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Tag: Knafel Center
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Campus & Community
‘Step up, and declare what you stand for’
Nearly 100 graduates gathered to celebrate their accomplishments at Friday’s Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony.
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Campus & Community
‘The work of culture alters our perceptions’
The two-day “Vision & Justice” conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study brought together a wide range of scholars and artists for performances and discussions considering the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.
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Campus & Community
‘Incognito’ author uncovers biases
In the third and final installment of this year’s Diversity Dialogues, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences brought Michael Sidney Fosberg of “Incognito” fame to address biases we face every day.
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Nation & World
The measure of a woman
Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House minority leader and former speaker, appeared at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to discuss the progress that American women have — and have not — made since a milestone 1963 report initiated by President John F. Kennedy on their status.
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Arts & Culture
On closer inspection, not such a plain Jane
In her latest work, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” Jill Lepore, a professor of U.S. history at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, brings Benjamin Franklin’s sister out of history’s fog and into the open.
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Campus & Community
A year of change, month by month
2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Gymnasium renamed
At a celebratory event on Wednesday, the Radcliffe Gymnasium was renamed the Knafel Center in honor of Sidney R. Knafel ’52, M.B.A. ’54, and in recognition of the center’s increasing role in promoting intellectual exchange across Harvard’s Schools and with the public.
