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Tag: FAS
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Arts & Culture
Encounters with Tennessee Williams
A comprehensive collection of material at Houghton Library shines a light on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
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Campus & Community
A simple ‘thank you’
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is hosting its fifth annual Giving Thanks open house, welcoming its staffers to write personal messages of gratitude to colleagues and friends across the University.
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Science & Tech
Major boost for computer science
Steve Ballmer was joined by President Drew Faust and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Dean Cherry Murray at an iLab event to formally announce that the University will increase its computer science faculty by 50 percent over the next few years, to 36 from 24.
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Campus & Community
Funding the next generation of scholars
Twenty undergraduates from around the world will have the chance to get hands-on experience in Harvard labs this summer, thanks to a four-year renewable grant to expand the Amgen Scholars Program to the University.
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Arts & Culture
Daoism’s ongoing influence
James Robson, professor of East Asian languages and civilizations, has edited the Daoism volume of “The Norton Anthology of World Religions.”
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Campus & Community
Resonant journey
Experiences in Moscow reinforced for Dylan Perese ’16 the importance of trust in cultural exchange.
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Campus & Community
Parents make a weekend of it
Families converged in Cambridge for Freshman Parents Weekend, the annual welcoming of parents that features faculty presentations, tours of the libraries and museums, and the opportunity to sit in on classes. Approximately 2,000 family members came to Harvard to visit their student over the weekend.
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Arts & Culture
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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Science & Tech
Online hub for social science
The Digital Lab for the Social Sciences is designed to serve as an online clearinghouse where social scientists can find study participants.
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Health
A promising strategy against HIV
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General and Boston Children’s hospitals for the first time have used a relatively new gene-editing technique to create what could prove to be an effective technique for blocking HIV from invading and destroying patients’ immune systems.
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Arts & Culture
A sense of Wonder
Harvard historian discusses the topic of her latest book, “The Secret History of Wonder Woman.”
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Health
Rapid-fire evolution
Faced with stiff competition from an invading species, a Harvard study has found that green anoles evolved larger toe pads equipped with more sticky scales to allow for better climbing in just 20 generations over 15 years.
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Campus & Community
From preschool to Harvard
As I write this column from the comfort of my Harvard College dorm room, my pulse still quickens when I think of that day in December 2013 — the day that made it all worthwhile. But before the moment that forever changed my life, there was a journey that started well over a decade before…
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Health
A hidden risk
A new study by S. Allen Counter, clinical professor of neurology and director of the Harvard Foundation, shows that high levels of lead, as well as other toxic metals such as mercury and cadmium, can pass from mother to child through breast milk.
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Health
Toward genetic editing
Led by David Liu, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, a team of Harvard researchers developed a system that uses commercially available molecules called cationic lipids to deliver genome-editing proteins into cells.
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Campus & Community
Lone Star assembly
The Harvard clubs of Dallas and San Antonio marked their centennials at a Your Harvard celebration with a gala dinner, bluegrass and piano performances, and remarks from Harvard President Drew Faust.
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Campus & Community
From Mexico to Texas to Cambridge
As they visited Mexico and Texas, Harvard President Drew Faust and Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez reinforced the University’s deep and longstanding ties there, met with alumni and faculty, and, in Dallas, promoted the continued value of higher education.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s ‘haunted’ Houses
A tour of Harvard’s “haunted” Houses, in advance of Halloween.
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Arts & Culture
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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Health
Status shift for whale pelvic bones
New research challenges the notion that the small pelvic bones found in whales are evolutionary vestiges.
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Nation & World
Why college matters
During a videotaped speech in Dallas, Harvard President Drew Faust explained why attending college remains so important for many after high school — and a group of seniors couldn’t agree more.
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Health
Birds everywhere
“Birds of the World” opened in September as a permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Nation & World
Harvard in Mexico City
Harvard alumni and friends gathered in Mexico City for the latest event in the Your Harvard series. President Drew Faust, faculty members, and local alumni celebrated the many connections shared by Harvard and Mexico, some dating back more than a century.
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Campus & Community
Harvard rolls out plan for the future
The Harvard Sustainability Plan, released today, sets a holistic vision and clear priorities for how the University will move toward an even healthier, more sustainable campus community. The five-year operational plan targets reductions in energy, water, and waste while also focusing on sustainable operations, culture change, and human health.
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Arts & Culture
Cooper Gallery makes an entrance
Architect and curator David Adjaye, co-curator Mariane Ibrahim-Lenhardt, art collector Jean Pigozzi, and Director Vera Grant led an open house and tour of the new Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, which will open this week.
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Health
Mixed results in report on concussions
While most colleges and universities in the National Collegiate Athletic Association have created programs to help diagnose and treat concussions sustained by their athletes, many are not fully meeting the NCAA’s standards, according to new research.
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Campus & Community
Rowing toward the Head of the Charles
Last Sunday at the Head of the Charles, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew, stroked by Elizabeth Fitzhenry ’15, completed the three-mile race in 16:59:69 ― good for eighth place in the women’s championship event.
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Campus & Community
Fannie Cox Prize to Burton, Musunuru
Briana Burton, associate professor of molecular and cellular biology, and Kiran Musunuru, an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, have been named the winners of the 2014 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.
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Campus & Community
Andrew Murray named an HHMI professor
Professor Andrew Murray was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor and will receive $1 million in funding for innovation in undergraduate science education.
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Science & Tech
A walk on the wild side
Scientist Peter Del Tredici collaborated with artist Teri Rueb on a mobile sound tour of Bussey Brook Meadow.
