Featured series 
Month: June 2011
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Arts & Culture
Symphonies and salsa
In late May and early June the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra traveled to Cuba for a series of concerts in Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, and Havana.
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Science & Tech
They dig the past
Harvard Summer School students broke ground June 29 for the biennial archaeology class investigating the long history of Harvard Yard. Students will resume the search for traces of the Harvard Indian College, where the College’s first Indian students lived and studied.
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Health
Gray gets stamp of approval
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new postage stamp honoring Asa Gray, founder of Harvard’s Herbaria and the man considered the founder of American botany, in a ceremony at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Nation & World
Fireworks in the voting booth
Not every child in America has the opportunity to attend Fourth of July celebrations, but those that do are prone to be more politically engaged and associate more closely with the Republican Party than their peers, concludes a Harvard Kennedy School study.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Kirkland House
This photo journal offers an in-depth exploration of Kirkland House.
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Science & Tech
Pollock: Artist and physicist?
A quantitative analysis of the streams, drips, and coils of artist Jackson Pollock by a Harvard mathematician and others reveals that he had to be slow and deliberate to exploit fluid dynamics as he did.
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Arts & Culture
When three is also one
The renovated and expanded facility of the Harvard Art Museums eventually will link the University’s collections under one roof.
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Campus & Community
Staffing up in Allston
Harvard University and Boston’s Allston-Brighton Resource Center host a job fair to connect local residents with Stone Hearth Pizza’s hiring managers.
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Science & Tech
Just rewards
A Harvard University study built around an innovative economic game indicates that, at least for our younger selves, the desire for equity often trumps the urge to maximize rewards.
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Campus & Community
HMS professor recognized for work
Margarita Alegría, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Hispanic Mental Health Research, Advocacy, and Leadership Award from the National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health.
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Campus & Community
Gates receives honor, gives lecture
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was honored with the 2011 Media Bridge-Builder Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.
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Health
New hope against diabetes
Results from a phase 1 drug trial by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers showed that a decades-old tuberculosis drug knocked out the autoimmune cells that attack diabetic patients’ insulin-producing cells, followed by indications that pancreatic function was improving, albeit transiently.
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Science & Tech
For Harvard, an IT summit
From across the University, members of the information technology community gathered for the first Harvard IT Summit.
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Nation & World
2011 Harvard University Commencement Address by Liberian President Sirleaf
President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, speaks at Harvard’s 2011 Commencement afternoon exercises at history Tercentenary Theater on May 26, 2011.
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Campus & Community
2011 Harvard University Commencement Address by President Faust
President Drew Faust speaks at Harvard’s historic Tercentenary Theater during Commencement afternoon exercises on May 26, 2011
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Campus & Community
2011 Harvard University Class Day Speech by Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler addresses the class of 2011 during Commencement week at Harvard’s history Tercentenary Theater.
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Health
A focus on battling tuberculosis
Scientists from around New England gathered at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to discuss the latest research and findings about tuberculosis at the Fifth Annual New England Tuberculosis Symposium.
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Health
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire
Speakers at a Harvard School of Public Health conference on smoking hailed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s work to give the Food and Drug Administration new regulatory power over tobacco products and said, if wielded properly, it could prove a key weapon for better health.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy named senior associate provost
Mary Lee Kennedy, executive director of knowledge and library services at Harvard Business School, has been named senior associate provost for the Harvard Library.
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Science & Tech
From A to Zeega
Three Harvard affiliates nab a big new-media prize, and marvel at the University’s converging forces that mix the digital age with traditional scholarship.
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Arts & Culture
Art and the immigrants
Through an innovative program, immigrants explore the Harvard Art Museums’ galleries, polishing their English skills and learning lessons in American democracy.
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Health
For love of the creepy, crawly
Biologists from around the world are on campus this week for an international conference on invertebrate morphology sponsored by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
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Campus & Community
Q&A on Harvard in Allston
The leaders of Harvard’s Allston Work Team discuss their recommendations on how the University might proceed in planning for its properties in the neighborhood.
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Arts & Culture
A sound welcome
The arrival of the first components of the new Fisk Opus 139 organ for the Memorial Church was welcomed with song on June 20.
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Health
Clues on how flowering plants spread
Researchers at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum have highlighted female competition among plants, saying it is a new factor that could have driven the mystifying diversity of flowering plants.
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Campus & Community
Come on, Eileen
Workers at Harvard’s Biological Laboratories organize a team to raise funds for cancer research, and to support ill colleague Eileen Snow.
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Health
Cell’s linchpin protein found
After decades of failed efforts, researchers have discovered, through a combination of digital database mining and laboratory assays, the linchpin protein that drives mitochondria’s calcium machinery.
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Campus & Community
2011 Harvard Commencement Timelapse
Experience all the hard work and excitement that goes into setting up and closing down Commencement week in four minutes.
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Campus & Community
Recommendations for Allston
The Harvard University Allston Work Team presented its recommendations to Harvard President Drew Faust June 16. The report reaffirms the University’s commitment to Allston and points to development options in the next decade, including science facilities, housing, and a private-sector enterprise research campus.
