Harvard
Jal Mehta | Learning Deeply at Scale: The Challenge of Our Times || Radcliffe Institute
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- Jal Mehta | Learning Deeply at Scale: The Challenge of Our Times || Radcliffe Institute
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- 50:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jal Mehta RI ’17 looks beneath the surface of pedagogical methods in American high schools. What does instruction in high schools look like? Where is it better? What can we do about it?
Mehta is the 2016–2017 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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- Harvard Arthrobots
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Harvard researchers have created an entirely new type of semi-soft robots capable of standing and walking using drinking straws and inflatable tubing. The team was even able to create a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the water’s surface.
Footage courtesy of Whitesides Group.
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- Title IX over Time || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:26:28
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, hosted a conversation about the impact of Title IX and the work that remains to be done when it comes to equality and sports.
FEATURING:
Swin Cash, director of player development, New York Liberty; WNBA champion (2003, 2006, and 2010); Olympic gold medalist in women’s basketball (2004 and 2012); NCAA champion (University of Connecticut, 2000 and 2002)
Maura Healey '92, attorney general, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; former college and professional basketball player
Gevvie Stone, Olympic silver medalist in women’s single sculls (2016); World Rowing Cup II silver medalist (2016, 2015); Olympian (2012); NCAA champion (Princeton, 2006); physician
Shira Springer '97 (moderator), sports and society reporter, WBUR and National Public Radio; columnist focused on women’s sports, Bos...
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- Eugene Wang | What Was the Terracotta Army For? || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 53:21
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Eugene Wang RI ’17 argues against the common theory that the Terracotta Army’s purpose was to defend the tombs of early China.
Wang is the 2016–2017 Shutzer Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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- Anthony Tan | Full Concert || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:18:25
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Anthony Tan ’17 presents “An Overall Augmented Sense of Well Being” and Other Works . . . featuring the Hellqvist/Amaral/Hyde/Bierstone Quartet.
POSE III: INTEGRATION RITUAL (7:11)
For solo soprano saxophone, suspended gongs, sine tones, and mono sound source
Joshua Hyde, soprano saxophone
Drew Pendergrass, electronics
AN OVERALL AUGMENTED SENSE OF WELL BEING (world premiere) (29:48)
For amplified quartet and electronics
Karin Hellqvist, violin*
Heloisa Amaral, piano*
Joshua Hyde, saxophones*
Noam Bierstone, percussion*
Anthony Tan, electronics
ENDLESSNESSNESSNESS (1:07:34)
Improvisation for prepared upright piano and two-channel electronics
Anthony Tan, piano and electronics
*Hellqvist/Amaral/Hyde/Bierstone Quartet
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- Anthony Tan | An Overall Augmented Sense of Well Being || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 32:57
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- AN OVERALL AUGMENTED SENSE OF WELL BEING (world premiere)
For amplified quartet and electronics
Composed by Anthony Tan RI ’17
Karin Hellqvist, violin*
Heloisa Amaral, piano*
Joshua Hyde, saxophones*
Noam Bierstone, percussion*
Anthony Tan, electronics
*Hellqvist/Amaral/Hyde/Bierstone Quartet
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- Anthony Tan | Endlessnessnessness || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 10:48
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- ENDLESSNESSNESSNESS
Improvisation for prepared upright piano and two-channel electronics by Anthony Tan RI ’17
Anthony Tan, piano and electronics
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- Harvard MEDscience brings science to life for local high-schoolers
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Harvard’s MEDscience program offers local high-schoolers hands-on learning. The program, which is currently in 11 Boston Public Schools, is a semester long high school biology curriculum that studies the anatomy and physiology of seven human organ systems such as the cardiovascular system or digestive system. Each schools’ science teacher integrates a MEDscience-designed curriculum into their classroom instruction. But one day a week, the class travels to Harvard Medical School—to the MEDscience Simulation Lab – to use what they’ve learned in the classroom to take care of a patient. Educators often find that students who learn through simulation and experiential, or hands-on learning, are able deepen their understanding of an issue or lesson by connecting it to real-life experiences. The program also stresses the importance of critical thinking, self-efficacy, leadership, problem solving, teamwork and confidence.
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- Next in Science: Epidemiology | Part 2 || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:22:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The "Next in Science" series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.
(2:05) “The Role of Epidemiologists in Studying the Causes and Consequences of Neuropsychiatric Health”
Sonja Swanson, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam
(21:13) “Finding Opportunities to Reduce Disparities”
John W. Jackson, assistant professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
(51:37) Q&A
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- Next in Science: Epidemiology | Part 1 || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:23:47
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The "Next in Science" series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area.
Introduction
Janet Rich-Edwards, faculty codirector of the science program, Academic Ventures, Radcliffe Institute; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
(08:28) “Bringing Classical Epidemiology to the Hospital: Social and Spatial Correlates of Infection”
Neal D. Goldstein, assistant research professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
(41:44) “Quasi-experimental Designs for Evaluating HIV Care and Treatment”
Alana Brennan, instructor, Departments of Global Health and Epidemiolo...
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- Radcliffe Day 2017 | Honoring Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:07:19
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University honors the excellence, integrity, and impact of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff—both journalists and coanchors of PBS NewsHour—with Radcliffe Medals.
Featuring a conversation between Walter Isaacson, an author and president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, and Judy Woodruff (21:13), along with the presentation of Radcliffe Medals (55:46, 1:05:24), with Michele Norris, the author, journalist and executive director of the Race Card Project at the Aspen Institute, accepting on behalf of the late Gwen Ifill (55:46)
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- Radcliffe Day 2017 | (Un)Truths and Their Consequences || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:35:05
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen RI ’02, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER (08:48)
David Brooks, New York Times columnist
PANELISTS (18:51)
(24:36) Danielle Allen PhD ’01, James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
(31:10) Jonah Goldberg, senior editor, National Review; nationally syndicated columnist; contributor, Fox News; fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and adjunct fellow, National Review Institute
(41:49) A’Lelia Bundles ’74, author; former television executive and producer, NBC News and ABC News
(49:11) E. J. Dionne ’73, columnist, Washington Post; senior fellow in governance studies, Brookings Institution; professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University; and commentator, ABC, MSNBC, and NPR
Moderated...
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- How Humans Walk…With Robots
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital shed light on how humans respond – or do not respond – to forces applied by rehabilitative robots.
To learn more, please visit wyss.harvard.edu/shedding-light-on-how-humans-walk-with-robots
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- Soft Exosuit for Running
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Building upon previous soft exosuit technology, researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a soft exosuit for running. This exosuit applies forces to the hip joint using thin, flexible wires, assisting the muscles during each stride. Using an off-board actuation system, compared to not wearing the exosuit, this exosuit can reduce the metabolic cost of running by 5.4%.
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- Kathleen Ossip | Book of Poems || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 46:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Kathleen Ossip RI ’17 explains how poems, more than any other kind of text, invite or even demand that their readers lean in and become active participants in the joyful task of making meaning.
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- Tiya Miles on “I’ve Known Rivers”: Slave Resistance and Environmental Consciousness
- Runtime
- 1:48:48
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Tiya Miles is Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor (University of Michigan); author of Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (2015); and Founder of ECO Girls, an environmental and cultural project for girls in urban Southeast Michigan.
The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University).
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99ve-known-rivers%E2%80%9D-slave-resistance-and-environmental-consciousness
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- Veritas banners unfurled at Memorial Church for Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 3:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Veritas banners unfurled at Memorial Church for Harvard Commencement 2017! Video of the annual tradition in quick-time, set to music of the Harvard University Band recorded in 1926.
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- Among the Harvard Graduates
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- For most students, the journey to graduation is challenging and rewarding, made up of hundreds of experiences and lessons that will influence and inform the rest of their lives. On Commencement Day, they celebrate.
This 360 video puts you in the shoes of a Harvard student experiencing graduation as it unfolds. Look around — click and drag the video player, move your phone around, put on a headset — to explore classic Commencement scenes as a student would, looking back on the path taken. Witness the start of the day with the faculty deans at Lowell House Dining Hall and Senior Chapel at Memorial Church, before processing to Harvard Yard in time to take your seat for Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement Address at Tercentenary Theatre.
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- Harvard University Commencement 2017 Class Day
- Runtime
- 2:10:22
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony, including speaker Joe Biden, on May 24, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre.
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- Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Commencement Address | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 32:36
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg gave his address at Harvard's 366th Commencement on May 25, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust Address | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 14:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust addresses graduates at Harvard's 366th Commencement on May 26, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- James Earl Jones tells Harvard grads "May the Force be with you"
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Legendary actor and Harvard honorary degree recipient James Earl Jones shares the famous Star Wars blessing with the 2017 graduates of Harvard University
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- Harvard University Commencement 2017 Afternoon Exercises
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- 2:17:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
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- Latin Orator Jessica Rachael Glueck | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 6:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Latin Orator Jessica Rachael Glueck addresses graduates at Harvard's 366th Commencement on May 25, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre.
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- Graduate Speaker Walter Smelt III | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 8:05
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Graduate Speaker Walter Smelt III addresses graduates at Harvard's 366th Commencement on May 25, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Undergraduate Speaker Auguste Roc | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 8:11
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Undergraduate Speaker Auguste Roc addresses graduates at Harvard's 366th Commencement on May 25, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Harvard University Commencement 2017 Morning Exercises
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- 2:48:56
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Morning Exercises at Harvard's 366th Commencement at Tercentenary Theatre on May 25, 2017. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Din and Tonics a cappella tribute to John Williams | Harvard University Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 5:31
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Student group "Harvard Din and Tonics" give an a cappella performance of famed composer and honorand John Williams most beloved scores, including Star Wars, Jaws, and Indiana Jones.
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- Edward Ball | Life of a Klansman || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 43:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Edward Ball RI ’17 investigates the life of a fighter in the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana—a member of Ball’s own family—and examines the role of this participant in the race terror that spread through the South during Reconstruction.
Ball is the 2016–2017 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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- Vice President Joe Biden: Class Day Speech | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 46:50
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Vice President Joe Biden addresses graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 24, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Harvard Female Orator Bessie Zhang | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 6:16
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Female Orator Bessie Zhang addresses graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 24, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Ivy Female Orator Rachel Stromberg | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 7:03
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Ivy Female Orator Rachel Stromberg addresses graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 24, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Ivy Male Orator Declan Garvey | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 8:01
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Ivy Male Orator Declan Garvey addresses graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 24, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Harvard Male Orator Jonathan Roberts | Harvard Commencement 2017
- Runtime
- 9:33
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Male Orator Jonathan Roberts addresses graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 24, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/topic/commencement-2017/.
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- Intersections | 4 of 4 | Planned and Unplanned || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:38:20
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- PLANNED AND UNPLANNED
Official city plans are often not realized in their proposed forms, but rather adapt to realities on the ground, including unexpected practices and patterns of human behavior.
Edgar Pieterse (08:11), South African research chair in urban policy and director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Ana Elvira Vélez Villa (26:58), architect (Colombia)
Ricky Burdett (43:15), professor of urban studies and director, LSE Cities, the London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderator: Eve Blau, co–principal investigator, Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative; adjunct professor of the history and theory of urban form and design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
PANEL DISCUSSION (1:06:09)
AUDIENCE Q&A (1:22:19)
CLOSING REMARKS (1:35:22)
Julie A. Buckler
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- Intersections | 3 of 4 | Beyond the Nature/Technology Divide || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:21:16
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- BEYOND THE NATURE/TECHNOLOGY DIVIDE
This panel looks at the intertwined workings of nature and technology in urban infrastructure, green spaces, public art, and landscape design.
Dilip da Cunha (4:24), adjunct professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Anna Schuleit Haber (18:33), visual artist
Matthias Schuler (33:25), founder, Transsolar KlimaEngineering, and Anja Thierfelder, architect (Germany)
Moderator: Erik Ghenoiu, research manager, Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative
PANEL DISCUSSION (55:10)
AUDIENCE Q&A (1:08:48)
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- Intersections | 2 of 4 | Ways of Knowing the City || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:32:08
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- WAYS OF KNOWING THE CITY
This panel explores how urban environments offer a dense and intense human experience, while also being a complex object of study generating vast quantities of data for analysis.
Heidi Ewing (4:35), filmmaker; codirector of the Emmy Award–winning film Detropia
Mark Shepard (23:40), associate professor, Departments of Architecture and Media Study, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo
Sooni Taraporevala (43:13), photographer; award-winning screenwriter (Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay!, The Namesake) and director (Little Zizou)
Moderator: Julie A. Buckler, faculty director of the Humanities Program at the Radcliffe Institute; co–principal investigator, Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative; Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
PANEL DISCUSSION (58:39)
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- Intersections | 1 of 4 | Keynote || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:02:34
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
KEYNOTE (9:57)
Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House; Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
AUDIENCE Q&A (41:47)
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- Gene Editing: Promises and Challenges
- Runtime
- 55:32
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- In labs and in clinical trials, scientists are seeking ways to rewrite DNA, a building block of life. Tools such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), TAL effector nucleases (TALENs) and, more recently, CRISPR/Cas9 have the power to seek out and replace faulty DNA. The possibilities seem almost limitless: with the ability to edit DNA at will, researchers theoretically could wipe out malaria-causing mosquitos, make disease- and pest-proof crops without the need for pesticides, and cure genetic diseases, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis. Cancer is another target, with human clinical trials using CRISPR already underway, while, in separate efforts, HIV has been reportedly eliminated in mice thanks to the tool.
But scientists and ethicists alike are worried about the speed at which the gene editing field is moving — and the implications of the results. In this panel, we discussed the promises and challenges presented by gene editing for individual and public health....
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- An Introduction to the Human Genome | HMX Genetics
- Runtime
- 5:36
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Humans are 99.9% genetically identical - and yet we are all so different. How can this be? This video, taken from a lesson in Harvard Medical School’s HMX Genetics course, explains.
Learn more: https://onlinelearning.hms.harvard.edu
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- Comparing Air Pollution and Its Health Effects in Beijing and Mexico City
- Runtime
- 5:10
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- On February 8, 2017, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Mario Molina gave a public lecture at Harvard comparing air quality issues in Mexico City and Beijing. Dr. Molina is part of a community of scholars joining forces with the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment to scientifically rethink strategies to reduce urban air pollution and environmental health risk, in China and beyond.
In this video, we invited several China Project experts and partners to share with us their insights and research on the issue. To learn more about the China Project, visit: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/
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- Xaviera Simmons | Overlay Exhibition: Opening Discussion || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 36:50
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The artist Xaviera Simmons participates in a discussion pertaining to the opening of Overlay, a multimedia exhibition based in part on stories and historical narratives found in the archives of the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS
Dina Deitsch, curator, Common Exchange, City of Cambridge; Interim John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Yukio Lippit, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts, Radcliffe Institute; professor of history of art and architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Xaviera Simmons, artist
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- Alex Gourevitch | The Political Ethics of the Strike || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 36:34
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Alex Gourevitch RI ’17 uses social theory, history, and political philosophy to develop a defense of the right to strike.
Gourevitch is the 2016–2017 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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- Rediscovering Pauli Murray || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:13:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Anna Pauline Murray (1910–1985), better known as Pauli, was a pioneering civil and human rights activist, feminist and legal theorist, preacher, and poet. The Schlesinger Library holds the Papers of Pauli Murray, a vast resource comprised of audiotapes, correspondence, legal briefs, photographs, sermons, speeches, and more.
This panel discussion focuses on Pauli Murray’s groundbreaking work, her tumultuous times, and today’s Murray moment, which includes Yale naming a new residential college in her honor and the publication of landmark books by panelists Patricia Bell-Scott and Rosalind Rosenberg, both of whom used the library’s materials.
MODERATOR:
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
PANELISTS:
Patricia Bell-Scott (8:30), professor emerita of women’s studies and human development, University of Georgia
Brittney Cooper ...
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- Public Service and Global Leadership: A Conversation with Ban Ki-moon
- Runtime
- 31:19
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Honorable Ban Ki-moon, discusses his career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program.
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- Seminal Harvard speeches through the years | 360° video
- Runtime
- 3:13
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- While it’s common for a modern-day speech to become instantly familiar to millions of viewers through television or the internet, few people experienced the direct impact of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s address at Harvard in September 1943.
Through the years, an impressive range of orators have used the opportunity of delivering speeches at Harvard to reach not only those in attendance but the nation and sometimes the world, offering messages of profound significance for their times.
In the 360° video above, we imagine what it might have been like to sit among the graduates as they took in five seminal speeches across seven decades, including those of Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, and J.K. Rowling.
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- Anna Cummins | More Ocean, Less Plastic || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 50:35
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The problem of plastic pollution in the oceans is now a recognized threat to the health of our global marine ecosystems. More complex, however, is coming up with solutions to this ubiquitous plague.
5 Gyres has spent the last seven years surveying plastic pollution across the world’s subtropical gyres, oceanic systems that concentrate floating debris. The goal of their research is to use science to drive solutions to plastic pollution. This lecture describes the recent science on microplastics and shares some of the current solutions in policy, innovation, and citizen engagement.
Introduction by 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
Part of the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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- Public Health Leadership in Challenging Times: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future
- Runtime
- 40:41
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Margaret Hamburg, discusses her career path, successes and leadership lessons learned on the Voices in Leadership program.
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- Petros Koumoutsakos | Computing for the Benefit of Mankind || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 54:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Petros Koumoutsakos RI ’17 discusses computing: is it or can it be structured for the benefit of mankind?
Koumoutsakos is the 2016–2017 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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- Timothy LeCain | "A Thousand Dead Snow Geese: The Matter of the Non-Human in the Age of Humans"
- Runtime
- 1:53:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University).
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/thousand-dead-snow-geese-matter-non-human-age-humans
