Tag: ” Colleen Walsh

  • Arts & Culture

    Breaking the sonnet barrier

    Poet and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Anna Maria Hong takes the traditional sonnet form and breaks it wide open in her new volume of poetry.

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Gift of opportunity

    Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Ready to make a difference

    Ten students have been awarded the first grants from Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship. The program supports returning undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing public service work during the summer.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A musical education

    Harvard students are studying and performing the modern, eclectic works of composer John Adams.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The Wal-Mart way

    Joseph Sellers, a lead attorney in the class action suit against Wal-Mart Stores, discussed the background of the workplace discrimination case and his experience arguing it before the Supreme Court.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The secret lives of boys

    Based on years of interviews with teenage boys, author and Harvard graduate Niobe Way examines the intimate nature of close friendships between young and early adolescent boys.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Lost’ with Carlton Cuse

    Harvard graduate and award-winning producer Carlton Cuse ’81 returned to campus to offer students a look behind the scenes at his TV show “Lost” and insight into his creative process.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Lasting power

    Using personal narratives, several Harvard scholars recall experiences with their faiths with the help of objects in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The human side of Shariah

    A scholar at Harvard Divinity School examines the humanity in the Islamic legal system of Shariah.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making a difference

    Across the University, public service programs are thriving, reinforcing Harvard’s founding mission of providing assistance to others.

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Teachers as part of the solution

    President of the American Federation of Teachers outlined her “theory of action” for how to improve the nation’s public school system.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A moving tribute

    Friends and colleagues offered heartfelt remembrances during a memorial service for the Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A constitutional question

    A panel of legal scholars examined whether health care reform is constitutional during a panel at Harvard Law School.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Theater’s new frontiers

    Offbeat Director John Tiffany, whose company stages productions in unlikely locales, is using a fellowship year at Radcliffe to explore the ways that people communicate, complete with tics.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Do ask, do tell

    Former Army helicopter pilot finds a home at Ed School, hopes that reversal of policy on gays in military may allow her return to service.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Breaking the sound barrier

    Aaron Dworkin, violinist and founder of the Sphinx Organization, spoke at Harvard about his movement to bring diversity to classical music.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Race in America, made personal

    In a discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed discussed the next installment of her work on the complicated history involving Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Secret history

    FreeThink@Harvard is a new interactive e-learning series sponsored by the Dean of Students Office at Harvard Extension School. Each discussion is led by Harvard faculty and includes a classroom chat with a crowd of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff that is also streamed online.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Empowering women in Africa

    On a visit to Harvard to participate in a two-day gender conference sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda discussed issues facing her African country, including women’s health, education, and the importance of promoting women leaders.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The need for men to back women

    A two-day conference on gender examined various dimensions to empowering the lives of women in developing nations.

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A river of concern

    Artist and photographer Atul Bhalla uses his work to explore the cultural and historical contexts of water. His current installation at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum is part art and part performance project involving India’s Yamuna River.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Putting things in their place

    Two professors shake up Harvard’s museum collections with a new course and exhibit that aim to challenge the ways in which tangible things are classified in traditional categories.

    5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A call to action, amid acting

    A.R.T.’s “Prometheus Bound” ties the ancient Greek play to modern human rights.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Get ready, think big

    Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Art for art’s sake

    Students stepped outside their comfort zones and explored their creative sides as part of a new range of programs offered during winter break.

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Contemporary sounds of Istanbul

    Exploring the beauty behind dissonance and her native country, pianist Seda Röder, an associate in Harvard’s Department of Music, uses her new CD to highlight an emerging generation of Turkish composers.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The landscape of slavery

    Harvard historian and Radcliffe fellow Walter Johnson explored the intersecting landscapes of slavery in a talk at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

    5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Students go Dada over project

    A group of Harvard undergrads collaborated on period artworks that grace the Loeb’s lobby for the A.R.T.’s avant-garde musical “The Blue Flower.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Inside a kidnapping

    New York Times reporter and author David Rohde discussed his seven months in captivity at the hands of the Taliban, which is the subject of his book, “A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides,” co-authored by his wife, Kristen Mulvihill.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Channeling Carson McCullers

    Artists and performers Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik, along with Harvard graduate and director Kay Matschullat ’77, discussed their upcoming musical product at one of Harvard’s newest art spaces.

    4 minutes