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Tag: Jane Pickering
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Campus & Community
Peabody Museum charts progress on repatriation
NAGPRA project staff doubled to support three-year commitment for consultation, return of all ancestors and associated funerary belongings.
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Nation & World
An end and a beginning
Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony
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Arts & Culture
Face to face with America’s original sin
Book confronts historical, ethical questions posed by Zealy daguerreotypes.
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Arts & Culture
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Pickering named director of Peabody Museum
Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.
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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
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.
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Arts & Culture
‘Scale’ tells the story of how, and what, we measure
A cross-disciplinary exhibit at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture uses a wide array of artifacts to examine the role of “Scale.”
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Science & Tech
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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Arts & Culture
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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Arts & Culture
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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Health
Evolution in real time
After 26 years of workdays spent watching bacteria multiply, Richard Lenski has learned that evolution doesn’t always occur in steps so slow and steady that change can’t be observed.
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Arts & Culture
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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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Health
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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Health
Before takeoff
Professor Arkhat Abzhanov explored links between dinosaurs and birds in talk kicking off a five-part series called “Evolution Matters.” The next lecture is scheduled for Feb. 12.
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Campus & Community
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.
