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Women make their stage debut in Harvard's Hasty Pudding

Title: Women make their stage debut in Harvard's Hasty Pudding
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Steeped in 171 years of history, 2019 marks the first year women take the stage as part of the Hasty Pudding cast. Six men and six women comprise the on-stage talent, performing the student original musical “France, France Revolution!”

A writer’s journey, a poem by a Harvard student

Title: A writer’s journey, a poem by a Harvard student
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Words have power whether they are written by an author whose work is featured in a prestigious publication or if the words sit largely unseen in the laptop of someone who writes fiction as a hobby. To solve this disparity, Ruben Reyes Jr. ’19 launched a new Latinx literary magazine that showcases writers from all walks of life who not only have stories to tell, but empowers them as the best ones to tell them.
Reyes’ own writing stems mainly from his identification as Latinx. He often uses El Salvador, from where his parents immigrated, as a foundation and inspiration.

His words represent more than just himself.

Kidney Organiods: Flow-Enhanced Vascularization and Maturation In Vitro

Title: Kidney Organiods: Flow-Enhanced Vascularization and Maturation In Vitro
Runtime: 1:59
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Scientists at the Wyss Institute developed a method for growing kidney organoids under flow that enhances their vascularization and maturation, increasing their potential for drug testing and regenerative medicine. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Rare Cancers: Charting a Faster Route to Treatment

Title: Rare Cancers: Charting a Faster Route to Treatment
Runtime: 1:00:52
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Rare cancers present doctors, researchers, and patients with a unique set of challenges. Rare cancers often are diagnosed at later stages. Patients typically have limited treatment options, in part because the small number of diagnoses makes gold-standard clinical trials difficult. The picture is further complicated by increasingly expensive cancer drug costs.
Yet, promises of emerging technologies, improved diagnostics, targeted therapies and pharmaceutical options provide hope. Calls for new ways to study rare cancers are being made so that patients can get access to better treatments more quickly.
In this Forum, panelists discussed how advances in cancer immunology, innovative trial designs, and international data sharing can create new hope for patients with rare cancers.
Supported by The Economist Group, this Forum event was presented on February 1, 2019.

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

Socialite-Activists and the Black Freedom Struggle | Tanisha C. Ford || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Socialite-Activists and the Black Freedom Struggle | Tanisha C. Ford || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 45:44
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tanisha C. Ford RI ’19 presents “The Glamorous Life: Socialite-Activists and the Black Freedom Struggle from World War II to the Age of Obama,” the first economic history of the civil rights movement to explore how black women activists raised millions of dollars for movement organizations by hosting lavish galas, fashion shows, and beauty pageants for an interracial audience.

Ford is an associate professor of Africana studies and history at the University of Delaware.
She is the 2018–2019 Lisa Goldberg Fellow. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/tanisha-c-ford

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An Energy Plan the Earth Can Live With | Daniel M. Kammen || Radcliffe Institute

Title: An Energy Plan the Earth Can Live With | Daniel M. Kammen || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 16:10
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Daniel M. Kammen examines the pace of scientific change, the problem of sustained innovation and deployment, and the tremendous array of benefits that could be realized by making climate protection the priority it must become. Most remarkable, perhaps, is the range of benefits—in social equity, ethnic and gender inclusivity, cultural diversity, and poverty alleviation—that can be realized through an energy plan Earth can live with.

This event is part of The Undiscovered Science Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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Title: 3D Printing an Egyptian Artifact
Runtime: 0:15
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Watch as a 3D printing of a 3,400-year-old canopic jar lid is created. Researchers at Harvard can 3D print artifacts at different sizes and use them to practice restoration techniques.

Title: 3D Printing an Egyptian Artifact
Runtime: 0:12
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Watch as a 3D printing of a 3,400-year-old canopic jar lid is created. Researchers at Harvard can 3D print artifacts at different sizes and use them to practice restoration techniques.

Songwriting collaboration treats war’s invisible wounds

Title: Songwriting collaboration treats war’s invisible wounds
Runtime: 8:00
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A recent pilot study of an innovative therapeutic technique that uses songwriting to treat PTSD, depression and other “invisible wounds of war” among veterans and active duty military shows significant drops in self-reported PTSD and depression symptoms by participants. The work, led by physicians affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, was conducted at Home Base, a joint program of MGH and the Boston Red Sox Foundation.

Challenging Times in Higher Education: A Conversation with Lawrence S. Bacow

Title: Challenging Times in Higher Education: A Conversation with Lawrence S. Bacow
Runtime: 31:26
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Lawrence S. Bacow, President of Harvard University, will be talking with Michelle Williams, Dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on Wednesday, January 30, 2019. Watch the webcast to hear from education experts on the present and future challenges facing higher education institutions and learn about President Bacow’s leadership journey from MIT to Tufts to Harvard.

The New Congress: What’s Next on Crucial Health and Education Issues?

Title: The New Congress: What’s Next on Crucial Health and Education Issues?
Runtime: 1:02:15
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In this uniquely insightful Forum, experts examined key health and education policies — and their broad implications — that are likely to be enacted by the new Congress. The panelists discussed the current climate, including the government shutdown. For background, the discussion drew on a newly-released poll by POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School.

The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? with Jessica Pan

Title: The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? with Jessica Pan
Runtime: 1:19:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many wealthy countries, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. In this seminar, Jessica Pan analyzes these two trends using an event-study framework with data from the U.S. and U.K. Her findings provide evidence that women in modern cohorts underestimate the impact of motherhood on their future contributions to the labor market. Upon becoming parents, women adopt more negative views toward female employment and report that parenthood is harder than they expected. Jessica also examines whether young women’s expectations about the future labor supply are correct when they make their key educational decisions. She finds that female high school seniors are increasingly and substantially overestimating the likelihood they will be in the labor market in their thirties, which is a sharp reversal from previous cohorts of women who substantially...

Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman

Title: Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap with Soledad Prillaman
Runtime: 1:15:52
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation. This political gender gap persists despite decades of democracy and universal adult suffrage, rapid economic development, and large-scale policies aimed at women's political empowerment. Women's political participation is important not only on normative grounds of inclusion, but because research shows that when women do participate, politics changes. Presenting findings from her book project, Soledad Prillaman evaluates the importance of social networks for women's political empowerment and documents how women who have become active political agents are received and resisted by traditional political networks.

Soledad Prillaman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Stereotype Threat and Professional Women’s Engagement with Zoe Kinias

Title: Stereotype Threat and Professional Women’s Engagement with Zoe Kinias
Runtime: 1:17:09
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: How does women's concern about confirming gender stereotypes (i.e., stereotype threat) predict their engagement in professional leadership contexts? In this seminar, Zoe Kinias shares findings from five studies with global businesswomen. Her findings show how stereotype threat predicts psychological disengagement, how an intervention can buffer against deleterious effects of stereotype threat, and stereotype threat's silver lining--that it motivates attitudes and actions in support of gender balance.

Zoe Kinias, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD; Academic Director, Gender Initiative, INSEAD

Does Group Farming Empower Rural Women? India’s Experience with Bina Agarwal

Title: Does Group Farming Empower Rural Women? India’s Experience with Bina Agarwal
Runtime: 1:19:06
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Few programs for economically empowering rural women focus primarily on farming—the one occupation in which women have the most experience in largely agrarian economies. Thus, two Indian initiatives–in Telangana and Kerala– stand out. These initiatives are unique because they seek to improve women’s livelihoods within agriculture through an innovative institutional form, namely group farming. In this seminar, Bina Agarwal examines whether pooling land, labor, and capital and cultivating jointly, enables women farmers to overcome resource constraints and outperform individual male farmers in the same regions.

Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester; Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge

Implicit Stereotypes with Michela Carlana

Title: Implicit Stereotypes with Michela Carlana
Runtime: 1:13:55
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In this seminar, Michela Carlana analyzes the impact of teachers' gender stereotypes on student achievement. She collects a unique dataset including information on the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test (IAT) of teachers and students' outcomes, such as performance in standardized test scores, track choice, and self-confidence. Michela finds that teachers’ stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self-select into less demanding high-schools, following the track recommendation of their teachers. These effects are at least partially driven by a lower self-confidence on own math ability of girls exposed to gender biased teachers.

Michela Carlana, WAPPP Faculty Affiliate; Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

What Does it Mean to “Help”? with Stephanie Creary

Title: What Does it Mean to “Help”? with Stephanie Creary
Runtime: 1:16:45
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Despite efforts to diversify the ranks of top management across the private and public sectors, women and racial minorities continue to be underrepresented in these leadership positions. In this seminar, Stephanie Creary examines the important role that “helping” plays in the career paths of women and minority leaders in elite jobs and, more specifically, the perspectives and actions of men who hold the majority of these roles. Drawing on findings from an on-going study of Army officers, Stephanie reveals the similarities and differences in officers’ interpretations of what it means to help others at work.

Stephanie Creary, Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The American Repertory Theater presents the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Othello”

Title: The American Repertory Theater presents the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Othello”
Runtime: 7:45
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Bill Rauch ’84, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, considers “Othello” the Bard’s most intimate tragedy, and Rauch’s decision to use a small cast heightens the emotional intensity of the production currently at the American Repertory Theater. Themes of otherness around race, gender and religion also make the play particularly relevant in this cultural moment, said the director, who staged the work in a contemporary setting. “Othello,” said Rauch, “felt like an urgent story to tell.”

What CEOs Say,” webcast feat. Dan Houston, CEO of Principal Financial Group

Title: What CEOs Say,” webcast feat. Dan Houston, CEO of Principal Financial Group
Runtime: 40:04
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Thinking about implementing a Culture of Health in your business, learning how business and public health intersect, or seeking to improve upon an existing model? “What CEOs Say” is a one-of-a-kind series of inspirational interviews centered around the real how-to’s of incorporating health for performance. Watch the inaugural webcast from Jan. 15, 2019 with Dan Houston, Chairman, President and CEO of Principal Financial Group, produced in association with The Leadership Studio. Dr. Howard Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School, moderates.

Title: HILT 2018 Conference: Lunch plenary
Runtime: 46:43
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Deputy VPAL Dustin Tingley, Harvard University Provost Alan Garber and Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand conversed about efforts to improve teaching and learning at the University.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT 2018 Conference: Welcome remarks
Runtime: 14:03
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow provided welcome remarks to kick-off HILT’s seventh annual conference: “Implementing the Science of Learning to Advance the Art of Teaching held Friday, September 21, 2018 in Wasserstein Hall at Harvard Law School.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2018 Conference: Improving Teaching by Studying Student Learning

Title: HILT 2018 Conference: Improving Teaching by Studying Student Learning
Runtime: 47:26
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Henrike Besche (HMS), David Levari (HBS), and Tamara Brenner (FAS, Bok Center), this session explored approaches to systematically studying students’ learning—whether through interviews and focus groups, surveys, observations, qualitative coding, or more—to better inform your teaching decisions.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2018 Conference: The Intentional University

Title: HILT 2018 Conference: The Intentional University
Runtime: 55:03
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Moderated by Harvard Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay, Former U.S. Senator of Nebraska Bob Kerrey and Founder, President, and CEO of Foundry College Stephen M. Kosslyn discussed educational practices at Harvard through a science of learning lens.

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HILT 2018 Conference: Advancing and Promoting Quality Teaching

Title: HILT 2018 Conference: Advancing and Promoting Quality Teaching
Runtime: 48:08
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Julia C. Lee (SEAS), Richard Schwartzstein, MD (HMS), Barbara Cockrill, MD (HMS), and Erin Driver-Linn (HPSH), this session explored two approaches to promoting the achievement and advancement of effective teaching.

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HILT 2018 Conference: Simple Ways to Use the Science of Learning

Title: HILT 2018 Conference: Simple Ways to Use the Science of Learning
Runtime: 36:35
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Josh Bookin (HGSE), Adrienne Phelps-Coco (DCE), and Allison Pingree (HILT), this session allowed participants to identify some easy-to-implement strategies and create a plan for immediate use.

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Title: HILT 2018 Conference: Framing the day
Runtime: 19:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Dean for Education at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Founding Director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Erin Driver-Linn welcomed conference attendees and framed the overarching themes and goals for the day’s events.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Sari Nusseibeh in Conversation with Homi Bhabha on Jerusalem: What Sharing a City Means

Title: Sari Nusseibeh in Conversation with Homi Bhabha on Jerusalem: What Sharing a City Means
Runtime: 1:40:16
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Sari Nusseibeh
Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy and Former President, Al-Quds University

Homi Bhabha
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/sari-nusseibeh-conversation-homi-bhabha-jerusalem-what-sharing-city-means

Title: On Distraction
Runtime: 1:38:41
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Participants

John Plotz
Professor of English, Brandeis University

Marina van Zuylen
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Bard College

Moderator

Robin Kelsey
Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/distraction

Master Class 1968: Diana Sorensen on Che Guevara

Title: Master Class 1968: Diana Sorensen on Che Guevara
Runtime: 1:23:46
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Diana Sorensen, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, on Che Guevara's Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1968).
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/che-guevara

Birth and the Nation: A Fictional History of Immigration | Stephanie DeGooyer || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Birth and the Nation: A Fictional History of Immigration | Stephanie DeGooyer || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 42:49
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Stephanie DeGooyer RI ’19 argues that the novel can help us rethink the mythologies that perpetuate the coupling of nationality and birth and rediscover alternative—and perhaps more inclusive—principles to relate to those beyond the borders of our limited national geography and political imagination.

DeGooyer is an assistant professor of English at Willamette University. Her research focuses on intersections among transatlantic literature, law, and political philosophy, especially with regard to citizenship and immigration. She is the 2018–2019 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/stephanie-degooyer

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Jacob S. Hacker | Plutocrats with Pitchforks || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jacob S. Hacker | Plutocrats with Pitchforks || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 52:37
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jacob S. Hacker RI ’19 recognizes that there is something very distinctive and strange about right-wing populism in the United States. Stepping back from the rhetoric, Hacker focuses on what our government has actually been doing over the past couple of years.

Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is the 2018–2019 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/jacob-s-hacker

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Writing the Ineffable: Michael Pollan in Conversation with Elaine Scarry

Title: Writing the Ineffable: Michael Pollan in Conversation with Elaine Scarry
Runtime: 1:17:37
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center presents Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction and Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer, in conversation with Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value, Harvard College Professor, on writing the ineffable. Moderated by Robin Kelsey, Dean of Arts and Humanities.

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University).

Massimo Bottura: Cooking is a Call to Act; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2018

Title: Massimo Bottura: Cooking is a Call to Act; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2018
Runtime: 1:23:27
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-and-cooking-chemistry and https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-from-haute-cuisine-to-soft-matter-science-physics
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.

The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/) and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/).

Vicky Lau: Let it Flow: Exploring Viscosity in Tate Dining Room & Bar

Title: Vicky Lau: Let it Flow: Exploring Viscosity in Tate Dining Room & Bar
Runtime: 1:01:56
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-and-cooking-chemistry and https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-from-haute-cuisine-to-soft-matter-science-physics
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.

The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/) and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/).

The Meaning of the Midterms: Who Counted? Who Voted? || Radcliffe Institute

Title: The Meaning of the Midterms: Who Counted? Who Voted? || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:26:41
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The year 2018 will be remembered for its surge in women's candidacies. Whether through individual, high-profile victories or the sheer force of hundreds upon hundreds of women standing for office, the midterm electoral cycle reflected options at the local, state, and national levels that were starkly different from any that Americans have confronted before at the ballot box. This panel offers an analysis of the election results through a diverse set of perspectives—academic, experiential, gendered, generational, geographic, and political—to enhance our understanding of the roles of and results for women, people of color, immigrants, and other historically underrepresented groups.

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

SPEAKERS
(11:22) Aimee Allison, president, Democracy in Color

(22:39) Sa...

Francisco Goldman | A Reading from a Work in Progress || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Francisco Goldman | A Reading from a Work in Progress || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 43:38
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Francisco Goldman RI ’19 reads material hot off the press from his forthcoming novel, having finished it just two days prior.

Goldman is the author of four published novels and two nonfiction books. His previous novel, Say Her Name (Grove Press, 2011), won the prestigious Prix Femina étranger in 2011. His recent memoir, The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Grove Press, 2014), was awarded the 2017 Premio Metropolis Azul. He is the 2018–2019 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/francisco-goldman

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HAMR-E: Inverted and Vertical Climbing Microrobot

Title: HAMR-E: Inverted and Vertical Climbing Microrobot
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: HAMR-E, created in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, is a micro-robot that uses electroadhesion to scale vertical, inverted, and curved surfaces, allowing it to explore spaces that are too small for humans. HAMR-E could one day be used to inspect jet engines and other complicated machines without requiring them to be taken apart.

Harvard Student's Passion for Science Complements Lifelong Curiosity

Title: Harvard Student's Passion for Science Complements Lifelong Curiosity
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Julia Losner ’21 is a STEM concentrator, studying human developmental and regenerative biology. She is doing research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig’s disease) in a yearlong undergraduate course, and said science complements her natural curiosity. “You’re never satisfied with the answers you get because every answer leads to more questions and you want to dig down to the most molecular level to solve macro problems.”

Where We Stand in Earthquake Prediction | Marine A. Denolle || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Where We Stand in Earthquake Prediction | Marine A. Denolle || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 42:13
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Marine A. Denolle RI ’19 expresses her hope that—with new methods, through harnessing the data, and by expanding on short-term term forecasting—one day we may potentially be able to predict an earthquake.

Denolle is a seismologist focused on understanding large earthquakes and their resulting ground motion. Her research has mostly investigated the seismic radiation from large plate-boundary earthquakes and the amplification of their ground motion in the urban sedimentary basin. She is an assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a 2018–2019 Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/marine-a-denolle-fellow

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Being Seriously Ill In the U.S.: Financial and Healthcare Impacts

Title: Being Seriously Ill In the U.S.: Financial and Healthcare Impacts
Runtime: 1:02:06
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: What is it like to be seriously ill in America today? From heavy financial burdens — despite insurance — to varied hospital experiences, to impacts on caregivers, people with serious illnesses shared their experiences through a recent poll by the New York Times, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Harvard Chan School. The findings carry significant implications for national debates on basic health insurance requirements and on the reach of programs such as Medicare. In this Forum, a panel of experts unpacked the poll findings, as well as explored practical ways in which health systems can change to help the most ill Americans.

This Harvard event was presented in collaboration with The Commonwealth Fund on December 5, 2018.

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

Tarun Khanna on Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countrie

Title: Tarun Khanna on Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countrie
Runtime: 1:19:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, on his new book, Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, in conversation with Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emtrust-creating-foundation-entrepreneurship-developing-countriesem

Angela Merkel named Harvard Commencement speaker

Title: Angela Merkel named Harvard Commencement speaker
Runtime: 0:47
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the world’s most influential leaders since ascending to her country’s highest office in 2005, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 368th Commencement on May 30.

Title: Soft valves for soft robots
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Harvard researchers are taking soft robots to the next level, designing “soft” valves that could one day replace the “hard” parts used in many soft robot designs. The soft valves could allow the robots to work under the harshest conditions and perform some functions autonomously.

Harvard Forest Hemlock Hospice Documentary

Title: Harvard Forest Hemlock Hospice Documentary
Runtime: 19:25
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A short documentary exploring Harvard Forest's first art-based interpretive trail. This immersive science-communication project tells the story of the ongoing demise of the hemlock tree at the hands (and mouth) of the hemlock woolly adelgid. While telling the story of the loss of eastern hemlock, the project addresses larger issues of climate change, and the future of New England forests. Authors: David Buckley Borden, Devin Chaganis, Aaron Ellison, Casey Keenan, Faizal Westcott

Next in Evolution | Sriram Sankararaman || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Next in Evolution | Sriram Sankararaman || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 32:06
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: ARCHAIC ADMIXTURE IN HUMAN HISTORY (4:54)
Sriram Sankararaman, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Human Genetics, UCLA

Welcome and introduction by Immaculata De Vivo, interim faculty codirector of science, Radcliffe Institute; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

In 2017–2018, the Next in Science series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study focused on innovative research in the study of evolution. The analysis of genetic change examines both historic and current adaptations: how past species evolved over long periods of time and how modern species continue to adjust to present-day conditions.

The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialist...

Next in Evolution | Alicia R. Martin || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Next in Evolution | Alicia R. Martin || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 27:11
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: GENETIC PREDICTION OF TRAITS AND DISEASES ACROSS DIVERSE POPULATIONS
Alicia R. Martin, research fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute

In 2017–2018, the Next in Science series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study focused on innovative research in the study of evolution. The analysis of genetic change examines both historic and current adaptations: how past species evolved over long periods of time and how modern species continue to adjust to present-day conditions.

The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

Next in Evolution | Catherine E. Wagner || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Next in Evolution | Catherine E. Wagner || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 24:07
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: THE EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY IN EAST AFRICAN CICHLID FISHES
Catherine E. Wagner, assistant professor, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Institute, University of Wyoming

In 2017–2018, the Next in Science series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study focused on innovative research in the study of evolution. The analysis of genetic change examines both historic and current adaptations: how past species evolved over long periods of time and how modern species continue to adjust to present-day conditions.

The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

Next in Evolution | James S. Santangelo || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Next in Evolution | James S. Santangelo || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 23:41
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: EVOLUTION OF LIFE IN THE CITY
James S. Santangelo, graduate student in evolutionary ecology, University of Toronto Mississauga

In 2017–2018, the Next in Science series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study focused on innovative research in the study of evolution. The analysis of genetic change examines both historic and current adaptations: how past species evolved over long periods of time and how modern species continue to adjust to present-day conditions.

The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

Next in Evolution | Discussion and Audience Q&A || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Next in Evolution | Discussion and Audience Q&A || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 22:01
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: DISCUSSION AND AUDIENCE Q&A

Featuring
Sriram Sankararaman, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Human Genetics, UCLA

Alicia R. Martin, research fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute

Catherine E. Wagner, assistant professor, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Institute, University of Wyoming

James S. Santangelo, graduate student in evolutionary ecology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Moderated by Immaculata De Vivo, interim faculty codirector of science, Radcliffe Institute; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

In 2017–2018, the Next in Science series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study focused on innovative research in the study of evolution. The analysis of genetic change examines both historic and current adaptations: how past species evolved over long ...

Opening Discussion for Measure | Anna Von Mertens || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Opening Discussion for Measure | Anna Von Mertens || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 47:43
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The artist Anna Von Mertens presents an opening discussion on Measure, a commissioned exhibition for the Radcliffe Institute that explores the life and work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of the women “computers” hired to study glass-plate astronomical photographs at the Harvard College Observatory a century ago. Our current understanding of the size and shape of the cosmos is due in no small part to Leavitt’s patient search for patterns, reimagined in Von Mertens’s meticulous stitches and intricate graphite marks.

Joining her in conversation is Jennifer L. Roberts, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts, Radcliffe Institute, and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

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