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Tag: ” Military
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The military-humanities connection
Recent graduates and students discuss how a revived ROTC program enriched their Harvard College experience and taught them more than they could have imagined.
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A focus on veterans
Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership hosted a day of service for students to give back to veterans in the community.
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Higher education and the military
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus reflected on the longstanding relationship between Harvard and the Navy during an address to mark the fifth anniversary of the Navy ROTC program’s return to campus.
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To speak, and move others to act
Language, literature, and the liberal arts are key disciplines in forming leaders, Harvard President Drew Faust said during a speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Harvard honors its military past with tour
The inaugural Official Harvard Military History Tours in November brought together 50 veterans who toured the many landmarks significant to Harvard’s distinguished military past.
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Conflict escalation
Retired Brigadier Gen. Kevin Ryan, now at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, assesses the implications of Russia’s incursion into Syria.
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More than help for their hair
Schlesinger Library receives letters from African-American servicewomen grateful for hair products that eased their lives while on assignment.
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A postwar call to service
: The United States must do more to help its newest generation of veterans reintegrate by capitalizing on their desire to serve, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said at a panel event in honor of Harvard’s veterans.
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A military base, reborn
Harvard design students imagine multiple futures for a longtime New England military base.
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Harvard formally recognizes Army SROTC
Harvard University announced March 21 that it has signed an agreement with the United States Army to re-establish a formal on-campus relationship with the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC).
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A better welcome home
As the country prepares to welcome home large numbers of servicemen and servicewomen from Iraq this winter, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation held a conference, “A Better Welcome Home: Transformative Models to Support Veterans and Their Families,” which explored approaches to help veterans connect to their communities and leverage…
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A child’s memory in military time
Harvard specialists discussed research on memory development during a seminar aimed at helping military families talk to their children about deployments and homecomings.
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Untold war stories
Women’s voices have long been absent from stories of war — and from the process of peacemaking. A group of women scholars and filmmakers gathered at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Oct. 4 to explore those untold stories in conjunction with the new PBS series “Women, War, and Peace.”
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Campus leaders
U.S. Navy Captain Curtis R. Stevens, Midshipman 1st class Evan Roth ’12, and Midshipman 3rd class Catherine Philbin ’14 discuss the demands and rewards of life in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Harvard University.
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Warrior spirit
Five years ago, Andrew Kinard lost his legs in Iraq. After 75 surgeries, he’s tackling other big goals, from a Harvard education to the Boston Marathon.
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The tipping point
Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.
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Signing ceremony welcoming ROTC to Harvard
Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. The agreement, signed Friday afternoon, March 4, at Loeb House by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and President Drew Faust, will end a 40-year hiatus.
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Signing ceremony welcomes ROTC
After a 40-year hiatus, Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, according to an agreement signed Friday (March 4) by President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, J.D. ’76.
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ROTC on campus
When introducing Adm. Mike Mullen at a Harvard Kennedy School forum Nov. 17, 2010, Harvard President Drew Faust said, “I want to be the president of Harvard who sees the end of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ because I want to be able to take the steps to ensure that any and every Harvard student is…
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Get smart
Joseph Nye staked his career on the idea that power on the world stage means more than just military might. In the information age, the former Harvard Kennedy School dean argues, the United States needs to learn that lesson more than ever.
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President Faust’s statement on DADT
President Drew Faust’s statement on “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal.
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From Ivy to military
ROTC commissioning ceremony honors students for their “honor, courage, respect, and selfless service.”
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Don’t ask, don’t lie
Lt. Dan Choi — West Pointer, Iraq infantry veteran, Arabic linguist, and Baptist minister — speaks out against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy after getting the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard’s first Service to Humanity award.
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Janitor’s granddaughter fulfills Harvard dream
Harvard is in my blood, though not in the traditional sense. I was born and brought up in Cambridge, Mass., as were my mother and her siblings. My grandparents struggled to raise seven children during tough financial times, and a college education was not an option.
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As the Civil War finally ends, a relieved, sad, graduation day
The Commencement of 1865 and the day of commemoration that followed it hold a unique spot in Harvard history. Though some military actions were still taking place, the Civil War had essentially ended in April of that year. John Langdon Sibley, head librarian at Harvard, wrote in his diary that there had already been a…
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HDS grad hopes to alter military culture
Lukas Filler likes a challenge. One of the 6-foot-5-inch former competitive swimmer’s favorite pastimes is surfing … in the New England winter … before dawn.
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At ROTC commissioning, Faust touts idea of ‘soldier-scholar’
Barron, Bilotti, Bras, Chiappini, Doohovskoy, Kristol, Pellegrini, West. That’s roll call for eight 2009 Harvard graduates who were commissioned late Wednesday morning (June 3). Five are new officers in the U.S. Army and three in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Talking terror
The two men sit close, knees almost touching, in a mud-walled hut in the Congolese village of Katokota.
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Scholar makes robots that detect land mines
On Oct. 10, 2005 — he remembers the date exactly — Thrishantha Nanayakkara was driving down a country road, headed for a science workshop at Jaffna Central College, a high school in the far north of Sri Lanka. The event was designed to distract potential child soldiers from the allure of war.
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Looking horror in the face
Imani was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe found her on the road in a remote region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).