Tag: International
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Campus & CommunityWorldwide Week at Harvard brings it homeWorldwide Week at Harvard Oct. 20‒27 will shine a bright light on the University’s international work.  
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Campus & CommunityStrengthening Harvard’s ties to South AsiaLakshmi Mittal and his family announced a $25 million gift to establish an endowed fund for the South Asia Institute. The center will be renamed the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University.  
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Nation & WorldRewarding restlessnessFive seniors will soon head to foreign shores as part of a fellowship program that emphasizes experience over work and independence over comfort.  
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Nation & WorldChina’s stability during war, revolution, and unrestDaniel Koss, a doctoral student in Harvard’s Government Department, has spent nearly a year in China, studying how such a large, diverse nation could remain intact through decades of warfare, revolution, and unrest, and emerge to wield growing influence on the global stage. 
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Campus & CommunityA class open to the worldMichael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations  
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Campus & CommunityNeighbors for the 21st centuryOnce a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.  
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Nation & WorldSpotlight on the internationalHarvard is one of the world’s most international universities, with students and faculty from around the world. Overseas research and study abroad opportunities abound.  
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Nation & WorldSouth Africa: Valley of 1,000 HillsOne of the continent’s richest nations, South Africa also has one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates and is home to the world’s biggest population of HIV-infected people, an estimated 5.5 million. 
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Nation & WorldLesotho: The PilotsThe tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of ADIS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics and treat patients in the far-flung mountain regions of this poor country. 
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Nation & WorldMexico: Illuminating the PastHarvard archaeologists from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have been working in the Maya city of Copán Ruinas, Honduras, for years, unearthing the secrets of the civilization that once built pyramids there. In recent years, these archaeologists began digging at a new site, Rastrojón, perched on a mountainside where it would be visible… 
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Nation & WorldMexico: Ancient Wisdom ExaminedHarvard archaeologists from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have been working in the Maya city of Copán Ruinas, Honduras, for years, unearthing the secrets of the civilization that once built pyramids there. In recent years, these archaeologists began digging at a new site, Rastrojón, perched on a mountainside where it would be visible… 
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Arts & CultureThe Shock of the Global: The 1970s in PerspectiveDisco, drugs, and decadence? Not that 1970s. This book, by Harvard mainstays Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, and Erez Manela focuses on the decade that introduced the world to the phenomenon of “globalization,” as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways. 
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Campus & CommunityRockefeller fellows chosen for 2011-12The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors. 
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Campus & CommunityHIO seeks international artThe Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9. 
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Nation & WorldBasic scienceA Harvard chemist and two graduate students from Harvard and MIT traveled to Liberia in June to conduct a workshop on science teaching for professors and students in the war-torn nation.  
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Nation & WorldBrain gainA social scientist looks at how a patient China is reversing brain drain to the West.  
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Nation & WorldCreating worldwide changeA Harvard Kennedy School degree program celebrates a decade of graduates who are having a major impact on international development.  
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Campus & CommunityWeissmans support 50 interns abroadThanks to the generosity of Paul ’52 and Harriet Weissman, 50 Harvard College students will travel around the globe to explore their career interests and experience new cultures.  
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Nation & WorldHelping HaitiThe world mobilized to help Haiti after that country suffered the deadliest earthquake in this hemisphere in over a century on Jan. 12, 2010. Faculty, staff, and other members of the Harvard community, including affiliates of Partners In Health and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, played a pivotal role in the worldwide effort to provide aid. 
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Nation & WorldReducing malnutritionThe world is going to fall well short of achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, by 2015.  
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Nation & WorldSix from Harvard awarded fellowships for Australian researchThe Harvard Club of Australia Foundation recently awarded fellowships to six Harvard researchers who intend to undertake collaborative scientific research in Australia in 2010. 
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Nation & WorldHumor where it’s rarely foundIn an offbeat attempt at finding common ground, a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum spotlights Palestinian and Israeli humor.  
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Nation & WorldBeyond boundariesAs a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.  
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Campus & CommunitySix from Harvard named Paul and Daisy Soros fellowsOut of 890 applications nationwide, six individuals from Harvard have been awarded 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships. 
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Nation & WorldWorking the night shiftVolunteers assist with a variety of medical skills, from nursing to orthopedics to medical equipment repair, playing a critical role in the response to the Haitian earthquake.  
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Campus & CommunityAround the Schools: Harvard Kennedy SchoolLast year, pirates off the coast of Somalia attacked 217 ships, hijacked 47, and snatched $60 million in ransom.  
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Nation & WorldGetting Haiti to stand againHarvard authorities probe what needs to happen now, in six months, in a decade.  
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Campus & CommunityWidening horizonsNo. 1-ranked Harvard women’s squash team heads to India over break to give clinics, sample culture.  
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Campus & CommunityKITA and Harvard connect to advance Korean ScholarshipHarvard University and the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) recently announced an agreement (Dec. 10) to advance modern Korean scholarship at the University.  
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Nation & WorldHarvard, University of Johannesburg join forcesEducation is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.  
 
							 
							