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Title: What is the Foursquare Church?
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of educational videos.

Title: What is Mormonism?
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of educational videos.

Title: What is Swedenborgianism?
Runtime: 2:38
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of educational videos.

Janelle Ibaven, Foursquare Chaplain at Harvard

Title: Janelle Ibaven, Foursquare Chaplain at Harvard
Runtime: 2:16
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of chaplain interviews.

John Thompson, Mormon Chaplain at Harvard

Title: John Thompson, Mormon Chaplain at Harvard
Runtime: 3:05
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of chaplain interviews.

Jeff Banks, InterVarsity Chaplain at Harvard

Title: Jeff Banks, InterVarsity Chaplain at Harvard
Runtime: 6:40
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of chaplain interviews.

Sage Cole, Swedenborgian Chaplain at Harvard

Title: Sage Cole, Swedenborgian Chaplain at Harvard
Runtime: 3:48
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This interview is one in a series of chaplain interviews.

College Students and Mental Health: Confronting an Emerging Crisis

Title: College Students and Mental Health: Confronting an Emerging Crisis
Runtime: 59:49
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Mental health issues are alarmingly on the rise among college students, and a serious gap exists in campus services to help them. What can be done to meet this growing need, spurred by issues of anxiety and depression, that has been described as sudden and dramatic by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health? In a spring 2017 survey by the American College Health Association, 39 percent of college students reported feeling so depressed that they were having trouble functioning, and 61 percent said that they had overwhelming anxiety in the previous 12 months. This Forum served as a call to action, asking how to develop a campus culture that prioritizes the prevention of mental health issues and the destigmatization of existing conditions. An expert panel featured leaders from academia, mental health advocacy and psychology, who spoke from a public health and health care delivery perspective. How do we support students in need; remove barriers, particularly for already marginalized stude...

Local seventh graders explore roots, identity and language at Harvard

Title: Local seventh graders explore roots, identity and language at Harvard
Runtime: 0:48
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Local seventh graders spent the day on Harvard’s campus exploring how the Gullah language, a primarily oral language, managed to both survive and thrive through generations. Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux says evidence of the language is far more prevalent than many realize. Students were surprised to learn that many of the common phrases they know, are actually rooted in the Gullah language. Probably the most recognizable Gullah word – Kumbayah. The common song sung in churches, scout troops, and schools nationwide is actually a Gullah prayer.

Opioids and Addiction: A Governors Roundtable on State Approaches to Treatment

Title: Opioids and Addiction: A Governors Roundtable on State Approaches to Treatment
Runtime: 55:28
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: President Trump recently described a plan to tackle the opioid abuse crisis that includes tougher sentencing on dealers and expanding access to treatment. The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis cites the need to move ahead quickly with treatment alternatives for those addicted to opioids. Yet, recent public surveys show that Americans are confused about opioid-treatment programs, with only about half believing there is an effective, long-term addiction treatment. There are programs offered for the treatment of opioid addiction, including medicated–assisted treatment, drug rehabilitation programs, addiction support groups, and counseling. This Forum – featuring the unique perspectives of former governors and the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services — will examine the state government’s role in current and future approaches to treatment. These approaches may include educating the public about these alternatives, paying ...

Cultivating Art in a Garden on Brattle Street || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Cultivating Art in a Garden on Brattle Street || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On one of Cambridge’s toniest streets, just across the road from the A.R.T., there is a rotating public art space called the Wallach Garden. Since 2013, the Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition has brought three bold designs to life in this space. Now a fourth winning design has been announced, due to appear in 2019.

The Drama of Celebrity | Sharon Marcus || Radcliffe Institute

Title: The Drama of Celebrity | Sharon Marcus || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 47:28
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sharon Marcus RI ’18 shares material from her soon-to-be-completed book, in which she addresses such questions as “What is a celebrity?” “Have they always existed?” “And why do so many people care about them?”

Marcus teaches at Columbia University, where she is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, specializing in 19th-century British and French culture. She is the 2017–2018 Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/sharon-marcus

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

Mindfulness research probes depression benefits

Title: Mindfulness research probes depression benefits
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Gaelle Desbordes, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School, is probing mindfulness meditation’s effect on depression, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to take before and after images of the brains of depressed patients who’ve learned to meditate. The work seeks to understand the internal brain processes affected by mindfulness meditation training in this population.

Obesity: It’s More Complex than You Think | Fatima Cody Stanford || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Obesity: It’s More Complex than You Think | Fatima Cody Stanford || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:11:14
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017–2018 Epidemics Science Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Fatima Cody Stanford (2:20), a leading expert on obesity, challenges the notion that weight regulation can be determined by a simple equation applied to all persons equally and instead explores the impact of the environment and the role our brains and bodies play in the complex processes of weight regulation.

Introduction by Janet Rich-Edwards, faculty codirector of the science program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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

The Gun Violence Epidemic: Protecting the Public’s Health

Title: The Gun Violence Epidemic: Protecting the Public’s Health
Runtime: 1:02:43
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Inspired by students across the country, the gun violence prevention movement has gained new momentum. But can it last or lead to substantive change on the Congressional level? This Forum brought together experts in mental health, violence, and gun policy to discuss a variety of proposed gun violence and school safety measures. What is the status of background check laws? What is an appropriate way to discuss mental health in the conversation — without creating stigma or a chilling effect on people seeking care? What skills and training should educators have to spot warning signs and respond in crises? And, in light of restrictions around federally funded gun-related research, do policymakers have the information that they need to study these questions effectively? In this time of turbulence, our panelists looked at the evidence for — and possible unintended consequences of — today’s hotly debated measures to stop gun violence.

This Forum event was presented joint...

Just a Job? What more should companies offer?

Title: Just a Job? What more should companies offer?
Runtime: 49:32
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: [Information]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, the University of Valencia IECO-UV Chair of Business Ethics, together with the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge and the RCC at Harvard University, organized this webinar with the purpose to offer a conversation between students and business people regarding the expectations of the future of work in business organizations. What do students expect from companies? What do companies expect from students? What does the world of work offer young people when they finish their studies? Just a job? These and some other open questions are discussed during this webinar, taking advantage of the special visit by two top senior managers of Valencian companies at Harvard University during this time.

Termite mounds in Namibia inspire energy-efficient buildings

Title: Termite mounds in Namibia inspire energy-efficient buildings
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are engaged in fieldwork across the globe, advancing our knowledge of the natural world and developing solutions to global challenges. From the Midwest to the Middle East, the deep sea to the stratosphere, SEAS students and faculty push the frontiers of technology and discovery. In Namibia, SEAS researchers are studying how termite mounds could inspire energy-efficient buildings.

Cómo humanizar las empresas - entrevista a empresarios valencianos en Harvard

Title: Cómo humanizar las empresas - entrevista a empresarios valencianos en Harvard
Runtime: 7:40
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: El pasado miércoles, día 21 de marzo de 2018, la Cátedra de Ética Empresarial IECO-UV de la Universitat de València, junto con el Instituto Abigail Adams de Cambridge y el Real Colegio Complutense en la Universidad de Harvard, organizaron un Webinar bajo el título “¿Sólo un trabajo? ¿Qué más deberían ofrecer las empresas?”. En este vídeo se recoge una breve entrevista realizada por Rita Jácome, la Directora Ejecutiva del IECO, a Vicente Ruiz, Presidente de la empresa RNB y a Raúl Royo, Presidente de la empresa Royo Group, ambas patrocinadoras de la Cátedra IECO-UV y del evento tenido lugar en Harvard RCC. En la entrevista explican por qué se han desplazado a Harvard para apoyar un proyecto como éste. A continuación realizan una reflexión acerca de cuál es el sentido del trabajo que se vive en sus empresas, y el modo en que procuran humanizar el trabajo en sus organizaciones.

Layli Long Soldier | WHEREAS || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Layli Long Soldier | WHEREAS || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:15:32
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The poet and artist Layli Long Soldier presents WHEREAS, a poetry reading (6:26) and discussion featuring Nick Estes (45:24).

Introductions by
Daniel Carpenter, faculty director of the social sciences program, Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Nick Estes, fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University; cofounder, the Red Nation

This event is part of the Roosevelt Poetry Readings at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and is cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP). The Roosevelt Poetry Readings are made possible by a donor gift that helps bring poets of recognized stature to the Institute.

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

Coretta Scott King speaks at Harvard’s Class Day in 1968

Title: Coretta Scott King speaks at Harvard’s Class Day in 1968
Runtime: 30:49
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Her husband’s death still raw, King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, agreed to take his place and speak on Class Day in 1968. By then, the nation was mourning yet another loss. Only six days before she spoke, Civil Rights advocate and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot to death in Los Angeles.

Coretta Scott King's speech at Harvard (1968)
from the collection of the Harvard Film Archive, Item #5977
Digitized from a 16mm Ektachrome camera original made by WGBH

Citizen Indigenous || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Citizen Indigenous || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:30:40
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Leading members from the Oneida Nation, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and United Houma Nation of Louisiana discuss vital issues of tribal citizenship in Indian Country. By exploring topics such as constitutional reform, tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and descendancy, the speakers discuss the many different ways Native tribes and nations define, grant, and express indigenous citizenship.

FEATURING
Norbert Hill (Oneida Nation) (40:08), former director of education, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin; founder, Winds of Change, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and The American Indian Graduate Magazine, American Indian Graduate Center; Lifetime Achievement Award, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

Olivia Hoeft (Oneida Nation) (10:00), associate product marketing manager, Google; former Miss Oneida, 2014–2015

Tesia Zientek (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) (21:07), director, Department of Education, Citizen Potawatomi Nation...

Thankfull | Radcliffe Institute || Harvard University

Title: Thankfull | Radcliffe Institute || Harvard University
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In this first installment of Unboxing History, Marlin Kann—an AP US history teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School who wants to broaden his students’ understanding of history—marvels at a creased and weathered document from 1803 that held the fate of a 23-year-old woman. The simple, soundless video, to which we have added voiceover, is one of dozens that Kann shot as he opened archival library boxes in hopes of demystifying archival work students of history. For more about Kann, see https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/everyday-history.

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UNBOXING HISTORY: This series of short videos explores the riches of the Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, which is widely regarded as the foremost collection on the history of women in the United States. The simple footage is captured as archives are unboxed by historians and others. UNBOXING HISTORY gives you a front row seat as we explore historic documents and o...

Health in the LGBTQ Community: Improving Care and Confronting Discrimination

Title: Health in the LGBTQ Community: Improving Care and Confronting Discrimination
Runtime: 58:54
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans report that they have experienced violence, threats or harassment because of their sexuality or gender identity. Nearly one in five LGBTQ people has avoided seeking medical care for fear of discrimination. In this Forum, experts in LGBTQ health explored health disparities and discrimination that impact the LGBTQ community. Drawing from a recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, our panel looked at the impact of these experiences on physical and mental well-being — and what can be done to help.

This Forum event was presented jointly with NPR on March 21, 2018.

Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

American Modern Opera Company Visits Harvard

Title: American Modern Opera Company Visits Harvard
Runtime: 5:28
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), which is made up of 17 dancers, musicians, choreographers, directors and composers, descended onto campus for a 9-day residency called Run AMOC! that included performances and jam sessions with students in residence halls.

American Modern Opera Company Leads Public Performance at Harvard Innovation Labs

Title: American Modern Opera Company Leads Public Performance at Harvard Innovation Labs
Runtime: 9:18
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: AMOC co-founder Matt Aucoin ’12 led the audience in a group performance of Cornelius Cardew’s composition “The Great Learning” at the I-lab in Allston.

Keys to Responsible Leadership in Troubling Times

Title: Keys to Responsible Leadership in Troubling Times
Runtime: 29:53
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Jackie Jenkins-Scott, former CEO of The Dimock Community Health Center and current Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will discuss the history of the community health center movement in the United States, and the challenges she faced while running a center on the Voices in Leadership program on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

Army veteran and Harvard freshman hopes to inspire Mexican-Americans through singing

Title: Army veteran and Harvard freshman hopes to inspire Mexican-Americans through singing
Runtime: 2:56
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Richard Martinez III ’21 served in the 82nd Airborne Division before coming to campus. The son of two teachers, he is a member of the wrestling team, is on the Dean of Arts and Humanities student board, and hopes to use singing to be a role model for Mexican American youth.

Wyss Institute Implantable Cancer Vaccine

Title: Wyss Institute Implantable Cancer Vaccine
Runtime: 1:51
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This animation explains how the Wyss Institute’s cancer vaccine technology was developed in a collaboration between biologists, clinicians and researchers at the Institute, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It works by reprogramming the immune system to reject cancer cells. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

“Memories from Resistance” | Sophie Hochhäusl || Radcliffe Institute

Title: “Memories from Resistance” | Sophie Hochhäusl || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 46:56
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Sophie Hochhäusl RI ’18 presents “‘Memories from Resistance’: Women, War, and the Forgotten Work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 1919–1989.” By charting Schütte-Lihotzky’s work, including her political activism, Hochhäusl’s talk highlights new networks of exchange and expertise among women, along with the agency of social movements in design histories.

Hochhäusl is an architect and architectural historian whose scholarly work centers on modern architecture and urban culture in Austria, Germany, and the United States with a focus on environmental history, women and gender studies, and the history of social movements. She is an assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University and the 2017–2018 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcli...

Total History: Alexander the Great to the End of the World | Paul J. Kosmin || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Total History: Alexander the Great to the End of the World | Paul J. Kosmin || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 52:07
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Paul J. Kosmin RI ’18 presents “Total History: Time, Empire, and Resistance from Alexander the Great to the End of the World,” which introduces some ideas on Seleucid time reckoning. Before the Seleucid Empire and the development of numbered years, historical time was measured in only three ways: by unique events, by annual offices, or by royal life cycles.

Kosmin is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the east Mediterranean and west Asia during the Hellenistic period—the last three centuries BCE between Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian empire and the total Roman dominance of the Mediterranean. He is the 2017–2018 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/paul-j-kosmin

Title: Harvard Student Sand Artist
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Dasha Bough ’21, who came to campus from Montana by way of Russia, is a self-taught sand artist who has immersed herself in the arts and humanities. She uses her artistry as a tool to engage in political discourse.

Extreme Hurricanes: The Challenges for Puerto Rico and Beyond

Title: Extreme Hurricanes: The Challenges for Puerto Rico and Beyond
Runtime: 1:00:57
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Six months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, a panel of experts assessed persistent public health challenges on the island and the outlook for long-term recovery. Power restoration, health care coordination, and medical services delivery on the island are just some of the pressing issues the panelists explored. They discussed the potential threats of extreme hurricanes more broadly, noting that 2017 was one of the most destructive seasons on record. What can be done to better prepare and respond to killer storms, and to build resiliency to combat such disasters? How can the public and private sectors work together? And what have we learned generally from past hurricanes - and specifically from ongoing efforts in Puerto Rico - to meet the many challenges ahead?

This Forum event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on Friday, March 9, 2018.

Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

Empowering Girls, Transforming Communities: The Power of Grassroots Leadership

Title: Empowering Girls, Transforming Communities: The Power of Grassroots Leadership
Runtime: 30:43
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Kakenya Ntaiya, Founder and President of the Kakenya Center for Excellence, will discuss her career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Thursday, March 8, 2018.

Catalytic Nano-Architectures for Clean Air

Title: Catalytic Nano-Architectures for Clean Air
Runtime: 4:42
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The Wyss Institute is developing a new type of coating for catalytic converters that, inspired by the nanoscale structure of a butterfly’s wing, can dramatically reduce the cost and improve the performance of air purification technologies, making them more accessible to all.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan || Radcliffe Institute

Title: The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:23:07
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger and the 75th anniversary of the Library's founding, this panel discussion features scholars, poets, and activists exploring the many facets of Jordan's work.

Featuring
Solmaz Sharif (14:56), poet; lecturer, Creative Writing Program, Stanford University

Imani Perry (29:51), Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

Mariame Kaba (47:08), founder and director, Project NIA

Moderated by
Joshua Bennett, director, June Jordan Fellowship Program, Center for Justice at Columbia University; 2016-2019 junior fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Introductions by
Jane Kamensky, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, and professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and ...

Title: Soft Sensors that Feel
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Inspired by our bodies’ sensory capabilities, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a platform for creating soft robots with embedded sensors that can sense movement, pressure, touch, and even temperature.

Heart and Brain Disease in Women: Sex and Gender Connections

Title: Heart and Brain Disease in Women: Sex and Gender Connections
Runtime: 1:02:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The evidence on sex differences in understanding, treating and preventing disease is mounting, and The National Institutes of Health has made Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) key to all research it funds. Scientists are developing an unprecedented understanding, in particular, of the links between heart and brain disorders in both women and men. These insights are opening new frontiers in investigating the co-occurrence of heart disease and depression, and the risk for memory decline and Alzheimer's disease - comorbidities that disproportionately impact women. Applying a sex-and-gender lens, this Forum explored the unfolding story of newly-discovered connections between heart and brain - and their potential to transform understanding of heart disease, Alzheimer's and depression in women. Presented during American Heart Month and shortly before International Women's Day, we asked why diseases of the heart and brain often go hand-in-hand, with women often at twice the risk of men - an...

Title: Tough Gel Adhesives
Runtime: 4:53
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Inspired by the mucus secreted by the Dusky Arion slug, researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed a surgical adhesive that can adhere to wet and dynamic surfaces inside the body, including the heart, lung, tendons, cartilage, and bone. Coupled with a novel tough hydrogel, which can undergo huge amounts of deformation without breaking, this surgical adhesive could outperform and even replace existing polyacrylamide- and suture-based wound closure methods.

For more information, please visit: wyss.harvard.edu

Reading Population History from Our Genomes| Ziheng Yang || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Reading Population History from Our Genomes| Ziheng Yang || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 45:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017-2018 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ziheng Yang RI '18 presents "Reading Population History from Our Genomes:
Markov Chain Monte Carlo under the Coalescent," covering Bayesian statistical inference and multispecies coalescent models—and the exciting things that result from putting them together.

Ziheng Yang is the R.A. Fisher Professor of Statistical Genetics at University College London and the 2017–2018 Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Yang's research interests include molecular evolution, population genetics, computational biology, and computational statistics. He develops statistical methods and computer software for comparative analysis of genetic sequence data. He has published around 200 scientific papers and two books. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ziheng-yang

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public pro...

Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis named speaker for Harvard's Commencement

Title: Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis named speaker for Harvard's Commencement
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights leader who has represented Georgia's 5th District for more than 30 years, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard's 367th Commencement on May 24.

"For more than fifty years, John Lewis has dedicated himself to the ideals of equality and decency, standing up for what is right, even when it meant putting himself in harm's way," Harvard President Drew Faust said. "His public service legacy is unparalleled, and he is an inspiration to me and to countless other people across the United States and around the world."

Lewis will address the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association, held in Harvard Yard's Tercentenary Theatre between Widener Library and the Memorial Church.

Abdul El-Sayed | The Epidemic of Poverty: The Government Imperative || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Abdul El-Sayed | The Epidemic of Poverty: The Government Imperative || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:21:53
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017-2018 Epidemics Science Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the physician and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed plots the evolution of his career-from helping to rebuild the Detroit Health Department following the city's municipal bankruptcy to his run for governor of Michigan.

Introduction by Janet Rich-Edwards, faculty codirector of the science program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Anne Louise Oaklander | Small Fibers, Big Pain || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Anne Louise Oaklander | Small Fibers, Big Pain || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:13:27
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017-2018 Epidemics Science Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Anne Louise Oaklander presents her lecture "Small Fibers, Big Pain: New Research on Fibromyalgia and Small Fiber Neuropathy," in which she discusses her new findings about unexplained chronic pain-such as that associated with fibromyalgia and Gulf War syndrome-and explains how damage to small nerve endings can lead to chronic fatigue, nausea, and even brain fog.

Introduction by Janet Rich-Edwards, faculty codirector of the science program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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

Title: Snakeskin Robot
Runtime: 1:52
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed a soft robot inspired by snakeskin. The soft robotic scales are made using kirigami - an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts, rather than origami folds, to change the properties of a material. As the robot stretches, the flat kirigami surface is transformed into a 3D-textured surface, which grips the ground just like snake skin.

Viet Thanh Nguyen | History, Identity, Politics, and the Art of Writing || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Viet Thanh Nguyen | History, Identity, Politics, and the Art of Writing || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:21:30
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (9:39) discusses how history, identity, and politics have intersected with his writing and life and about his efforts to take all those things and work with them simultaneously as a scholar, a writer, and a refugee.

His lecture is followed by a conversation with the writer Gish Jen (32:40) and an audience Q&A (1:07:23).

Introduction by
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015) and of The Refugees (Grove Press, 2017) and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and a professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Gish Jen is the author of The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap (Knopf, 2017), Tiger W...

Who would choose to be LGBT and Nigerian? | Ifeoma Fafunwa || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Who would choose to be LGBT and Nigerian? | Ifeoma Fafunwa || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 32:54
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017-2018 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ifeoma Fafunwa RI '18 shares her latest production: a socially transformative stage play that explores solutions to the homophobic environment in today's Nigeria.

Fafunwa is the founder and creative director of iOpenEye, a Nigerian production company driving social change through performance art. She recently produced the popular stage play HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True, a collection of monologues based on true-life stories of Nigerian women that challenges social, cultural, and political norms. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/ifeoma-fafunwa

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

Title: The Flu Outbreak: What You Need to Know
Runtime: 1:02:34
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: More than a half million deaths each year around the world result from flu-related respiratory illnesses. This year, flu has grabbed particular headlines, driven by an early start to flu season and the dominance of a particularly severe flu strain, H3N2. The flu is most dangerous to people with underlying health problems, as well as individuals over age 65 and young children. However, each year flu cases involving young, otherwise apparently healthy people raise flags. In this Forum, experts in epidemiology, immunology, and health policy will place this year’s flu season in context. They will explore vaccine development, prevention and treatment and address growing concerns globally as this particularly virulent outbreak gains the potential to spread further — ultimately asking is there a better way to stop the flu?

This Forum event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.

Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.

Optimal Work: The Ethics of Working at Your Best

Title: Optimal Work: The Ethics of Working at Your Best
Runtime: 43:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description

Creating the Next Wave of Precision Biotherapeutics | Nicola L. B. Pohl || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Creating the Next Wave of Precision Biotherapeutics | Nicola L. B. Pohl || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 36:37
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As part of the 2017-2018 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Nicola L. B. Pohl RI '18 provides a sense of some of the key problems that chemists are currently trying to solve.

Pohl is a professor of chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, where she holds the Joan and Marvin Carmack Chair in Bioorganic Chemistry and leads a group of researchers in developing automated methods for carbohydrate synthesis and analysis. She is the 2017-2018 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/nicola-l-b-pohl

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

Acquiring the Angela Davis Papers || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Acquiring the Angela Davis Papers || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 2:56
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On February 13, 2018, the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, with support from the Hutchins Center, announced its acquisition of the papers of the political activist and pioneering feminist thinker Dr. Angela Y. Davis.

Archivists are processing the collection, which will be available for research by 2020.

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

Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president

Title: Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president
Runtime: 5:28
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1, 2018.

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