Tag: Chuck Leddy

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    Beating the beetles

    The Arnold Arboretum celebrates a successful collaboration with the U.S. government to prevent tree destruction by the invasive Asian longhorned beetle.

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    Building bridges among diverse faiths

    Rabbi Angela W. Buchdahl, senior rabbi-designate at New York City’s Central Synagogue; Sheik Yasir Qadhi, dean of academic affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute; and the Rev. J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, gathered for a discussion on the role of religion in public life.

    5 minutes
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    Given to composition

    Novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid was among the participants in a panel on the first day of Harvard LitFest, which continues through Thursday .

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    A capstone to learning

    Forty-one students from the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Doctor of Education and Doctor of Education Leadership programs have been presenting their dissertations and capstone projects in front of public audiences since April 11, continuing through April 22.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard’s graduates, aiding others

    A panel discussion served as the launchpad for the Harvard Alumni Association’s annual global month of service, with gatherings planned worldwide.

    4 minutes
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    Sizing up the Big Bang

    Four experts, including Nobel Prize winner Robert Wilson, came together for a CfA program titled “50 Years After the Discovery of the Big Bang.”

    4 minutes
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    Closing the gender gap in computer science

    Young women studying computer science were introduced to a group of potential role models as part of a weekend conference at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The event, organized by Harvard Women in Computer Science, drew some of the most successful women in the field.

    5 minutes
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    Dream worth more than gold

    Harvard is well represented on the U.S. women’s hockey team competing for gold at the Sochi Olympics. Includes the video “Playing for Coach Stone” and a photo gallery of Harvard’s players.

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    Sharing ‘the wisdom of Boston’

    A town hall meeting with Boston Mayor-elect Marty Walsh, well-supported by Harvard affiliates, broke into 11 idea-generating sessions on Saturday, focusing on various issues facing the city.

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    When 3+1 is more than 4

    Harvard Business School researchers find that to motivate workers more effectively, present higher pay as a gift.

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    The jazz orchestra, brick by brick

    Jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra treated a Sanders Theatre audience to a master class Thursday evening that re-created a pivotal quarter century of jazz innovation.

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    Slowing the work treadmill

    Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile compares much of work life to running on a treadmill. People try to keep up with the demands of meetings, email, interruptions, deadlines, all while trying to be more productive and creative, she says, yet on many days they seem to make no progress at all, especially in creative…

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    Truth in fiction

    HBS Professor Joseph Badaracco trains students for the complexities of the business world by examining great works of literature.

    4 minutes
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    Avoiding the digital ‘flock’

    In his new book, “Rewire,” former Berkman Fellow Ethan Zuckerman challenges the digital world to connect with others, using tools to overcome people’s “flocking” instincts.

    5 minutes
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    Science, front and center

    A Harvard/MIT conference brought together young scientists and experts to explore best practices in communicating science to wider audiences.

    5 minutes
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    Multitasking against obesity

    Specialists examines the country’s obesity problem from several angles at an HMS-MGH forum.

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    Challenging ‘eureka’ with rigor

    Renowned British biographer Richard Holmes, speaking at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, reflected on what biography can tell us about science.

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    The power of dreams

    Professor Kimberley C. Patton suggests dreams are “a language of enigmatic parable” that Western culture generally prefers to dismiss. “There’s a devaluation of dreams in the West,” said Patton, something the ancients would have found incomprehensible.

    4 minutes
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    Crunching data in the campaign cave

    During an appearance on campus, Michelangelo D’Agostino explained how he worked to mine fundraising data, helping President Barack Obama win re-election.

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    The film that stirred a cause, perhaps

    Berkman Center Fellow Ruha Devanesan described some of her research on the “Kony 2012” campaign in a recent talk and in an interview with the Gazette.

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    Money, marriage, kids

    There may be a formula for happiness after all, says Daniel Gilbert, Harvard professor of psychology and best-selling author of “Stumbling on Happiness,” who presented an impressive array of scientific research from the disciplines of economics, psychology, and neuroscience to assess his mother’s recipe for happiness.

    4 minutes
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    Five ideas for better schools

    A panel of leading thinkers shared five visions of education’s future during an Askwith Forum on Tuesday at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The scenarios ranged widely, from redefining the function of schools and teachers to adopting learning models from other nations.

    4 minutes
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    Women waging peace

    On Tuesday at a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum sponsored by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, six female leaders discussed how they’re waging peace and promoting inclusiveness in their war-ravaged nations.

    4 minutes
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    When ZIP code isn’t destiny

    Author and educator Doug Lemov told a packed audience Thursday in the Harvard Graduate School of Education that specific, concrete techniques, readily learned, can help to transform good teachers into great ones.

    4 minutes
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    Exorcising the curse of knowledge

    Author Steven Pinker told a packed audience what is wrong with so much academic writing: It’s filled with abstract language, clunky transitions, clichés, “zombie nouns,” and “compulsive hedging.”

    4 minutes
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    An issue that’s bigger in Texas

    During an Askwith Forum discussion on college affirmative action, highlighted by the pending Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, the speakers said that any decision should include as its backdrop a sense of that Southern state’s history.

    4 minutes
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    Worry over drug-resistant TB

    A symposium at the Broad Institute calls for mobilization to battle drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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