Tag: Lucia Huntington

  • Nation & World

    Diversity and dialogue in an age of division

    Harvard faculty and administrators discussed racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, politics, and poverty at the FAS Diversity Conference “A Decade of Dialogue.”

    8 minutes
    Keynote speaker Tim Wise at the symposium on diversity.
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    Being ‘smart’ about her education

    Amanda Rich found the Harvard Extension School a perfect landing spot for her third degree.

    6 minutes
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    An opponent who prevailed

    Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives Harvard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year award.

    6 minutes
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    ‘All the Way’ to A.R.T.

    Award-winning director Bill Rauch ’84 has returned to Harvard to present the play “All the Way,” a powerful examination of President Lyndon B. Johnson, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and the critical events leading up to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. The show will open the American Repertory Theater’s…

    9 minutes
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    Focus on teaching, learning

    The essentials of good teaching and learning took the stage at the second annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching conference.

    5 minutes
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    The ‘last Renaissance man’

    In the second of three lectures on founding father Thomas Jefferson, historian William J. Moses probed the stark contrasts that the third president showed in his writings and behavior, in his character and his intellect.

    4 minutes
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    Technology’s new frontier

    Scholars are beginning to learn what’s working and what’s not when it comes to using new media to get people to do what you want, and a conference on “Behavioral Economics, Social Media, and Apps” at Harvard Law School Feb. 6 brought together experts from academia and business to discuss it.

    4 minutes
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    In Turkey, problems for press

    In Turkey, the concept of a free press has devolved to a “Pravda-like” state, with 91 journalists in jail on charges of terrorist activity, and stories of corruption suppressed by the government, a prominent former editor says.

    3 minutes
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    7 speakers, 12 minutes each

    During Harvard Thinks Big 4, six professors and a student delved into their favorite ideas, ranging from a look at why dead Romans are so much fun to a detailed explanation of breast-feeding in mammals.

    6 minutes
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    Creating a whole from fragments

    A show by artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, which examines issues of family and the Afro-Latin experience in America, opened Thursday at the Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

    3 minutes
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    The lessons of election ’12

    Two political philosophers from opposite sides of the fence met at the Tsai Center to size up the factors in play during the recent presidential election, and the weight that they could take on in 2016.

    4 minutes
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    Election reflection by Dukakis

    In a wide-ranging talk at Harvard, Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic candidate for president, discussed the 2012 presidential election and the challenges facing the nation.

    4 minutes