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Bridging the gap between activism and policymaking in Malawi
It is a typical morning in rural Malawi. Women wearing colorful red, yellow, and blue patterned dresses carry large metal buckets, many balancing them on their heads, and often with…
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MARO for a Better ‘Morrow
The Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Project recently co-hosted a groundbreaking conference with U.S. European Command (EUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) on preventing and stopping genocide and other mass atrocities…
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Prepping for the Harvard Classroom
When Bambo Sosina, a PhD student in the Statistics Department, came to the United States for the first time, he soon noticed that people had trouble understanding him. “Being originally…
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Tudesco, Miller Honored with Ishimoto Award
Sarah Tudesco and Jindra Miller are the recipients of the 2011 Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service in the Harvard College Library. Created through a 1991 endowment established by former…
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Harvard Kennedy School faculty reflect on the death of Kim Jong Il
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il brings up many questions about the future of the communist country and the Korean peninsula as a whole, where remnants of…
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Shut down sustainably before holiday break!
We all play an important role in reducing energy and conserving resources on campus and in our offices. Our actions make a big difference in helping Harvard meet its goal…
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Online map application unlocks Arboretum collections
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is pleased to announce the release of Collection Researcher version 1.0, an innovative web application that provides unique access to the Arboretum’s living plant…
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Black Sea Security Program alumni form lasting bonds as ambassadors
When a group of NATO and European Union (EU) ambassadors met recently in Brussels, there were a lot of familiar faces in the room. At least a dozen of the…
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Music of Horace Tapscott featured at upcoming Dudley House Jazz Band Concert
The Dudley House Jazz Band and Harvard GSAS are proud to present the music of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. The concert will take place on Saturday,…
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GSAS Career Development Opportunities in January
GSAS is ready to help students tackle their top new year’s resolution, and has prepared a robust month of professional development offerings, courtesy of the Office of Career Services and…
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Canned soup linked to high levels of BPA
A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for…
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Former Mass. Gov. Dukakis advises HSPH students
“Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t make a difference in public service,” former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis told an audience of HSPH students. Dukakis came to HSPH on…
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Three GSAS Students Win New Howard Hughes Funding
Three GSAS students — Nataly Moran Cabili (PhD candidate in systems biology), Mehmet Fisek (PhD candidate in neuroscience), and Le Cong (PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences) — are among the 48…
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New mayors, Harvard connections
New city leaders with Harvard ties Michael Brennan (Portland, Maine), Peter Buttigieg (South Bend, Ind.), Angel Taveras (Providence, R.I.), and Karen Freeman-Wilson (Gary, Ind.) are joining more than 20 other…
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Greece: Anatomy of a financial crisis
When the former prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, asked Richard Parker to serve as special economic adviser in 2009, Parker couldn’t refuse. A friend of the Papandreou family since the…
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Harvard Kennedy School well-represented on FP’s list of top 100 global thinkers
Harvard Kennedy School is well represented on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers 2011. Professors Edward Glaeser, Lant Pritchett, and Joseph Nye are included, along with alumni Andrew Sullivan, M.C./M.P.A.…
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Nano meets pharma at Harvard-BASF symposium
From targeted cancer chemotherapy to the guarantee of successful organ transplants, the 21st century may prove to be the age of big ideas in medicine. The drugs themselves, though, will…
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2012 January Innovation Fund grants announced
The President’s Office announced today the 2012 grant recipients for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty. The fund was created in 2010 to support Harvard faculty in the development…
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Friends of Henry Hubschman establish joint fellowship
Friends of Henry Hubschman, HLS 1972 M.P.P. 1973, have set up a fellowship in his memory at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Law School (HLS). Established shortly after Hubschman’s…
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Heirloom apple trees planted on campus
Over the weekend, Harvard students, guided by Eric Chivian ’64, M.D. ’68, moved three heirloom apple saplings from the Harvard Community Garden to a permanent spot on campus, just behind…
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For PhD Students, a Variety of Mental Health Resources
Graduate students may seek mental health services for any number of reasons — for all the reasons that anyone else would seek help. But the demands of a PhD program…
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Mohammad Nabbous Receives Louis M. Lyons Award
The current Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Libyan Mohammed Nabbous, founder of Libya Alhurra TV, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and…
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Social Justice Spotlight
Kip Tiernan BI ’89, founder of Rosie’s Place and the Greater Boston Food Bank and co-founder of Community Works and the Poor People’s United Fund, gave her papers to the…
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Harvard Kennedy School students turn idealism into action
When Lucas Scanlon, MC/MPA 2012 candidate, arrived at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this fall, he didn’t expect to find many sympathizers. A Tea Party activist from Texas, Scanlon anticipated staunch…
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Make Your January Plan
We’ve got over 70 events on offer to help you learn essential research skills, prepare for your career, make new connections, or just relax and have some fun. GSAS students…
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Stone Hearth Pizza opens in Allston
Smoke was in the room, but it wasn’t car exhaust. No, that function of the former Citgo gas station at 182 Western Ave. is officially gone. Stone Hearth Pizza Co.…
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Cultural Survival Bazaar at Harvard: Giving gifts that give twice
The Cultural Survival Bazaar (CSB), a festival of Native arts and culture from around the world, will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 3-4 at Harvard’s Northwest…
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MBTA Red Line update from Campus Services Transportation
Campus Services Transportation would like the Harvard community of faculty, students, and staff to be aware of the following change to MBTA Red Line weekend service. MBTA Replacing Weekend Train…
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Much can be done to ease cancer burden in poorer nations
Although more than half of all new cancers and two-thirds of annual cancer deaths worldwide occur in low- and middle-income countries, with the cancer burden disproportionately affecting the poor, a…
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Former CDC director talks leadership with HSPH students
Always have a goal and know where you are headed, Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Harvard School of Public Health…