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Belfer Center at HKS named best global think tank on climate change policy
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) has announced that Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the winner of the 2012 ICCG Climate Think Tank…
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HSPH researcher awarded $5.6 million for antibacterial resistance research
Scott Evans, senior research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, has been awarded $5.6 million for his role in the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group…
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IMF and edX join forces to pilot online economics and financial courses
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)and edX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and MIT, announced a collaboration today to strengthen economic expertise worldwide. The collaboration will extend the reach…
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HarvardX’s fall course lineup includes new HSPH offerings
Harvard is planning to offer a dozen new online courses in the 2013-14 school year through HarvardX—the University’s branch of the online education platform edX— including new courses taught by…
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REACH program now accepting applications for fall 2013
The Research Excellence in Administration Certificate at Harvard (REACH) program, a University-wide sponsored research training series for research administrators, is currently accepting applications for the fall 2013 offering of the Foundations…
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Altenhofen named fine arts librarian, Adams named music librarian
Mary Clare Altenhofen has been named the Herman and Joan Suit Librarian for the Fine Arts Library, while Sarah Adams has been named the Richard F. French Librarian of the…
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Harvard’s Library Lab announces its Showcase Year
Harvard’s Library Lab, which enhances knowledge and library services with generous support from the Arcadia Fund, will launch its Showcase Year in December 2013. The Showcase Year will involve refining…
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Library launches research data collaborative
The Harvard Library, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, IQSS Dataverse Network and HUIT, is launching the Research Data Collaborative (RDC) to develop research data management services. The…
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Making a difference while making a profit
Can for-profit health ventures be an effective way to improve the health of poor people around the globe? Teams of students at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard Business…
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Mobile app for sexual health recognized at Deans’ Challenge
A proposal for a mobile phone app to help college students manage their sexual health was named second runner-up in Harvard’s inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge, hosted by the Harvard…
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Tackling childhood obesity in communities
At age four, Talita Jordan told her mother — a young, single parent — that she wanted to be a doctor. She stuck with the plan, becoming chief resident at…
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Data from edX’s first course offer preliminary insights into online learning
In March 2012, MIT launched 6.002x, a free online version of MIT’s introductory course in circuits and electronics. The course, the first massive open online course (MOOC) offered by MITx — and…
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‘The really interesting stuff is going to begin when the precedent runs out’
Professor Benjamin I. Sachs is this year’s winner of the prestigious Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, an honor bestowed each spring by the Harvard Law School…
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Launching a career at the intersection of law, education and civil rights
When Haben Girma ’13 was in college at Lewis & Clark, she had to solve a problem that few other students have faced. As a deaf-blind student with very limited…
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Unequal access
Conducting research projects among mothers and infants in Brazil in the mid-2000s, Paola Gilsanz got to see firsthand the effects of health inequalities. She saw that, all too often, good…
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By tutoring at local school, HSPH students enrich others, themselves
Shemar Popplewell said it’s been a “pretty big struggle” to keep up his grades in math and other subjects at Roxbury Prep Charter School in Boston where he is an…
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Outgoing Fletcher School Dean Bosworth joins Belfer Center as senior fellow
Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, who transformed Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy during his 12 years as dean, is joining Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and…
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Federico Capasso receives Humboldt Research Award
Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been…
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A role model for minority science students
Khanichi Charles knows the value of mentoring. Without it, she wouldn’t have discovered her passion for scientific research, let alone apply to Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). So despite…
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EdX builds community of developers for online & blended learning platform
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise, released its learning platform via open source license on June 1 and today released details of the first educational institutions and organizations that are…
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Desire to help the underserved lures former Army officer to public health
Serving more than a dozen years as a U.S. Army medical operations officer was a rich and worthwhile experience for Martin Reidy. He had three tours in Iraq under his…
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Using business skills to propel ‘big impact’ health improvements
Five years ago, Shane Kiernan was an investment banker for a private equity real estate fund, helping evaluate potential acquisitions. In 2008, he established, and subsequently sold, a Dublin-based business…
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Juma: Agricultural technology innovation key to end hunger
The world can only meet its future food needs through innovation, including the use of agricultural biotechnology, a Harvard development specialist said today. Since their commercial debut in the mid-1990s,…
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Yto Barrada named Gardner Fellow
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has announced the selection of the 2013 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee has awarded the…
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Loeb Music Library joins Borrow Direct
Approximately 176,000 items from the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library collection are now accessible to Harvard’s Borrow Direct partners, in addition to the approximately 6.5 million items from Harvard made…
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HSPH graduates told to be leaders, trailblazers, change-makers
Addressing graduates at the 2013 Commencement Ceremony on May 30, HSPH Dean Julio Frenk spoke of how, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, HSPH faculty, alumni, and students…
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Students commissioned as JAG officers aboard U.S.S. Constitution
On May 14, several members of the Harvard Law School community came together aboard the U.S.S. Constitution as three Harvard Law School students swore oaths to “support and defend the…
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Morgan and Helen Chu commit $5 million to Harvard Law School
Morgan Chu, one of the nation’s preeminent intellectual property lawyers, and his wife, Helen Chu, have given $5 million to Harvard Law School to establish in perpetuity the dean’s chair…
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HSPH, Ministry of Health of India formalize collaboration on public health issues
India faces daunting public health challenges. Maternal and infant mortality rates are high. Malaria and tuberculosis persist stubbornly. Noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer are prevalent and increasing. And…
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Read & Ride BikeShare Program at Law School Library lends bikes, helmets
The Harvard Law School Library, HLS Sustainability and the HLS Green Living Program launched the Read & Ride BikeShare program in September 2010 to provide a more eco-friendly mode of…