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Tag: Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Bringing law to life
Sarah Sadlier’s interest in Native American history and law isn’t purely academic. It’s also deeply personal.
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Finding patients
Michigan native Jeremy Lapedis works at the intersection of health care and social services for the most vulnerable residents of Washtenaw County.
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Breaking the barrier
Rebecca Scofield is writing a more complete history of the American West that includes the rich tradition of gay rodeos
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Unearthing buried history
Harvard University professor Matt Liebmann is an archaeologist who has spent decades alongside the people of Jemez Pueblo, using science to give fresh life to tribal stories.
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Science of success
Harvard University doctoral candidate Kayla Davis is combating a STEM crisis in Oklahoma through an online educational resource.
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Learning from the land
Harvard University doctoral candidate Jordan Kennedy studies the engineering marvels that beavers create in her home state of Montana.
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Where the new day begins
Harvard University graduate student Kristin Oberiano is writing a history of Guam inclusive of all who call it home.
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Building connections
Harvard University doctoral candidate Andy Cohen survived getting stuck in a blizzard, and is a better engineer because of it.
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Judging a book
Clint Smith is a writer and teacher whose collection of poetry, “Counting Descent,” was published in 2016. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation exploring how people sentenced as juveniles to life without parole make meaning of education while incarcerated.
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Houston, we have a solution
Anne Sung is a native of Houston and a graduate of the city’s public schools. Since 2016 she has served as a trustee of the Houston Independent School District. She is also a public school educator, advocate, and strategist.
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Emma Dench on helping graduate students succeed
During her first full year as the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emma Dench has been focused on connecting students from around the University to GSAS, and helping them connect with her.
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Fearless advocates, trusted leaders
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presented the Centennial Medal to five distinguished alumni — Carroll Bogert, Lael Branard, Roger Ferguson, Jane Lubchenco, and Joseph Nye — who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.
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Hold the soda, hold the fat shaming
Health and policy expert Sara Bleich has found that when trying to change the way people eat, being prescriptive isn’t always the answer.
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Admissions lawsuit enters second week
Harvard officials continue to take the stand in the second week of a trial in U.S. Federal District Court. The case challenges the University’s admissions process and the right to consider race as one factor among many when considering applicants for admission as discriminatory to Asian American applicants.
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The objects of their reflection
Whether it’s an Indonesian spell book or a light bulb from the 1880s, the Harvard library’s holdings have charmed students and illuminated their research.
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From the islands to the bayous
A Harvard grad student’s research on Canary Island descendants in the U.S. grows into a photo exhibit and book.
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Making sense of climate costs
Ph.D. graduate Jisung Park focuses on the natural environment’s effects on society—a boyhood interest that grew first in Kansas, then sharpened in Seoul.
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Student focuses on what it takes to make Muslim leaders
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. student Nancy Khalil looks at the difficulty of finding and training Muslim imams. The Harvard Horizons Scholar will present her research on April 12.
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Best choice for photography curator
Makeda Best has been named the new Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at Harvard Art Museums.
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Women in sciences
A group called Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering just celebrated a decade of fellowship in those fields.
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An issue that’s bigger in Texas
During an Askwith Forum discussion on college affirmative action, highlighted by the pending Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, the speakers said that any decision should include as its backdrop a sense of that Southern state’s history.
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Sirleaf wins Nobel Peace Prize
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna, is one of three recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace, democracy, and women’s rights.
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From lab trash to treasure
Surplus and waste laboratory equipment from Harvard is finding new life in labs overseas through two student groups and a nonprofit started by a former Harvard graduate student.
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New fellowship fund
To honor the memory and intellectual legacy of Samuel P. Huntington, one of the most influential political scientists of his generation, a group of generous alumni and friends has established the Samuel Huntington Fellowship Fund at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Laurence Coderre sings the praises of China
Laurence Coderre came upon her concentration in music and East Asian studies almost by accident.