Tag: ” Colleen Walsh

  • Nation & World

    Where town meets gown

    A Radcliffe and Rappaport symposium explored the important city-university relationship, and areas where each side can benefit the other.

  • Campus & Community

    The newest live in the oldest

    The top floor of Mass Hall, as it is commonly known, is still used as a dorm for a small group of students. The remainder of the building serves as office space for Harvard’s top administrators.

  • Arts & Culture

    Memories of Armageddon

    With haunting images, Japanese artist and survivor Junko Kayashige depicts the horrors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an exhibition of oil paintings on view at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Monroe C. Gutman Library.

  • Arts & Culture

    New era for the arts

    Since 2009, three of Harvard’s main arts positions have changed hands. The fresh leaders of the music, dance, and choral spheres represent an important new direction for the arts.

  • Nation & World

    Sirleaf wins Nobel Peace Prize

    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna, is one of three recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace, democracy, and women’s rights.

  • Nation & World

    What makes a thinker

    In a lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, retiring Professor David Perkins explored the evolution of the teaching of thinking, including its history, obstacles, advances, and likely future.

  • Nation & World

    Exploring Islam in Nigeria

    A panel of scholars explored the topic of Islam in Nigeria in preparation for the visit to Harvard by Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto.

  • Arts & Culture

    On the Silk Road again

    The Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the world led by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was at Harvard for a weeklong residency, helping students to compose, playing with undergraduates, exploring the link between business and the arts, and discussing arts and education.

  • Science & Tech

    He blended it with science

    Harvard professor and current Radcliffe fellow Michael Brenner explores the evolution of his wildly popular cooking course.

  • Nation & World

    Recording a horrific history

    Through its Nuremberg Trials Project, the Harvard Law School Library is digitizing parts of a massive trove of records from the postwar trials of high-ranking Nazi political and military leaders.

  • Arts & Culture

    The disciplines of dance

    Harvard’s new director of the OFA Dance Program, Jill Johnson, brings a love of movement and a boundless curiosity to the post and a desire to connect her disciplines to a range of academic pursuits.

  • Nation & World

    The law before and after 9/11

    Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, outlines the security paradigm shift in the run-up to 9/11 and the factors to consider when creating a new legal architecture to fight terrorism.

  • Nation & World

    Honoring a tireless advocate

    Scholars and professionals involved with the labor movement, workplace law, and social policy gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to honor the life of alumna Clara Schiffer on behalf of working women, and to explore the legacy and prospects of working women.

  • Nation & World

    Teaching a tragedy

    Speakers from the fields of education, history, government, religion, and politics convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to examine how, why, and what should be taught to young people about the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  • Arts & Culture

    When art wed science

    A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum explores how the rich exchanges between artists and scholars of the 16th century advanced the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Porgy and Bess,’ made new

    A.R.T. reimagines the classic Gershwin opera, with help from some Harvard undergraduates.

  • Campus & Community

    A portrait of change

    Preston Williams was honored with a new portrait in Andover Hall. The picture of Williams, the Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, is part of the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project.

  • Campus & Community

    It’s morning in a new year

    Harvard President Drew Faust spoke at the first Morning Prayers service, encouraging listeners to consider the past as a “valuable resource” for contemplating the future.

  • Campus & Community

    Plans in motion

    Boston’s new bike-sharing program, Hubway, launches today (July 28), and University officials, in collaboration with the city of Cambridge, are planning to bring the program to Harvard’s main campus, possibly as early as this fall.

  • Nation & World

    Voices of frustration

    In an afternoon discussion at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, investigative journalists from around the world discussed the challenges of reaching a wider audience.

  • Arts & Culture

    When three is also one

    The renovated and expanded facility of the Harvard Art Museums eventually will link the University’s collections under one roof.

  • Science & Tech

    For Harvard, an IT summit

    From across the University, members of the information technology community gathered for the first Harvard IT Summit.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art and the immigrants

    Through an innovative program, immigrants explore the Harvard Art Museums’ galleries, polishing their English skills and learning lessons in American democracy.

  • Arts & Culture

    A sound welcome

    The arrival of the first components of the new Fisk Opus 139 organ for the Memorial Church was welcomed with song on June 20.

  • Nation & World

    Schools of the future

    Drawing on their experience as young educators and designers, students from two very different disciplines joined forces to create fresh concepts for daily learning.

  • Nation & World

    Transforming from within

    Ela Bhatt, a lead women’s organizer in India, spoke about social change and personal transformation on Radcliffe Day.

  • Campus & Community

    Baby, it’s been a wild ride

    Master’s recipient Lena Eisen proves that having a child and going to graduate school at the same time can make for a workable adventure.

  • Arts & Culture

    The spirituality of the stage

    Actress and playwright Amy Brenneman and longtime collaborator Sabrina Peck, both Harvard graduates, reunite at the American Repertory Theater to present their play about spirituality, fame, and a debilitating illness.

  • Campus & Community

    Young pioneers of science

    Four hundred eighth-grade students from the Cambridge public schools visited campus to discuss their science experiments with the Harvard community.

  • Nation & World

    Tough talk on education

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie discussed his tough-minded approach to education reform during a talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.