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Samantha Power

Humanizing global problems

Samantha Power says the desire to make positive change springs from understanding our connections as people

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DateSeptember 12, 2019October 30, 2019

Cherry A. Murray, former dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was nominated by President Obama to be director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy.

Murray nominated to senior role at Department of Energy

Former SEAS dean selected to lead Office of Science

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DateAugust 6, 2015

At Sunday's 2013 Finance Conference at Harvard Business School, economist and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers laid out his view of the fundamental changes that the next generation of financiers should make if substantive reform is to occur.

Imagination before hubris

Future financiers at HBS are urged by Summers to reshape, improve the industry

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DateNovember 4, 2013April 15, 2019

The intersection of medical tourism and ethical and legal questions are at the heart of I. Glenn Cohen's new book, “Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics,” the focus of his year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The rise of medical tourism

Ethical, legal issues when people travel to other nations for health care

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DateOctober 16, 2012April 22, 2019

In May, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

A time was had by all

Harvard's 375th anniversary year saw everything from the return of ROTC to Lady Gaga

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

Economist and philosopher Amartya Sen (left), Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and historian Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University librarian, received 2011 National Humanities Medals. Harvard Overseer Emily Rauh Pulitzer received the 2011 National Medal of Arts. The medals were presented by President Obama today at the White House.

White House awards three medalists

Harvard scholars, Overseer receive highest honors from Obama

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DateFebruary 13, 2012April 23, 2019

“Post-Watergate micro-democratization of financing is a spectacular disaster,” said Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (seen here with wife, Callista). “We’d be vastly better off if anyone could give as much as you want, and it would be reported every night on the Internet.”

Gingrich opposes campaign limits

Believes donors should be able to contribute what they wish

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DateNovember 21, 2011April 11, 2019

Ari Fleischer (second from left), Camille Johnston, and Dee Dee Myers reprised their roles as media go-betweens during a panel discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. The three took questions from the audience and from David Gergen (far left), the moderator and director of the Center for Public Leadership.

Telling it like it was

Former White House press aides recall being caught in the middle

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DateSeptember 16, 2010June 26, 2019

A panel discussion followed the screening of the film "The Response," which is based on transcripts from military tribunals held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Panelists examining the film included Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman (from left), Georgetown University Professor David Cole, actor Peter Riegert, writer/producer Sig Libowitz, and Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Film explores military tribunal

Reflects the moral choices that are made in battling terror

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DateMay 6, 2010July 30, 2019

(Cambridge, MA.-- Tuesday, April 6, 2010)-- Author, Diane Ravitch outside Longfellow Hall where she discussed her new book, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Undermine Education," in Longfellow Hall at Harvard University School of Graduate Education. Staff Photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office

Schools may flunk testing

Education critic says accountability strictures go too far

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DateApril 7, 2010June 19, 2019

Comparing President Barack Obama with President George H.W. Bush, Noam Chomsky told a packed Memorial Church that while Bush was criticized because he lacked “the vision thing,” Obama “is sort of the opposite — grand vision, real vision of what should be done, but he hasn’t succeeded much in practice.”

Chomsky rates Obama’s first year

Says president has vision, but ‘hasn’t succeeded’ in practice

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DateMarch 8, 2010

“It’s been one year, and Rome wasn’t built in a day,” said Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, addressing some of the president’s former supporters — and current critics — who expected quick and sweeping change.

Advising the president

Valerie Jarrett offers insights to Obama’s White House

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DateFebruary 22, 2010May 15, 2019

David H. Souter ’61, LL.B. ’66, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 359th Commencement.

Souter to speak at Commencement

Harvard alumnus, who served nearly two decades on U.S. Supreme Court, will address Afternoon Exercises

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DateFebruary 17, 2010May 2, 2019

In poll, majority of young adults disapproves of US troop buildup in Afghanistan

The Boston Globe

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DateDecember 4, 2009

Margaret Livingstone, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, said the new funding has changed her daily life. The $300,000 grant she received through the National Institutes of Health has not only allowed her to turn from administrative chores to research herself, but prompted her to hire an additional postdoctoral fellow and begin a search for a second.

Stimulus funds provide research boost

Jobs, knowledge promoted by federal economic push

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DateOctober 15, 2009