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Radical Commitments | Keynote by Angela Davis || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Radical Commitments | Keynote by Angela Davis || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:42:48
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019

A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.

KEYNOTE CONVERSATION (28:31)
Angela Davis, distinguished professor emerita, UC Santa Cruz

Neferti X. M. Tadiar, professor and chair of women’s, gender & sexuality studies, Barnard College

Introduction by Kaia Stern, Elsa Hardy, and Abbie Cohen, reading from the work of The Pathways Collective, a group of incarcerated women studying Angela Davis’s life and writings

(8:18) Kaia Stern, practitioner-in-residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, cofounder and director of the Prison Studies Project, and visiting faculty member and lead of the T...

Radical Commitments | Performances || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Radical Commitments | Performances || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 51:03
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019

A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.

WELCOMING REMARKS
Jane Kamensky, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

PERFORMANCES
(5:03) “Ode to Angela” by Harold Land
(15:59) “Sam Jones Blues” by Bessie Smith, composed by Andrew Bernard, J. Russel Robinson, and Roy Turk
(20:10) “Pirate Jenny” by Nina Simone, composed by Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, and Kurt Weill
(27:45) “Strang...

Radical Commitments | Session 1: Revolution || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Radical Commitments | Session 1: Revolution || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:58:07
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019

A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.

WELCOMING REMARKS
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School; and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

(6:02) Jane Kamensky, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

FRAMING REMARKS (11:09)
Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb A...

Radical Commitments | Session 3: Abolition || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Radical Commitments | Session 3: Abolition || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:31:36
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019

A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.

SESSION 3: "ABOLITION"
(6:24) Kathy Boudin, codirector and cofounder, Center for Justice at Columbia University

(20:28) Ruth Wilson Gilmore, professor of earth and environmental sciences and director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, the Graduate Center, City University of New York

(36:31) Beth E. Richie, professor and department head of criminology, law, and justice and professor of African American studies and gender and women’s studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Moderator: Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and A...

Radical Commitments | Session 2: Feminisms || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Radical Commitments | Session 2: Feminisms || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:31:33
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019

A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.

SESSION 2: "FEMINISMS"
(5:43) Julie Dash, distinguished professor in the arts, Spelman College

(18:52) Gina Dent, associate professor of feminist studies, UC Santa Cruz

(30:52) Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University

(45:10) Barbara Ransby, distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history, University of Illinois at Chicago

Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History ...

Radical Commitments | Childhood, Case, and Social Contributions || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Radical Commitments | Childhood, Case, and Social Contributions || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:07:40
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019

A cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women lead discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century using the life and work of the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis.

ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION ABOUT CHILDHOOD, CASE, AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Introduced by Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Featuring:
(12:55) Fania E. Davis, consultant and founding director emerita, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

(21:01) Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Northeastern University School of Law
...

Making the Cut | Session 3: Engineering and Disability Rights || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Making the Cut | Session 3: Engineering and Disability Rights || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:35:25
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The 2019 Radcliffe Institute science symposium is on gene editing, a technology that enables scientists to change an organism’s DNA. Leading international scientists, clinicians, and ethicists gather to explore case studies of particular gene therapies and consider the legal and bioethical implications of this research.

SESSION 3: CASE STUDIES: GENETIC ENGINEERING; DISABILITY RIGHTS

Introduction by moderator Pilar N. Ossorio, professor of law and bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School; inaugural bioethics scholar in residence, Morgridge Institute for Research

(12:01) Matthew Porteus, professor of pediatrics (stem cell transplantation), Stanford University School of Medicine

(33:17) Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, professor of English and bioethics in the Department of English and codirector of the Emory Disability Studies Initiative, Emory University

PANEL DISCUSSION (1:00:05)
AUDIENCE Q&A (1:12:29)

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Making the Cut | Session 4: Concluding Discussion || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Making the Cut | Session 4: Concluding Discussion || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 47:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The 2019 Radcliffe Institute science symposium is on gene editing, a technology that enables scientists to change an organism’s DNA. Leading international scientists, clinicians, and ethicists gather to explore case studies of particular gene therapies and consider the legal and bioethical implications of this research.

SESSION 4: CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

Concluding discussion with session moderators, moderated by Sharon Begley, senior writer, science and discovery, STAT

Omar Abudayyeh, fellow, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

Pilar N. Ossorio, professor of law and bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School; inaugural bioethics scholar in residence, Morgridge Institute for Research

Charmaine DM Royal, associate professor of African & African American studies, biology, global health, and family medicine & community health, Duke University

AUDIENCE Q&A (32:50)

CLOSING REMARKS (43:44)

Hisham Matar in Conversation with Claire Messud

Title: Hisham Matar in Conversation with Claire Messud
Runtime: 1:24:33
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Hisham Matar’s new book is A Month in Siena. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, won the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the inaugural Arab American Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was named one of the best books of the year by the Guardian and the Chicago Tribune.

Claire Messud is a novelist and Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction, Harvard University.

Making the Cut | Session 1: Science and Society || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Making the Cut | Session 1: Science and Society || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:38:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The 2019 Radcliffe Institute science symposium is on gene editing, a technology that enables scientists to change an organism’s DNA. Leading international scientists, clinicians, and ethicists gather to explore case studies of particular gene therapies and consider the legal and bioethical implications of this research.

WELCOME
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

FRAMING REMARKS (04:41)
Immaculata De Vivo, life sciences advisor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; and professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

SESSION 1: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY (11:47)

Introduction by moderator: Charmaine DM Royal, associate professor of African & African American studies, biology, global health, and famil...

Making the Cut | Session 2: Cardiovascular Disease and Sickle Cell Anemia || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Making the Cut | Session 2: Cardiovascular Disease and Sickle Cell Anemia || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:30:09
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The 2019 Radcliffe Institute science symposium is on gene editing, a technology that enables scientists to change an organism’s DNA. Leading international scientists, clinicians, and ethicists gather to explore case studies of particular gene therapies and consider the legal and bioethical implications of this research.

SESSION 2: CASE STUDIES: HEART DISEASE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA

Introduction by moderator Omar Abudayyeh, fellow, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

(7:39) Vence L. Bonham Jr., senior advisor to the director on genomics and health disparities, National Human Genome Research Institute

(30:07) Kiran Musunuru, associate professor of medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

PANEL DISCUSSION (54:26)
AUDIENCE Q&A (1:08:51)

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

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Voxelated Soft Matter via Multimaterial, Multinozzle 3D Printing

Title: Voxelated Soft Matter via Multimaterial, Multinozzle 3D Printing
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Multimaterial Multinozzle 3D "MM3D" Printing, a new technique developed by engineers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS, allows seamless switching between up to eight different materials within a single nozzle, allowing for the creation of complex 3D objects in a faction of the time required by other extrusion-based 3D printing methods.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

HILT 2019 Conference: Learning from Each Other, Learning Online

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Learning from Each Other, Learning Online
Runtime: 56:11
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: “Learning from Each Other, Learning Online: Peer Learning in Online Environments” shared models and best practices from Harvard’s online education programs for making peer engagement effective.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Afternoon panel
Runtime: 58:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Conference attendees about an experimental college run largely by students, during a plenary session in which Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana spoke with Robyn Gittleman, former associate dean of undergraduate education and director of Tufts University’s Experimental College (ExCollege).

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2019 Conference: Student Perspectives on Peer Learning

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Student Perspectives on Peer Learning
Runtime: 58:53
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: “Student Perspectives on Peer Learning: Learners are Teachers, Too” let students share their insights into when peer learning is most effective, and when it isn’t.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Morning panel
Runtime: 55:17
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Dustin Tingley, faculty director of the HILT conference and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduced the conference’s morning panel, on peer-learning practices beyond the classroom. Erin Driver-Linn, dean for education at the Harvard School of Public Health, moderated a discussion with award-winning music educator Cecil Adderley, chair of Berklee College of Music’s education department, and Mike Way, head coach of Harvard’s squash program.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2019 Conference: Making Peer Learning Accessible

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Making Peer Learning Accessible
Runtime: 48:05
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: “Making Peer Learning Accessible: Tools and Practices” explained how to make peer learning work for students with disabilities.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

HILT 2019 Conference: Making Peer Learning Effective

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Making Peer Learning Effective
Runtime: 20:34
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: “Making Peer Learning Effective: What Does the Research Say?” summarized key findings from education research into why and how peer learning works.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: HILT 2019 Conference: Welcome remarks
Runtime: 11:56
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Harvard University Provost Alan Garber provided welcome remarks to kick-off HILT’s eighth annual conference: “Peer Learning: Everyone’s a Teacher, Everyone’s a Learner,” held Friday, September 27, 2019 in Wasserstein Hall at Harvard Law School.

For more, visit hilt.harvard.edu

Title: Navy SEAL finds his voice and purpose
Runtime: 5:06
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Harvard Extension School degree candidate Sergio Lopez on learning to speak again and sharing his inspirational story

The Constitution, the Court, and Social Change | Tomiko Brown-Nagin || Radcliffe Institute

Title: The Constitution, the Court, and Social Change | Tomiko Brown-Nagin || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 36:51
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Since Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the potential influence of the court on a range of critically important issues that could come before it in the coming years has been the subject of intense speculation and analysis. In her inaugural lecture series as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tomiko Brown-Nagin RI ’17 puts the present moment in context, exploring how the court has—or has not—driven social change and responded to popular movements for social change at crucial points in 20th-century US history.

Featuring:
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Introduced by:
A'Lelia Bundles, author, journalist, and public speaker

Presented by:
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard Alumni Association
Harvard Club...

Writing Black Lives || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Writing Black Lives || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 1:13:50
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.

Featuring:
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Imani Perry, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies and faculty associate in the program in law and public affairs and the program in gender and sexuality studies, Princeton University

Robert Reid-Pharr, professor of studies of women, gender, and sexuality and of African and African American studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Introduced by Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and of studies of women, gender, and sexuality,...

Title: Haunted literature at Harvard
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Laura van den Berg’s creative writing course, “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” students put their imaginations to work creating their own tales of demons, monsters, and ghosts.

For Halloween, van den Berg’s creative writing students wrote a collaborative “exquisite corpse” story set in a haunted house on a rainy night. They read their story in the Harry Widener Memorial Room at Widener Library, under the watchful eye of the room’s namesake.

Read more: http://bit.ly/33hoXMY

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Text written by: Amanda Gorman, Emily Gordon, Karina Gonzalez-Espinoza, Stuti Telidevara, Christian Wagner, Margaret Butler

Forget what they told you. The house was red that fall. Not blue. I know because when it was all over the panes matched my rainboots.

We snuck in one afternoon, because nighttime was a step too far. Inside, though, the house was shrouded in midnight’s darkne...

Title: Spider-inspired sensors
Runtime: 2:16
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Inspired by jumping spiders, Harvard University researchers developed a compact and efficient depth sensor that could be used on microrobots, in small wearable devices or in lightweight virtual and augmented reality headsets. The device combines a multifunctional, flat metalens with an ultra-efficient algorithm to measure depth in a single shot.

Leslie Jamison in conversation with James Wood

Title: Leslie Jamison in conversation with James Wood
Runtime: 1:25:49
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Leslie Jamison recently published her new book, a collection of essays called Make It Scream, Make It Burn, in September 2019. She's also written a novel, The Gin Closet, a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, and a critical memoir, The Recovering. Her work has appeared in places including The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

James Wood has been a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian, in London, from 1992 to 1995, and a senior editor at The New Republic from 1995 to 2007. His critical essays are collected in “The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief”; “The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;...

Rapid Triage Test for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Title: Rapid Triage Test for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: There’s a large unmet need for accurate, fast, and inexpensive tests to identify patients who have active tuberculosis (ATB), which claims the lives over a million people per year. A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and several other collaborating institutions have created a fast, ultrasensitive, multiplexed triage test for ATB that could be used in low-resource settings to identify patients who are at high risk for ATB and need immediate medical attention.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Project Teach: Creating a College and Career Mindset

Title: Project Teach: Creating a College and Career Mindset
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Harvard’s Project Teach program works to help local seventh graders develop a “college-going identity.” A cornerstone of the program is a visit to Harvard’s campus, where students participate in a program tailored to their individual academic interests.

Janice Wong: Your World, Your Imagination: Art and Texture with Chocolate; Science & Cooking 2019

Title: Janice Wong: Your World, Your Imagination: Art and Texture with Chocolate; Science & Cooking 2019
Runtime: 1:23:05
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Janice Wong: Your World, Your Imagination: Art and Texture with Chocolate; Science & Cooking Lecture Series 2019

Title: To Serve Better — Change is collective
Runtime: 3:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Inspired by one of Harvard Yard’s famous gates, “To Serve Better” is a yearlong Harvard Gazette project exploring the connections between members of the Harvard community and neighborhoods across the United States and its territories.

Harvard alumna Sarah Lockridge-Steckel is co-founder and CEO of The Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides pathways to opportunities for young adults through partnerships with education institutions and employers in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

Explore "To Serve Better" to see more stories from across the country https://toservebetter.harvard.edu

Drug-Resistant Infections: Confronting an Escalating Crisis

Title: Drug-Resistant Infections: Confronting an Escalating Crisis
Runtime: 59:03
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Antibiotics are a pillar of modern medicine. They have saved millions of lives. But as the use of antibiotics has increased, so has the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant microbes that have adapted to survive most, or all, of today’s antibiotics. The CDC reports that two million people are infected with drug-resistant bacteria every year in the United States, and the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance estimated that, around the world, 700,000 people die of such infections annually. That number stands to increase: the Review predicts that, by 2050, drug resistance could be responsible for 10 million deaths a year. And while these numbers are dominated by bacterial infections, fungal infections like Candida auris are also a threat, especially to vulnerable patients in hospitals and nursing homes.

Despite drug resistance growing, the development of new antibiotics has slowed. How can policymakers help accelerate the pace of new drug development, and how can all of us—...

I Want to Prepare to Learn Something I Don't Know | Gala Porras-Kim || Radcliffe Institute

Title: I Want to Prepare to Learn Something I Don't Know | Gala Porras-Kim || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 49:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As part of the 2019–2020 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Gala Porras-Kim RI ’20 shares some of her work, which considers how a lack of information in the fields of linguistics, history, and conservation allow for other forms of understanding.

Porras-Kim is an interdisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. She is the 2019–2020 David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/gala-porras-kim

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

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Examining the Opioid Epidemic’s Impact on Professional Work | Liz Chiarello || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Examining the Opioid Epidemic’s Impact on Professional Work | Liz Chiarello || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 48:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As part of the 2019–2020 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Liz Chiarello RI ’20 uses the opioid and pain crisis as a case for understanding how health care providers make decisions in prescribing and dispensing certain drugs and what the impact is on patient care.

Chiarello is an assistant professor of sociology at Saint Louis University with a background in medical sociology, socio-legal studies, organizational theory, and social movements. She is a 2019–2020 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/liz-chiarello

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Harvard’s William Kaelin wins Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

Title: Harvard’s William Kaelin wins Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: William G. Kaelin Jr., is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Kaelin is the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Kaelin shares the award with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe of the University of Oxford and the Francis Crick Institute, and Gregg L. Semenza of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. (Semenza is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College.) The three were cited jointly for the discovery of the pathway by which cells from humans and most animals sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process essential for survival.

FIXING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FROM WITHIN

Title: FIXING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FROM WITHIN
Runtime: 30:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Peter Shumlin, former Governor of Vermont (2011-2017), joined the Voices in Leadership program on September 25, 2019. Governor Shumlin spoke about a variety of public health and governance topics with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor Ben Sommers

A First Look at the Renovated Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute

Title: A First Look at the Renovated Schlesinger Library || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 3:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: A week before it reopened to the public, Jane Kamensky offered a tour of the renovated Schlesinger Library. The library is now home to the Lia and William Poorvu Gallery and to an updated seminar space where students can access digitized materials from the archive.

FEATURING
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and Professor of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Jane Kamensky
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

For information about the Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.

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Gravitational Waves, Light, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements | Edo Berger || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Gravitational Waves, Light, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements | Edo Berger || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 45:21
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As part of the 2019–2020 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Edo Berger RI ’20 shares the discovery of gold and other rare heavy elements being forged in a cataclysmic collision between neutron stars, which, through the emission of gravitational waves—a brand new way of sensing the universe—has recently been seen for the very first time.

Berger is a professor of astronomy at Harvard University. He is the 2019–2020 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/edo-berger

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Thinking Like a Magician | Joshua Jay || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Thinking Like a Magician | Joshua Jay || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 56:12
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In this performance-based lecture, the globe-trotting magician Joshua Jay pulls back the curtain on the way magicians think.

He explores how magicians create seemingly impossible feats and how to apply these same strategies to our lives and work. His demonstration and lecture explore how the techniques that undergird his effects—the guiding of attention, the framing of perception, and the staging of surprise—can give us fine-grained, practical insight into our own creative pursuits. And along the way, Jay mystifies us with some of his signature sleight-of-hand illusions.

0:01 Introduction by dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin
5:57 Reverse Logic
11:50 Misdirection (Hands)
16:47 Ring Revelation
18:43 Thinking Like a Magician
36:12 World Record Routine
41:41 Audience Q&A

This is a 2019–2020 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities.

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Misdirection | Joshua Jay || Radcliffe Institute

Title: Misdirection | Joshua Jay || Radcliffe Institute
Runtime: 5:02
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Follow along and let the magician Joshua Jay fool you—or more appropriately, fool yourself.

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Mayor Steve Benjamin: Leadership and being a role model for future generations.

Title: Mayor Steve Benjamin: Leadership and being a role model for future generations.
Runtime: 0:34
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mayor Steve Benjamin on "being a piece of the puzzle" and setting an example for future generations.

Mayor Steve Benjamin: Advancing women's roles in government.

Title: Mayor Steve Benjamin: Advancing women's roles in government.
Runtime: 0:44
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mayor Steve Benjamin talks about how he helped advance women on his staff when he was in the Governor's cabinet. While he could not appoint his successor, he could appoint his deputies and so he named women to those posts.

Mayor Steve Benjamin: Doing right for the right reasons and preventing a violent situation.

Title: Mayor Steve Benjamin: Doing right for the right reasons and preventing a violent situation.
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mayor Steve Benjamin on how he helped Columbia, SC avoid a situation like that which occurred in Charlottesville, VA. He discusses how when one is doing the right things for the right reasons, one can rest easy at night.

Mayor Benjamin: Challenges facing children's education.

Title: Mayor Benjamin: Challenges facing children's education.
Runtime: 0:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mayor Steve Benjamin discusses the fact that too many children come to school unprepared to learn because they are dealing with challenging issues at home.

Mayor Steve Benjamin: Common sense gun laws.

Title: Mayor Steve Benjamin: Common sense gun laws.
Runtime: 0:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mayor Steve Benjamin supports the Second Amendment. He's a gun owner. As a leader, he believes that with gun rights come gun responsibilities and with that, he led the effort in Columbia, SC to ban bump stocks.

Mental Health and Wellness for Students of Color: Transitioning to College

Title: Mental Health and Wellness for Students of Color: Transitioning to College
Runtime: 1:01:35
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Amid the bustle on U.S. college campuses, a growing challenge is causing concern. Many college students of color report mental health issues–including depression, anxiety and, among some groups, increased risk for suicide–that are not well understood or effectively addressed. According to surveys conducted by Harris Poll, students of color feel both more isolated and more overwhelmed than their white classmates. At the same time, they are less likely to seek counseling services on campus.

Bringing together experts with diverse experiences and perspectives, this Forum explored how colleges can better support the social, emotional and mental health needs of students of color, particularly during the critical transition to college. Panelists emphasized evidence-based steps and policies that can help cultivate a positive and healthy experience for college students of color.

This Forum event was presented in partnership with The Steve Fund and jointly with Huff...

Title: Climate Week
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Scientists and engineers all over the world have been grappling with the realities of climate change for decades: collecting evidence, communicating dangers, and working together to develop solutions. At Harvard, scientists are developing solutions to protect the global food supply, clear the air of dangerous particles and gases, secure clean water supplies, and develop clean sources of energy.

Learn more: http://www.harvard.edu/climate

The Measles Outbreak: Why Vaccines Matter

Title: The Measles Outbreak: Why Vaccines Matter
Runtime: 1:02:48
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The U.S. officially eliminated measles nearly 20 years ago. Yet, this year, more than 1,100 cases have been reported, despite being preventable by vaccine. The CDC says the majority of cases are among those who were not vaccinated.

This Forum looked at the drivers of the 2019 outbreaks and, more generally, the challenges of vaccine acceptance. Why do some parents delay or decline vaccinating their children? How might their concerns be addressed? What about exemptions? Why does the global picture matter? And what can be done once an outbreak begins? New polling data framed this discussion, providing a uniquely current picture of vaccine acceptance in the U.S.

Part of The Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forums, this event was presented jointly with PRI's The World & WGBH on September 12, 2019.

Watch the entire series: https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/

A Swifter Way Towards 3D printed Organs FINAL

Title: A Swifter Way Towards 3D printed Organs FINAL
Runtime: 2:55
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: 20 people die waiting for an organ transplant every day in the US, but lab-grown organs so far lack the cellular density and functions required to make them viable replacements. The new SWIFT method from the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS solves those problems by 3D printing vascular channel networks directly into living tissue constructs, enabling the creation of larger tissues approximating the size and function of organs.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Harvard student Izzy Goodchild-Michelman grows connections

Title: Harvard student Izzy Goodchild-Michelman grows connections
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Izzy Goodchild-Michelman '23 helped to create educational lessons for Spartanburg, South Carolina schoolchildren as part of the Hub City Urban Farm's Seed to Table program. Goodchild-Michelman, a Spartanburg native, worked on this project as part of Harvard College's new Service Starts with Summer program for incoming first-year students engaged in service projects in their hometown communities.

Title: Soft Robotic Gripper for Jellyfish
Runtime: 1:07
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In order to study jellyfish and other fragile marine life without damaging them, researchers at the Wyss Institute and Baruch College developed an ultra-soft gripper to gently grasp jellyfish and release them without harm.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Harvard student Ben Elwy finds connection through language

Title: Harvard student Ben Elwy finds connection through language
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Ben Elwy ’23 designed and taught a free Arabic language and culture program to kids at his local library in Wellesley, Massachusetts this summer to share his love of language and to build community across cultures in his hometown. As a participant in the new Service Starts with Summer (3SP) program, Elwy committed 100 hours to his service project.

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