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HILT Grants: Faculty experiences creating MOOCs

Title: HILT Grants: Faculty experiences creating MOOCs
Runtime: 4:29
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HarvardX Project Leads Tiffany Wong and Drew Lichtenstein developed a survey instrument to ask important questions (e.g., Do faculty members find MOOC development rewarding? How do they bring what they learn from the development of their MOOC into their residential courses?) to create a set of best practices that will benefit future instructors of online courses with a 2017 Spark Grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching.

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HILT Grants: Team-based learning in the humanities

Title: HILT Grants: Team-based learning in the humanities
Runtime: 7:13
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Professor Bernhard Nickel (FAS) redesigned his introductory-level course, The True and the Good, to incorporate team-based learning principles during the 2017-2018 academic year through a 2017 Spark Grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT).

First-ever image of black hole captured by team of Harvard scientists and astronomers

Title: First-ever image of black hole captured by team of Harvard scientists and astronomers
Runtime: 3:08
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A global team of astronomers, led by Harvard scientists, have captured an image of a black hole for the first time. The result of a massive, years-long effort by dozens of researchers, the Event Horizon Telescope focused on a pair of supermassive black holes – the one at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, and a second that lies at the heart of an elliptical galaxy called M87. The work opens the door to allowing astronomers and physicists to put Einstein’s theories of gravity and general relativity to the test under the most extreme conditions in the universe.

High U.S. Healthcare Costs: What Might Congress Do?

Title: High U.S. Healthcare Costs: What Might Congress Do?
Runtime: 1:04:13
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The United States spends more on health care per capita than other developed countries — much more. One recent paper estimated that U.S. costs were 25 percent higher than the next closest country. Recent polls have shown that reducing health care costs has emerged as one of the public’s top priorities for President Trump and the new Congress. Polls also show that health care costs are the leading pocketbook issue for families. To date, most discussion has been about prescription drug costs, but polling data suggest that the issue is likely to broaden as we approach the 2020 election to include debates on increasing government intervention vs. encouraging private sector competition to reduce costs. What might a divided Congress do? Drawing on a newly released poll by POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School, a panel of experts considered various solutions that have emerged to reduce health care costs.

This Forum event was presented jointly with POLITICO LLC on April 4, 201...

Romu: A Robot for Environmental Protection

Title: Romu: A Robot for Environmental Protection
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed a robot designed to drive interlocking sheet piles into the ground to help stabilize soil. Teams of such robots could help combat erosion, restore damaged landscapes, and facilitate sustainable land management in a variety of settings. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard.

For more information, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/laying-the-ground-for-robotic-strategies-in-environmental-protection

Taking on a top typer: Harvard professor Jelani Nelson

Title: Taking on a top typer: Harvard professor Jelani Nelson
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jelani Nelson’s research is focused on the type of algorithms used to improve spam filters or sort through large data sets. But he also happens to be a blazing fast typist, once scoring as high as 170 words per minute. To see how fast he is, we pitted him against a Harvard Gazette writer, with predicable results.

Roosevelt Poetry Reading: Rootedness || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Roosevelt Poetry Reading: Rootedness || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:45:19
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Five poets read selected, multilingual works and participate in a moderated discussion about worlds reinvented and belonging reimagined.

Elisa Biagini, lecturer of writing, New York University Florence

Irène Gayraud, assistant professor of comparative literature, Sorbonne Université

Shara McCallum, liberal arts professor of English, Pennsylvania State University

Evie Shockley, 2018–2019 fellow, Radcliffe Institute, and associate professor of English, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Moderated by Elisa (Lisa) New, creator and host, Poetry in America; director, Verse Video Education; and Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Introductions by
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Faculty Director of the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Marta Gentilucci, co...

The Shopping Game: Harvard Food Policy Expert Explains How Policies Shape Our Choices

Title: The Shopping Game: Harvard Food Policy Expert Explains How Policies Shape Our Choices
Runtime: 4:11
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Sara Bleich—a professor of public health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—gets a little help from young shoppers in a game designed to show why good nutrition is not always our first choice and how food policy can actually influence our overall health.

Read more about Bleich’s work at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/sara-bleich-radcliffe-professor.

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Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration | Alondra Nelson || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration | Alondra Nelson || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 42:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Alondra Nelson discusses the Obama administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and, in particular, the evolution of the Precision Medicine Initiative in the United States.

Nelson is the president of the Social Science Research Council and a professor of sociology at Columbia University.

This is a 2018–2019 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences.

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Feeding 10 Billion By 2050: Creating a Sustainable and Healthy Food Future

Title: Feeding 10 Billion By 2050: Creating a Sustainable and Healthy Food Future
Runtime: 1:00:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: What does a sustainable and healthy future mean when it comes to food production, consumption and resulting environmental impacts? With nearly a billion people globally going hungry and nearly two billion eating the wrong food, the answer is pressing – especially as we look to a future that needs to sustainably feed “10 billion by 2050.” This Forum explored how to avert dire consequences for human and planetary health through best practices and new technologies. Key questions were how to amplify nutritious food production, prevent waste and secure supplies, while protecting our environment in the process. The discussion included the “planetary health diet” recently proposed by an international commission that emphasizes plant-based eating for better health and for minimal ecological impact.

This Forum event was presented jointly with NBC News Digital on March 22, 2019.

Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/

Leadership Begins in the Community: Peace Corps and Global Health

Title: Leadership Begins in the Community: Peace Corps and Global Health
Runtime: 30:12
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Jody Olsen, Director of the Peace Corps, will be talking with Dr. Richard Frank of Harvard Medical School, on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear Director Olsen’s leadership journey and learn about her rise through the ranks of the Peace Corps – and how public and global health continue to shape the mission of the agency. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/Olsen.

VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Dara Wier & Ann Lauterbach

Title: VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Dara Wier & Ann Lauterbach
Runtime: 1:10:17
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Introduction by Kate Colby.

Dara Wier (IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, Wave, 2017) and Ann Lauterbach (SPELL, Penguin, 2018) shared the podium during this powerful evening of poetry.

At the outset of the reading (by two long-time friends of the late John Ashbery), the WPR curator announced that the Ashbery Reading Library had been donated to the Woodberry Poetry Room. Ashbery's own copies of Wier's and Lauterbach's books were read from at the event.

Recorded on 1 November 2018 at Houghton Library.

Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Lessons from an experimental hurricane at the Harvard Forest

Title: Lessons from an experimental hurricane at the Harvard Forest
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A nearly 30-year-old experiment modeled on the storm that tore through New England in 1938 has taught Harvard Forest researchers lessons about forest recovery and the importance of patiently monitoring the slow natural processes at work in a forest. A recent symposium at the forest looked back on numerous experiments conducted over three decades of work as one of the nation’s Long Term Ecological Research sites.

State Presence at Border Crossings in the Modern World | Beth A. Simmons || Radcliffe Institute

Title: State Presence at Border Crossings in the Modern World | Beth A. Simmons || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 54:30
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Beth A. Simmons RI ’19 shares her work on a continuously evolving project that attempts to document and explain the paradox of hardening international borders between states in an era of globalization.

Simmons is the Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the 2018–2019 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/beth-a-simmons

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Harvard Japanese art professor curates MET exhibit

Title: Harvard Japanese art professor curates MET exhibit
Runtime: 3:18
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Harvard’s Melissa McCormick takes “The Tale of the Genji,” one of the world’s first novels, from classroom to gallery.

Beyond Words | Dance || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | Dance || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:15:16
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

DANCE
Ayodele Casel, Dancer and Choreographer; 2018–2019 Artist-in-Residence, Harvard University

Antoine Hunter, Founder and Artistic Director, Urban Jazz Dance Company and Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival; Former President, Bay Area Black Deaf Advocates

Moderator: Jill Johnson, Senior Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media, Dance Director of the Harvard Dance Center, and Artistic Director of the Harvard Dance Project, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

AUDIENCE Q&A (1:01...

What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace

Title: What Works: Designing an Inclusive Workplace
Runtime: 1:10:57
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts. Presenting research-based solutions, Iris Bohnet hands us the tools we need to move the needle in classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring and promotion, benefiting businesses, governments, and the lives of millions.

Iris Bohnet, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School; Co-Director, WAPPP

Beyond Words | Framing Remarks || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | Framing Remarks || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 29:16
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

WELCOME
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

INTRODUCTION (5:05)
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Faculty Director of the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

FRAMING REMARKS (8:25)
John Durham Peters, María R...

Title: Brain Expansion
Runtime: 3:45
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Combining two recently developed technologies—expansion microscopy and lattice light sheet microscopy -- researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a method that yields high-resolution visualizations of large volumes of brain tissue. Their approach enabled them to image an entire fruit fly brain, as well as large sections of mouse cortex.

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Beyond Words | ASL Signing || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | ASL Signing || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 54:54
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

ASL SIGNING
Jacqueline Emmart (1:39), Nationally Certified ASL Interpreter; Health Access Advocate

Rosa Lee Timm (15:51), Deaf Performance Artist

Moderator: Amy Szarkowski, Attending Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

PANEL DISCUSSION (31:37)
AUDIENCE Q&A (40:25)

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Beyond Words | Keynote: “Fashioning Identity” | Valerie Steele || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | Keynote: “Fashioning Identity” | Valerie Steele || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 46:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

KEYNOTE: FASHIONING IDENTITY
Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

AUDIENCE Q&A (30:17)

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Beyond Words | Social Robots || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | Social Robots || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:02:54
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

SOCIAL ROBOTS
Susan C. Bennett (1:48), Original Voice, Apple’s Siri; Voice Actor

Noelle LaCharite (11:57), Lead of Developer Experience for Applied AI, Microsoft

Cynthia Breazeal (26:53), Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences in the MIT Media Lab and Codirector of the Center for Future Storytelling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Founder and Chief Scientist, Jibo, Inc.

Moderator: Elena Leah Glassman, Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor, Radc...

Beyond Words | Animal Communication || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | Animal Communication || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 45:58
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
Richard O. Prum (3:33), William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

Zarin Machanda (18:34), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University

Moderator: Aniruddh D. Patel, 2018–2019 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Psychology, Tufts University

PANEL DISCUSSION (35:13)
AUDIENCE Q&A (39:13)

For information about the Radcl...

Beyond Words | Tattoos And Perfume || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Beyond Words | Tattoos And Perfume || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 51:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication”

This conference, presented by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, explores the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound. Spotlighting diverse topics to probe how bodily communication engages the senses in ways that are often profoundly gendered.

TATTOOS AND PERFUME
Chandler Burr (4:28), Author, The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession (Random House, 2002) and The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York (Picador, 2009); Former Perfume Critic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Dominique Holmes (18:51), Tattoo Artist; Author, The Painted Lady: The Art of Tattooing the Female Body (Ryland Peters & Small, 2013)

Moderator: Diana Sorensen RI ’11, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance ...

Liturgy Matters | Katie Bugyis || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Liturgy Matters | Katie Bugyis || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 46:12
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Katie Bugyis RI ’19 shares research from her current book project, “Liturgy Matters: Benedictine Women’s Communities in Medieval England,” which reclaims the materiality of Benedictine nuns’ liturgical practices by viewing these women as “technologists” who transformed—and were transformed by—their sensual engagement with the objects they created, acquired, handled, and treasured.

Bugyis is a historian of medieval religious women, especially interested in recovering the liturgical practices they cultivated and the levels of literacy they attained as readers, copyists, and composers of different genres of texts, from prayers to plays. She is the 2018–2019 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/katie-bugyis

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The Reproducibility Crisis in Historical Perspective | Nicole C. Nelson || Radcliffe Institute

Title: The Reproducibility Crisis in Historical Perspective | Nicole C. Nelson || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 45:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Nicole C. Nelson RI ’19 encourages both scholarly and public discussions about notions of scientific fact in the wake of a recent phenomenon wherein scientists have found many supposedly stable findings to be difficult to replicate upon subsequent investigation.

Nelson is an assistant professor of science and technology studies in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the 2018–2019 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-nicole-c-nelson-fellow-presentation

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Le Lab Presents: Designing Future Therapeutics with Samir Mitragotri

Title: Le Lab Presents: Designing Future Therapeutics with Samir Mitragotri
Runtime: 40:59
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Wyss Core Faculty member Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D. presented a talk at Le Laboratoire Cambridge on February 13th, 2019, titled Designing Future Therapeutics. Effective delivery of therapeutics is a major problem in today’s healthcare. At a fundamental level, the challenge of therapeutic delivery reflects the fact that the drug distribution in the body is limited by body’s natural metabolic processes and transport barriers. These biological barriers, while serving an important purpose of regulating body’s metabolic functions, limit the drug dose that ultimately reaches the target site. Accordingly, many drugs fail to reach their full therapeutic potential. We are developing a fundamental understanding of body’s key biological barriers and using this understanding to develop novel means to negotiate these barriers to deliver drugs. Samir Mitragotri presents an overview of the lessons learned from his exploration of these biological barriers.
Wyss Core Faculty member Samir Mit...

Reciting pi to celebrate Pi Day at Harvard

Title: Reciting pi to celebrate Pi Day at Harvard
Runtime: 1:08
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, has fascinated mathematicians and scientists for centuries. The number, which repeats infinitely and never falls into a repeating pattern, is used in formulae throughout the sciences. On this Pi Day, meet nine-year-old Sadie Barandes, daughter of Lecturer on Physics and Director of Graduate Studies Jacob Barandes, who can recite pi to 100 digits.

Title: Liquid Infused Tympanostomy Tubes
Runtime: 3:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed next-generation tympanostomy tubes with an innovative material design that significantly reduces biofouling, implant size, need for revision surgeries, and promotes drug delivery into the middle ear.

© 2019 Wyss Institute at Harvard University

For more information, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/liquid-infused-tympanostomy-tubes

Deaths From Pregnancy and Childbirth: Why Are More U.S. Mothers Dying and What Can Be Done?

Title: Deaths From Pregnancy and Childbirth: Why Are More U.S. Mothers Dying and What Can Be Done?
Runtime: 57:24
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Maternal mortality dropped by almost half over the last 25 years around the world. However, in startling contrast, deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth doubled in the United States between 2000 and 2014, putting the nation second-to-last in maternal mortality among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Further, pernicious racial disparities mean that black women in the United States face a deeply distressing three- to four-times higher risk of pregnancy-related deaths. What factors are driving these increases and disparities? What changes will narrow the survival gap between white and black women? How can health care systems more effectively prevent complications and poor outcomes? And how can mothers themselves and their communities be agents for change for a more equitable and safe delivery of the next generation?

Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on Ma...

Bioprinting Proximal Tubule and Vasculature

Title: Bioprinting Proximal Tubule and Vasculature
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: This video shows how first the proximal tubule channel (in green) is printed with fugitive ink on the extracellular matrix (ECM)-covered surface of a millifluidic chip, and subsequently, next to it, the vascular channel (in red) with multiple cross-overs. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Title: Gaga dancers: movement language
Runtime: 1:36
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Student video from Harvard Theater, Dance & Media course Dance on Camera, spring 2019. Filmed and edited by Meredith Slifkin ‘19 and Joshua Lee ‘20.

Deaf Republic: A Performance by Ilya Kaminsky

Title: Deaf Republic: A Performance by Ilya Kaminsky
Runtime: 1:00:44
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Poet Ilya Kaminsky presents his forthcoming collection DEAF REPUBLIC (Graywolf Press, 2019).

Introduction by Fanny Howe.

Recorded at the Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University, on December 4, 2018.

Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.

Leading by Preparing for a Changing World

Title: Leading by Preparing for a Changing World
Runtime: 32:16
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Jack Markell, former Governor of Delaware, will be talking with Prof. Gina McCarthy, Director of Harvard C-CHANGE, on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear from two experts as they talk about Delaware’s achievements in sustainability, livability and achieving effective policy at the state level. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/markell.

Twins in Space | Brinda Rana || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Twins in Space | Brinda Rana || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:13:04
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Brinda Rana presents the findings of the NASA Twins Study, an integrated, multi-omic, molecular, physiological, and cognitive portrait of a pair of identical twin astronauts—one who spent a year in space while the other stayed on Earth to provide ground-control measures.

Brinda Rana, associate professor, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Introduced by Immaculata De Vivo, interim codirector of the science program at the Radcliffe Institute, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

This event is part of The Undiscovered Science Lecture Series.

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Are Koreans Human? | Min Jin Lee || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Are Koreans Human? | Min Jin Lee || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:30:57
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The author Min Jin Lee RI ’19 asks, “Who are the modern Koreans, and what do they care about?” To answer this enormously complex question, Lee explores the will of Koreans to survive and flourish as global citizens, their enduring faith in education, and the costs of such a quest and what it may mean to the larger world they seek to engage. She explains that when she’s writing, she isn’t just writing about Koreans, education, or the diaspora—she’s writing about humans.

Min Jin Lee (7:21), 2018–2019 Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and New York Times best-selling author, Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing, 2017) and Free Food for Millionaires (Grand Central Publishing, 2007)

Introduced by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

DISCUSSANT:
Jeanni...

Choregie Project (New Music Theatre) BABA | Karmina Šilec || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Choregie Project (New Music Theatre) BABA | Karmina Šilec || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 44:41
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Karmina Šilec RI ’19 shares the simultaneous development of some of her projects, including a new music theater project inspired by Balkan women (“sworn virgins”) who take a vow of chastity and live as men and a forthcoming book about the concept and method of Choregie.

Šilec is the artistic director and conductor of Carmina Slovenica and Choregie – new music theatre. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/karmina-silec

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Combating Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs | Gautam Dantas || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Combating Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs | Gautam Dantas || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:14:23
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Gautam Dantas presents “Combating Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs across Diverse Habitats,” discussing how new genomic and computational technologies are enabling a deeper understanding of how antibiotics affect diverse microbiomes, including the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance across diverse habitats. These insights enable the design of novel diagnostics and therapeutics for maintaining healthy microbiomes and preventing and treating future infections.

Gautam Dantas, professor of pathology and immunology, biomedical engineering, and molecular microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Introduced by Sean T. O’Donnell, associate director of Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute

This event is part of The Undiscovered Science Lecture Series.

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Navigating Through the Noise: Finding Solutions to Complex Problems

Title: Navigating Through the Noise: Finding Solutions to Complex Problems
Runtime: 29:37
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Jeffrey Sánchez, Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 15th Suffolk/Norfolk district (2003-2019) and current Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, will be talking with Dr. Robert Blendon, Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on Friday, February 15, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear from an experienced leader who is an expert at crafting policy solutions that address seemingly insurmountable challenges. The archived video of this webcast can be found at hsph.me/sanchez.

Title: The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
Runtime: 0:15
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Harvard Glee Club rehearses its upcoming concert, which includes a choral interpretation of "The Souls of Black Folk," guest readings, and more.

YouTube Influencer and Harvard student takes life lessons from Harvard to global audience

Title: YouTube Influencer and Harvard student takes life lessons from Harvard to global audience
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: John Fish ’21 uses the video-sharing site to connect with hundreds of thousands of followers. The Ontario native has become a self-help guru, sharing advice on everything from work/play balance to mental health.

Parrots pass classic test of intelligence

Title: Parrots pass classic test of intelligence
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Researchers in Harvard’s Psychology Department conduct a four-cup test on an African grey parrot. Rewards are placed in one cup of each pair, then one cup in a pair is shown to be empty. Successful subjects will then pick the other cup in that pair, understanding that it must hold the reward, and that they have only a 50-50 chance of finding the reward in the other pair.

Title: HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: Field Fit
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HILT’s Pilot Fund is designed to help students take early-stage ideas off the page and into the real world. Our goal is to give students resources so that they can develop prototypes and test their theories of change. We believe that thoughtful experimentation is an essential component of building an innovation mindset in education. FieldFit is one of the projects funded by HILT.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: New Teachers Thriving

Title: HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: New Teachers Thriving
Runtime: 3:21
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HILT’s Pilot Fund is designed to help students take early-stage ideas off the page and into the real world. Our goal is to give students resources so that they can develop prototypes and test their theories of change. We believe that thoughtful experimentation is an essential component of building an innovation mindset in education. New Teachers Thriving is one of the projects funded by HILT.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: Rise: the membership

Title: HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: Rise: the membership
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HILT’s Pilot Fund is designed to help students take early-stage ideas off the page and into the real world. Our goal is to give students resources so that they can develop prototypes and test their theories of change. We believe that thoughtful experimentation is an essential component of building an innovation mindset in education. Rise: The Membership is one of the projects funded by HILT.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: How to improve Clerkships

Title: HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: How to improve Clerkships
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HILT’s Pilot Fund is designed to help students take early-stage ideas off the page and into the real world. Our goal is togive students resources so that they can develop prototypes and test their theories of change. We believe that thoughtful experimentation is an essential component of building an innovation mindset in education. “How to improve the learning experience in core clerkships at Harvard Medical School” is one of the projects funded by HILT.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: KidCollab
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HILT’s Pilot Fund is designed to help students take early-stage ideas off the page and into the real world. Our goal is to give students resources so that they can develop prototypes and test their theories of change. We believe that thoughtful experimentation is an essential component of building an innovation mindset in education. KidCollab is one of the projects funded by HILT.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT Pilot Funds Round 1: KolaboraSIM
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HILT’s Pilot Fund is designed to help students take early-stage ideas off the page and into the real world. Our goal is to give students resources so that they can develop prototypes and test their theories of change. We believe that thoughtful experimentation is an essential component of building an innovation mindset in education. KolaboraSIM is one of the projects funded by HILT.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

The Spread of Hate and Racism: Confronting a Growing Public Crisis

Title: The Spread of Hate and Racism: Confronting a Growing Public Crisis
Runtime: 1:06:05
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Presented jointly with PRI’s World and WGBH.

Measuring and Mimicking Biology: Eyes, Noses, Genes and Proteins

Title: Measuring and Mimicking Biology: Eyes, Noses, Genes and Proteins
Runtime: 40:37
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: David R. Walt, Ph.D., is a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute, and Professor at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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