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Tag: Christina Pazzanese
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Arts & Culture
Memories of Mandela
Scholars, others gathered Tuesday to reflect on the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela.
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Nation & World
Our nuclear insecurity
Harvard Kennedy School experts talk about recent efforts to keep nuclear materials out of terrorists’ hands in preparation for the biannual Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands.
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Campus & Community
Teaching with élan
In a new master class series at HGSE, David Malan demonstrates why his course CS50, is wildly popular and what goes into creating memorable learning experiences for students.
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Nation & World
Bad bridges to nowhere
Harvard Business School brings together top leaders in academia, government, and business to consider and address the nation’s transportation and infrastructure shortcomings, which have led to a lag in global competitiveness.
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Nation & World
Fiscal fallout at the Vatican
Gregg Fields, a business journalist and research fellow who studies institutional corruption at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, talked about the sweeping new financial reforms initiated by Pope Francis.
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Nation & World
Gaming the political arena
Journalist Ken Shulman talks about the ways in which global sporting events are used to advance political agendas and how activists can leverage sports to draw attention and action to human-rights issues.
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Nation & World
Confrontation in Ukraine
Serhii Plokhii, an authority on Ukrainian history and director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, explains what’s behind the violence and what’s at stake for a country that’s caught in a tug-of-war between Europe and Russia.
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Nation & World
Kids, defined by income
Analysts discuss research and new strategies for overcoming the student achievement gap in schools with high poverty rates.
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Science & Tech
A decidedly mixed bag
A new research paper from Harvard Business School says food shoppers who bring their own bags are more likely than those who use disposables to buy healthy organic goods, but also treats like ice cream and chips.
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Arts & Culture
Harmony and humanity
Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock begins his post as the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard with some wisdom from Miles Davis. Hancock’s next lecture, “Breaking the Rules” will take place Feb. 12.
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Nation & World
Facebook, 10 years after
Professor Jonathan Zittrain, founder and director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, talks about Facebook’s past, present, and future as it turns 10 years old.
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Nation & World
The doings at Davos
Harvard experts convened to discuss the big issues and parties at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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Campus & Community
When the walls come down
Students at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School host the first University-wide conference on LGBTQ issues.
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Arts & Culture
Sing a song
Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell delivers a master class on song interpretation as part of Harvard’s Wintersession program.
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Nation & World
Market reaction
Once a risky and bold idea, Harvard Business School’s overseas FIELD program now is a foundational and transformative piece of the M.B.A. curriculum for students and faculty.
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Nation & World
Bridging troubled waters
Harvard crisis-management expert Herman “Dutch” Leonard talks about the challenges facing N.J. Gov. Chris Christie and retailer Target after recent damaging news revelations.
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Nation & World
So, who owns the Internet?
Harvard experts say a closely watched case now before the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., over the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to regulate online access could have game-changing implications for how consumers and businesses experience the Internet.
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Nation & World
We can work it out
A new task force report by the American Political Science Association takes a close look at the causes of and cures for political stalemates in Congress.
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Campus & Community
Order restored
No explosives or suspicious devices were found following the evacuation and sweep of four Harvard University buildings by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
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Campus & Community
Men on a mission
The Women’s Student Association at HBS finds some effective new ambassadors to negotiate gender issues on campus — men.
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Nation & World
Hard-pressed
In a new polemic, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Thomas Patterson calls for sweeping changes to the education of journalists and the practice of journalism.
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Arts & Culture
How to speak American
Harvard University Press delivers the flavor and idiosyncrasies of our spoken language in a new online version of the acclaimed “Dictionary of American Regional English.”
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Nation & World
Companies or coverage
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear challenges by some for-profit companies that have a religious objection to a mandate under the Affordable Care Act that employers must provide employees with health insurance that includes contraceptive coverage. In a question-and-answer session, Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet examines what’s at stake in the suits.
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Nation & World
Core objectives
Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Paul Reville talks about the new national standards for K-12 education, known as the Common Core State Standards, and the recent controversy surrounding their implementation.
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Nation & World
The day the president died
Five from Harvard remember where they were when President John F. Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963, and what effect the shooting had on their lives.
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Nation & World
Northern exposure
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Michael Ignatieff talks about why he put aside academia to make an improbable and ill-fated foray into Canadian politics.
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Nation & World
Not very good governance
Panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School consider why Congress isn’t working.
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Nation & World
Marriage equality at 10
Ten years after Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Harvard Law School’s Margaret Marshall, who was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, looks back on the milestone ruling that launched the gay marriage wave.
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Nation & World
Imagination before hubris
Professor Lawrence Summers tells finance students at Harvard Business School that it will be up to them to reform the financial system from within.
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Nation & World
The measure of a woman
Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House minority leader and former speaker, appeared at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to discuss the progress that American women have — and have not — made since a milestone 1963 report initiated by President John F. Kennedy on their status.
