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"All Things Considered" Host Talks Radio, Competitive Media Culture

Harvard Crimson, March 12, 2013

Millions of Americans hear her voice on the radio each week, but members of the Harvard community had a chance to see National Public Radio reporter and "All Things Considered" host Melissa J. Block '83 speak in person at the Radcliffe Institute. 

Following the Story

Harvard Gazette, March 12, 2013
[Photo by Stephanie Mitchell]

At the Radcliffe Institute, NPR Host Melissa Block advises aspiring journalists to be hungry for information, play an instrument, learn a language, and above all, listen.

Cohen Promoted to Professor of Law at Harvard

Harvard Law School Recent News and Spotlights, March 8, 2013
[Photo by Tony Rinaldo]

Radcliffe fellow I. Glenn Cohen—a leading expert on the intersection of health care, bioethics and the law—will be promoted from assistant professor to tenured professor of law at Harvard Law School. 

Alpha, Beta, Zeega

Harvard Gazette, March 6, 2013
[Photo by Stephanie Mitchell]

Kara Oehler, a Radcliffe fellow in 2012, today launches Zeega, a software platform and social network that provides an intuitive way for Internet users to harness the Web's riches of text, imaging, and audio for multimedia stories.

The Annotated Falcon

Harvard Magazine, March 1, 2013
[Falconry image courtesy of Harvard Imaging Services and the Harvard-Yenching Library]

The Harvard-Yenching Library holds Japanese books on falconry—the hunting of wild quarry using birds of prey—produced before 1800. They were most recently sighted during "Take Note," a two-day conference in November at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Student Art Competition Launched for Radcliffe Yard Garden

Harvard Crimson, March 1, 2013

Speaking to the Harvard Crimson about the Radcliffe public art compeition, Dean Cohen said, "Our mission as the Radcliffe Institute is to advance work beyond the classroom, beyond the usual curriculum, and so I see the garden as a way of doing that for the arts." 

American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2013 Music Award Winners

Academy of Arts and Letters, March 1, 2013

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the sixteen recipients of this year's awards in music, including Radcliffe Institute fellow, composer, and performer Kate Soper. 

Anson Chan: Charting a Course Toward Democracy

@ The Radcliffe Institute, February 26, 2013
[Photo by Tony Rinaldo]

Anson Chan, who delivered this year's Rama S. Mehta lecture at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, hopes Hong Kong's system rooted in rule of law, personal freedom, and clean government is a blueprint for change on mainland China.

Peering into Our Blind Spots

Harvard Gazette, February 26, 2013
[Photo by Kris Snibbe]

Though the idea of implicit bias has captured the public's attention for more than a decade, former Radcliffe fellows Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald did not conceive of a book on the topic until 2004, when both spent a year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where Banaji had taken a faculty appointment in 2002. Free from their normal academic obligations and once again in the same town, they began to work on "Blindspot."

The Hong Kong Model

Harvard Gazette, February 25, 2013
[Photo by Jon Chase]

Anson Chan outlined her hopes for her country during remarks at the Radcliffe Institute that included both harsh criticisms of China and what she called its “potential to be a force for tremendous good in the world.”

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