Harvard
Catching up with the Harvard University Curling Team
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- Catching up with the Harvard University Curling Team
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Friday marks the opening of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea that will feature what some consider one of the winter competition’s more enigmatic events, curling. But once bitten by the curling bug there’s no going back. Harvard junior Neekon Vafa, president of the Harvard University Curling Team, explains his love for the sport during a team practice at a local curling club in Wayland, Mass.
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- Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?
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- 6:38
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- 11/4/17 | Harvard University, Science Center Hall C
Nuclear weapons strategy in the United States is designed around “presidential first use,” an arrangement that enables one man, the president, to kill and maim many millions of people in a single afternoon. What legal or philosophical principle differentiates the moral harm or moral wrong that would be attributed to a terrorist, non-state actor or hacker who delivered a nuclear weapon from a presidential launch of a nuclear weapon?
The conference brought together international and constitutional scholars and statesmen to examine the nature of presidential first use in the United States, as well as parallel arrangements in the other eight nuclear states. Senator Markey and Congressman McGovern described H.R.669/S.200 “Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017.”
Co-chairs: Elaine Scarry. Jonathan King.
Speakers: Bruce Ackerman. Kennette Benedict. Bruce Blair. Sissela...
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- Governing and Mental Health Policy: Addiction, Poverty, Guns and Prisons
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- 30:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ted Strickland, former Governor of Ohio, will discuss his career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Tuesday, February 6, 2018.
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- Samantha Power | US Foreign Policy from the Inside Out || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:47:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2017-2018 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Samantha Power RI '18 (8:12) reflects on a question that she increasingly gets, which is, what was it like, as a woman, doing foreign policy in the US government and at the United Nations?
Introduction by
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Samantha Power is a professor of practice at Harvard Law School and the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where she was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She is a former US permanent representative to the United Nations and a former member of President Obama's cabinet. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/samantha-power
For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its ma...
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- 2017 S.T. Lee Innovation Grants
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- 13:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Thanks to the remarkable generosity of Dr. Seng T. Lee, the Harvard Library was able to award $150,000 across 7 grant-funded projects to improve access to information and the experience of using library resources at Harvard University. Innovations can take a variety of forms: technological, cultural, or operational. This video highlights the work of the 2017 recipients. For more information visit: https://library.harvard.edu/lee-grants
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- 2017 S.T. Lee Innovation Grants
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- 13:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Thanks to the remarkable generosity of Dr. Seng T. Lee, the Harvard Library was able to award $150,000 across 7 grant-funded projects to improve access to information and the experience of using library resources at Harvard University. Innovations can take a variety of forms: technological, cultural, or operational. This video highlights the work of the 2017 recipients. For more information visit: https://library.harvard.edu/lee-grants
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- A Conversation on the Opioid Epidemic with Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams
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- 31:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams, 20th Surgeon General for the United States, will discuss his career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018
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- By All Means
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- 5:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Education Redesign Lab at HGSE has partnered with six cities since 2016 to promote a children’s opportunity agenda. This initiative, called By All Means, brings together mayors, superintendents, health directors, and other stakeholders to form Children’s Cabinets focused on expanding supports and opportunities for children. The video above includes reflections from our partner mayors and superintendents.
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- Meet HAMR, the Cockroach-Inspired Robot
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot - nicknamed HAMR - is a versatile robot that can run at high speeds, jump, climb, turn sharply, carry payloads and fall from great distances without being injured.
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- Integrating my online course to improve the classroom experience
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- 44:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett (HGSE) shared how she utilizes her HarvardX online course as pre-matriculation material in HGSE’s campus-based Data Wise Leadership Institute at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Speaker Series event on December 8, 2017.
Visit hilt.harvard.edu for more.
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- The milliDelta Robot
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Delta Robots are comprised of three articulating arms connected to an output stage. They are extremely precise and agile, and can be used for “pick & place” and 3D Printing. Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a millimeter-scale delta robot, the “milliDelta”. Possible applications at this scale include microassembly, micromanipulation, and tremor cancellation in microsurgery. Our design is powered by three independently controlled piezoelectric bending actuators. At 15mm x 15mm x 20mm, it has a payload capacity of ~3x its mass. It can operate with precision down to ~5µm, at frequencies up to 75Hz, and experience accelerations of ~22g. The design has potential for high-bandwidth, high-precision applications at the millimeter-scale.
For more information, please visit: wyss.harvard.edu
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- THE ARTIFACTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS: Reading by Alexandra Zapruder & Matthew Zapruder
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- 1:40:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- THE ARTIFACTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS: NON-FICTION/POETRY READING & DISCUSSION
Alexandra Zapruder & Matthew Zapruder
Moderated by Michael Downing
How much can be known, or understood, from a work of art or a historical artifact? How is knowledge disseminated through a culture, how does it adhere through objects to a family or a people? Whether it is a lyrical poem or Abraham Zapruder's footage of the JFK assassination, what does a historical artifact actually tell us? What are the crucial differences between knowledge and information?
In this powerful two-part event, featuring readings and a moderated discussion, poet and editor Matthew Zapruder (author of Why Poetry?/Ecco Press) and historian Alexandra Zapruder (author of Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film/Twelve Press) take the stage together to share their personal experiences and their distinct creative and critical perceptions. The conversation is moderated by Mi...
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- 2017 Harvard College Fund Thank You Video
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Meet Harvard undergraduates as they talk about how the Harvard College Fund made their experience possible, on campus and beyond!
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Stories of effective and ineffective evaluations of teaching
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- 47:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Facilitated by Johanna Gutlerner (HMS), Jason Heustis (HMS), and Martin Samuels (FAS), this session featured students from across the University sharing their experiences providing faculty feedback and how the use of evaluations have impacted their learning.
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Making the most of student evaluations
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- 37:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Facilitated by Willis Emmons (HBS), Alexandra Sedlovskaya (HBS), and Bill Wisser (HGSE), this session provided participants with practical tools for leveraging student evaluations to improve teaching.
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Getting the most out of faculty & staff partnerships
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- 48:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Facilitated by Adam Beaver (FAS) and Lisa Brem (HLS), this session explored faculty and staff partnerships across Harvard schools with examples from instructors Esme Caramello (HLS), Sheryl Dickey (HLS), and Daniel Lord Smail (FAS).
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Emerging approaches to evaluating learning
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- 22:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Facilitated by Josh Bookin (HGSE) and Evan Sanders (HMS), this session showcased emerging trends in evaluating student learning with a case study from instructor Theodore Svoronos (HKS).
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Which decision-making practices promote excellent teaching?
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- 41:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- An open discussion to share views and experiences across Harvard schools related to educational decision-making and curricular structures, facilitated by Nancy Kane (SPH), Carolyn Wood (HMS), and Monica Higgins (HGSE).
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Looking beyond Harvard
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- 39:10
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Facilitated by Kris Markman (Harvard Library), Allison Pingree (HKS), and Anu Vendatham (Harvard Library), this session explored approaches to teaching evaluations external to Harvard and discussion of specific instrument examples.
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: How to fail successfully
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- 39:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Facilitated by Sarah Grafman (HarvardX) and Sejal Vashi (SPH), this session focused on learning from failure in teaching and learning experimentation, with examples from instructors Peter Bol (FAS) and Randy King (HMS).
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Creating connections & increasing engagement
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- 31:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Facilitated by Erin Baumann (HKS), Rebecca Nesson (DCE), and Adrienne Phelps-Coco (DCE), this breakout session highlighted easily adoptable and adaptable practices for enhancing teaching with examples from instructors Emily Click (HDS) and Jonathan Hausmann (HMS).
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Afternoon remarks
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- 12:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Harvard University Provost Alan Garber provided afternoon remarks at HILT’s sixth annual conference: “Evaluating Teaching.”
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- HILT 2017 Conference: Evaluating teaching within a research university
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- 1:07:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Moderated by Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, University Professors Douglas A. Melton, Ann Blair, and Gary King discussed how the University should be thinking about and supporting efforts to evaluate teaching and measure student learning in the context of historical and current applications.
For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu
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- Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man
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- 1:51:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A discussion of origin stories with
Stephen Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Kimberley Patton
Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, Harvard Divinity School
Meredith Reiches
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Richard Wrangham
Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/garden-party-genesis-descent-man
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- Claire Messud on The Burning Girl: A Novel
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- 1:18:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Claire Messud
Senior Lecturer in English, Harvard University
on her new book,
The Burning Girl: A Novel
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/emthe-burning-girl-novelem
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- The Evolution of Gene Expression | Thomas Lenormand || Radcliffe Institute
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- 43:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Thomas Lenormand RI ’18 covers the broad and vast topic of gene regulation and gene expression.
Thomas Lenormand is CNRS research director at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, in Montpellier, France. He is the 2017–2018 Hrdy Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/thomas-lenormand
For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.
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- VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Susan Howe
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- 35:58
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In our first reading in our new Vocarium Reading series, Susan Howe (author of DEBTHS /New Directions) and Susan Stewart (author of CINDER/Graywolf Press) brought together the collective dimensions of their literary and lived experiences. Introduction by Prof. Stephanie Sandler.
PLEASE NOTE: At the request of Susan Stewart, her portion of the reading has been removed. Scholars who are interested in Stewart's reading, may write to the Poetry Room for private access.
The event was sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, with generous assistance from the Catherine L. Morrissey Fund.
Recorded on Oct. 24, 2017, at the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more information, visit: http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom
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- The science of sparkle
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Raquel Alonso-Perez, the curator of the Mineralogical and Geological Museum, at Harvard University, talks about good chemistry and color the gemstones in the mineral collection at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, where sparkle prevails.
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- A Conversation with Ambassador Power on Global Health and Human Rights
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- 33:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Samantha Power, 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will discuss her career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017
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- Wyss Focus - 3D Organ Engineering
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- 3:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Wyss Institute Core Faculty members Christopher Chen and Jennifer Lewis describe the Wyss Institute’s initiative focused on organ engineering, which leverages our expertise in biomaterials, tissue engineering, three dimensional biofabrication, and stem cell development.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
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- Leadership on Health in the Department of Defense
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- 35:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ash Carter, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and current Director of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, will discuss his career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Wednesday, Dec. 6 , 2017
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- A PROVOCATION: Poetry in the Age of Mass Incarceration
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- 1:52:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A PROVOCATION: POETRY IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION
with with Joshua Bennett, Jill McDonough, Christopher Soto, Jackie Wang
Four writers whose work is dedicated to addressing the carceral situation in our country---through poetry, scholarship, activism and education---united to share their creative works and their innovative approaches to criminal justice reform and/or prison abolition.
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
Recorded on Nov. 8, 2017, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
For more information, visit: http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom
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- Therapeutic Organ Engineering: Highlights From The 8th Annual Wyss Symposium
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- 5:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The 8th Annual Wyss International Symposium focused on innovations in therapeutic organ engineering, featuring diverse speakers doing exciting work in 3D organ engineering, materials fabrication, and vascular integration. This video highlights some of the themes discussed in their presentations as well as the advances that are leading to the ultimate goals of developing new approaches in organ transplantation and regenerative medicine.
For more information, please visit: wyss.harvard.edu/event/symposium/
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- Corey Lee: A Menu at Benu: A Look at Texture and Mouthfeel
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- 54:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Harvard Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2017
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- The Health Data Revolution: Improving Outcomes, Protecting Privacy
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- 57:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Will the next great medical insight come from a clinical trial, a laboratory study — or a database search? Today, health systems and insurers have access to a mountain of data about millions of Americans: what medications they take, their health history, even, in some cases, their genetics—plus an emerging body of mobile health data. Using “big data” techniques, doctors and researchers are already mining this data to deliver better care and to gain insights into the kind of hyper-specific questions that clinical trials and observational studies struggle to answer. The approach promises major, rapid-fire, highly-personalized discoveries. At the same time, with the specter of cyberattacks and hacks looming, the need for rugged privacy protection has never been greater. In this Forum, experts in healthcare data and privacy will discuss the potential for future discovery, practical steps to enable progress, and how information can be kept secure.
Part of the The Dr. La...
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- Vocarium Reading Series: Douglas Kearney and Tracie Morris & Susie Ibarra
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- 1:00:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A dynamic performance by virtuoso poet-performer-librettist Douglas Kearney (author of Buck Studies/Fence Books), whose work has been hailed by Claudia Rankine as “revolutionary, intimate, and everyone’s," and interdisciplinary poet, sound artist and transcendent vocalist Tracie Morris (author of Handholding: Five Kinds/Kore Press) joined by percussionist Susie Ibarra. Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room.
For additional information, visit: http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom
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- America's Rental Housing 2017
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- 2:22:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- AMERICA'S RENTAL HOUSING
A decade of unprecedented growth in the rental housing market may be coming to an end, according to our 2017 America’s Rental Housing report. Fewer new renter households are being formed, rental vacancy rates have risen, and rent increases have slowed. At the same time, renter demographics are changing and nearly 21 million households continue to pay more than 30 percent of their income for rent.
WELCOME
Christopher Herbert, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Mijo Vodopic, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
REPORT PRESENTATION
Jonathan Spader, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
CONVERSATION
The Honorable Pamela Hughes Patenaude, Deputy Secretary,
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Christopher Herbert, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
PANEL DISCUSSION
Laura Kusisto, The Wall Street Journal (moderator)
Chr...
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- Hidden in Plain Sight: Family Secrets and American History || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:31:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Family Secrets and American History
A Schlesinger Library Event
The theme of this discussion is the not-quite-secret histories of American families—stories hidden in plain sight that, once revealed, require us to rethink the broader outlines of American history.
How do we know what we know? What can’t we know, ever? What should and shouldn’t be preserved?
Featuring:
Gail Lumet Buckley '59 (18:19), author, The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016)
Alice Echols (31:44), author, Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking (The New Press, 2017)
Susan Faludi ’81, RI ’09 (41:59), author, In the Darkroom (Metropolitan Books, 2016)
Alex Wagner (53:10), author, Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World, forthcoming)
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- Afghanistan: Reflections on my Journey
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- 32:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Suraya Dalil, former Minister of Public Health for Afghanistan, will discuss her career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017
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- Discrimination in America: Native American Experiences
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- 1:06:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How do Native Americans experience discrimination in daily life? A new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health illuminates Native Americans’ personal experiences with discrimination. The report reveals that more than a third of Native Americans and their family members have experienced slurs and violence, and close to a third have faced discrimination in the workplace and when interacting with police. The poll also reveals that Native Americans who live in majority-Native areas are significantly more likely to experience this kind of discrimination.
This poll is one a series of reports that surveyed additional groups, including Latinos, Asian Americans, African Americans, white Americans, men, women, and LGBTQ adults, on their experiences with discrimination.
This Forum event was presented December 13, 2017, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR.
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- Harvard bird brains
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- To look at him, Griffin doesn’t seem like he’d be smarter than the typical four-year-old – after all, he’s a bird. Yet Griffin can easily outperform young children when it comes to certain tasks – including one that tests their understanding of volume.
The classic Piagetian test works like this: Show a child two identical glasses of juice and ask which they want. They’ll giggle and say the amounts are the same. Then pour these two glasses into separate containers – one tall and thin, the other short and squat – then ask the same child which they’d prefer. Until about age six, children typically choose the taller container, believing it now somehow holds more.
Griffin, by comparison, isn’t fooled – and was even smart enough to see through subsequent tests designed to fool him.
Irene Pepperberg, a research associate in Harvard’s Psychology Department, and undergraduate student Francesca Cornero, ‘19, also demonstrated tha...
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- DNA Origami: Single Strand
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- In this animation, a long single-strand of DNA is self-folding into a highly programmable and complex origami nanostructure significantly larger than those created in previous attempts. Credit: Molgraphics
For more information, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/single-stranded-dna-and-rna-origami-go-live/
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- Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter Visits Harvard
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Antoine Hunter, founder of Urban Jazz Dance Company in San Francisco and producer of the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival, brings a joy of movement and a mission of artistic leadership in an inspiring masterclass.
His company incorporates many dance genres, including ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and African, as well as including sign language as part of an aesthetic that he describes as gritty and raw and “fresh with unexpected movement.”
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- First generation graduate hopes to impact and better lives in marginalized communities
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- 3:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Raised by immigrant parents, Yesenia Ortiz was their second child to attend Harvard, and is using the opportunity to help others overcome the obstacles her parents faced.
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- Writers Speak | Richard Price in conversation with Claire Messud
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- 1:31:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Richard Price is the acclaimed author of numerous novels and screenplays. His books include Clockers (1992), Lush Life (2008), and, under the pseudonym Harry Brandt, Whites (2015). He has written many film and television scripts, including The Color of Money (1986), Clockers (1995), The Wire (2002), Freedomland (2006), and the Emmy Award-nominated 8-part HBO series The Night Of (2016).
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/richard-price-conversation-claire-messud
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- Tracking Shots: Migrant Itineraries - A Conversation about Art, Migration, and Citizenship
- Runtime
- 1:39:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Mahindra Center's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series on Migration and the Humanities presents
A Conversation about Art, Migration, and Citizenship
Speakers
Bouchra Khalili
David and Roberta Logie Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Bouchra Khalili often draws on the tropes of documentary cinema to redirect the conventions by which citizens and subjects are asked to present themselves to the state. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at documenta 14. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and MCBA in Barcelona. Her work has also been shown at the New Museum and the 55th Venice Biennale.
Glenn Lowry
Director, The Museum of Modern Art
Homi Bhabha
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Free and open to the public; seating is limited.
Image caption: Bouchra Khalili,...
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- Should Law Foster Forgiveness? | Martha Minow || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 56:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Should Law Foster Forgiveness? Child Soldiers, Sovereign Debt, and Alternatives to Punishment
As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Martha Minow RI ’18 considers whether and when legal systems and rules should promote forgiveness. Should law itself be used to encourage people to forgive each other? And should law itself forgive? Looking at issues within the United States and at international debates over sovereign debt and treatments of child soldiers, the talk encompasses legal, historical, religious, and cultural resources.
Minow is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, where she served as dean between 2009 and 2017. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/martha-minow
For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.
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- The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the History of WWI | Chad L. Williams || Radcliffe Institute
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- 42:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois, African Americans, and the History of World War I
As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Chad L. Williams RI ’18 tells a story that spans almost two decades, from one world war to the next, and features as its central character arguably the most significant black intellectual in American history, W. E. B. Du Bois.
Williams is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the 2017–2018 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/chad-l-williams.
For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.
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- Origami-Inspired Artificial Muscles
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Artificial muscles could make soft robots safer and stronger. Researchers at the Wyss Institute, Harvard SEAS, and MIT CSAIL have developed a novel design approach for origami-inspired artificial muscles, capable of lifting 1000x its own weight.
The muscles are made of a compressible skeleton and air or fluid medium encased in a flexible skin, and are powered by pressure difference. The muscle motions are programmed based on the structural geometry of the skeleton. Multi-directional motions can also be programmed into the material. Artificial muscles can also grip, lift, and twist objects.
A variety of materials and fabrication methods can be used to create low-cost artificial muscles. These artificial muscles are fast, light-weight, and powerful, and could be used for miniature medical devices, deployable structures, or wearable robotics.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
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- Concrete heartbeat
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- An installation outside Harvard’s Gund Hall is more than just a bench. It collects real-time data on city activity and translates it into interactive soundscapes. Graduate School of Design Professor Allen Sayegh, the creator of the PULSUS installation, calls it a form of "perceptual artificial intelligence."
