Tag: ” Colleen Walsh

  • Arts & Culture

    Making sense of the truth

    Harvard philosophy professor Mark Richard explores the philosophy of language — and loves a good live music show.

  • Arts & Culture

    Don’t stop the music

    A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz explored the American musical in the 21st century during a discussion at Oberon.

  • Campus & Community

    They ride by dawn

    With roots dating to 1890, an eclectic group gathers each fall for the cycling season, learning the rules of the road and having fun.

  • Campus & Community

    What’s possible

    The annual Arts & Humanities and Social Science Digital Technology Fair at Harvard’s Barker Center offers student and faculty a chance to explore the wide range of digital resources available for research and teaching.

  • Arts & Culture

    Farrelly hilarious

    Directing, producing, and writing brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly offered insights on their filmmaking craft and comic talents at Kirkland House.

  • Campus & Community

    Keeping creature company

    For 33 years, José Rosado has taken care of more than 300,000 amphibians and reptiles in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.

  • Campus & Community

    Hardly the retiring kind

    A vital resource, the Harvard University Retirees Association keeps former employees connected to the University’s vast resources, and to each other.

  • Arts & Culture

    Being black in Western art

    A research project and photo archive, as well as an art installation and the publication of reissued works on the image of the black in Western art, come to life at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.

  • Nation & World

    Moot points

    Harvard Law School students and United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts participated in the final round of the annual HLS Ames Moot Court Competition on Nov. 16.

  • Arts & Culture

    A master at his craft

    Author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder is the first writer in residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. For the fall semester, he is sharing his insights about the art of writing with the Harvard community.

  • Campus & Community

    Overjoyed

    Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.

  • Arts & Culture

    Suffering, through an Asian lens

    Several Asian scholars and historians gathered at the Faculty Club Nov. 5 to discuss the cultures of suffering produced by war and tragedy, as shown in the book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” by Harvard President Drew Faust.

  • Nation & World

    Giving children ‘Room to Read’

    Building on the library model developed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in the late 1800s, philanthropist John Wood and his nonprofit, Room to Read, are aiding education in the developing world.

  • Science & Tech

    The looming water shortage

    The head of Nestlé explored ways to address a looming worldwide water crisis during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Campus & Community

    Food for thought

    Harvard graduate and Food Literacy Project administrator Dara Olmsted loves working with food and helping others connect to the environmental and nutritional implications of what they eat.

  • Campus & Community

    Getting out the vote

    Cambridge residents, University students vote at two campus locations during midterm elections.

  • Arts & Culture

    Art during wartime

    Alan Riding, the former European cultural correspondent for The New York Times, discussed his new book, “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” in a panel event at Harvard.

  • Arts & Culture

    A focus on British art

    A display of prints and engravings by several British artists from the early 19th century evokes the classical and the contemporary.

  • Campus & Community

    Breaking bread together

    A new dining experience at the Harvard Divinity School inspires students and staff to take an hour, sit down, and eat “family style.”

  • Nation & World

    Peering into the crystal ball

    Students at Harvard Kennedy School try their hands at political forecasting for the upcoming midterm elections.

  • Campus & Community

    Keeping students in the loop

    Getting Harvard graduate students to connect with each other and the vibrant offerings at Dudley House keeps its longtime administrator Susan Zawalich, a tap dancer with a love for Godzilla and toys, busy.

  • Campus & Community

    Those that serve, teach

    Honored with the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urges students and the public to help transform and improve the nation’s education system.

  • Nation & World

    Seeking a finer balance

    In a two-day conference a group of Harvard scholars joined leaders in the private and public sectors to explore gender gaps in societal, political, and economic realms, as well as the means of developing policy, corporate practices, and leadership strategies to foster gender diversity.

  • Nation & World

    Undoing the damage

    Harvard panel examines fiscal problems of the past two years, and what it will take to restore the economy to health.

  • Nation & World

    In the spirit of an intrepid reporter

    Remembering award-winning journalist and Harvard graduate David Halberstam, a panel of journalists explored his legacy and the future of investigative reporting in a digital age.

  • Campus & Community

    The Fogg begins to rise

    With most of Harvard Art Museums’ staffers and collections settled elsewhere, workers create a “state-of-the-art museum facility,” with plans to open in 2013.

  • Arts & Culture

    How to get happy

    Former Harvard President Derek Bok and his wife Sissela, a Harvard fellow, discussed their recent books on happiness in a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

  • Arts & Culture

    The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’

    In a panel discussion, Harvard scholars and performer Amanda Palmer examined the sinister sides and social significance of the American Repertory Theater’s new production of “Cabaret.”

  • Nation & World

    Telling it like it was

    Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.