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Tag: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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A flight from homophobia
Neal Hovelmeier, a gay teacher fired from his job in a Zimbabwean school who is now a Radcliffe Fellow and Harvard Scholar at Risk, is working on a play informed by his experience and a curriculum based on intolerance.
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The giant in our stars
Astronomers at Harvard have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure — the largest ever seen in our galaxy — and dubbed it the “Radcliffe Wave.”
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The hunt for a lost book of Moses
At a recent talk, Chanan Tigay offered listeners an enticing peek at his narrative, describing how he landed on the story of the mysterious manuscript.
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Giving voice to the heart
With her new opera, the composer’s goal was to transform one of the largest music theaters in Germany into a space “where there is nobody else.”
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Angela Davis in black and white and gray
A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar
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Speak, memory
At the Radcliffe Institute, Alaskan Inupiaq poet and Harvard alum Joan Naviyuk Kane keeps her language and culture alive through her art and her family.
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Melting pot of American cuisine
A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.
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Brown-Nagin on her own path and Radcliffe’s
Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin reflects on her first year in the job and looks forward to Radcliffe Engaged, her new initiative to connect with Harvard and the community beyond.
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The heart of the matter
In a Radcliffe talk, an expert on regenerative medicine and a transdisciplinary artist explore the heart as organ and metaphor.
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Brokering an opioid settlement
Alexandra Lahav, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, explains how a global settlement could handle the more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against drug companies and distributors.
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Angela Davis looks back
In a wide-ranging conversation Tuesday afternoon, activist Angela Davis reflected on a range of topics, from how music and art can help transform and create community to the challenges of talking about race in America to the need for prison reform.
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Films that go bump in the night
As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the Gazette checks in with members of the Harvard community to hear which films they love to fear.
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Power and pitfalls of gene editing
CRISPR gene-editing technology has conquered the lab and is poised to lead to new treatments for human disease. Experts consider the promise and peril at Radcliffe.
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Writing Black lives
“Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.
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Thinking like a magician
In his 2019–2020 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities, Joshua Jay offers listeners a look at techniques involving perception, attention, and surprise that he insists have practical applications well beyond the realm of magic.
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Research and everyday life
Harvard students are keeping busy with summer research projects across multiple disciplines.
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Harvard reflects on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s moon walk
A trio of Harvard astronomers reflect on the impact of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, then and now.
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Uncovering an ancient world
Radcliffe fellow Tuna Şare-Ağtürk’s current book project documents the treasures unearthed at Nicomedia, an ancient Roman city and seat of power for the Emperor Diocletian.
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Dolores Huerta receives Radcliffe Medal
Dolores Huerta, labor organizer and civil rights activist who has devoted her life to lifting up others, was awarded Radcliffe’s highest honor Friday.
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The ‘American Schindler’
Author Julie Orringer’s latest novel, “The Flight Portfolio,” tells the story of Harvard graduate Varian Fry, a journalist and editor sometimes referred to as the “American Schindler,” who worked in France during World War II to help save Jewish members of Europe’s cultural elite from Nazi concentration camps. Orringer worked on the book during a…
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Four deans, and their journeys
Four Harvard deans discuss their role models and their work as top administrators.
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In recognition of extraordinary service
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, Dan H. Fenn Jr. ’44, A.M. ’72, and Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 will receive the 2019 Harvard Medal.
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Picturing vision and justice
A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”
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Hold the soda, hold the fat shaming
Health and policy expert Sara Bleich has found that when trying to change the way people eat, being prescriptive isn’t always the answer.
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Seeing beauty in the mundane
Willie Cole brings his art to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with “Willie Cole: Beauties.”
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DNA testing could save young lives through early intervention
During her Radcliffe fellowship, pediatric oncologist Lisa Diller is studying the implications of genetic testing in newborns, and planning research that focuses on testing babies for gene changes associated with cancers known to strike the very young.
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Author: If at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again
Best-selling author Lauren Groff spoke at Radcliffe about her process and her current work, telling her listeners the only way she succeeds with her writing is by failing multiple times before she finally publishes.
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Researching and writing history
Min Jin Lee, the best-selling author of “Pachinko,” is working on the third work in her Korean diaspora trilogy during her Radcliffe fellowship. Lee’s book explores how Koreans value education.
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‘Siri, who provided your voice?’
The daylong conference “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication” at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study explored body communication and included talks on perfumes, tattoos, sign language, dance, and fashion.
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Twins in space
To understand the strain that space flight places on the body, NASA-affiliated researcher Brinda Rana has been examining the molecular changes in the twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly for five years.
