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Tag: Corydon Ireland
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Nation & World
Through artistry, toleration
“On the Nature of Things,” a poem written 2,000 years ago that flouted many mainstream concepts, helped the Western world to ease into modernity, author Stephen Greenblatt recounted.
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Forces beyond nations
Most people would say they live in a globalized world, but a sociology professor favors the model of a denationalized world in which regional organizations increasingly predominate.
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Harvard’s year of exile
It’s little known, but Harvard wasn’t always in Cambridge. During the American Revolution, the College temporarily turned its campus over to the new colonial army, and moved inland to Concord.
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Travel, by design
Students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design mix reality and research during travel as Community Service Fellows, doing everything from helping tsunami victims to studying activist art.
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Mourning 10, and 3,000
On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Harvard students, faculty, and staff joined in remembering that tragic day. At the start of the day was an early-morning memorial run; at the end of the day were candlelight vigils that lit up the dark. In between came music, dance, and centering discussion.
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Creative opportunity
The tradition of visiting faculty at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies brings art and insight to the classroom.
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Of the bean I sing
A Radcliffe Fellow is working on an opera about the world’s love affair with coffee and how it grew from the bean that made goats jittery to the potion we all get jittery for.
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On Darwin and gender
New website opens a window onto naturalist Charles Darwin’s struggle with the complexities of gender, and illustrates how culture affects science’s vaunted neutrality.
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The way we were
Donald Freeman Brown ’30, who is 102 and a retired archaeologist, digs back into the days of “ancient” Harvard.
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When traditions gave way to war
The Class of 1941 returned to Harvard for its 70th reunion, with its defining war and its youth long past. Graduate John Ambrose recalls the times.
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Fighting poverty, by design
A young Harvard architect, with an eye to other cultures, challenges his profession to use design to end poverty and spur social justice.
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Planning a life for others
Before he was a graduate of Harvard, Jeffrey Lynn Hall Jr. was a graduate of the streets of St. Louis, which taught him to look back and to give back.
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Harvard at 375
The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.
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Where money meets politics
James M. Snyder Jr., an economist and Harvard’s newest professor of government, is a student of American elections, where he finds that campaign contributions don’t have the sway you might suppose.
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Taming nature, then man
Humankind, after millennia of reluctance and ambivalence, surrendered finally to growing fixed crops — a precondition of modern states.
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Lessons of the hunt
Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.
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Thesis by creation
On view through May 26, “Oh, Pioneers!” offers a moment in the sun to Harvard’s graduating painters, installation artists, and filmmakers.
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Art and catastrophe
At a photo exhibit on Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster, viewers get glimpses of both hope and horror.
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Finding Japan, through its past
David Howell, Harvard’s newest professor of Japanese history, evokes a vanished world of samurai and shoguns, and argues for studying cultures that thrived through a non-Western logic.
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The gifts of immigration
Two Harvard researchers say that new U.S. residents, most of whom are young and nonwhite, reflect not just policy challenges, but an immense reservoir of social potential.
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Art of the ‘Divine’
“The Divine Comedy,” a daring and grand exhibit in three parts, gives a modern spin to Dante’s three realms of the dead, and shows how art can break disciplinary boundaries.
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Dose response
In a Harvard School of Public Health webcast, researchers used a recent federal report to start a conversation on vitamin D. How much is enough, and how much is too much?
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At ground zero in coastal Japan
In a rare opening for American-trained physicians, three Harvard doctors spend time bringing medical aid to a tsunami-stricken city in coastal Japan.
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Chips, efficient and fast
Professor Gu-Yeon Wei explores energy-efficient computing devices that are fast but draw minimal power.
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The man from Kyrgyzstan
Historian Baktybek Beshimov, a former diplomat and parliamentarian, fled political unrest in his homeland to research and write in Harvard’s Scholars at Risk program.
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The digital pioneers
A Harvard center helps to write the script as the arts and humanities confront an emerging age of digital scholarship.
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Chasing prices
Gita Gopinath, Harvard’s newest tenured professor of economics, uses complex mathematics to model the financial world, but she also hunts for clues in real-world data.
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‘Poetic Urbanisms’
An experimental exhibit at Harvard’s newest arts space gathers and displays overlooked images and ideas from city life.
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Saving snapshots of history
Four Russian conservators visit the Weissman Preservation Center for 10 days to learn techniques to assess, treat, and preserve rare photos and other treasures.
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Art by degrees
Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.
