Tag: Honduras

  • Nation & World

    Applying public health solutions to acute migration dilemma at border

    Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.

    8 minutes
    Michelle Williams.
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    The world in an exhibit

    As Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology turns 150, a new exhibit highlights its pioneering efforts and the legacy of its cultural history.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Protectors of the Maya

    Harvard’s Bill and Barbara Fash have developed a program that trains local people in Copán, Honduras, to preserve and protect the area’s ancient Maya heritage.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Unraveling Maya mysteries

    For decades, Harvard’s Bill Fash and his wife, Barbara, have worked in Copán, Honduras, to restore, preserve, and protect Maya culture and history for future generations.

    14 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The price of women’s immigration

    Author Sonia Nazario told a Radcliffe conference that people don’t generally know that large numbers of women who immigrate to the United States illegally to get jobs and support their families back home leave their own children behind to do so.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Beyond mourning

    Former Radcliffe fellow and Mexican-born journalist Alma Guillermoprieto founded an online altar to honor 72 Central Americans massacred in Mexico in summer 2010.

    4 minutes
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    The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya Artistry in Stucco and Stone

    With illustrations and archaeological context, Barbara Fash, director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum, discusses the global significance of a Honduran museum dedicated to the ancient Maya stone carvings in Copan.

    1 minute
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    Archaeological bookends in Copán Valley

    COPÁN RUINAS, Honduras – A short drive from the main Maya ruins at Copán, a forested hillside holds a cluster of mounds that Peabody Museum archaeologists believe date from near the end of the great Maya civilization that once dominated the region.

    6 minutes