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An interview with the EHT member Michael Kramer in El País [in Spanish]

March 23, 2018

Michael Kramer, director en el Instituto Max Planck de Radioastronomía, Bonn, Alemania, dictó una conferencia en en la fundación BBVA en Madrid, España. En la entrevista para El País, Kramer explica los últimos avances sobre agujeros negros supermasivos, púlsares y los esfuerzos para obtener una imagen del horizonte de sucesos con una red mundial de radiotelescopios: el Event Horizon Telescope, colaboración de la que él es miembro: ...

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Biomaterial scaffold-based immunotherapy platforms licensed to Novartis

March 31, 2018

The Wyss Institute at Harvard Universtiy and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have entered a licensing and collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop our biomaterial systems to delivery next generation immunotherapies. Our approach uses an injectable or implantable biomaterial scaffold that recruits and trains the body's endogenous immune cells to identify and kill a patient's own cancerous cells. A big congratulations to Dave...

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Bertsch Papers, Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University, 하버드 대학교 하버드-옌칭 도서관 버치 콜렉션에 대하여

March 30, 2018

Bertsch Papers, Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University, 하버드 대학교 하버드-옌칭 도서관 버치 콜렉션에 대하여

Photo from Kim Koo Forum
Written by Tae Gyun Park, Kim Koo Visiting Professor in Fall 2017; Professor, Graduate School of International...

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Doyle publishes "No Morality, No Self"

March 30, 2018

James Doyle, Lecturer in Philosophy at Harvard, has recently published No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's Radical Skepticism, which will be released in April through Harvard University Press.

 

Frequently cited and just as often disputed, Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) and “The First Person” (1975) are touchstones of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Though the arguments Anscombe advances in these papers are familiar to philosophers, their significance remains widely misunderstood, says ...

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Meira Levinson Discusses Workplace Wexual Harassment in this Month's 'School Administrator' Magazine

March 30, 2018

This month's "Ethical Educator" column asks how a superintendent should handle an allegation of sexual harrassment.

"Scenario: The superintendent is dealing with a sexual harassment allegation involving a principal and an office staff member — something the superintendent characterizes as “one person’s word against the other.” The school board’s attorney recommends allowing the alleged perpetrator to come back to work with a sternly worded letter of reprimand.... Read more about Meira Levinson Discusses Workplace Wexual Harassment in this Month's 'School Administrator' Magazine

Heroines of Health

Heroines of Health: Global Health Storytelling Film Screening, Workshop, & Panel

March 30, 2018
  • When: April 11th, 4:30-6:30 PM
  • Where: Science Center Hall E, Cambridge campus
  • Who: Lisa Russell, MPH, documentary filmmaker, TED Talk speaker, and founder of StoryShifter. Panel members include Jacque Caglia of the Women & Health Initiative and Dr. Brittany Seymour of HSDM.
  • What: Screening of film followed by a workshop on responsible global health storytelling & expert panel about women in global health. Yummy food will be served!
  • RSVP: Please click here to reserve your spot.
     

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Carpe Diem, Harvard

March 30, 2018

Students must take advantage of new resources to effectively advance inclusion and belonging

By The Crimson Editorial Board

On March 27, a University-wide task force on Inclusion and Belonging announced its recommendations, calling on all of Harvard’s schools to step up efforts to better include those marginalized along racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and ideological lines. Among the recommendations released were a series of concrete administrative...

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