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Analysts warn of increasing link between climate change, migration

Analysts warn of increasing link between climate change, migration

September 29, 2017

Climate change is a “risk factor” for forced migration, like in the European refugee crisis, experts on health, migration, and disaster relief told a symposium Thursday, urging development of early warning systems and robust government responses to ease the effects of climate-related problems.

Jennifer Leaning, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said that, although controversial in the 1990s, the...

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‘Maus’ author Art Spiegelman talks art and existence at Harvard

‘Maus’ author Art Spiegelman talks art and existence at Harvard

September 29, 2017

For many, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” is not just an unshakable Holocaust narrative, but a classic engagement, and struggle, with Jewish identity.

Today, more than 30 years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel appeared, Spiegelman still has trouble making sense of his religion and culture. “The relationship is fraught,” said the 69-year-old during an early-semester visit to Harvard. “I don’t know how to take solace in religion.”

Speaking candidly to a class of comparative literature students, Spiegelman was animated on topics ranging...

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Harvard Global Institute Grants Expand Scope

September 29, 2017
[Harvard Gazette ]...Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, and Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, will bring Nocera’s clean-energy innovation — the “bionic leaf” — together with Pande’s policy research to inform the adoption of the clean energy generated by the bionic leaf in India. The collaboration will not only set the stage for the successful introduction and scaling of bionic leaf technology in India, but also create the framework to accelerate the adoption of... Read more about Harvard Global Institute Grants Expand Scope
Inside Harvard dorms: Roommates share their stories

Inside Harvard dorms: Roommates share their stories

September 28, 2017

At Harvard, incoming freshmen select their favored study, waking, and sleeping schedules before arriving on campus so that roommates can be matched to complement and enhance their lifestyles. As President Drew Faust said during Freshman Convocation for the Class of 2020, learning also takes place outside the classroom during everyday interactions in which students augment each other intellectually while living together harmoniously. “Everyone in this community has the right to be heard, to be...

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How Mastercard’s “Data Philanthropy” Program Is Tackling The Global Financial Information Gap

September 28, 2017

Fast Company

The whole idea of corporate philanthropy is pretty straightforward: A large company becomes profitable enough that it sets aside a certain sum each year to funnel toward the charity or cause of its choosing. Despite the fact that this formula has come under fire for serving as a cover-up for companies whose...

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Nine department members recognized for teaching excellence

Nine department members recognized for teaching excellence

September 28, 2017
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard announced its list of recipients of awards for distinguished teaching during the spring of 2017. Eight graduate students in the Department of Philosophy received Certificates of Distinction for their work as Teaching Fellows. They are:
  • Jen Nguyen: Culture and Belief 31, “Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: an Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
  • Kate Vredenburgh: Culture and Belief 31, “Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: an Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion”
  • Will...
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