Featured series 
Year: 2014
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Science & Tech
Rapid-fire exchange
Faculty, staff, and students gathered from around campus for a discussion about social media at Harvard. While civil in tone, the exchange began with participants throwing Marlon Kuzmick’s softball question right back at him.
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Arts & Culture
Beneath the ‘Surface’
Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”
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Nation & World
Crisis review
The “swarm intelligence” that guides flocks of birds was evident in the extraordinary response to last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, attendees were told at a Harvard-sponsored symposium.
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Nation & World
Power suits
Harvard President Drew Faust convened a panel of top female leaders in media, business, and government to talk about the evolving role of women, and the challenges as well as opportunities facing women today.
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Arts & Culture
Virtues of doom
Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt addressed the comforts of tragedy at the Cambridge Public Library.
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Nation & World
Changing the climate of environmental law
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the ensuing reorganization of the Department of the Interior, Frances Ulmer, a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, turned to Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
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Nation & World
A God of heft
The man dubbed President Obama’s pastor, Joshua DuBois, said in a lecture that he is dismayed that Americans turn to God to resolve “infinitesimally small” questions not worthy of the Almighty.
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Campus & Community
Hidden in plain sight
Utopian worlds, sign-language poetry, and DNA origami — the subjects are as fascinating and varied as the students who explore them. The Carpenter Center presents “From Here,” an exhibition of thesis projects by seven graduating seniors from VES. The exhibit continues through May 29.
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Arts & Culture
Lessons, warnings in a centuries-old peace
Historians will gather at Harvard on April 11 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Congress of Vienna.
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Science & Tech
Progress on sustainability
Harvard University has made significant progress in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released by President Drew Faust, who announced the next steps that the institution will take to meet its goal of cutting emissions 30 percent by 2016.
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Campus & Community
Fund to tackle climate change
In an effort to catalyze research into sustainable energy sources, Harvard President Drew Faust has challenged University friends and alumni to raise a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund and seed new approaches to confronting the threat of climate change.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to sign on to United Nations-supported Principles For Responsible Investment
Harvard today announced its decision to sign on to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), becoming the first university endowment in the United States to join the organization. The PRI is recognized as the leading global network for investors who are committed to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment…
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Science & Tech
Down to the details, a giant in computing history
University leaders gathered at the Science Center to celebrate an update of the Harvard Mark I exhibit.
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Science & Tech
Advising on climate change
In addition to conducting research and teaching about climate, energy, and the environment, Harvard faculty members also serve as expert advisers to policymakers, putting their science to work to improve laws and regulations and to foster understanding between the worlds of government and academics.
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Nation & World
Putting Twitter to the test
The timely and effective use of social media in the hours and days following the Boston Marathon bombings may serve as a model for other law enforcement agencies in the United States, according to a report published as part of the New Perspectives in Policing Series by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management…
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Campus & Community
Celebrating sustainability champions
The Green Carpet Awards, hosted by Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and the Office for Sustainability, celebrated the dedication and hard work of project teams and student groups in meeting the University’s sustainability commitments.
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Campus & Community
Professor Richard N. Frye dies at 94
Harvard scholar, friend, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus Richard Frye taught Iranian history and culture at the University for more than 40 years.
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Campus & Community
CityStep celebrates 30th anniversary
Now in its 30th year, CityStep will hold its annual year-end performance at Sanders Theatre this weekend. Tonight and Saturday more than 150 Cambridge middle school students will perform.
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Science & Tech
Books meet bytes
Experts came together at Radcliffe to peer into the future of digital library collections.
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Nation & World
The politics of money
Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman discusses whom the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent ruling on campaign contributions will affect, and what the decision means for the future of campaign-finance reform, and for American politics.
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Arts & Culture
Breaking down ‘Bad’
“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan spoke with Harvard President Drew Faust about the origins and evolution of the show.
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Arts & Culture
Family ties with a Disney twist
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Harvard fellow Ron Suskind talks about connecting with his autistic son through Disney films.
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Campus & Community
Into the deep
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students talked with Harvard researchers using the deep-sea submarine Alvin to explore the Gulf of Mexico.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with Steven E. Hyman
President Drew Faust recently announced the creation of a University-wide task force to recommend how the University can better prevent sexual misconduct involving students. The task force will include students, faculty, and staff from across Harvard and will consult widely within the Harvard community and beyond.
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Campus & Community
Hearkening to herbs
At the Harvard Herbaria, Steph Zabel is a curatorial assistant who digitizes collections of dried plant specimens. After working hours, she tends living and local plants, running her own herbalism businesses.
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Campus & Community
Common Spaces kicks off spring season
The Common Spaces Pop-up Performance Series begins on April 8, featuring six weeks of lunchtime entertainment on the plaza, just outside Harvard’s Science Center.
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Campus & Community
A special notice regarding Commencement Day
A guide to the 363rd Harvard Commencement.
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Health
New hope for treating ALS
Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered that a recently approved medication for epilepsy might be a meaningful treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a uniformly fatal neurodegenerative disorder.
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Campus & Community
Women who lead
Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion on Monday at Sanders Theatre to consider the changing roles of women.
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Nation & World
Measuring the marathon
A new report by Harvard crisis-management and criminal-justice experts, and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, considers the factors that led to the successes and failures of last year’s emergency response to the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt.
