Tag: Stephanie Schorow

  • Nation & World

    For U.S. military, ideals must matter

    The world expects ethics and honor from American troops, service academy chiefs say at Harvard panel.

    5 minutes
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    David Rockefeller dies at 101

    David Rockefeller, a business leader and prominent member of a storied family who was a generous benefactor to Harvard and once headed the Overseers, dies at 101.

    5 minutes
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    What drones can do

    HUBweek drone demonstration at Harvard Stadium showcases potential usefulness of flying robots.

    4 minutes
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    Toward a more competitive U.S.

    At an event at Harvard Business School (HBS) that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish U.S. economy — a move that may require a new definition of “competitiveness.”

    5 minutes
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    Changing the world, in under 9 minutes

    The inaugural event “One Harvard: Lectures that Last” featured short talks by a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools. The session was designed to reveal the crosscurrents of innovation that can flow from discipline to discipline, and to expose students to fresh ideas.

    5 minutes
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    The record of Japanese disaster

    Harvard experts were among the lead organizers of a major effort to construct a multimedia archive of last year’s devastating earthquake and aftermath in Japan. The site goes live this week.

    4 minutes
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    A life reborn, a story now told

    Escaping Cambodia’s violence, Aun Em gradually built a new life, becoming IT coordinator at Harvard Medical School and a passionate advocate for women.

    5 minutes
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    Putting yourself out there

    Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Boston and the Harvard Alumni Association, “Networking NOW: The Learn-How-to-Network Event” was a multifaceted event, underscoring how business networking is a skill that can be learned, practiced, honed, and perfected.

    5 minutes
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    Dealing with inequality

    A panel discusses “The Growing Challenge of Inequality,” an issue easily described and summarized, but difficult to solve, the speakers said, given the political and economic climate that currently dominates the United States.

    4 minutes
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    Nose to nose with mental illness

    Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall talked to a Harvard audience about his struggles with mental illness in a forum at Emerson Hall Oct. 24.

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    Ugly America

    American politicians no longer politely agree to disagree. On that, participants in a panel talk Sept. 16 at the John F. Kennedy Forum all concurred. On whether there was any chance this would change, there was dispute. Politely, if passionately, expressed.

    4 minutes
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    Reimagining ‘Summertime’

    Students from the Boston Collegiate Charter School reinterpreted the classic song “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” as part of a two-day workshop conducted by the A.R.T./MXAT Institute.

    4 minutes
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    New hope for Libyan democracy

    Middle East experts are optimistic that democracy may yet flourish in war-torn Libya, now that leader Moammar Gadhafi has been deposed.

    4 minutes
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    Don’t just sit there

    The first of a series of campuswide dialogues on teaching and learning called “Conversations@FAS: Redefining Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century,” featured A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus; Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology; and David Malan, lecturer on computer science.

    5 minutes
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    Identity issues

    In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.

    4 minutes
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    After the uprising

    A pair of Harvard experts addressed unrest in Tunisia — and whether it will lead to a truly democratic government — in a panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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    Setting the stage for Roe v. Wade

    Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter and now the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale University, and Reva Siegel, the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale, provided new perspectives on interpreting Roe v. Wade during the 2010-11 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at…

    4 minutes
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    A backdrop on Islam in America

    A teach-in at Harvard tries to put the Ground Zero mosque controversy in a historical context.

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