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Tag: Rahul Mehrotra
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Nation & World
Graduate School of Design’s dean diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah M. Whiting diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Nation & World
A powerful convergence
Harvard faculty members from several disciplines gathered to share thoughts about their work at the 2013 Kumbh Mela religious festival in India.
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Nation & World
Shaping problem-solvers
A Gen Ed course linked to the South Asia Institute takes an interdisciplinary approach to the region’s challenges.
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Nation & World
The bright side of Pakistan
A January conference in Pakistan on urbanization was the first of five in the region and a result of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s growing work there.
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Nation & World
Lessons of a temporary city
The Maha Kumbh Mela, India’s massive gathering of Hindu pilgrims, ended in March. But for Harvard researchers across disciplines, the festival and the tent city it spawned continue to yield lessons in everything from big data to urban planning.
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Nation & World
In search of sacred spaces
Installation artist Helen Marriage, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, conversed with Professor Rahul Mehrotra about a modern conundrum: In an increasingly secular age, can public space be spiritual? “Streets of Gold” continues the series on April 5.
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Nation & World
Mapping a megacity’s metabolism
The temporary city that supports the Kumbh Mela, India’s gathering of millions of Hindus, is planned and built in just three months. A team of students, architects, and photographers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design set out to map the insta-metropolis in one week.
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Nation & World
Inside India’s pop-up city
Every 12 years, the Kumbh Mela, a centuries-old Hindu pilgrimage, temporarily transforms an empty floodplain in India into one of the biggest cities in the world. This month, an interdisciplinary team of Harvard professors, students, and researchers set out to map the gathering for the first time.
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Nation & World
Ahead of the learning curve
From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…
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Nation & World
Graduate School of Design appoints three to faculty
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named Michael Hooper, Rahul Mehrotra and Joyce Klein Rosenthal to the GSD faculty, effective July 2010.