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"Red River" (photo 1), "The Tall T" (photo 2), and "Duel In The Sun" (photo 3) are screening as part of the Harvard Film Archive's tribute to the Western genre.

Big skies, dusty trails

Film series pays tribute to the Western and its 1950s golden age

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DateFebruary 19, 2014April 23, 2019

“The Hanging Gardens at Villa I Tatti” is among many Steve Ziger watercolors illustrating the oral history site (photo 1). Bernard Berenson, in 1903, stands in front of a favorite painting (photo 2). The Berenson library was a coveted refuge for visitors (photo 3).

Bernard Berenson, recalled

Oral history project at Villa I Tatti interviews last links to art historian who donated Renaissance center

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DateFebruary 14, 2014March 12, 2019

Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 5

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DateFebruary 13, 2014

Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 29

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DateJanuary 30, 2014

GSD student Joanna Rodriguez-Noyola examines a Japanese tea house (photo 1) set up at Harvard's CGIS for "The Thinking Hand" exhibit. Akinori Abo, a master carpenter from Japan, demonstrates the tools, techniques, and woods of traditional Japanese carpentry (photos 2 and 3).

‘The Thinking Hand’

Exhibit showcases traditional Japanese tools that can turn carpentry into artistry

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DateJanuary 30, 2014April 15, 2019

During a daylong presentation of GSD students' theses, Sara Tavakoli's 35-minute vampire movie took perhaps the biggest risk (photo 1), with critics questioning its relationship to architecture. Tian Ren offered a more traditional approach with an architectural scheme to refurbish a former Shanghai slaughterhouse (photo 2). “Thesis review is often a stressful time,” said Caroline James (photo 3), “but I was determined to enjoy the process.”

Architectural fever dreams

During day of GSD thesis presentations, student creativity is the watchword

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DateJanuary 28, 2014

A tribute to Robert Levin: The practice of performance

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DateJanuary 15, 2014April 9, 2019

"The goal [of the Common Core State Standards] is to set standards at such a level that virtually all students who graduate high school will be both ready to do successful college work or to enter a 21st-century high skill/high knowledge career and be successful in that," explained HGSE Professor Paul Reville.

Core objectives

Potential in new K-12 benchmarks mightier than challenges, says Reville of HGSE

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DateNovember 22, 2013

Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 20

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DateNovember 21, 2013

“Very few Harvard professors go straight from the classroom into the cold room of electoral politics — Elizabeth Warren’s done it and a few others … but rather few run for elective office,” said Michael Ignatieff, a former Harvard Kennedy School professor who ran for prime minister of Canada.

Northern exposure

How a professor went from his classroom at Harvard to the back rooms of Canadian national politics, and what he learned

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DateNovember 20, 2013April 1, 2019

Homi K. Bhabha is at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris today representing the intellectual and academic world at the installation ceremony for Director-General Irina Bokova.

A Paris errand

Harvard professor addresses UNESCO

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DateNovember 18, 2013May 6, 2019

“The airport itself is this nice nucleus that can act as a container of broader ideas,” said Sonja Duempelmann (photo 1), who helped organize “Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age” at Gund Hall this week. An exhibit of the same name is also on view through Dec. 19. Its color scheme, signage, and scale are all echoes of modern airports. It is the first time, organizers said, that every display space in Gund Hall has been given over to a single theme (photos 2 and 3.

Change is on the runway

Once airfields, then mini-cities, airports are now turning to landscape design to solve problems

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DateNovember 13, 2013

On a chilly, rainy late afternoon — Irish weather — the pews at Memorial Church were nearly full for a memorial honoring the late poet Seamus Heaney. Present were those “who loved Seamus on and off the page,” said Peter Sacks, Harvard’s John P. Marquand Professor of English.

A poet’s own epitaphs

Harvard’s memorial service for Seamus Heaney was lyrically laced with a lifetime of his insights

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DateNovember 8, 2013April 17, 2019

As founder and first director of what's now known as Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Robert R. Bowie presided over a distinguished group of scholars that included Edward Mason, Thomas Schelling, and Henry Kissinger.

Professor Robert R. Bowie dies at 104

A scholar and government official, Bowie was key figure in forging Cold War foreign policy

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DateNovember 6, 2013

Harvard Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood (left) and Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton (right) faced off in a discussion, “Religion and Politics in a World of Conflict,” explaining how leadership is vital to many nations to maintain a steady, open, middle path to resolving differences. Seated between the two deans was Shaun Casey, the special adviser heading the new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives at the U.S. State Department (photos 1, 2).

Faith, hope, and government

In Washington, two Harvard deans probe the public roles of religion and politics

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DateNovember 5, 2013September 10, 2019

Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, spoke at the opening reception of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) at the Boston Public Library last week (photo 1). David Weinberger of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (photo 2) explained StackLife, a digital browsing tool developed at Harvard that allows a user to see at a glance the popularity of a given book, to Amanda Page, a library assistant at Countway Library.

National digital library gains traction

Conference celebrates strong early growth, plans for wide-ranging future

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DateOctober 31, 2013March 13, 2019

Standing in the Emily Dickinson Room in Houghton Library, Leslie Morris (pictured), is the Emily Dickinson Archive (EDA) general editor. Two years in the making, the EDA is a collaborative project of Harvard University Press and a growing number of repositories that own examples of Dickinson’s original work.

The digital Dickinson

Sophisticated site gathers her poems, in her handwriting, for all to see and study

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DateOctober 23, 2013April 30, 2019

Nine named 2013 Cabot Fellows

Faculty honored for outstanding publications

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DateOctober 21, 2013April 19, 2019

"I really believe in this course, and I really believe in people making meaning together," said Elisa New, the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature.

Poetry spreads its web

Elisa New will offer a HarvardX course spotlighting the literary art in America

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DateOctober 18, 2013April 30, 2019

Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 16

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DateOctober 17, 2013

Howard Gardner, the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, recently reflected on his influences. “We are the sum of whoever we worked with,” he said.

Howard Gardner: ‘A Blessing of Influences’

Wide-ranging scholar praises counsel from others of similar breadth

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DateOctober 17, 2013May 17, 2019

“I started as a linguistic anthropologist specializing in language and symbolism. I never dreamed that 30 years later I’d be working on such a material substance as water,” said Steven Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies.

The poetry of water

Yemen’s strife, growth cause anthropologist to shift course to help

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DateOctober 16, 2013

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (left), the event’s host and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, shared a moment with medal recipient Steven Spielberg (photo 1). Gov. Deval Patrick garnered laughter during his introduction (photo 2). Sonia Sotomayor (from left), David Stern, and Tony Kushner didn't let the evening's lighter moments pass them by either (photo 3).

At Du Bois awards, the stars aligned

Medal recipients include Sotomayor, Kushner, Spielberg, Lewis, Jarrett, and Stern

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DateOctober 3, 2013May 21, 2019

“What else do you do when you come to Harvard Yard? Everybody you know has a picture in front of the statue,” said 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Ulrich, who is looking closely at the John Harvard Statue in her class “Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History.”

Biography of a bronze

John Harvard in detail, 375 years after his death

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DateOctober 2, 2013March 13, 2019

“I was trying to write a book for people who are curious about their bodies and why their bodies are the way they are,” said Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard and author of “The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease."

Narrative of the body, with a nasty twist

Lieberman follows evolution to the comfy stage, where new threats accompany increased longevity

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DateSeptember 26, 2013

Vijay Iyer: “When I arrive at Harvard, I look forward to wading in deeper — mentoring student composer-performers, illuminating new currents in American music, and convening conversations with some of the stellar thinkers on campus. And I especially look forward to connecting all of what we do to the world beyond the University, because a life in the arts means a life of service to those around us.”

A professorship and a MacArthur

Jazz authority Vijay Iyer will become professor in Music Department, wins creative grant

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DateSeptember 25, 2013

Innovation is an increasingly important part of Harvard. The interactive FloTree at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is a tangible example (photo 1); as is the i-lab, Harvard's entrepreneurial hub (photo 2); and the MetaLAB's student-designed "Labrary," a pop-up space where "innovative scenarios for the future" begin (photo 3).

The watchword is innovation

Harvard Schools point toward future where creativity is king

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DateSeptember 25, 2013July 26, 2019

Interdisciplinary collaboration touches every discipline at Harvard, including work at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (photo 1); the A.R.T. helping local high school students better understand issues related to the Civil War (photo 2); and Harvard students and professors collecting data during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in India (photo 3).

Cooperating in educating

Increasingly, Harvard Schools meld resources to improve learning

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DateSeptember 23, 2013June 5, 2019

A sculpture of the head of the Maya ruler 12, K’ahk’ Uit’ Ha’ K’awiil, recovered at Rastrojón in the Copán Valley, Honduras. Researchers believe the site was a residential palace and military outpost.

Unraveling Maya mysteries

Harvard couple teams with Hondurans to excavate, safeguard ancient ruins

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DateSeptember 18, 2013April 30, 2019

In 1983, an effort to save two critically burned Wyoming boys led Boston doctors to transplant laboratory-grown skin created through a procedure pioneered by Harvard Professor Howard Green (pictured). “Once we learned how to grow the cells, it was obvious what we were going to do," said Green. "Use them for people with third-degree burns."

Recalling a lab-led rescue

Pushing the boundaries of regenerative medicine, Howard Green helped save two young burn victims in the summer of '83

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DateSeptember 17, 2013March 18, 2019

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