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Empowering Women in Africa

Harvard Gazette, March 14, 2011
Joyce Banda, photo by [Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer]

Q&A with Joyce Banda, vice president of Malawi, who visited Harvard last week to participate in the Radcliffe Institute's conference on gender in the developing world. 

 

First Behind the Camera: Photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals

Harvard Gazette, March 14, 2011
[Image courtesy of Schlesinger Library]

Before Annie Leibovitz and Margaret Bourke-White, there was Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942). Her papers and pictures to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, where they're available today to scholars and others interested in women's history.

The Need for Men to Back Women

Harvard Gazette, March 8, 2011
[Photo by Stephanie Mitchell]

Radcliffe conference explores gender issues in developing world.

Director of Hit Black Watch Play Swaps Easterhouse for Elite US University

Scottish Daily Record, March 5, 2011

John Tiffany discusses his work at the Radcliffe Institute and his career as an award-winning director.

One Woman Show

The Boston Globe, March 4, 2011

Actress and writer Anna Deavere Smith, performed at a private event the other night at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 

The Radcliffe Institute Celebrates Black History Month

Harvard Gazette, February 24, 2011
[Dorothy West (1907–1998), a writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s, was interviewed for the Schlesinger Library’s Black Women Oral History Project. Here she is at her writing desk, on her porch in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, circa 1985. West’s papers—and the blue desk—are in the Schlesinger’s collections. Photo by Judith Sedwick.]

The Radcliffe Institute celebrates Black History Month with the help of fellows, staff and collections at the Schlesinger Library. 

Beyond DNA

Harvard Gazette, February 23, 2011
[Photo by Kris Snibbe]

C. David Allis explores an aspect of genetic regulation during the Radcliffe Dean's Lecture. 


Action Needed to Ensure New Technology Can Be Wiretapped, FBI Says

CNN, February 18, 2011

Radcliffe Institute fellow Susan Landau among speakers before Congress on the FBI's push for increased wiretapping privileges.

FBI: We're Not Demanding Encryption Back Doors

CNET News, February 17, 2011

Radcliffe Institute fellow Susan Landau consulted as FBI seeks to amend wiretapping policies.

As Online Communications Stymie Wiretaps, Lawmakers Debate Solutions

New York Times, February 17, 2011

Radcliffe fellow Susan Landau cites "high-profile cases in which hackers exploited such mechanisms in Greece and Italy to illegally spy on politicians and other prominent people" as a caution against expanded wiretapping.

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