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ON TRANSLATING THE LOST NERUDA: Forrest Gander

Title: ON TRANSLATING THE LOST NERUDA: Forrest Gander
Runtime: 42:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Award-winning poet and translator Forrest Gander shares insights (and selections) from his latest translation project, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda (Copper Canyon, 2016).

For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.

Title: HILT Grants: Learning bundles
Runtime: 3:23
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Awardee Katherine K. Merseth (HGSE) created a tool to combine video, links to online material, and classroom exercises to facilitate student thinking about complex topics with a 2012-2013 Inaugural Grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT).

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT Grants: CASTLE
Runtime: 2:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: With support from a 2012-2013 Inaugural Grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), awardees Xiao-Li Meng (FAS), Joseph Blitzstein (FAS), and David Harrington (SPH/FAS) organized a two-day workshop to bring together faculty and students from across the University to discuss pedagogical strategies for teaching statistics.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Gidon Eshel | Rethinking the American Diet || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Gidon Eshel | Rethinking the American Diet || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 53:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gidon Eshel ’17 tells us that every dietary choice we make has a far greater impact than we might realize—and often in unexpected areas. Eshel, in collaboration with scientists from the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been developing multi-objective metrics of diet, to simultaneously optimize health outcomes and environmental impact.

Eshel is the 2016–2017 Hrdy Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

Jennifer Scheper Hughes | Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jennifer Scheper Hughes | Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 46:42
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jennifer Scheper Hughes ’17 presents “Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Epidemic Disease, Indigenous Death, and the Birth of New World Christianity,” in which she explores the religious dimensions of the collapse of the indigenous population in Mexico in the 16th century.

Hughes is the 2016–2017 Maury Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

BOSTON ORIGINALS: Season Finale Reading | Woodberry Poetry Room

Title: BOSTON ORIGINALS: Season Finale Reading | Woodberry Poetry Room
Runtime: 1:50:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Our season finale features eight dynamic representatives of Boston-area poetry and of the vital work that is emerging among us. The readers in set No. 1 are Tanya Larkin (author of My Scarlet Ways/Saturnalia), Sandra Lim (author of The Wilderness/W.W. Norton), Audrey Mardavich (recent poems published in No Infinite and Let the Bucket Down), and Clint Smith (author of Counting Descent/Write Bloody Publishing). The readers in set No. 2 are: Keith Jones (author of Fugue Meadow/Ricochet Editions), Gail Mazur (author of Forbidden City/UChicago Press), Jill McDonough (Where You Live/Salt Publishing) and David Rivard (Standoff/Graywolf Press).

For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.

Date: December 8, 2016, at the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Lunch plenary
Runtime: 30:13
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: With an introduction by Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter Bol, Harvard University Provost Alan Garber moderated a panel featuring Professor Ned Hall (FAS) and University Professor Danielle Allen about opportunities for improving teaching and learning at Harvard.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

The Environment Forum: Jedediah Purdy on The Politics of Nature in a Time of Political Fear

Title: The Environment Forum: Jedediah Purdy on The Politics of Nature in a Time of Political Fear
Runtime: 1:23:16
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Politics of Nature in a Time of Political Fear

Speaker
Jedediah Purdy
Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

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).

The Ethics of Biosocial Science | Seminar with Pilar Ossorio (Audio Only)

Title: The Ethics of Biosocial Science | Seminar with Pilar Ossorio (Audio Only)
Runtime: 30:40
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Ethics of Biosocial Science
The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard and the Office of the President present
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Dorothy E. Roberts
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Closing Remarks

Title: Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Closing Remarks
Runtime: 39:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Closing Remark (Part 6 of 6)

Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 4

Title: Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 4
Runtime: 1:16:41
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Panel 4 HIV Cure: What do we know and how do we get there? (Part 5 of 6)

Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 3

Title: Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 3
Runtime: 1:19:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Panel 3 The state of HIV vaccine efforts and antibody-mediated treatment- how much longer until we have an effective HIV Vaccine? (Part 4 of 6)

Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 2

Title: Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 2
Runtime: 1:20:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Panel 2 From Recommendations to Reality in our quest to sustain HIV treatment for all (Part 3 of 6)

Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 1

Title: Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Panel 1
Runtime: 1:35:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Panel 1 Antiretrovirals as Prevention: What will it take to have population-level impact? (Part 2 of 6)

Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Opening Plenary

Title: Getting to Zero: What will it take? Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Opening Plenary
Runtime: 43:00
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Annual National CFAR Scientific Meeting Opening Remarks (Part 1 of 6)

Jacob S. Hacker | American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Jacob S. Hacker | American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:20:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: American Amnesia: Forgetting What Made Us Prosper
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-jacob-s-hacker-lecture

(6:10) Jacob S. Hacker discusses the importance of an effective public sector to America’s health, wealth, and well-being and explores why so many of our economic and political leaders seem to have forgotten this perspective. He explains these concepts in the context of recent political events, the historic 2016 election, and changing ideas about government itself.

Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and the director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, is the author, with Paul Pierson, of the recently published American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (Simon & Schuster, 2016), an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Introduction by Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Pro...

The Future of Food: Feeding the Planet During Climate Change

Title: The Future of Food: Feeding the Planet During Climate Change
Runtime: 1:03:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: By 2050, a projected 9.7 billion people will inhabit the planet. How will we produce enough nutritious food to support this burgeoning population and ensure access to food resources, particularly as climate change stresses the environment? This Forum explored innovative methods and systems for producing food, as well as new types of products and underutilized sources. The panelists talked about emerging technologies, including advances in genomics and aeroponics, to grow food. They also discussed ways to sustain at-risk food resources made vulnerable from climate change, and the impacts for populations in developing countries.

Part of The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies, this event was presented jointly with PRI's The World and WGBH on December 13, 2016.

Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

Title: A diamond radio receiver
Runtime: 0:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world’s smallest radio receiver – built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds. This tiny radio — whose building blocks are the size of two atoms — can withstand extremely harsh environments and is biocompatible, meaning it could work anywhere from a probe on Venus to a pacemaker in a human heart.

Potters give anthropology students hands-on lessons

Title: Potters give anthropology students hands-on lessons
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Native American potters Wilma and Aaron Tosa bring their hand-coiled pottery to anthropology students at the Ceramics Studio.

HILT 2016 Conference: Small-scale teaching innovations

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Small-scale teaching innovations
Runtime: 48:42
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Professor Matthew Schwartz (FAS) and featuring Chris Robichaud (HKS), Richard Schwartzstein (HMS), Andrew Warren (FAS), and Lucie White (HLS), this breakout session explored how small-scale innovations can improve teaching with examples collected beforehand and provided by participants.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu/easyinnovations

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Morning plenary
Runtime: 1:12:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: With introduction and moderation from HILT Director, Erin Driver-Linn, panelists, Jack Goldstone (George Mason University) and Rebecca Winthrop (The Brookings Institution) discussed the global landscape of education.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Lunch plenary
Runtime: 10:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: With an introduction by Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Peter Bol, Harvard University Provost Alan Garber moderated a panel featuring Professor Ned Hall (FAS) and University Professor Danielle Allen about opportunities for improving teaching and learning at Harvard.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2016 Conference: Slowing down learning

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Slowing down learning
Runtime: 25:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Professor James Engell (FAS), this breakout session involved participatory discussion of teaching approaches that promote intensive work and deep reflection, and the benefits and challenges of embracing the difficult.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2016 Conference: Creative nudges for educational development

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Creative nudges for educational development
Runtime: 51:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Cassandra Volpe Horii (California Institute of Technology), this breakout session explored ways to develop new, creative, and research-based ideas for supporting instructors and leading initiatives with examples for inspiration and discussion.

HILT 2016 Conference: Student-led learning: How and why

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Student-led learning: How and why
Runtime: 28:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Jacob Lipton (HLS) and featuring Beth Altringer (SEAS, GSD) and Hisa Kuriyama (FAS), this breakout session provided examples of student-led learning innovations from bite-sized interventions to substantial curricular redesign and considered their purposes and effects.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Welcome remarks
Runtime: 5:32
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Harvard University President, Drew Gilpin Faust, provided welcome remarks at HILT’s fifth annual conference.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2016 Conference: How can research advance learning?

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: How can research advance learning?
Runtime: 28:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Andrew Ho (HGSE, VPAL Research) and Dustin Tingley (FAS, VPAL Research), and featuring Meira Levinson (HGSE), Dan Levy (HKS), and Todd Rogers (HKS), this breakout session highlighted research-based initiatives that advance teaching and learning.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2016 Conference: Case teaching at Harvard

Title: HILT 2016 Conference: Case teaching at Harvard
Runtime: 35:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Facilitated by Carolyn Wood (HKS) and featuring Archon Fung (HKS), Matthew Miller (HGSE), and V.G. Narayanan (HBS), this breakout session explored case teaching and how its practice varies across Harvard.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: Hands on with stone-age technology
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.

Welcome to The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: a Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen

Title: Welcome to The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: a Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen
Runtime: 9:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Sarah Thomas convenes a meeting of librarians, scholars, and publishers as they consider the future of academic libraries from the perspective of the lifecycle of information creation, dissemination, curation, and stewardship. See the all the presentations at http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hazen/

Title: Harvard at the Holidays
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society premiere “Winter Songs” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec.

Baking sticky buns with Joanne Chang '91

Title: Baking sticky buns with Joanne Chang '91
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Acclaimed chef Joanne Chang ’91 turned her Harvard studies in applied mathematics and economics into a winning recipe of six Flour bakeries in Boston and Cambridge. In celebration of National Pastry Day, Chang gives a tutorial on baking her award-winning sticky buns.

They are made from brioche dough, and dipped in a “goo” of pecans and brown sugar. Chang said Flour Bakery+Cafe serves 1,000 sticky buns every day!

Title: 360° video from Harvard's CS50 fair
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: At the annual CS50 fair, students of history, literature, music, and more show off their final projects to the wider Harvard community. Take a 360° video look around!

Protecting People from the Ocean, and the Ocean from People || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Protecting People from the Ocean, and the Ocean from People || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:06:41
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Protecting People from the Ocean and the Ocean from People:
Search and Rescue and Marine Environmental Protection/Response

The Coast Guard, the fifth branch of the US Armed Forces, is a multi-mission maritime agency. This talk reviews how the Coast Guard in Boston and throughout the nation seeks to strike the balance between maritime safety, security, and environmental protection amidst changing climate conditions, all while facilitating the powerful economic engine of maritime commerce.

Featuring
(3:08, 30:26) Claudia C. Gelzer, Captain, US Coast Guard

(9:37) Lee Titus, Commander, US Coast Guard

Introduction by John Huth, faculty codirector of the science program at the Radcliffe Institute and Donner Professor of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Q&A (47:44)

Part of the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-from-sea-to-changin...

Mario Batali: Parmigiano-Encrusted Cotechino; Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series 2016

Title: Mario Batali: Parmigiano-Encrusted Cotechino; Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series 2016
Runtime: 1:01:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x

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.

The Care and Feeding of Monster Black Holes

Title: The Care and Feeding of Monster Black Holes
Runtime: 1:08:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: OK, black holes are intimidating. Because of their intense gravity, a black hole will absorb anything, and whatever falls in effectively disappears forever, making the black hole grow bigger. Our Milky Way Galaxy hosts millions of black holes between about 3 and 10 times the mass of our Sun, but also one central super-massive black hole of 4 million solar masses. Black holes in the cores of some other galaxies have grown over cosmic time to become more massive than a billion suns. We'll learn some amazing facts about black holes, and also debunk a few common misconceptions. Paul J Green is a research astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

America’s Coast-to-Coast Total Solar Eclipse

Title: America’s Coast-to-Coast Total Solar Eclipse
Runtime: 1:10:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On August 21, 2017, the Moon’s shadow will cross the continental U.S. for the first time since 1979 — and the first time it’s traveled coast-to-coast since 1918. This total solar eclipse, whose path goes through 13 states, promises to be among the most widely observed in history. It’s already the most widely anticipated, as many hotels within the path of totality sold out two years in advance. This presentation provides an overview of the nature of solar eclipses, important past ones in U.S. history, and helpful advice for seeing next year’s event successfully. An award-winning writer and science communicator, J. Kelly Beatty is Senior Editor for Sky & Telescope magazine.

Discover | Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Discover | Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 3:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This video introduces the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, which is the premier library on the history of women in America. The Schlesinger is one of Harvard’s special collections libraries, which means its holdings are largely unique and include such materials as diaries, letters, journals, manuscripts, photo albums, organizational records, and home videos. The Schlesinger Library holds the papers of remarkable individuals—pioneers and leaders in many fields—as well as ordinary women and families. These collections, open to the public, offer worlds of discovery for students, faculty members, and other researchers.

Connect | Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Connect | Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 4:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a special collections library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute that offers access to uniquely illuminating documentary resources representing the long span of American history, from the beginnings of the United States to the present day. When students connect directly with the library’s materials—such as letters, diaries, newspapers, manuscripts, and oral histories—they gain hands-on research skills, a deeper understanding of history, and a chance to create new knowledge of our shared past. In this video, Harvard students and faculty members convey the educational value of using archival materials for learning and teaching.

Reveal | Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Reveal | Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 3:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The unique materials in special collections libraries invite novice and experienced researchers alike to build fresh interpretations of the past. In this video, Elisa New, the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature in the Department of English, brings Harvard College first-year students to the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute to explore the papers of the pioneering feminist poet and activist Adrienne Rich. The students immerse themselves in Rich’s childhood drawings, early poems, journals, correspondence, annotated manuscripts, and more. It is an experience one student describes as standing at the “epicenter” of the poet and her world—and it is just one example of what Harvard’s special collections libraries can reveal.

Wendy Jacob | Calm. Smoke Rises Vertically. | Opening Discussion || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Wendy Jacob | Calm. Smoke Rises Vertically. | Opening Discussion || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 40:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Opening discussion for Calm. Smoke Rises Vertically, an exhibition by the artist Wendy Jacob. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-wendy-jacob-exhibition

Working with vibrating walls, a live-streaming weather report, and architectural models from schools for the blind, the exhibition explores sensory experience through different modes of perception.

DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS:
Hansel Bauman, University Architect, Executive Director of Campus Design and Construction, and Director of the DeafSpace Project, Gallaudet University

Kim Charlson, Executive Director of Perkins Library, Perkins School for the Blind

Wendy Jacob RI ‘05, Independent Artist

MODERATOR:
Yukio Lippit, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Professor of History of Art and Architecture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Garth Risk Hallberg | Organized Complexity: The Novel and the City | Radcliffe Institute

Title: Garth Risk Hallberg | Organized Complexity: The Novel and the City | Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:28:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The writer Garth Risk Hallberg explores the affinities between the modern social novel and the modern city. From Dickens’s London to Richard Wright’s Chicago, from the Paris of Les Misérables to the Boston of The Bostonians, the two have developed in parallel. But for a novelist, the relationship goes deeper than content.

(50:05) Following his lecture, Hallberg participates in a conversation with the novelist Claire Messud RI '05, a senior lecturer on fiction at Harvard University. Messud’s books include The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013),and The Emperor’s Children (Knopf, 2006).

Moderated by Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, a 20th-century urban historian whose book, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), won the Bancroft Prize in American History.

This is a 2016–2017 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture.

Mark Post: Medical Technology Producing Hamburgers; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2016

Title: Mark Post: Medical Technology Producing Hamburgers; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2016
Runtime: 1:23:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x

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.

Sister Noella Marcellino: Tales from the Cheese Caves; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2016

Title: Sister Noella Marcellino: Tales from the Cheese Caves; Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series 2016
Runtime: 1:25:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x

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.

Title: The Chorus Line | Memorial Church
Runtime: 10:54
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Harvard University is an institution cultivated, in part, on the foundation of long-standing traditions that inhabit nearly every corner of the institution. The Harvard University Choir is one of those traditions. For the past 189 years, the student choir has provided the musical backdrop to services at Harvard Memorial Church.

This film, shot during the span of the 2016-2017 Fall Term, follows Choirmaster Edward Elwyn Jones and his staff as they pick though the procession of talented students auditioning for 16 open parts in the 50-member choir.

Title: Harvard Art Museums’ blackest pigment
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: British biotech company Surrey NanoSystems has developed what it calls “the darkest man-made substance,” a material known as Vantablack, a sample of which is now part of the collections at the Harvard Art Museums. The color is located in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies’ Forbes Pigments Collection, an assortment of about 2,500 synthetic and organic pigments that helps conservators, curators, and students study and safeguard artworks.

History and Human Rights: A Panel Discussion

Title: History and Human Rights: A Panel Discussion
Runtime: 2:02:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Opening Remarks
Jacqueline Bhabha
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Discussants
Bernard Harcourt
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Samuel Moyn
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History, Harvard University

Kathryn Sikkink
Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Building Better Nanodiscs | Harvard Medical School

Title: Building Better Nanodiscs | Harvard Medical School
Runtime: 2:04
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Harvard Medical School researchers have improved the design of tiny nanodiscs—synthetic models of cell membranes used to study proteins that control what enters and leaves a cell. The enhancements provide an unprecedented view of how viruses infect cells.

Title: Harvard student scholar-rocker
Runtime: 2:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Atlanta-raised Brynn Elliott ’18 learned guitar at 16 and performs with a self-titled band. Now, her philosophy courses at Harvard have provided much of the inspiration behind her lyrics.

Hits and Misses: Sports Marketing, Gender, and Society || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Hits and Misses: Sports Marketing, Gender, and Society || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:33:33
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Sports permeate our society. From the inspiring to the infuriating, athletes and teams have a broad reach. This conversation of experts from business, journalism, and academia looks at the extent of such influence and illuminates the connections among sports, marketing, and gender. Speakers consider how gender affects the ways athletes are represented and how sports are promoted through data analysis, advertising campaigns, and the media.

WELCOMING REMARKS:
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

SPEAKERS:
(12:17) Jessica C. Gelman ’97, MBA ’02, chief executive officer, KAGR (Kraft Analytics Group)

(21:48) Daniel Peterson ’02, resident scholar in journalism, Lowell House, Harvard University; director of content, AdmitHub; and former editor, ESPN Boston

(37:56) Shira Springer ’97, columnist on wome...

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