Tag: Sudan

  • Health

    Send cash, not goods, and other suggestions for giving

    There is no shortage of global suffering and need, says the director of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, but you can still help.

    5–8 minutes
    Michael VanRooyen .
  • Nation & World

    ‘From nowhere to somewhere’

    After surviving the slaughter in Darfur, Guy Josif Adam finds his way to Harvard Extension School with dreams of harnessing his education to transform Darfur and the wider turbulent region.

    7–11 minutes
    Guy Adam
  • Nation & World

    Light along a jagged border

    Harvard researchers have combined new technology with old to better understand conditions in the war-torn border region between Sudan and South Sudan.

    3–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Women as peacemakers

    Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

    3–5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Revolutionizing Egyptology

    Peter Der Manuelian Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Killing the ‘fiery serpent’

    International health workers are on the verge of eliminating guinea worm disease from the planet, marking the second time humanity has eliminated a malady that once plagued millions.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Virtually connected

    Making good use of the Web, students from the Harvard Graduate School of Education are using virtual internships to gain valuable experience without leaving home.

    3–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Simulating chaos to teach order

    A troubled piece of Africa came to North Andover, Mass., last weekend (April 24-26) as more than 50 students from a collaborative, three-university humanitarian program took part in a hands-on outdoor field course that simulated an emergency on the border between Chad and Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.

    4–6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Women leaders talk about international security

    A panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Wednesday (Jan. 14) addressed the question “Will President-elect Obama’s Security Policy Be Inclusive?” — that is, how can women’s global leadership help to shape the new administration’s security goals?

    3–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nasredeen Abdulbari: ‘Lawyers are the cement of society.’

    Nasredeen Abdulbari identifies no particular “aha!” moment when he knew what his life’s work would be.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Through a child’s eye

    At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…

    5–7 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Powerful documentary on genocide screened at Kennedy School

    Those who loudly refused to let the world turn a blind eye or feign helplessness as genocides ravaged millions of lives this century and last are sometimes dubbed “screamers.” The Harvard community got an earful Monday evening (Feb. 5) from an unlikely quartet of modern screamers – the chart-topping, earsplitting heavy metal band System of…

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Statement by Harvard Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) Regarding Stock in PetroChina Company Limited

    We are announcing today (April 4, 2005) the Harvard Corporation’s decision to direct Harvard Management Company (HMC) to divest itself of stock held by HMC in PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina).

    9–14 minutes