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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Campus & Community
A walk in Thoreau’s woods
The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “The Language of Color” exhibition, which was supposed to close in 2009 but remained popular among visitors, will close in October to make way for a new exhibition on Thoreau’s Maine woods, featuring the work of photographer Scot Miller.
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Nation & World
Egypt boils over
The Gazette spoke with Harvard’s E. Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus, about the build-up to chaos in Egypt.
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Science & Tech
Seeds of violence in climate change
Nathan Black, the French Environmental Fellow, is studying how nations fall into civil war during the type of agricultural disruption possible with a changing climate — and what some nations might do to prevent it.
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Science & Tech
Water crisis, made clear
Thirty-one schoolteachers spent four days on campus last week at a workshop put together by Harvard’s regional centers and programs to provide background on the growing global water crisis.
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Campus & Community
A boost to international learning
Harvard’s President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences has provided a boost to four new programs, as well as providing renewal or extension funding to three other projects.
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Nation & World
Targeting climate change
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on Tuesday promised that the Obama administration will “engage” on climate change issues during its last three years. Her policy speech at Harvard Law School was her first since being confirmed to the post.
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Health
A learning gap is filled with plants
With classes in plant morphology fading in universities across the country, an Arnold Arboretum short course is seeking to plug the hole, bringing in top botany graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for an intensive, two-week course.
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Health
Following the swarm
Australian scientist Stephen Simpson’s locust research has led to insights on human nutrition.
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Health
Healthy menus for people and planet
Harvard nutrition experts and leaders of the food industry met this week at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge to discuss recommendations for changing menus of everything from restaurants to cafeterias to prepared foods in an effort to improve the American diet and lessen the environmental impact of the foods we eat.
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Science & Tech
Looking at chimp’s future, seeing man’s
The fate of chimpanzees in Africa is largely in the hands of increasing numbers of poor, rural dwellers crowding the primates’ forest homes. That is why an educational project begun near Uganda’s Kibale National Forest focuses on 14 schools teaching almost 10,000 children, researchers say.
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Campus & Community
A pragmatic way to teach science
Harvard scientists at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been helping fifth graders in Boston’s Hennigan Elementary School this spring, bringing technical expertise and life experiences to help students better understand science and engineering, and visualize college careers of their own.
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Campus & Community
The climb of her life
Pamela Thompson, manager of adult education for the Arnold Arboretum and a breast cancer survivor, has been training since January to summit California’s 14,000-foot Mount Shasta, a climb through ice and snow that will require crampons and ice axes, to raise money and awareness for breast cancer prevention.
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Nation & World
Reflections on justice delayed
Harvard History Professor Caroline Elkins discusses last week’s $30 million settlement in the long-running Mau Mau case, in which the British government apologized for colonial-era atrocities during Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion.
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Nation & World
Take my passport, please
Patrick Harlan ’93 drifted into Japan on a Glee Club trip the summer after he graduated from Harvard and quickly found his way to the stage, becoming a well-known comedian and a regular face on Japanese television. Harlan talked to the Gazette about his offbeat journey.
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Health
Ministering to health
Ministers of health from around the world came to the Harvard Kennedy School this week as part of a leadership workshop, co-sponsored with the School of Public Health, to improve health leadership globally.
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Campus & Community
Joy by the Yard
Snapshots of Harvard’s 2013 Commencement, a day marked by sunshine and warmth as well as rituals, honors, and good wishes.
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Campus & Community
Healing hands for an ailing world
Benedict Nwachukwu, graduating with a dual M.D./M.B.A. degree, wants to apply the management skills he learned at Harvard Business School to the medical problems he finds in orthopedics and in global health.
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Campus & Community
On the water and in the Air Force
All-American Crimson rower Courtney Diekema, a graduating senior, is hoping for a spot on the under-23 U.S. women’s crew and perhaps in the Olympics, even as she gets ready for duty as a lieutenant in Air Force intelligence.
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Campus & Community
The truest voice
The Class of 2013 bid farewell to Harvard May 29 during Class Day ceremonies, a traditional occurrence the day before Commencement.
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Campus & Community
‘Run toward life’
Harvard President Drew Faust on Tuesday drew on the example of the selfless responders to the Boston Marathon bombing, telling graduating seniors to “run toward” challenges, passions, and places where their help is needed.
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Nation & World
Up from the ruins, slowly
Joyce Klein Rosenthal of the Graduate School of Design spoke to the Gazette about lessons from past disasters and possible first steps toward rebuilding following the devastation of last Monday’s massive tornado in Moore, Okla.
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Campus & Community
Linking health policy to people
Maia Fedyszyn, who is receiving a master’s of science in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, has a passion for health policy to improve the lot of everyday people.
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Nation & World
Light along a jagged border
Harvard researchers have combined new technology with old to better understand conditions in the war-torn border region between Sudan and South Sudan.
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Health
Attention, undivided
Jay Winsten of the Harvard School of Public Health hopes to recruit entertainers for a campaign to reduce distracted driving.
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Nation & World
Cultivating community in Shanghai
Kate McFarlin, president of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, wears her dual enthusiasms for Harvard and China on her sleeve.
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Campus & Community
Five-year partnership strengthens ties
Five years after Harvard and Boston struck a community benefits cooperation agreement, the University’s neighbors in Allston-Brighton point to an enhanced partnership that has resulted in a vibrant Harvard Allston Education Portal, workforce preparation classes for adults, mentoring for students, and a wide variety of other programs.
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Science & Tech
Urgent prep work
Humanitarian relief workers and climate scientists gathered in Cambridge this week to discuss the connection between climate change and humanitarian disasters and what relief workers can learn from science.
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Science & Tech
The trouble with Kepler
A malfunction aboard NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has jeopardized what has been one of the agency’s highest-profile missions, one that has revealed a galaxy rich with planets. The Gazette talked to Astronomy Professor Dimitar Sasselov, one of the mission’s principal investigators, about the implications.
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Arts & Culture
Catching flux
Stephen Dupont, an award-winning photographer who traveled repeatedly to Papua New Guinea as a Robert Gardner Fellow, is displaying his works showing the intersection of traditional Papuan life and the industrialized world in a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Nation & World
Holistically Crimson
Shaw Chen, treasurer of the Harvard Club of Shanghai, learned a lot from the College’s East Asian studies classes, but got plenty of experience outside the classroom as well.