to promote a national model that supports teaching as a performance-driven profession, one that “puts the interests of the students first” and moves away from a system traditionally linked to seniority. Panelists Martin West (far left) and Jal Mehta, both assistant professors of education at Harvard, examined the complexities of programs and the attitude of voters.

Room for improvement in ed policy

HGSE panelists look at post-election challenges

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DateNovember 13, 2012April 17, 2019

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