Videos
Closing Remarks by Geoffrey Nunberg, Adjunct Professor, School of Information, University of California at Berkeley with introduction by Diana Sorensen, Dean of Arts and Humanities; James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Welcome Remarks by Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Leah Price '91, RI '07, Senior Advisor to the Humanities Program, and Ann Blair '84, BI '99, Senior Advisor to the Humanities Program
Presentation of the Online Exhibition of Notes in Harvard Libraries and Museums by Greg Afinogenov, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
John Mekalanos discusses the biology of cholera, driven by his investigations on the molecular genetics of the causative bacterial organism. With his many colleagues in Bangladesh, Haiti, and elsewhere, he has provided strong evidence for how this organism emerged as a human pathogen and has recently become more pathogenic, as well as for why epidemics begin and end so abruptly. He applied this knowledge to the construction of genetically stable cholera vaccines that have been successfully tested in the United States and Bangladesh.
The inaugural lecture by new Radcliffe Institute Dean Lizabeth Cohen RI '02 addresses a topic central to her work as a scholar of 20th-century American urban history.
The Radcliffe Institute's annual science symposium in 2012 focused on the important and challenging topic of water.
"The Future of Seawater Desalination" by Menachem Elimelech, Yale University
"Water as Part of the Solution to Renewable Biofuel, Not a Roadblock" by Bruce E. Rittmann, Arizona State University
The Radcliffe Institute's annual science symposium in 2012 focused on the important and challenging topic of water.
"Water is Not the Next Oil" by Martin V. Melosi, University of Houston
"Impacts of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors and Other Emerging Contaminants on Fish and Fish Populations" by Charles Tyler, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
The Radcliffe Institute's annual science symposium in 2012 focused on the important and challenging topic of water.
"Are Environmental Contaminants Affecting Your Reproductive Health?" by Patricia Hunt, Washington State University
"Fracking Our Water: Emerging Threats to Drinking Water in an Age of Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction" by Sandra Steingraber, Ecologist and Author
The Radcliffe Institute's annual science symposium in 2012 focused on the important and challenging topic of water.
"Dealing with the Whole: The Need for National Water Policy" by Gerald E. Galloway, University of Maryland, College Park
Closing Remarks by Peter P. Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and faculty associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment
How much rain and snow fall and where? How much of this precipitation evaporates? How much water is covered with ice? How much water is frozen in glaciers and permafrost? These linked questions—all aspects of climate—affect the "global energy balance," or the ratio of energy emitted by Earth and energy received from the sun. In the past half-century, trends have emerged in each area that are consistent with a warming climate due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere. Using the assumption that greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise, James McCarthy, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University, extrapolates future-climate scenarios from these recent trends.
On September 21, 2012, the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, which houses Julia Child's extensive papers, sponsored "Siting Julia: A Julia Child Centenary Symposium" to celebrate the legacy of Julia Child on the centenary year of her birth. Authors, television producers, restaurateurs, and the Child's family and neighbors provided a behind-the-scenes view of the life and work of American phenomenon Julia Child, who brought her passion for learning and teaching French culinary arts to homes across the United States.
In this video, Philadelphia Cousins, Alice Kaplan, Alex Prud'homme, and Bob Spitz discuss Julia Child's life in post–World War II France.
