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“No matter what I am asked to write about, I try to find an original story to tell that hasn’t been told before, and that involves, for me, the fun of archival discovery,” said Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History.

Writing as discovery

In book talk, Lepore explains her attraction to subjects that no one has covered

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DateApril 15, 2013July 18, 2019

Faculty Council meeting held April 10

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DateApril 11, 2013

Provost Alan Garber’s health care policy seminar “has been one way for me to keep a foot in the world I used to inhabit,” he said.

Provost’s other hat: Teacher

Garber steps back into classroom for freshman seminar on health care

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DateApril 3, 2013May 31, 2019

Governments have the duty to protect their citizens from corporate abuses, and so have an important role to play in regulating business activity within their boundaries, said Professor John Ruggie. Ruggie is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Where corporations, public meet

Professor’s project for U.N. focuses on how businesses should react on human rights concerns

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DateMarch 29, 2013May 17, 2019

Faculty Council meeting held March 27

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DateMarch 28, 2013

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences relaunched the “Science Research Lecture Series,” which introduces the broader community to research conducted by Harvard faculty. The talks will be held once a month in the Science Center. The next lecture is March 27 at 7 p.m. and will feature Harvard Professor Scott Edwards, the curator of ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.

A look inside the lab

New lecture series highlights research conducted at Harvard

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DateMarch 27, 2013

Graduate student Caitlin Schmid (left) and Carly Weggeland of the Weissman Preservation Center work on the five-case exhibit featuring Paul Fromm's work.

A tuned-in savior

Exhibit fetes the late Paul Fromm, dogged champion of new music

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DateMarch 27, 2013April 30, 2019

Aleah Bowie '13 (from left), Janell Holloway '13, and Raven Fisher '13 sampled chocolate during a class that introduced the political side of the sweet treat.

The dark side of chocolate

The cacao in the sweet treat is often farmed under harsh human conditions

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DateMarch 22, 2013September 11, 2019

"Sidetracked," the new book by Harvard Business School's Francesca Gino, blends social science and real-world examples, and highlights the science of gratitude.

The power of ‘thanks’

HBS’s Gino outlines ripple effects of gratitude

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DateMarch 19, 2013

Pianist Robert Levin honored in concert at Sanders

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DateMarch 13, 2013June 19, 2019

“Being able to engage with a brilliant and famous scholar like Professor Gates is what a Harvard College education is all about,” said Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds (right) with Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (left).

A fireside chat with the dean

Hammonds, Gates discuss scholarship, Black History Month, genomics

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DateMarch 1, 2013July 19, 2019

Warren E.C. Wacker dies

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DateFebruary 25, 2013

“For more than 30 years, Frank helped countless students and practitioners understand the complex responsibilities facing business leaders through his exemplary teaching and well-regarded books on general management issues. Beyond that, he was a wonderfully considerate person who treated everyone with kindness and respect," said Stephen A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus.

Frank Aguilar of HBS dies at 80

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DateFebruary 21, 2013

The interplay of money and happiness is subject to diminishing marginal returns, said Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert. What’s the sweet spot where each dollar buys the most happiness? Gilbert cited a per capita income between $50,000 and $75,000.

Money, marriage, kids

To attain happiness, Gilbert says, consider your mom’s recipe

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DateFebruary 21, 2013May 21, 2019

An artist's rendering of the Fogg Museum's courtyard at the Harvard Art Museums, which is currently undergoing extensive renovation.

A teaching treasure trove

Art Museums’ renovated facility will encourage contact with collections

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DateFebruary 21, 2013March 13, 2019

Cass Sunstein, Harvard's latest University Professor.

Sunstein a University Professor

Legal scholar recognized for wide-ranging impact beyond field

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DateFebruary 19, 2013

In the best Harvard tradition, James Q. Wilson was a brilliant classroom lecturer. He rendered extraordinary service to Harvard during the troubles of the late '60s, helped to fashion the Core curriculum, and was the most skillful and accomplished chair of the Government Department in his lifetime.

James Q. Wilson

Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateFebruary 6, 2013

Six professors and one student presented seven big ideas in the annual Harvard Thinks Big. This year's participants included Joseph Blitzstein (left to right), Doris Sommer, Katie Hinde, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Emma Dench, Annie Ryu '13, and Michael Puett.

7 speakers, 12 minutes each

Student joins professors to probe ideas that matter during Thinks Big 4

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DateFebruary 1, 2013April 30, 2019

Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted a panel of leading thinkers who shared their five visions on the future of education. The panel included Robert Schwartz (from left), Jal Mehta, Elizabeth City, Frederick Hess, and Paul Reville.

Five ideas for better schools

Askwith panel promotes fresh ways to jump-start effective learning

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DateJanuary 30, 2013April 17, 2019

“All humans have differences. Why is it so hard to leave it at that? Why can’t that answer be the definitive end one about our differences?” wondered Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds at a Sever Hall book talk on Friday.

On the nature of difference

Dean Hammonds discusses her book about race and science

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DateJanuary 29, 2013July 11, 2019

Erwin Hiebert, 93, dies

Professor of the history of science taught at Harvard since 1970

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DateJanuary 23, 2013April 17, 2019

“Tom Everett’s extraordinary musicianship, his dedication to teaching and scholarship, and depth of knowledge — especially regarding 20th-century American composers and artists of the jazz tradition — connected our students and faculty to many of the field’s greatest musical innovators,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts. “His is an extraordinary and lasting legacy, and Harvard musicians are infinitely richer for his contributions.”

Tom Everett to retire from Harvard

Longtime leader of bands inspired University since 1971

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DateJanuary 10, 2013March 29, 2019

“If we go through our lives thinking that love needs to be a swept-off-your-feet kind of love, like Romeo and Juliet in the first springs of passion, that’s slightly delusional," said Edison Miyawaki, assistant professor of neurology, who wrote "What to Read on Love, Not Sex," a book about love, literature, and Freud.

He wrote the book of love

Literary neurologist examines the tough work that underlies tender relationships

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DateJanuary 2, 2013September 12, 2019

“Becoming an ally to those who are not very good at making it through the system is a great way of using what privilege you do have to help those who have less,” Peggy McIntosh, associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, told her Harvard audience. McIntosh was on campus to present the second in a series of diversity dialogues hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Using privilege helpfully

Diversity dialogue offers tips for navigating uneven playing fields

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DateDecember 19, 2012

John Milton Ward

Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateDecember 11, 2012May 8, 2019

Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, gave a talk on the art of picture-taking as part of the Harvard Allston Ed Portal’s faculty speaker series, which brings Harvard professors to the Ed Portal to present on subjects from the General Education curriculum.

Different perspectives

Exchange of ideas at photography event typical of Ed Portal lectures

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DateDecember 7, 2012March 18, 2019

Margaret Nast Lewis joined the faculty of the Harvard College Observatory in 1961, and remained there until her retirement in 1986.

Margaret Nast Lewis, 101, dies

Was a physicist, faculty member of Harvard College Observatory

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DateNovember 29, 2012

Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 28

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DateNovember 29, 2012

With a bitter national election fading in the rearview mirror, Harvard scholars — Theda Skocpol, Jonathan Walton, Lisa Randall, Trey Grayson, and Lauwrence Lessig — look ahead and strike an optimistic chord, suggesting the nation can meet the many serious challenges facing it.

Truth, values, in a reviving America

Faculty members find kernels of optimism in election results

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DateNovember 20, 2012March 21, 2019

This fall, the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard hosted "Imperfect Balance," a discussion of Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." Harvard Professor Francesca Dominici (pictured) led the discussion, which will continue at a follow-up meeting on Nov. 14.

‘Having it all’ at Harvard

Committee on women’s concerns launches look at work-life balance

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DateNovember 13, 2012April 18, 2019

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