Tag: University of Toronto

  • Nation & World

    Power can be abused, scholars say, or harnessed for the greater good

    In a new book, “Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business,” Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro argue that power is available to everyone and is a necessary force for change.

    8–12 minutes
    Power, for All book cover.
  • Campus & Community

    Trusted voice among leaders in higher education

    Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.

    4–6 minutes
    Lawrence S. Bacow
  • Nation & World

    Northern exposure

    Harvard Kennedy School Professor Michael Ignatieff talks about why he put aside academia to make an improbable and ill-fated foray into Canadian politics.

    5–8 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Creative bursts from all corners

    A daylong symposium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study explored the notion of the creative “aha” moment across a range of fields and disciplines.

    3–5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Planets, planets everywhere

    The rapid rise in discoveries of planets circling other stars is changing astronomers’ views of the galaxy and the Earth’s place in it, giving impetus to the search for extraterrestrial life, astronomer and Radcliffe Fellow Ray Jayawardhana says.

    4–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Echoes of Tiananmen Square

    In her freshman seminar, lecturer Rowena He sheds light on the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on dissent by melding the personal with the academic.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A first trip, a career opening

    History professor Michael Szonyi recounts a career that began when he accepted a job at 17 working in Asia.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96

    Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Doubts about health care reform

    A group of Harvard scholars and visiting health care experts offers a pessimistic view of health care reform at a Harvard Medical School symposium.

    3–5 minutes