Harvard
The NIH and the need for funding facilities and administration costs
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- The NIH and the need for funding facilities and administration costs
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- 3:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Assistant Professor Allon Klein of Harvard Medical School discusses facilities and administration costs, and how important they are to maintaining the partnership between the federal government and America’s research universities.
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- Social Justice and the New Food Activism | Julie Guthman || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:13:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Julie Guthman RI ’18 discusses the origins and development of the food movement in order to explain how it came to focus on market-based alternatives and to show how it has evolved in response to critique.
Guthman (6:16) is the 2017–2018 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/julie-guthman
Introduced by Daniel Carpenter, faculty director of the social sciences program at the Radcliffe Institute and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/daniel-carpenter-faculty-director
This presentation was a part of HUBweek, a creative festival founded by the Boston Globe, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mass General Hospital to ce...
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- 5 Essential Questions in Life
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- 31:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- James Ryan, 11th Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will discuss his career path and leadership advice on the Voices in Leadership program on Wed., Oct. 18, 2017
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- Climate Change: Responses from the Public and Private Sectors
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- 59:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Climate-related programs face challenges from federal regulation rollbacks and proposed spending cuts. In response, some members of the public and private sectors have stepped in, announcing various commitments to take action to curb climate change. What can cities, states, research institutions and businesses do to lead the way on climate change and to make the greatest impact on the environment and public health? A stellar panel of national, state, corporate and science leaders addressed the question in this Forum.
Presented jointly with Reuters on Friday, October 13, 2017.
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- The Beginning
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The short film ‘The Beginning’ takes viewers on a fantastic journey to the nanoscale and back.
For more information, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/the-beginning
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- Geometric Deep Learning | Michael Bronstein || Radcliffe Institute
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- 45:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Michael Bronstein RI ’18 discusses the past, present, and potential future of technologies implementing computer vision—a scientific field in which machines are given the remarkable capability to extract and analyze information from digital images with a high degree of understanding.
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- Discussing Diversity with Ashley Martin
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- 1:19:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In this seminar, Ashley Martin discusses the consequences of being “aware of” or “blind to” intergroup differences on women’s workplace outcomes. In contrast to organizational best-practices for race relations, which argue that recognizing racial differences is more effective at reducing racial bias than is ignoring them, she shows that deemphasizing, rather than embracing, gender differences promotes men’s inclusion and women’s empowerment.
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- Edo Berger discusses a gravitational wave discovery
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Edo Berger discusses the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics team’s gravitational wave discovery.
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- Leadership in Effectively Communicating for Causes or Issues
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- 32:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Karen Finney, Senior Advisor and Spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign, along with Douglas Heye, former Deputy Chief of Staff of Communications for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, will discuss how to effectively communicate for causes or during a crisis on the Voices in Leadership program on Wed., Oct. 4, 2017.
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- Sandor Katz: The Art of Fermentation; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2017
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- 1:06:38
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-co...
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/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
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- Lidia Bastianich: The Science of Risotto; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2017
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- 1:05:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-co... 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/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
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- New Faculty Institute 2017
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- 1:20:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Introduction and remarks by Senior Vice Provost Judith D. Singer
Welcome remarks by Provost Alan M. Garber
Faculty Panel: Navigating Life and Your Professional Path as a Scholar at Harvard
Emily Balskus, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Sara Bleich, Professor of Public Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Michael Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Jason Mitchell, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Struggling toward Coeducation | Nancy Weiss Malkiel || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:31:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Struggling toward Coeducation
Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going?
A Schlesinger Library Event
The author Nancy Weiss Malkiel AM ’66, PhD ’70 (14:49) examines the flood of decisions that led to coeducation at highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1974, considering particularly where Harvard and Radcliffe stood in this development. Malkiel also ponders what can be learned from the fight for coeducation as we think about breaking through the barriers women continue to face—not only in higher education, but also in the professions and public life.
Introductions by:
Jane Kamensky, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and the Howard Mumfor...
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- The Museum, the City, and the University || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:41:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Museum, the City, and the University
Boston Art Museum Directors in Discussion
This panel brings together five distinguished museum directors to discuss their leadership of major cultural institutions in urban and university settings and to share personal perspectives on their work.
The directors and the moderator address questions about the role of museums in debates about public and private support for the humanities and arts; in research and learning endeavors, including creative efforts by living artists; and in conversations about citizenship, identity, and diversity.
Featuring:
Peggy Fogelman, Norma Jean Calderwood Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Paul C. Ha, director, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums
Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund D...
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- It Depends What State You’re In: Policies and Politics of the US Health Care System | Part 2
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- 1:33:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Health care and political systems are deeply intertwined, with implications for the quality and equality of access to health care.
This symposium explores the political dynamics of health care laws and the way they affect people not only as patients but also as citizens. Health professionals, policy and public health experts, economists, sociologists, and political scientists draw on comparative politics and policies of the states—alone and as part of a federalist system—and on international perspectives to explore the relationships between citizens and their health care.
ALTERNATIVE MODELS AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS
Michael Lighty (5:48), director of public policy, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
William Hsiao (26:17), K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Michelle McEvoy Doty (44:16), vice president, Survey Research and Evaluation, The Commonwealth F...
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- It Depends What State You’re In: Policies and Politics of the US Health Care System | Part 1
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- 1:44:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Health care and political systems are deeply intertwined, with implications for the quality and equality of access to health care.
This symposium explores the political dynamics of health care laws and the way they affect people not only as patients but also as citizens. Health professionals, policy and public health experts, economists, sociologists, and political scientists draw on comparative politics and policies of the states—alone and as part of a federalist system—and on international perspectives to explore the relationships between citizens and their health care.
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Daniel Carpenter (7:42), faculty director of the social sciences program, Radcliffe Institute, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- Rotten Apples Return to Harvard's Glass Flowers exhibition
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- 3:10
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The series of diverse and diseased fruits showcase scabbing, rot and mold as part of the updated gallery display at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History.
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- The Future of the Affordable Care Act: What Happens Next?
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- 1:02:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unclear. Republicans have decided not to vote this week on the Graham-Cassidy bill, but promised to revisit ACA repeal-and-replace efforts. Democrats announced recently a single-payer health care proposal. And another hurdle for the ACA looms. With open enrollment beginning on November 1, questions remain about the stability of the ACA insurance exchange marketplace, particularly around the fate of cost-sharing subsidies and other factors that affect enrollment, affordability and access to varied plans. This Forum brought together health and public policy experts from across diverse perspectives to look at what’s next for the Affordable Care Act. What can Americans expect and where does health care reform go from here?
This Forum event was presented jointly with Reuters on September 27, 2017.
Watch the entire series at ForumHSPH.org.
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- Channeling Warhol and Capote
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Dan Butler (Truman Capote) and Stephen Spinella (Andy Warhol) in WARHOLCAPOTE at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). The work draws from 75 hours of taped conversations between Andy Warhol and Truman Capote recorded during the 1970s when they discussed everything from the trials of fame to creating their own Broadway show based on their talks.
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- Tattoos as medical condition monitors
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Fellows at Harvard Medical School and colleagues at MIT have developed a tattoo ink that changes according to physical condition, raising the possibility of tattoos that help monitor medical conditions.
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- In Pursuit of a Single-Payer Plan: Lessons Learned
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- 29:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Peter Shumlin, former Governor of Vermont, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.
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- The Mad Cartoonists of Cairo | Jonathan Guyer || Radcliffe Institute
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- 43:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Mad Cartoonists of Cairo
The Dangerous World of Middle East Censorship and the Emergence of Arab Comix
As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jonathan Guyer RI ’18 considers why comics are so important in a new, emerging Arab visual culture. The mad cartoonists of Cairo are using their pens to redraw the lines of acceptable speech—and you’d have to be mad to be a cartoonist in this environment.
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- Wildlands & Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities - Video News Release
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- 4:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Highlights from a new conservation report authored by scientists and conservationists at Harvard Forest, Highstead Foundation, and institutions around New England, released on September 19, 2017.
The report builds on past conservation reports (2005, 2010) and articulates a broad view of conservation that fully embraces forests, farmlands, and the built environment.
The report highlights recent trends in land-cover change and conservation funding, connects New England's forests and farms to climate resilience and economic sustainability, and recognizes the region’s diverse conservation needs across cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
It calls for tripling the current pace of conservation, reversing public funding trends, and putting more land to work for sustainable forestry and farming.
The report and all supporting material can be found at http://wildlandsandwoodlands.org/vision/ww-vision-reports.
This video news rele...
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- 100+ Years at 73 Brattle | John Wang || Radcliffe Institute
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A public art installation by John Wang ’16, winner of the biennial Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition
Located at the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Garden at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
The Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition is a unique opportunity for Harvard students, who not only receive a $10,000 award and work closely with Radcliffe staff and landscape architects to build their designs, but also have the unique experience of joining theory with practice.
As a senior at Harvard College, Wang was the first undergraduate to win the competition. He is now a first-year student studying architecture in the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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- Universal Health Care: Thailand’s Road to Sustainability
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- 32:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Dr. Somsak Chunharas, former Deputy Minister of Health from Thailand, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017.
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- Undocumented Knowledge: Students, Borders, and the Politics of Sanctuary
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- 1:57:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Experts in transnational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional conducted a conversation about immigration -- defined to include the experiences of undocumented immigrants, refugees, and radicalized second-generation descendants of immigrants – and engagement with the national political climate following the U.S. Presidential election and changes in the European Union. The conversation stemmed from the diverse background of speakers and articulate what role the University might play in this political moment.
Panelists:
Prerna Lal (East Bay Community Law Center)
Keish Kim (Harvard American Studies)
Lisa Lowe (Tufts University)
Medhin Paolos (Asmarina Project & Rete G2 Milano)
Maurice Stierl (University of California, Davis)
Lorgia Garcia Peña (Harvard University)
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- Dakota Access Pipeline in Historical Perspective
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- 1:11:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Experts in Indigenous Studies, U.S. History, Federal Indian Law, and the Tribal Chairman from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Great Sioux Nation, convened for a panel at Harvard University: The Dakota Access Pipeline in Historical Perspective. Sponsored jointly by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and the Harvard University Native American Program, the panel presented the long continuum of Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation and its struggles to protect traditional Lakota and Dakota Territory through 19th and 20th century military and courtroom battles culminating in the current youth-led Mni Wiconi (Water Is Life) movement based in prayer and nonviolent direct action to protect Mni Sose, or the Missouri River.
Panelists:
Jace DeCory (Lakota Sioux and Black Hills State University)
Nick Estes (Lower Brule Sioux and University of New Mexico)
Lewis Grass Rope (Lower Brule Sioux)
Ch...
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- Camp Kesem at Harvard brings joy amidst the pain
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Evette Ronner and Lily Wilkinson founded Harvard’s chapter of Camp Kesem to celebrate kids who have or have had a parent with cancer. In its inaugural summer, the camp served two dozen children in a magical western Massachusetts setting.
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- Harvard music professor Yosvany Terry returns to Cuba where his musical destiny began
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Yosvany Terry’s childhood home was always filled with music.
So when he stepped inside on a recent trip back to his native Cuba, he sat down almost immediately at the family piano to play “La Tedesca,” an 18th-century classical Cuban contradanza. His dad, Eladio, walked in, beating the chekeré, and his mom beamed.
Terry’s musical destiny was forged on this communist Caribbean island. His is a story of duality – adapting to new instruments and assimilating to new cultures for the love of music. Now a professor at Harvard and professional saxophonist, percussionist, and composer with six different bands, he has lived in two worlds “as far as I can stretch my memory.”
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- Hybrid 3D Printing Soft of Electronics
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A new hybrid 3D printing technique developed at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Air Force Research Laboratory combines stretchable conductive inks and electronic components into flexible, durable wearable devices that move with the body and offer increased programmability. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
To learn more, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/low-cost-wearables-manufactured-by-hybrid-3d-printing
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- Afro-Cuban Movement at Harvard
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A group of over thirty activists from the Afro-Cuban movement visited Harvard on April 14-15, 2017 to attend a gathering sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI), Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Titled, “The Afro-Cuban Movement: Activism and Research, Accomplishments and Challenges,” this event represents the first time that Cuban antiracist activists—writers, cultural producers, hip hop musicians, filmmakers, popular educators, neighborhood leaders, bloggers, LGTBQ activists, and lawyers—come together to assess the state of the antiracist agenda in that country and to identify new challenges. The event also hosted a group of Afro-Cuban entrepreneurs who have managed to create successful private businesses in what is otherwise an overwhelmingly white sector.
The event is part of an ongoing conversation between academics and activists from the Afrodescendant movement in Latin America sponsored by the Afro-Latin American Re...
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- The Harvard Jazz Band Visits Cuba
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- 6:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Appreciating Cuban music – its vast diversity, and how deeply sewn into the social and political fabric of the country it is - was at the heart of the Jazz Band’s historic trip. The fast-paced, 8-day musical adventure marked the group’s first tour in 25 years, and Terry, a saxophonist and chekeré player who joined Harvard’s faculty in 2015, organized an itinerary to not only showcase Cuba’s musical vibrancy, but also illuminate recent efforts to rescue and preserve many of the age-old traditions.
Music scholarship framed every day’s activities for the band, which passed traditional Havana tourist sites such as Revolution Square and the Capitol building with only glancing views. Instead, Terry took students to hear performances from the likes of Orquesta Tipica Miguel Failde in Matanzas, the birthplace of music and dance traditions called rumba and danzón, respectively.
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- A PROVOCATION: A Pre-Election Poetry Reading | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:56:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- As a part of A PROVOCATION, a pre-election poetry reading sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room and the Harvard Art Museum, poets and activists Don Mee Choi, Tyehimba Jess, Juliana Spahr, Rodrigo Toscano and Anne Waldman shared works (including poems, original films and/or photographs) intended to provoke/inspire/demand critical and imaginative thinking around subjects and concepts that are/were fundamental to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and beyond.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: October 24, 2016, at the Harvard Art Museums.
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- Fouling Marine Fouling
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Marine fouling occurs when organisms attach themselves to underwater objects like boats, rope, pipes and building structures. Mussels are one of the biggest culprits. Once attached, they are difficult to remove, leading to operational downtime, increased energy use and damage. Paints and coatings are currently used to prevent marine fouling, but are frequently toxin-based and not very effective, with adverse environmental and economic impact.
Researchers are Harvard's Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed non-toxic, lubricant-infused, slippery surface coatings. Their collaborators at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, showed that these surfaces interfered with the Asian green mussels' (Perna viridis) ability to adhere to solid surfaces. The research team also tested their slippery coatings at the NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in Scituate, MA. The marine sanctuary field site is home to the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) and a variety of ...
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- The Objects of Houghton Library: Past, Present and Future. A lecture by Ann Blair
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- 1:01:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on France. Her interests include the history of the book and of reading, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, and the history of interactions between science and religion. On April 20, 2017, Professor Blair delivered this lecture as part of evening in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Houghton Library, Harvard’s principal repository for rare books, manuscripts and archives. For further details on Houghton’s anniversary, see houghton75.org
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- Soft Exosuit for Post-Stroke Gait Retraining
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This video explains how exosuit technology, developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, applied to ankle movements helps patients post-stroke regain a more normal gait. Credit: Rolex Awards/Wyss Institute at Harvard University
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- Young students from Allston-Brighton gathered to learn about the science behind what they eat
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Now in its 5th year, the “Science and Cooking for Kids” lab is a hands-on class aimed at piquing kids’ interests in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) through an approachable medium: food. The program is coordinated by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Ed Portal.
The class, which was part of the Ed Portal’s Summer Explorations program, included a week of lessons focusing on topics like the chemistry behind emulsions (making salad dressing from scratch), and the role of legumes in nitrogen fixation (making batches of hummus.)
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- The Case for Cosmic Modesty
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- 16:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- -"If we want to find life elsewhere, we should search for it in all of its possible forms."
-“'There are many reasons to be modest,' my mother used to say when I was a kid. But after three decades as an astronomer, I can add one more reason: the richness of the universe around us."
-Avi Loeb
On June 16, 2017, the HIVE to THRIVE speaker series and activist/entrepreneur Sam Tabar hosted Harvard University's Department of Astronomy Chairman, Avi Loeb, for a wide ranging discussion. From the nature of scientific discovery to the possible intelligent origins of Fast Radio Bursts emanating from deep space, a sold out crowd packed The Alchemist's Kitchen to hear a true leader in the world of astronomy discuss these crucial topics.
Credits:
Interviewed by: Sam Tabar
Produced by: John Sullivan of HIVE to THRIVE [http://hivetothrive.com/] + Sam Tabar [http://samtabar.com/]
Creative Direction / Editing / Video by: Michael Tosner [Pr...
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- The Divine Journey: A Painter's Mission
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- 11:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The short documentary looks at the life and work of Vermont painter Janet McKenzie, who is challenging traditional Christian images by using women and people of color in depictions of Jesus, Mary, and other Biblical figures. Her latest work “The Divine Journey – Companions of Love and Hope“ was commissioned by Harvard Memorial Church.
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- CRISPR-Cas: Molecular Recording
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- In this video, Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School researchers George Church and Seth Shipman explain how they engineered a new CRISPR system-based technology that enables the chronological recording of digital information, like that representing still and moving images, in living bacteria. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
For more information, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/taking-cells-out-to-the-movies-with-new-crispr-technology
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- Thoreau at 200: Reflections on "Walden"
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Larry Buell, Harvard’s Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature emeritus, taught Henry David Thoreau’s seminal book “Walden” for years, both at Harvard and at Oberlin College in New York. He recently visited the site of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond in Concord, Mass., and reflected on the lasting relevance of the author’s ode to nature and simple living. More than 150 years after it was first published, “Walden,” said Buell, still resonates.
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- Soft Fabric Sensor
- Runtime
- 3:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This textile-based sensor effectively registers fine motor movements of the human body, taking researchers one step closer to creating soft, wearable robots. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
For more information, please visit: https://wyss.harvard.edu/soft-and-stretchy-fabric-based-sensors-for-wearable-robots
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- Wave Piloting in the Marshall Islands || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:30:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series, John Huth leads a panel discussion in which participants tease apart what the Marshallese navigators did, how they were taught, and how they conceptualized using waves on the open ocean.
Featuring:
John Huth, faculty codirector of the science program at the Radcliffe Institute and the Donner Professor of Science in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Joseph Genz (3:26), assistant professor of anthropology, University of Hawai’i
Alson Kelen (12:19), director, Canoes of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Gerbrant van Vledder (25:54), Delft University of Technology
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- The State of the Nation's Housing 2017
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- 1:02:03
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market has, by many measures, returned to normal. Housing demand, home prices, and construction volumes are all on the rise, and the number of distressed homeowners has fallen sharply. However, along with strengthening demand, extremely tight supplies of both for-sale and for-rent homes are pushing up housing costs and adding to ongoing concerns about affordability.
The 2017 State of the Nation’s Housing report was released by live webcast from the National League of Cities in Washington, DC on June 16, 2017 and featured:
Kriston Capps, Staff Writer, The Atlantic/CityLab (panel moderator)
Chris Herbert, Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies
Mayor Catherine E. Pugh, City of Baltimore, Maryland
Terri Ludwig, President & CEO, Enterprise Community Partners
Robert C. Kettler, Chairman & CEO, Kettler
www.jchs.harvard.edu
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- RESONANCE: A MODERNISM with Erin Moure
- Runtime
- 1:10:48
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- During her 2017 WPR Creative fellowship, Erin Moure engaged in a journey of listening in situ to the recorded voices of four American women Modernist poets--- Muriel Rukeyser, Anais Nin, Angelina Grimke & Elizabeth Bishop---at the Poetry Room, seeking an auditory trace that would lead her into a new piece of writing. At the end of her residency, Moure shared her preliminary ideas for this innovative work-in-progress: "Resonance: A Modernism" and read from her recent collection, PLANETARY NOISE (UPNE: April 2017).
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, on April 27, 2017.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom
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- Debate as pedagogy featuring Professor Eric Beerbohm (FAS)
- Runtime
- 7:33
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Professor Eric Beerbohm (government) discussed his use of debate in the classroom as a means to help students grapple with abstract topics at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Speaker Series event on April 24, 2017.
Visit hilt.harvard.edu for more.
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- Debate as pedagogy featuring Professor Charles Nesson (HLS)
- Runtime
- 12:31
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Professor Charles Nesson (law) shared his experimentation with three debate/discussion tools at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Speaker Series event on April 24, 2017.
Visit hilt.harvard.edu for more.
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- Harvard IT Summit 2017: Afternoon Closing and Keynote by Karim R. Lakhani
- Runtime
- 48:29
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- More than 1400 IT professionals from around Harvard convened to connect more closely to the University mission, learn from one another, and build our IT community. In the afternoon program, Karim R. Lakhani gives a talk called: Digital Innovation and Transformation: The New Imperative for All Organizations.
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- Harvard IT Summit 2017: Morning Welcome and Keynote by Nicco Mele
- Runtime
- 53:15
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- More than 1400 IT professionals from around Harvard convened to connect more closely to the University mission, learn from one another, and build our IT community. In the morning program, Nicco Mele gives a talk called: Where Do We Go From Here? Media, Politics, and Power in the Digital Age.
- Title
- Chris Bowler | The Future of Ocean Ecosystems || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 46:46
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series and the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Chris Bowler RI ’17 explores how past environments affected diatoms, thus helping to understand how climate change will affect them in the future.
Bowler is the 2016–2017 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
