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Tag: Lecture
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Visiting scientist Frederick “Skip” Burkle, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd will deliver the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics Thursday (Oct. 25) at 6 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the…
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Campus & Community
In brief
The Crimson Toastmasters Club, a local chapter of Toastmasters International, the public speaking and leadership organization, will welcome T Chendil Kumar to its Oct. 24 meeting. The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications from graduate students for its 2008-09 fellowship in ethics. Tickets for this season’s Christmas Revels will go…
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Nation & World
Nobel laureate Yunus gives Wiener Lecture
On Oct. 13, economist and microfinancing pioneer Muhammad Yunus stood in front of a cheering capacity crowd at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. One year earlier, to the day, he had received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize — news that Yunus said “exploded with happiness all over Bangladesh.”
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Renowned Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi has been selected by the Harvard Committee on African Studies to deliver its annual Distinguished Harvard African Studies Lecture. Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Eric Mazur and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary University Professor, were recently named Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Visiting Scholars for the 2007-08 academic…
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Campus & Community
Scholar addresses question, ‘Who won World War II in Europe?’
There’s no easy answer, said Norman Davies, an Oxford-educated British historian and Poland specialist who has written widely on the 1939-1945 conflict.
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Health
Losos’ lizards give evolutionary clues in island experiments
Tiny islets in the Bahamas have proven useful laboratories to illustrate natural selection’s effects on island lizards, which saw their legs lengthen, then shorten as ground-dwelling predators drove them into the trees.
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Campus & Community
In Brief
The bequest of William F. Milton makes research funds available to faculty members of Harvard University. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced several upcoming events, including panel discussions, lectures, and exhibits. Members of the Harvard community are invited to join in the first University-Wide Day of Service on Sept. 29.
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Campus & Community
Feldman lecture to mark Constitution Day in Lowell Lecture Hall
Noah Feldman, professor of law, will present a lecture open to all students and staff titled “The Constitution and the International Order” at 1 p.m. on Sept. 17 in Lowell Lecture Hall.
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Arts & Culture
El Saadawi explores notion of creativity
Activist, author, psychiatrist, and playwright Nawal El Saadawi delivered the Harvard Committee on African Studies’ annual Distinguished African Studies Lecture on Oct. 9 in the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Road racers, walkers welcome for 4.2-mile outing Anti-corruption activist Macovei to speak at KSG
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Arts & Culture
Albert Einstein, Civil Rights activist
Einstein’s response to the racism and segregation he found in Princeton was to cultivate relationships in the town’s African-American community. Jerome and Taylor interviewed members of that community who still remember the white-haired, disheveled figure of Einstein strolling through their streets, stopping to chat with the inhabitants, and handing out candy to local children.
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Campus & Community
Ruby Dee to receive Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award
Distinguished actress, writer, producer, and civil rights leader Ruby Dee will receive the Harvard Foundation’s 2007 Humanitarian Award when she delivers the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church on April 17 at 5 p.m.
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Nation & World
Defending the Second Amendment
Like a courtroom version of “High Noon,” legal guns are squaring off this year in a confrontation over the Second Amendment. And whoever wins, the battle will touch off a longtime culture war that rivals Roe v. Wade, said National Rifle Association (NRA) President Sandra Froman in an April 5 visit to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s George to deliver Peabody Lecture
William W. George, Harvard Business School (HBS) professor of management practice and former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic Inc., will deliver the prestigious Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Harvey Mansfield named 2007 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities
Political scientist Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard, will travel to Washington, D.C., in May to deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Nation & World
Forum panelists dissect ‘America’s leadership deficit’
How to address “America’s leadership deficit” was the focus of discussion Wednesday night (March 21) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Describing the deficit as a “canyon, not a gap,” David Gergen, director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL), argued that the challenges facing the country are growing more complex and…
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Campus & Community
Holdren delivers keynote at AAAS conference
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government John Holdren recently delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) last month in San Francisco. The director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the Belfer Center and…
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Campus & Community
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to deliver KSG address
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been named this year’s graduation speaker at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Kristof will deliver his remarks June 6 in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Nation & World
Can science, religion coexist in peace?
Almost 14 billion years after the big bang, and 3.5 billion years since the first bacteria appeared on Earth, humans occupy just one branch of the tree of life. We share an evolutionary limb with other eukaryotes, creatures whose membrane-bound cells carry genetic material. Our biological neighbors developed over time just as we did, by…
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Nation & World
Journalism less appreciated, still essential, says NPR’s Daniel Schorr
The public has a much more jaundiced opinion about journalists than the almost heroic image they had during the Watergate era, but society needs the press to do its job just the same, National Public Radio analyst Daniel Schorr said Tuesday (March 13). “What is clear is that the press can no longer rely on…
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Campus & Community
New York City mayor to receive award, deliver remarks at KSG
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, will receive the Pathfinder Award Friday (March 2) from the Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bloomberg will also deliver remarks before an audience of invited guests at the School’s Wiener Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. and will be…
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Health
Wilson urges alliance to save species
Edward O. Wilson sees a future in which science and religion join forces to save the natural world. Without such an alliance, said the legendary Harvard biologist and author, an alternative future is in store for the human race: one of accelerating environmental cataclysm fueled by overpopulation, deforestation, declining fisheries, and climate change.
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Nation & World
Democrats need unified message
In 1967, Charles E. Schumer, a middle-class teenager from Brooklyn, N.Y., arrived at Harvard College with two goals in mind: to play freshman basketball and to study organic chemistry. At the basketball tryout, the would-be power forward – now New York’s senior senator – never got on court, after admitting to the coach that his…
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Science & Tech
World’s largest oil firm chief touts research to make fossil fuels ‘cleaner’
The head of the world’s largest oil company said that renewable sources can’t meet the world’s growing energy needs so research dollars should be aimed at both developing renewable sources and at making fossil fuels cleaner.
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Nation & World
Current U.S. renewable energy goal too low, says head of national lab
The head of the U.S. government’s renewable energy lab said Monday (Feb. 5) that the federal government is doing “embarrassingly few things” to foster renewable energy, leaving leadership to the states at a time of opportunity to change the nation’s energy future.
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Arts & Culture
Barenboim to deliver Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
World-renowned conductor, pianist, and recording artist Daniel Barenboim will deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures beginning Sept. 25. The set of six talks titled “Sound and Thought” will run Sept. 25-29 and Oct. 3 at 4:30 p.m.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Milton Fund accepting research proposals, Slide horn day at the stadium, Yale Law School’s Ackerman to deliver Holmes Lectures