Libraries, museums meet with IT
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View Article‘Walls of Tehran’ panels to explore art, propaganda
An afternoon panel in association with “Walls of Martyrdom” — a photography exhibit of Tehran’s propaganda murals by Ph.D. candidate in public policy Fotini Christia — will be held May 18 from 1 to 5...
View ArticleProvost’s Fund for technology seeks proposals
The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provost’s Instructional...
View ArticleHarvard China Fund announces fiscal year 2010 grant program
The Harvard China Fund, under the Office of the Provost, has announced its fiscal year 2010 grants program for Harvard faculty, programs, and Schools. The purpose of the fund is to support...
View ArticleArts, humanities, and human rights
Imagine the courtyard outside Harvard’s storied Faculty Club populated with 30 living statues, each a member of the Harvard Class of 2013, and each the living embodiment of a fellow Harvard student...
View ArticleRed hot for bluegrass
Look for a fire shortly in the Thompson Room at Harvard’s Barker Center: a collection of musicians and scholars burning to play bluegrass. Or at least to talk about it. “Fire on the Mountain: A...
View ArticleNew CIO for Harvard
Harvard University announced today (July 12) the appointment of Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A senior manager with 30 years of strategic planning, information technology, and...
View ArticleLearning in the labs
In one of her undergraduate courses last semester at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Kimeya Ghaderi learned about confocal microscopes. But the closest she had gotten to one was a picture...
View ArticleFriedman named director of Arboretum
William “Ned” Friedman, an evolutionary biologist who has done extensive research on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants, has been appointed director of the Arnold Arboretum. Friedman,...
View ArticleBringing faculty together
With more than 9,000 faculty members studying everything from cancer to Sanskrit, it might seem hard to find common ground at Harvard. “We usually live in our departments, we usually work out of our...
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In praise of America’s music
Two years ago, a musician appeared on the steps of the Memorial Church during Harvard’s Commencement exercises. He stood, calmly took a trumpet in hand, and silenced the thousands in attendance with an...
View ArticleHarvard opens outdoor rink
* In the audio slideshow above, Trude Renwick talks about her experience figure skating at Harvard Skate, a new rink located in the plaza adjacent the Science Center. Harvard University today launched...
View ArticleUp by his bootstraps
As a child, Tararith Kho spent many nights with his family in a cave dug into a hillside in the Samrong district of Cambodia. “We were under fire,” said Kho simply. The boy who saw death early grew up...
View ArticleMarsalis returns to Sanders
Wynton Marsalis is returning to Harvard to continue his two-year lecture series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” with a talk on improvisation at Sanders Theatre on April 17....
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Jazz as conversation
Great jazz requires a strange alchemy of instinct and expertise, of empathy and teamwork from its musicians — a fact few know better than famed artist and composer Wynton Marsalis. Jazz is a...
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Listen up, says Marsalis
As many parents can attest, rousing a child from sleep to make it to the bus stop can be a difficult task. Doing so during a vacation week would seem near impossible. But on Thursday, a group of...
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Harvard Thinks Big 2: Introductions
Steven Hyman, Provost; Member of the Board of Snydics of Harvard University Press; Professor of Neurobiology; Peter Davis ’12 and Zachary Richner ’11, Co-Producers and Co-Hosts of Harvard Thinks Big
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Marsalis to conclude lecture-performance series
Wynton Marsalis will conclude his six-lecture series at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 30 with a lecture performance focusing on New Orleans and the birth of jazz. Currently the managing and artistic...
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Spotlight on black identity
Black History Month has been on the calendar since 1976, the year of the nation’s bicentennial. But it got its start in an academic setting, at Kent State University in 1970, largely as a celebration...
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