Tag: Princeton University

  • Nation & World

    Choosing racial literacy

    Although she’s only a College sophomore, Winona Guo has not only found what might be her lifelong pursuit, she’s already made a considerable impact doing it —much of it, including co-founding a nonprofit and co-writing a textbook, before she even graduated high school.

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    Winona Guo co-author of book
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    Partnering means more at the library

    Harvard Library’s key alliances create a vast universe of information for Harvard faculty and students.

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    Library shelves
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    The women’s view

    “Who Belongs: Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century,” Radcliffe’s annual gender conference, touched on topics as varied as the hijab and the history of citizenship in America.

    6 minutes
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    Tilghman named to Harvard Corporation

    Shirley M. Tilghman, president emerita and professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University, will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation.

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    Sacvan Bercovitch

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Bercovitch was internationally known for learned and provocative work in the entire range of American…

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    CityStep celebrates 30th anniversary

    Now in its 30th year, CityStep will hold its annual year-end performance at Sanders Theatre this weekend. Tonight and Saturday more than 150 Cambridge middle school students will perform.

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    Layers of choice

    Nobel laureate, psychologist, and best-selling author Daniel Kahneman joined Harvard University Professor Cass Sunstein at Harvard Business School for a wide-ranging discussion on behavioral science.

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    Pickles, prisms, and scientists

    Celebrating its 11th year of public engagement, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ (SEAS) Holiday Lecture Series dazzled and delighted audiences on Dec. 8 with a show guaranteed to kindle curiosity about the natural world.

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    Tipping science on its head

    Scientist and Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman argued for a new approach to teaching science to college students, introducing it earlier in the learning process.

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    Suggestion of a married Jesus

    Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, a Harvard professor says.

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    Bright idea

    In a new paper, Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Edwin Turner of Princeton University suggest a new technique for finding aliens: Look for their city lights.

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    Alien world is blacker than coal

    Imagine a giant world like Jupiter, but more alien than any planet in our solar system. Instead of displaying gleaming clouds colored white and salmon, this world is darker than the blackest lump of coal. It glows only with a feeble red light like a stove’s electric burner — the result of scorching heat from…

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    Jill Johnson appointed dance director

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Music Department have announced the appointment of Jill Johnson as director of the OFA Dance Program and senior lecturer in the Department of Music.

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    Finding Japan, through its past

    David Howell, Harvard’s newest professor of Japanese history, evokes a vanished world of samurai and shoguns, and argues for studying cultures that thrived through a non-Western logic.

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    Waves and the waggle dance

    In a lecture, titled “Good Vibrations: How We Communicate” and hosted by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Howard Stone, Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and a former Harvard faculty member, enticed children and their families into the world of physics and biology.

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    Colleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard

    At Harvard, new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is remembered as an insightful intellectual, a tough-minded basketball player, and a colleague who had grit, graciousness, and patience.

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    Hard look at harsh times

    History professor Caroline Elkins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book outlining British colonial abuses during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising, is working to build ties with Kenyan institutions.

    4 minutes
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    Revelations on Revelation

    Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels visits Radcliffe, presenting a “mad dash” of fresh thinking on the New Testament’s Book of Revelation.

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    FAS names Bruce Western professor of sociology

    Bruce Western, a leading social scientist in the field of inequality, whose work is focused on incarceration and labor market stratification, has been appointed professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1. In addition to his appointment in FAS, Western will also direct the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and…

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