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Tag: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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Nation & World
A bleak, troubling history
Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.
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Nation & World
A hearing for pleas to right wrongs
A new project to digitize petitions from Native Americans to the Massachusetts legislature seeks to illuminate the history of the region’s native peoples, for scholars, students, and the tribes themselves.
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Campus & Community
Janet Yellen named Radcliffe Medalist
Janet L. Yellen, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will receive the Radcliffe Medal during Radcliffe Day on May 27.
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Campus & Community
Renowned scholar joins Kennedy School and Radcliffe Institute
Khalil Gibran Muhammad has been named professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and appointed the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He will begin at Harvard on July 1.
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Campus & Community
Ann Blair named University Professor
Historian Ann Blair has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor. She will become the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor.
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Health
The fading of polio
Faculty and student panel examines efforts to make polio the second human disease to be eradicated during the “Every Last Child” event at Radcliffe.
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Nation & World
Independent mind
A former justice in Guatemala, now a Scholar at Risk, says that a lack of judicial independence creates fertile ground for corruption.
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Arts & Culture
For gallery visitors, a chance to be one with the art
A new installation at Radcliffe by a collaborative of engineers and artists transforms viewers into virtual artists.
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Arts & Culture
Radcliffe Fellow sheds light on the science of poetry
Inspired by her love of science and her exploration of the universe’s mysteries, Sarah Howe wrote a poem dedicated to Stephen Hawking. A video has Hawking reading Howe’s poem, marking National Poetry Day, Oct. 8.
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Arts & Culture
Chasing wonder to the finest detail
“Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” author Rebecca Skloot, at Radcliffe as a visiting scholar, talks about her new book project, on the bond between humans and animals.
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Health
History as mosh pit
Today’s discoveries in DNA technology are as exciting as another era’s moon missions, opening avenues of scientific inquiry and invigorating even longstanding fields, speakers at a Radcliffe science symposium on DNA said.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with Harvard President Drew Faust
Harvard President Drew Faust sat down with The Gazette recently to discuss the University landscape for the coming academic year, including Harvard’s priorities for 2015-16 as well as some of the challenges ahead.
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Arts & Culture
Out of the blue, strokes of brilliance
A phone call last month led to the acquisition of Corita Kent prints at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.
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Arts & Culture
Sensitive art
Christina Leigh Geros’ creation for Radcliffe’s Wallach Garden is brilliantly responsive to its surroundings.
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Arts & Culture
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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Campus & Community
Recognized as a force for change
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is this year’s Radcliffe Medal recipient. Ginsburg will be honored at a luncheon on May 29 during Radcliffe Day, an annual celebration of Radcliffe.
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Arts & Culture
The roots of artistry
A clever exhibit at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, designed by Graduate School of Design Professor Rosetta Elkin, is bringing organic beauty out of the shadows. Her installation highlights the root system of a white poplar.
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Arts & Culture
A house divided by grief
To mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Martha Hodes’ new book offers firsthand accounts from the days following the murder.
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Arts & Culture
The things Harvard has
Scholars from across Harvard will convene at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Friday for a symposium called “University as Collector” that will explore the importance of universities as collecting institutions.
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Arts & Culture
Path to understanding
During a panel discussion at Radcliffe, musicians in the diverse Silk Road Ensemble explained how they combine instruments, mesh traditions to make new music.
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Arts & Culture
‘Confronting Violence’ through arts and activism
“Confronting Violence,” an April 9-10 conference at the Radcliffe Institute, will explore how activism and cultural change can affect public policy and reduce violence. It includes an exhibit, “Confronting Violence: Critical Approaches to American Comics and Video Games,” which can be viewed through April 17.
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Arts & Culture
Plotting her return
Author ZZ Packer is spending her Radcliffe year working on her newest effort, a novel titled “The Thousands” that tracks the lives of several families following the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.
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Arts & Culture
Revealed in verse
Henri Cole is working on a new collection of poems while a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Nation & World
A different kind of drug research
In a question-and-answer session, the leaders of a Radcliffe Institute seminar on America’s long “war on drugs” shared why they are looking back at history and ahead for fresh answers.
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Nation & World
Death penalty, in retreat
Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker is devoting her Radcliffe Fellowship year to working on a book with her brother about the past half-century’s experiment with the constitutional regulation of capital punishment in America.
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Arts & Culture
A bittersweet confection
Visual artist Kara Walker talks about “A Subtlety,” her provocative public art project staged at a defunct Domino sugar factory in Brooklyn last summer.
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Science & Tech
Here to there
On Friday, leaders in the field of navigation converged on Radcliffe’s annual science symposium to discuss findings in everything from brain science to animal navigation to the psychology of how a lost person behaves — which can give rescuers important cues about where to look.
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Campus & Community
Faust and Cohen mark new $12.5M fund for arts
President Drew Faust and Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, are celebrating a $12.5 million fund to enhance the creative arts at Harvard, it was announced today. As part of the fund, Maryellie Kulukundis Johnson ’57 and Rupert H. Johnson Jr. contributed a $10 million gift on behalf of their family.
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Health
All goes swimmingly
Using simple hydrodynamics, a team of Harvard researchers was able to show that a handful of principles govern how virtually every animal — from the tiniest fish to birds to the largest whales — propel themselves through the water.
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Nation & World
The rise of ISIS
A question-and-answer session with political scientist Harith Hasan al-Qarawee on the rise of the Sunni extremist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
