Tag: Conservation

  • Nation & World

    Greening the meaning of bottom line

    Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.

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  • Nation & World

    Martins receives top honor

    Princess Anne of Britain presented a Whitley Award, one of the world’s top prizes for grassroots nature conservation, to Dino J. Martins of Kenya, for his work to improve local understanding of and win greater protection for the pollinators that underpin farming in and around the Great Rift Valley and Taita Hills.

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  • Nation & World

    HRES installs solar arrays on buildings

    Harvard students can do a lot of things, but hovering five stories in the air is not one of them.

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    Evolution of a sacred text made visible at Houghton

    When Jane Cheng ’09 arrived at Harvard four years ago, her interest in book conservation led to a job at the Weissman Preservation Center, and it was that job that led her to the medieval text that would become the subject of both her senior thesis and a new exhibition organized by Cheng at Houghton…

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    Patricia Cornwell endows conservationist at Straus Center

    Harvard Art Museum announced the establishment of the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist position at the museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Funded by a $1 million commitment from best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, the Cornwell Conservation Scientist will play a key role in the analytical laboratory and beyond.

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  • Nation & World

    Wildlife Conservation Society chief outlines scenarios

    From the complex social structure of elephant herds to the understanding that gorillas are susceptible to deadly “human” diseases to the impacts of climate change, conservationists are struggling to balance a suite of challenges unknown in past generations.

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    Harvard Forest names Bullard Fellows

    The Harvard Forest has recently announced nine Charles Bullard Fellows in Forest Research for 2008-09. Established in 1962, the Bullard Fellowship program was created to support the study and advanced research of individuals looking to make important contributions as scholars or administrators in forestry.

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    10 ways to help

    1. Drive less: Walk, bike, and take public transportation instead. Check out the Harvard Commuter Choice Program for information on ridesharing, discounts for MBTA passes, and more.

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  • Nation & World

    Global ‘chump change’ could provide biodiversity protection

    Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson said the Earth’s major biological hot spots could be conserved for roughly $50 billion— an amount he termed “chump change” in a world of trillion-dollar financial bailouts.

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  • Nation & World

    Cabot Science Library catches migration in exhibit case

    Roadkill may seem an odd inspiration for a library exhibition, but when a colleague mentioned an article about the rising number of migratory animals killed on roads and highways, Cabot Science Reference Librarian Reed Lowrie knew he’d stumbled onto his next exhibit.

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  • Nation & World

    Ken Burns to headline Theodore Roosevelt celebration

    Theodore Roosevelt is considered a principal architect of the U.S. national park system. To help mark his 150th birthday this fall, noted filmmaker Ken Burns will come to Harvard to offer remarks and show clips from his upcoming documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” due out in fall 2009. Scheduled for Oct. 3 at…

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  • Nation & World

    Popular causes not necessarily best

    Conservation policies favoring keystone animal species are insufficient to conserve the world’s biodiversity because many of these target animals don’t live in the world’s most biodiverse spots: lowland tropical forests under pressure from agriculture, logging, and other human activities.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Maya, Aztec monument casts get the shake-out, dust-off

    Plaster reproductions of Maya and Aztec carvings, which preserve precious details now lost on the originals, are leaving dusty, haphazard storage for cleaning, cataloging, and crating that will prepare them for a new era of usefulness and relevance.

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    Newsmakers

    In August, the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to membership in The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the oldest order of chivalry in the United Kingdom, dating to the 10th…

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    Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art announces landmark gift

    The Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (CTSMA), a leading research center of the Harvard University Art Museums, has announced a major gift of Barnett Newman’s studio materials and related ephemera through the generosity of The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation.

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    Center names photograph conservator

    Paul M. Weissman ’52 and Harriet L. Weissman, whose gift created the University Library’s Weissman Preservation Center in 2000, have announced vital new support for the center’s growing photograph conservation program. With a $1.25 million gift announced on March 1, they will support the senior photograph conservator’s position in the Weissman Preservation Center.

    3 minutes
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    Orangutan research yields conservation dividends

    The population of the orangutan, one of humankind’s closest animal relatives, has declined with human expansion. The orangutan population declined by 97 percent in the 20th century and over 90 percent of their rainforest habitat has been destroyed. The factors contributing to that decline – illegal logging, conversion of forestland to agriculture, and hunting to…

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