Tag: Corydon Ireland
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The makeover of Mexico City
With Harvard experts helping, clever and dynamic Mexico City is dealing with global megacity challenges like traffic and housing, and could be a template for a flexible, functioning urbanism of the future.
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Escalating the fight against breast cancer
Harvard had a role in creating Mexico’s decade-old comprehensive health plan for the poor — and now University researchers are helping close stubborn gaps in breast-cancer care.
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The old, made new
The Harvard Semitic Museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit on its long history and founder David Gordon Lyon, is refurbished, reordered, and increasingly ready for the future.
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Sacvan Bercovitch, 1933-2014
Harvard’s Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar of Puritan America, dies at 81.
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Glimpsing Dublin from the wine-dark sea
Humanities 10, a new two-semester offering, is a big class on the big books, with time out for small seminars.
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First model for Harvard in Mexico
The long-running Harvard Chiapas Project, led by the popular Evon Vogt, represented Harvard’s first sustained bi-national academic link to the Republic of Mexico.
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Angela Lansbury’s long run
From the 7-year-old terrified by “King Kong” to the 89-year-old still bravely stepping out on stage, Angela Lansbury reflects on her 70 years in show business.
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Lansbury returns to Harvard
Stage, screen, and television icon Angela Lansbury, at 89, makes her second visit to Harvard, for a screening of a film at the Harvard Film Archive.
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Murders in Mexico
Two Harvard affiliates are launching a Boston-area program of talks, videos, and discussion over the implications of 43 “disappeared” students in Mexico.
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Foreshadowing feminism
Organizing and canvassing for anti-slavery petitions by women from 1833 to 1845 was a transformational training ground for suffragettes and other social activists following the Civil War.
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Forgotten Jewish fighters
Pusey Library exhibit “Lives of the Great Patriotic War” is a multimedia glimpse at surviving Jewish veterans whose presence in the Red Army is a little-known story.
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Coming up for air
In an urban landscape that was once the most polluted in the world, a new Mexico City-Harvard alliance will look at the impact of two decades of progressive public policy, and what remains to be done.
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‘I had the advantage of disadvantage’
Interview with Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as part of the Experience series.
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From Mexico to Harvard, and back
There are more than 1,200 Harvard graduates in Mexico, a well-connected group that rises to high positions and has an appetite for good works.
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Summering (with work) in Mexico
Harvard students discuss their summer of research in Mexico, where they gained new insights, developed fresh confidence, and realized they wanted to return.
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Harvard’s Mexican connections
Harvard’s relationship to Mexico is deep, diverse, and longstanding. Here’s an overview of those connections.
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Vertical Harvard
Harvard University’s early buildings hugged the ground; after two centuries, the campus began to soar.
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Lost voices of 1953
Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room uncovered forgotten audio from a 1953 conference on the novel, including the confident voice of the newly famous Ralph Ellison.
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Scholarly access to all
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a free and open portal for the University’s peer-reviewed literature, is drawing more worldwide downloads than ever.
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Academic boot camp
Harvard President Drew Faust welcomed to campus the Warrior-Scholar Project, an academic boot camp for veterans thinking of applying to college, while Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. introduced the students to the two works he considers seminal to understanding American politics.
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Early experiments in catching the eye
A new exhibit at the Business School illustrates the rise in America of artful, profit-making, culture-shaking advertising from 1865 to 1910.
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‘So that represented my own little rebellion’
Interview with Professor Stephen Greenblatt as part of the Experience series.
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Snapshots of a sun-splashed day
A roundup of capsule stories and photos surrounding Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.
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At 71, he earns his third degree
Henry Hacker, a lifelong collector, earned his third degree at 71, in museum studies at the Harvard Extension School.
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Learning from nature, native peoples
The Graduate School of Design’s Natalia Gaerlan, a world-class athlete who has earned a master’s in urban planning, studies how green infrastructure can protect coastal cities.
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An immigrant triumph
After leaving Brazil at age 11 for the United States, Eric Westphal ’14 learned English and started climbing life’s ladder, culminating as an honors graduate.
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Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.