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Tag: Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
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Free Thursday evenings? Like theater? Mixed media? Dance?
The ArtsThursdays initiative increases accessibility and availability of Harvard arts for University affiliates and the wider community.
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So you learned everything you know about sharks from a movie?
At a book talk, marine conservationist David Shiffman explained why he adores sharks and how we can help save them from extinction.
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How a hormone affects society
The hormone testosterone provides a backdrop for male aggression and violence, both in nature and in society, argues a Harvard human evolutionary biologist.
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A lens for detail
Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”
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Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Brenda Tindal, an award-winning educator and scholar from the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Tindal will begin her new position May 17.
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Salvaging another piece of Black history
A group of marine archaeologists, known as Diving with a Purpose, explore slave ship artifacts, bringing the untold stories they represent to light.
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Though museums are closed, the work continues
Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.
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Was Darwin first? Kind of depends
Charles Darwin’s work arose in an era where many were thinking about the source of nature’s variety.
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Peabody’s incoming director shares strategies for new era in museum work
Jane Pickering, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, will become the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s director on July 1.
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Leafing through Glass Flowers
A new photo book on Harvard’s Glass Flowers collection will focus on the details that make the models so lifelike.
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The deepest colors you’ll ever see
“I wanted to make the viewers feel they were transported to the bottom of the ocean,” says Lily Simonson about her exhibit “Painting the Deep,” on view at Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Transforming the ‘coastal squeeze’ from climate change
One certainty about America’s coasts is that they will change in the coming decades as sea levels rise. Visiting Professor Steven Handel said landscape design, married with knowledge of native plants, can ensure that both human and natural needs are met.
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Drawing the eye to extinction
A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History brings an artist’s view to the ongoing extinction crisis affecting the planet.
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What’s in a (scientific) name
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is taking on names — both common and scientific — together with companion institutions in a series of new installations that introduce the public to the color and complexity of appellations.
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Deep dive
The Harvard Museum of Natural History opens a new marine life gallery, which uses the seas off New England as a lens for learning about marine life around the world.
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Shedding light on dark adventures
Robert Ballard, director of the University of Rhode Island’s Center for Ocean Exploration and president of the nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust, returned to the roots of his love affair with the sea, notably an early reading of “Twenty Thousand Leagues” and a childhood move to San Diego.
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Undersea life, clear as glass
The Harvard Museum of Natural History has opened a permanent exhibition of the glass sea creatures created by famed artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka more than a century ago.
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Artful balance
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev spoke at Harvard about her work with exhibit “dOCUMENTA (13,” launching a new annual program on curatorial practice.
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Body exhibit
A new exhibit, “Body of Knowledge,” offers a five-century foray through the culture and history of anatomy and dissection, from the days of autopsies in private homes to the present debate over using digital ways to study the body without saws and knives. The exhibit will offer a special viewing May 3, 11 a.m. to…
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At one with Thoreau
Scot Miller’s photographs from the Maine wilderness, inspired by Thoreau’s “Maine Woods,” are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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‘Wonderful things,’ indeed
Bob Brier of Long Island University traced the history of “Egyptomania” in a Harvard talk.
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‘Chasing Ice,’ and searching for solutions
A screening of the film “Chasing Ice” brought Harvard experts together to discuss innovations in monitoring the glaciers’ retreat and how America can tap its own energy sources.
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A walk in Thoreau’s woods
The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “The Language of Color” exhibition, which was supposed to close in 2009 but remained popular among visitors, will close in October to make way for a new exhibition on Thoreau’s Maine woods, featuring the work of photographer Scot Miller.
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Collaborative museums
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, the new public face of the FAS science museums, has enjoyed a successful first year with new programs and exhibits and a record number of visitors.
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Time for a movie
A Harvard summer film series explores the tick and tock of time, and time travel too. Upcoming films include “Run Lola Run” on July 16, “Memento” on July 30, and “Primer” on Aug. 13. All films are shown at 7 p.m., Science Center Lecture Hall C.
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Pages out of time
“Time & Time Again,” a new exhibit centered on Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, uses artifacts to illustrate shifting conceptions of making and marking time, from the cyclic sun and stars to linear springs and gears.
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What rocks can teach
The Harvard Museum of Natural History has opened its renovated Earth and Planetary Sciences gallery, linking the fantastic mineral displays to the story of the Earth and the work of faculty members who conduct research on geological processes.
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Not as evolved as we think
Lest you think you’re at the top of the evolutionary heap, looking down your highly evolved nose at the earth’s lesser creatures, Marlene Zuk has a message for you: When it comes to evolution, there is no high or low, no better or worse.
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A director for Museums of Science and Culture
Dean Michael D. Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that Jane Pickering has been named executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
