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Rene Kuhn Bryant passes away
Rene Kuhn Bryant of Lexington, Mass., a former associate editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, died Jan. 30 after a long illness.
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America at a crossroads
Offering both a historic and contemporary perspective on the current election, several Harvard faculty members reflected on how themes from America’s past are playing out on the national stage.
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Radcliffe recognizes top theses
The Captain Jonathan Fay Prize is awarded annually to the graduating Harvard College senior who has produced the most imaginative work or original research in any field.
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Search begins for new dean of Radcliffe Institute
Letter from President Drew Faust to the Harvard community seeks input and nominations in the search for a new dean of Radcliffe Institute.
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Of the bean I sing
A Radcliffe Fellow is working on an opera about the world’s love affair with coffee and how it grew from the bean that made goats jittery to the potion we all get jittery for.
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From A to Zeega
Three Harvard affiliates nab a big new-media prize, and marvel at the University’s converging forces that mix the digital age with traditional scholarship.
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Strong voices
The Radcliffe Institute on May 27 will honor Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association of India, with the Radcliffe Institute Medal. Bhatt’s organization has improved the self-sufficiency of more than a million women.
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Miller wins Radcliffe’s Fay Prize
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Matthew Smith Miller winner of the 2011 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for his interdisciplinary work and extensive research on his thesis, “Surely His Mother Mourns for Him: Africans on Exhibition in Boston and New York, 1860-1861.”
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It was a very good year
With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.
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Parenting in context
In her Fellows’ Presentation, Nancy E. Hill, the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, discussed her research into socialization and cultural development in relation to parents’ interaction with children and how this interaction varies across geography, income levels, and ethnicity.
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10 named to new Harvard Library Board
President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.
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Bright ideas
Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.
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Audition for Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus
The 180-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus is holding auditions for all voice parts on Sept. 4 and 5.
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Food for thought
A weeklong seminar at the Radcliffe Institute examines cookbooks through the centuries, and what they say about the practices, resources, and cultures of their times.
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A church of words
Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.
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From bodysuits to bikinis
Library cataloger Marilyn Morgan is writing a book about American women and their bathing suits, and what that says about early 20th century cultural norms.
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Overseas, violence against women
In some Muslim societies, the tension between genders can lapse into violence. Some Radcliffe Fellows can tell that tale.
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Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
Radcliffe Magazine, the signature publication of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and successor to the Radcliffe Quarterly, debuted in late February
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How the West was written
Western poet Katie Peterson, a Radcliffe Fellow, shares her sense of desert life on a vast canvas with startling intimacy.
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All fired up
The Harvard Ceramics Program turns 40 this year and says goodbye to its longtime director Nancy Selvage.
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Wassarman named director of AEP
Rebecca Wassarman has been named director of Academic Engagement Programs at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Health progress for women
Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, touts global progress on women’s health issues, though more challenges lie ahead.
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Ecologies of value
Radcliffe Fellow and anthropologist Heather Paxson is studying small artisanal cheese operations as “ecologies of production” that are both commercial and moral.
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Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
Don’t be puzzled. Be moved and amazed. Those 10 conical piles of rock, sand, and aggregate in one corner of Radcliffe Yard are actually “Stock-Pile,” a work of landscape art.
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Avant-garde past and present
Alison Knowles, a pioneering independent artist, takes listeners back to the early days of Fluxus, a group still making art through improvisational performance.
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Sculptor makes more than a ripple with scull artwork
Regardless of the race’s outcome, Kennelly will be celebrating. The school teacher turned cartoonist, pastry chef and finally sculptor will have her permanent installation, “Endurance,” on display at Radcliffe College’s Weld Boathouse. It was commissioned by the Friends of Harvard and Radcliffe Rowing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the boathouse.
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Ripple effect
A new permanent art installation in Weld Boathouse is turning heads. Artist Ellen Kennelly ’85 took a crash course in flameworking and began these masterpieces in glass.
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Around the Schools: Radcliffe Institute
The guest list for the Radcliffe Institute’s 10th anniversary symposium was a motley mix of former fellows including journalist Susan Faludi ’81, RI ’09, who read from a story she wrote for the Harvard Crimson as a freshman.
