The Harvard Gazette

Month: January 2013

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Marion Cotillard claimed her prize at Farkas Hall after a tour of Harvard Yard and a short parade.

A Pudding Pot for Cotillard

Oscar-winning actress visits Harvard as Hasty’s Woman of the Year

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DateJanuary 31, 2013

“I am one of those people who would happily live in a world of unicorns,” said British director John Tiffany, referencing his latest production, "The Glass Menagerie," and the play’s delicate glass figurines beloved by its equally fragile central character, Laura.

Lunch with Tiffany

Tony-winning director explains vision for 'The Glass Menagerie' at A.R.T.

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DateJanuary 31, 2013March 1, 2019

Blair Kamin (left) and Finbarr O'Reilly (right) were among Nieman Fellows leading a January Arts Intensive on Harvard Yard's 26 gates. Part of it, as here, involved documenting gate traffic.

26 immortal portals

Class examines art, history, and significance of Harvard Yard’s many gates

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DateJanuary 31, 2013March 22, 2019

David Fan and Bob Adolf (left and center, seated at laptops) were second-place finishers in the IACS Computational Challenge. For the final challenge, students were tasked with designing a program to play foosball.

Competition that computes

Mastering virtual foosball in IACS challenge

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DateJanuary 31, 2013March 15, 2019

Shorenstein Center announces six finalists for 2013 Goldsmith Prize

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DateJanuary 31, 2013April 16, 2019

Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection marks centennial

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DateJanuary 31, 2013

U.S. governors mixed on Medicaid expansion

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DateJanuary 31, 2013

Blank slate beckons would-be artists

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DateJanuary 31, 2013

The sun sets on the garden and courtyard behind Busch Hall.

Hidden spaces: Adolphus Busch Courtyard

The lion is king in this ‘secret’ garden

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DateJanuary 31, 2013September 7, 2016

Sol Kim-Bentley (left), a faculty assistant in the in the Department of English, and Miriam Leigh, an administrative coordinator for the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, gave the skating rink a whirl. Harvard Skate is located at the Science Center plaza.

Ice skating in the frosty air

Winter rink reopens to all at Science Center plaza

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DateJanuary 31, 2013

“There is a lot of difference between what happens in low-income countries and what happens in high-income countries,” said Harvard School of Public Health student Sebastián Rodríguez Llamazares, who worked with 19 other HSPH students and Professor Felicia Knaul to plan an event on Friday marking World Cancer Day.

Fighting a global menace

HSPH students stress cancer’s impact in poorer nations

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DateJanuary 30, 2013April 16, 2019

In an uncertain world, "it actually becomes optimal to be fair, and natural selection favored fairness," said David Rand, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology who studied fairness with Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita.

When fairness prevails

Harvard research shows how uncertainty affects behavior

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DateJanuary 30, 2013April 15, 2019

Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted a panel of leading thinkers who shared their five visions on the future of education. The panel included Robert Schwartz (from left), Jal Mehta, Elizabeth City, Frederick Hess, and Paul Reville.

Five ideas for better schools

Askwith panel promotes fresh ways to jump-start effective learning

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DateJanuary 30, 2013April 17, 2019

During a master class with freshmen, actress Christine Ebersole urged the students to think about their approach to the craft as a type of personal journey. “It’s never an event; it’s always a process,” she said. “It’s peeling the layers of the onion so you get down to you."

Direct from Broadway

Tony winner Ebersole gives students close listen in master class

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DateJanuary 30, 2013

In discussing the focus of his film, “A Whisper to a Roar,” director Ben Moses said that “democracy is never over,” and that it can often be harder to maintain a democracy than to establish one — a point stressed by the film’s lack of a happy ending.

‘A Whisper to a Roar’ sparks discussion

Film screening brings activist, director, scholar to HKS stage

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DateJanuary 30, 2013April 18, 2019

“There’s a real breadth here,” said the exhibition’s curator, Mary McWilliams, who holds the namesake chair as Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art. The collection contributes “a scope and depth that we didn’t have before.”

Pearls of Persian art

Late collector’s Islamic collection spans centuries and genres

Arts|

DateJanuary 29, 2013April 15, 2019

Three named Damon Runyon Fellows

Award gives early career investigators independence to pursue novel ideas

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DateJanuary 29, 2013July 30, 2019

“All humans have differences. Why is it so hard to leave it at that? Why can’t that answer be the definitive end one about our differences?” wondered Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds at a Sever Hall book talk on Friday.

On the nature of difference

Dean Hammonds discusses her book about race and science

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DateJanuary 29, 2013July 11, 2019

Heidi Brooks, M.B.A. ’03, offered what she called “a controversial proposition: In order to change the world, work for a company.”

Alums share big ideas

Think Big event pushes people to reach out

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DateJanuary 29, 2013April 26, 2019

During Wintersession, the Harvard College Library hosted a multimedia authoring “boot camp,” reflecting the increasingly essential use of media in academic work. The boot camp grew out of a larger initiative, launched by faculty and librarians, to ensure support for the growing use of new media in scholarship and academic work.

Multimedia immersion

Wintersession ‘boot camp’ an opportunity to develop skills

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DateJanuary 29, 2013July 26, 2019

“Now, for the first time, we’ve shown that caring for patients encompasses a unique neurobiology in physicians. Our ultimate goal is to transform the ‘art of medicine’ into the ‘science of care,’” said the study’s senior author, Ted Kaptchuk, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The image shows the regions in physicians’ brains that were activated while the doctors were treating patients.

Doctors can feel their patients’ pain

Brain scans show physicians can feel pain, pain relief

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DateJanuary 29, 2013April 18, 2019

New life for lab equipment: Reuse list launches

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DateJanuary 29, 2013April 18, 2019

Schlesinger Library awarded $150,000 to digitize Blackwell collections

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DateJanuary 29, 2013

Poll finds bipartisan public support for creating state insurance exchanges

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DateJanuary 29, 2013

With "Public Interested?" as the theme during Saturday's gathering, Meredith Weenick (left) ’90, M.B.A. ’02, and Nikhil Mulani ’14 shared experience and interests.

‘Public Interested?’

Alums, students put public service at the center

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DateJanuary 29, 2013July 26, 2019

Harvard Medical School has been awarded a $100 million grant from the National Football League Players Association to create a 10-year initiative for the study of injuries. “Our goal is to transform the health of these athletes,” said Lee Nadler, HMS dean for clinical and translational research.

HMS partners with NFL Players Association

$100M grant funds 10-year initiative aimed at full range of health risks

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DateJanuary 29, 2013April 16, 2019

Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces spring fellows

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DateJanuary 28, 2013April 18, 2019

Harvard Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi sees the newly defined Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in both grand and practical terms. Along with the $100,000 award, Wheelwright recipients will be invited to lecture at the GSD (pictured).

Widening the Wheelwright

Fellowship eligibility expanded beyond GSD-affiliated architects

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DateJanuary 28, 2013April 18, 2019

A sample of the hundreds of dental images collected during the 21-month photographic study.

Watching teeth grow

Up-close research challenges connection between molar development, weaning in chimps

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DateJanuary 28, 2013April 12, 2019

During Hack Week, which was held at the i-lab, students regularly worked until 1 or 2 a.m. and pulled at least one all-nighter, Friday night’s “hack-a-thon” — a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. push to help students finish their projects in time for “demo day” on Sunday.

Hack Week nurtures innovators

Weeklong program joins mentors, student teams to foster ideas

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DateJanuary 28, 2013April 16, 2019

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