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A Leadership Career in Government: EPA Chief Speaks | Gina McCarthy | Voices in Leadership
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- A Leadership Career in Government: EPA Chief Speaks | Gina McCarthy | Voices in Leadership
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- 26:52
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- 11 years ago
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- Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on February 29, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Gina McCarthy is the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Appointed by President Obama in ...
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- Robin W. Cotton | Forensic DNA Testing || Radcliffe Institute
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- 47:09
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- 11 years ago
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- As part of the DNA lecture series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Robin W. Cotton reports on the current state of forensic DNA testing and explains why there are still bumps in the road.
Robin W. Cotton is an associate professor and the director of the Biomedical Forensic Sciences Program at the Boston University School of Medicine
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- Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe
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- 1:12:24
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- 11 years ago
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- This seminar explores the assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. Brinton analyzes over-time data from 18 European countries and identifies trajectories of attitudinal change. Brinton demonstrates that while traditional gender-role attitudes have precipitously and uniformly declined, European nations are not converging towards one dominant egalitarian model but instead are diverging across three distinct varieties of egalitarianism.
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- Household Workers Unite || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:07:20
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- 11 years ago
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- This panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss the historical and contemporary significance of domestic worker organizing.
Featuring:
Lydia Edwards, Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers
Premilla Nadasen, Department of History, Barnard College
Monique Nguyen, MataHari
Natalicia Tracy, Brazilian Worker Center
Moderated by Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School
Introduced by Jane Kamensky, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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- BOSTON ORIGINALS: Bouchard, Colby, Lepson & Garcia Roberts | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:04:52
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- A quartet of voices representing some of the vital work that is emerging from (and/or reflecting on) the greater Boston region. The first installment of BOSTON ORIGINALS features readings by Daniel Bouchard (Art & Nature, 2015); Kate Colby (I Mean, 2015); Ruth Lepson (Ask Anyone, 2016) and Chloe Garcia Roberts (The Reveal, 2015).
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: February 11, 2016, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
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- ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: A Conversation with Raul Zurita | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:35:15
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- 11 years ago
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- Renowned Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, in conversation with his translator Anna Deeny, explores the trajectory of his life and his poems: including his family history, his activism after the coup, his friendships with such writers as Nicanor Parra, and his plans for a final earthworks. Their wide-ranging conversation is interspersed with readings from relevant passages of his poetry and recitations of works by Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: February 18, 2016, at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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- Scott Milner | New Polymers for Solar Power || Radcliffe Institute
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- 50:49
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Scott T. Milner RI ’16 discusses current trends in solar power, how solar cells work, and how polymer-based materials may offer an attractive alternative to silicon.
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- A doctor battles health inequality
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- 2:48
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- 11 years ago
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- Ebonie Woolcock, a Harvard Medical School instructor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology, works today not far from where she grew up in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. A physician at the Bowdoin Street Health Center, Woolcock is fighting a personal battle to close the health gaps that result in America’s poor and minority communities getting less access to care, poorer quality of it, and, ultimately, worse health.
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- When Searching Is Social: A Panel Discussion with Alison Head and Alex Halavais
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- 1:29:39
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- A panel presentation and Q & A with two experts on the topic of social search. Alison J. Head is Founder and Director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), Research Scientist at the University of Washington Information School, and a Fellow at the metaLAB (at) Harvard. Alexander Halavais is Associate Professor of Social Technologies in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University, where he researches ways in which social media change the nature of scholarship and learning, and allow for new forms of collaboration and self-government.
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- Chemical Exposures and the Brain: The Flint Water Crisis and More | The Forum at HSPH
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- 1:01:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The water crisis gripping Flint, Michigan has exposed thousands of children to unsafe lead levels, triggering a federal emergency declaration and national conversation about basic public health protections. Lead can be toxic to the brain, and children can be particularly vulnerable. However, the Flint example is not unique; other American cities, including the nation’s capitol, have faced lead contamination in water supplies. And research has pointed more generally to an expanding list of chemicals, including certain pesticides, mercury and flame retardants, that may be linked to cognitive delays and health conditions in children. This Forum examined those links and the implications for both children and adults, while exploring public policy successes and failures in safeguarding the public’s health against neurotoxicants.
Part of The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies, this Forum event was presented February 19, 2016 in Collaboration with PRI’s The Worl...
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- Big Data to Big Art with Henry Trae Winter | CfA
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- 1:10:00
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- We currently live in the Information Age, where terms like "Big Data" and the "Internet of Things" are ingrained into the public consciousness. This massive compilation of data is useless without tools to aid us in comprehending what the numbers mean. These tools are almost always visual in nature and creating them requires not only a knowledge of math and science, but also an understanding of how human beings interpret and interact with the world around them. We will explore a few large datasets and the tools developed to visualize them, and see that the boundaries between art and science are very often blurred. Speaker: Dr. Henry “Trae” Winter
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- Michelle Williams to lead Harvard Chan School
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- 4:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Michelle A. Williams, S.M. ’88, Sc.D. ’91, a distinguished epidemiologist and award-winning educator known for her influential studies of maternal and child health around the world, will become the next dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, starting in July.
Read more at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/michelle-williams-to-lead-harvard-chan-school/.
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- Joyce M. Bell | American Race Relations: How Far Have We Come? || Radcliffe Institute
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- From the Black Power movement to the Black Lives Matter movement today, what has changed? How far have we come? The sociologist Joyce M. Bell is struck by how much it’s still the same.
Bell is the 2015–2016 Maury Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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- Education gap: The root of inequality
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- 5:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Education may be the key to solving broader American inequality, but we have to solve educational inequality first. Harvard’s Ronald Ferguson, director of The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, says there is progress being made, there are encouraging examples to emulate, that an early start is critical, and that a lot of hard work lies ahead. But he also says, “There’s nothing more important we can do."
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- Conan O’Brien in conversation with Harvard University President Drew Faust
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- 1:27:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- On February 12, 2016, Comedian and television host Conan O’Brien joined Harvard President Drew Faust at Memorial Hall for an entertaining chat about the importance and lasting value of an arts-and-humanities-based college education.
Read more about the event at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/02/conan-explore-learn-take-risks/.
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- Doris A. Taylor | When Cell Therapy Isn’t Enough || Radcliffe Institute
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- 1:08:04
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- 11 years ago
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- In her talk “When Cell Therapy Isn’t Enough: Building Cardiovascular Solutions in 2016,” Doris A. Taylor discusses improvements to stem-cell therapies and the development of better treatments for heart disease, including building bio-artificial organs for transplant that use a patient’s own stem cells, thus avoiding the complications of organ rejection.
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- The Aging Workforce: Challenges and Benefits for the Public's Health | The Forum at HSPH
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- 55:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the country’s population aged 65 and over is projected to be more than 83 million in 2050 — almost
double the estimated population of 43 million in 2012. This Forum examined how the growing, greying labor force impacts workplaces and economic and health security, including retirement savings efforts and systems such as Social Security and Medicare. The discussion also explored what it means to age productively and healthily, with a particular emphasis on the value of working, volunteering and keeping cognitive skills sharp.
Presented February 11, 2016 in Collaboration with The Huffington Post.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
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- From Physician to CEO: Leadership Insight for Success | Belén Garijo | Voices in Leadership
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- 30:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Belén Garijo, Member of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and CEO Healthcare, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on February 9, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Belén Garijo is a Member of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, sin...
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- Colm Tóibín in Conversation with Claire Messud
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- 1:18:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Colm Tóibín
Author of The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), and Nora Webster (2014)
in conversation with
Claire Messud
Novelist and Senior Lecturer in English, Harvard University
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- How to Make Graphene
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Graphene is one atom thick, stronger than steel, harder than diamond and one of the most conductive materials on earth but researchers at Harvard University and around the world make this wonder material using several household items.
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- Peter Behrens | Families, Histories, Novels || Radcliffe Institute
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- 47:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Drawing from his own family’s history, the writer Peter Behrens RI ’16 discusses time, memory, and the ways the past shapes the present.
Part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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- Defeating Malaria at Harvard: Making a Difference
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Harvard University’s Defeating Malaria: From the Genes to the Globe initiative leverages the breadth and depth of expertise of Harvard’s students, faculty, and alumni to help achieve the vision of a malaria free world.
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- Assessment to Improve Student Learning: Transforming a Large Physics Course at Harvard
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- 17:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Logan McCarty, Director of Physical Sciences Education, and Louis Deslauriers, Director of Science Teaching and Learning, adopted an active pedagogy for an introductory physical sciences course and saw significant gains in student learning and attitude. Assessment played a role every step of the way. They shared their experience at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching Annual Conference on September 25, 2015. See more at hilt.harvard.edu/conference.
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- Head-banging bees
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- 0:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- While researching how bees native to Australia pollinate tomato plants, Harvard scientists stumbled onto a surprising find – to shake pollen out of the cone-shaped flowers, Australian blue-banded bees actually bang their heads against them at the headache-inducing rate of 350 times per second.
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- The Fun and Fear of Near-Earth Asteroids | CfA
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- 1:18:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The explosion of an asteroid over Russia in 2013 caught by hundreds of dashcams, and the perennial reminder of the dinosaurs' demise due to an earlier, and bigger, asteroid impact, serve to illustrate the fear that asteroids may inspire in us. But near-Earth asteroids, our closest neighbors in the Solar System, also offer hitherto unimagined opportunities for exploration and resource harvesting. They might even be the stepping stones we require to seed the solar system with space colonies. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center is on the front line of asteroid discoveries and is vital to the research of asteroid scientists the world over. We'll explore its inner workings and how it contributes to both the fun and fear of near-Earth asteroids. Speaker: Dr. Jose-Luis Galache
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- Negotiating Act Three for Global Health on the World’s Stage | Nils Daulaire | Voices in Leadership
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- 31:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Nils Daulaire, Former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on January 28, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Dr. Nils Daulaire served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary for...
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- New research replicates a folding human brain in 3D
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- 0:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The distinctive troughs and crests of the human brain are not present in most animals; highly folded brains are seen only in a handful of species, including some primates, dolphins, elephants and pigs. In humans, folding begins in fetal brains around the 20th week of gestation and is completed only when the child is about a year and a half.
Why the brain is folded can be rationalized easily from an evolutionary perspective; folded brains likely evolved to fit a large cortex into a small volume with the benefit of reducing neuronal wiring length and improving cognitive function.
Less understood is how the brain folds. Several hypotheses have been proposed but none have been directly used to make testable predictions. Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences collaborating with scientists in Finland and France have shown that while many molecular processes are important in determining cellular events, what ultim...
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- 'Lifespan Machine' Probes Cause of Aging
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- 4:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Researchers in the lab of Walter Fontana, Harvard Medical School professor of systems biology, have found a surprising statistical regularity in how a variety of genetic and environmental factors affect the life span of the C. elegans worm. Their findings suggest that aging does not have a single discrete molecular cause but is rather a systemic process involving many components within a complex biological network. Perturb any node in the system, and you affect the whole thing.
In this video, the researchers discuss their findings and the Lifespan Machine.
For the full story, go to https://hms.harvard.edu/news/lifespan-machine-probes-cause-aging
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- Wintersession at Harvard: Japanese Sword Fighting
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- During Wintersession 2016, the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club offered a three-day kendo crash course called "Introduction to Japanese Sword Fighting.” Participants learned basic forms and techniques, and had an opportunity to engage in sparring. The concept of kendo is to discipline the human character through the application of the principles of the katana.
Wintersession, a College-led, 10-day initiative between the fall and spring terms, brings together students, faculty, and alumni to learn new skills and explore their passions inside and outside their fields of academic pursuit.
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- Visualizing cancer's origins from the first affected cell
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital have, for the first time, visualized the origins of cancer from the first affected cell and watched its spread in a live animal. Their work, published in the Jan. 29 issue of Science, could change the way scientists understand melanoma and other cancers and lead to new, early treatments before the cancer has taken hold.
“An important mystery has been why some cells in the body already have mutations seen in cancer, but do not yet fully behave like the cancer,” says the paper’s first author, Charles Kaufman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Zon Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital. “We found that the beginning of cancer occurs after activation of an oncogene or loss of a tumor suppressor, and involves a change that takes a single cell back to a stem cell state.”
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- Preventing Gun Violence: Public Health Perspectives | The Forum at HSPH
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- 57:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- This Forum event examined gun violence through a public health prism. Panelists talked about patterns of violence, including social forces such as the grinding violence, crime and poverty that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities. Panelists also discussed President Obama’s recent announcements about gun violence prevention, prompted by a series of mass shootings as well as ongoing urban violence. And they explored dynamics at state and Congressional levels that are impacting public safety measures now and moving forward.
Presented January 26, 2016 in Collaboration with Reuters.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
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- Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning
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- 50:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) welcomed Assistant Professor Chinmay Kulkarni of Carnegie Mellon University on October 26, 2015 in a talk at Harvard titled, "Structuring Peer Interactions for Massive Scale Learning." The discussion, inspired by Kulkarni’s research with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was focused on translating pedagogical best practices in residential classrooms to scale for tens of thousands of students in online computational systems.
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- REEL TIME: On the Astonishment Tapes | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:03:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- In 1974, Robin Blaser recorded a series of autobiographical tapes reflecting on his life and his literary companions (among them, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and Charles Olson). Miram Nichols, editor of The Astonishment Tapes, presents a collage of audio clips by Blaser and compares the political/aesthetic urgencies underpinning these 1974 tapes with our current context.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: December 9, 2015, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
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- 4D Printing: Shapeshifting Architecture
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- A team at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS has developed a new microscale printing method to create transformable objects. These "4D-printed" objects go a step beyond 3D printing to incorporate a fourth dimension–time.
The method was inspired by the way plants change shape over time in response to environmental stimuli. This orchid-shaped structure is printed with a hydrogel composite ink containing aligned cellulose fibrils, which enable anisotropic swelling. A proprietary mathematical model developed by the team precisely predicts how the fibrils will swell in water.
After printing, the 4D orchid is immersed in water to activate its shape transformation.
Credit: A.S. Gladman, E. Matsumoto, L.K. Sanders, and J.A. Lewis / Wyss Institute at Harvard University
For more information, please visit: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/239
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- Peter Behrens | A Writer on Writing || Radcliffe Institute
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The writer Peter Behrens RI ’16—who holds the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship at Radcliffe—talks about how he decided to become a writer and why he writes what he writes.
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- Soft Robotic Grippers for Deep-Sea Exploration
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- In this video, two types of soft robotic grippers are shown successfully collecting coral samples at the bottom of the Red Sea. The first gripper features opposing pairs of bending actuators, while the second gripper - inspired by the coiling action of a boa constrictor - can access tight spaces and clutch small and irregular shaped objects. The grippers were developed by Wyss Core Faculty member Robert Wood and Wyss Mechanical Engineer Kevin Galloway in collaboration with researchers from Baruch College, CUNY, and University of Rhode Island. For more information, please visit: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/238/
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- Cancer and Diet: The Latest on Processed Meats, Fats and More | The Forum at HSPH
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- 59:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- This Forum explored what we know, and don’t know, about links between diet and cancer. Included in the discussion was the World Health Organization’s classification of processed meat as a “Group 1” carcinogen; the latest on what is known about fats and cancer; and the just-released Dietary Guidelines for Americans as they pertain to cancer and diet. Additionally, the panel discussed cancer prevention strategies.
Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented January 15, 2016 in Collaboration with The Huffington Post and in Association with Harvard Health Publications.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
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- Scott Milner | Exploring Light-Harvesting Polymers || Radcliffe Institute
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The theoretical physicist and Radcliffe Institute fellow Scott Milner, who is the William H. Joyce Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, explains how his exploration of polymers could lead to a greater ability to harvest energy from sunlight in sustainable and affordable ways.
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- The Wyss Institute: A Technology Revolution
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- There is a technology revolution – a revolution inspired by nature, built upon collaboration, self-assembly and disruptive innovation.
The Wyss Institute is crossing boundaries and disrupting the status quo to pioneer new technologies, new devices, and new therapeutics that harness the power of life itself. There is a technology revolution and it is happening at the Wyss Institute.
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- Intisar A. Rabb | Qāḍī Justice || Radcliffe Institute
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- 52:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Intisar A. Rabb RI ’16 investigates the significance of the procedures taken in early Islamic courts and the challenges they pose to our understanding of the meaning and operation of early Islamic law.
Intisar A. Rabb is the 2015–2016 Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe and a professor of law at Harvard Law School, where she is also the director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program.
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- Claudia Escobar | Judicial Independence, Separation of Powers, and Corruption || Radcliffe Institute
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- 37:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Claudia Escobar RI ’16 explores how corruption is directly linked to the lack of judicial independence. Using her experience in Guatemala as an example, Escobar sheds light on how judges in the higher courts are appointed without respecting international principles or judicial independence, which enables political entities and other powerful groups to control the justice system, thus promoting impunity and corruption.
Claudia Escobar is the 2015–2016 Robert G. James Scholar at Risk Fellow, part of Harvard’s Scholar at Risk program.
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- America's Rental Housing Report Release, 12/9/15, Newseum, Washington D.C.
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- 2:00:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies presented our biennial report -- America's Rental Housing: Expanding Options for Diverse and Growing Demand -- on December 9, 2015 in Washington D.C., including a lively discussion with a group of distinguished panelists.
Research presentation by Jonathan Spader
Panel discussion led by Emily Badger, Washington Post
Panelists:
Chris Herbert, Director, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Ellen Seidman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Hipólito (Paul) Roldán, President and CEO, Hispanic Housing Development Corporation
Toby Bozzuto, President and CEO, The Bozzuto Group
View the event agenda, speaker bios, and report release details at http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/event/report-release-dc-americas-rental-housing
Read the report at http://jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing
See further press coverage of the report at http://jchs.harvard.ed...
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- Small Airway-on-a-Chip: Modeling COPD and Asthma
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Development of new therapeutics for chronic lung diseases have been hindered by the inability to study them in vitro. To address this challenge, Wyss Institute researchers used their Organ-on-a-Chip technology to produce a microfluidic 'human lung small airway-on-a-chip.'
The device, which is composed a clear rubber material, is lined by living Human lung small airway cells on one side and capillary blood vessel cells on the other, much like in the living lung. In the device, air flows over the top of the human lung cells and liquid medium containing white blood cells flow below capillary cell layer.
In the airway chip, the lung cells have hair-like cilia that move rhythmically, helping the mucus flow out of the lung chip, just as they do in the living lung.
Wyss researchers also have been able to line the chip with diseased cells from COPD patients, and these chips retain the features of patients¹ lungs with this disease, including an increased...
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- Harvard's crossword puzzle maker
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Decades after her father introduced her to the weekly ritual of The New York Times Sunday puzzle, crosswords remain a regular challenge and a bit of a mental refuge for Gwen Urdang-Brown, who has administered the Harvard English Department’s graduate program for 26 years.
A shared love of puzzles prompted Urdang-Brown and her husband, Harvard-trained chemist Jerry Brown, to publish their own crossword book in 2000. “Crossword Puzzles of the Century: 1900-1999” draws on cultural and world events to match 100 puzzles to 100 years.
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- Climate Change: Health and Disease Threats | The Forum at HSPH
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- 59:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris has produced a landmark agreement to slow global warming. Among the conference’s discussions, though, the health impacts of climate change have featured less prominently on the agenda than other concerns. Yet, droughts, floods, heat waves, and air pollution related to climate change produce rippling effects that impact food production, infectious disease spread, chronic illnesses, and more. Dwindling resources force people to leave their homes and abandon traditional lifestyles, creating populations on the move with serious health impacts. In this Forum, public health and policy experts picked up where COP21 left off, taking on the critical piece of health within the climate change conversation.
Presented December 16, 2015 in Collaboration with The GroundTruth Project. Part of The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan Scho...
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- Understanding Body Language of Mice
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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Harvard Medical School scientists have developed new computational techniques that can make sense of the bodily movements of mice, organizing them into notions of syllables and grammar. Along the way they also proposed a solution to a longstanding problem in neuroscience—how to objectively study complex three-dimensional patterns of animal behavior without relying on subjective human observers.
Read the full story at https://hms.harvard.edu/news/understanding-body-language-mice
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- Amy Cuddy on how body language can change your future
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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- In her new book, “Presence,” Harvard Business School’s Amy Cuddy talks about how to use “power posing” to confront any of life’s daunting challenges—a job interview, an audition, an important exam—with power, grace, and most importantly, no regrets.
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- His Highness the Aga Khan, "The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
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- 1:23:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture held on November 12, 2015 was delivered by His Highness the Aga Khan at Memorial Church, Harvard University. The Lecture was sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
His Highness the Aga Khan
“The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World”
The lecture was followed by a conversation between His Highness the Aga Khan and Professor Diana L. Eck.
The Jodidi Lecture is among the most prominent annual lecture series of the Weatherhead Center and one of the most distinguished at the University. Established in 1955, the lecture series provides for the “delivery of lectures by eminent and well-qualified persons…for the promotion of tolerance, understanding and good will among nations, and the peace of the world.”
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- REEL TIME: Modernists on the Poetry Circuit | Woodberry Poetry Room
- Runtime
- 56:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The rapid growth in live poetry reading after World War Two put many pre-War modernists on stage for the first time. How did they adapt difficult poems to this surprising new audience, neither mass nor coterie? Could the change from print to performance become a creative opportunity, not just a confirmation of past glories? Using the Poetry Room's collection of historic live recordings, Peter Howarth (Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London) explores how well readings by W.H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore re-animated their own work for a younger generation.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: April 14, 2015, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
- Title
- Medical Tests: Inaccuracies, Risks and the Public's Health | The Forum at HSPH
- Runtime
- 59:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Without question, medical testing has saved lives and bettered patient care. But what happens when tests are inaccurate or unnecessary? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently raised alarms about a growing class of tests designed and used in single laboratories, which are far less subject to regulatory enforcement than commercial test kits sold to multiple labs. The agency reviewed 20 case studies involving lab-developed tests (LDTs) and found evidence of patients at risk for medically unnecessary procedures, including mastectomies, or for potentially inappropriate therapies, including cancer treatments. Some tests may fail to detect a condition, while others may erroneously point to a non-existent problem. The medical costs are significant. The Obama administration is calling for a new regulatory framework as well.
LDTs are not the only source of concern. A 2013 meta-analysis involving commonly ordered lab tests found that 30 percent, on average, were probabl...
