Earth's night lights seen from the International Space Station. Photo courtesy of NASAIs Anybody Out There?
SETI astronomer Jill Tarter—who was among the speakers at this year’s Radcliffe science symposium, “The Undiscovered”—on the search for intelligent life.
Photo by Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff PhotographerEngaging Radcliffe with the World
Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin emphasizes Radcliffe’s role as a place for members of the Harvard community to convene and collaborate with one another.
Barnstable High School Students’ Creativity Opens Harvard Science Symposium
Three Barnstable High School students, whose collaborative project was featured at Radcliffe's "The Undiscovered" science symposium, impress local school committee with their work.
Geraldine Brooks. Photo by Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff PhotographerJournalist, Novelist, Witness
Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks RI '06 discusses her passion for "inaccessible" stories.
The Schlesinger Library building will remain closed for renovations from November 2018 through early September 2019. Photo: Quinn G. PeriniHarvard Radcliffe Institute Renovating Schlesinger Library to Increase Use of Collections
The project involves exterior and interior renovations, including building an enlarged exhibit space and a “technology-enhanced” seminar room. Researchers can access the collection via a temporary reading room in Fay House.
Photo courtesy of Tiya MilesRutgers, Harvard Professors Share 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Radcliffe Professor Tiya Miles awarded the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.
Harvard's Political Analytics Conference last week included "Measuring & Mapping the Midterms," a panel featuring Nate Cohn and Amanda Cox of The New York Times' column The Upshot and moderated by Kirk Goldsberry of ESPN (far left). Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff PhotographerOne Election Winner: The Pollsters
In the midst of midterm elections analysis, Moon Duchin RI '19 highlights the vast complexities of gerrymandering.
Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul. Photo by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe InstituteShaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
As part of a celebration for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Schlesinger Library, Taub and eight other singers performed a dozen songs from her musical-in-progress about the American Suffragist movement.
Photo courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsMourning Devah Pager
The prize-winning Harvard sociologist and past Radcliffe Professor was a scholar, friend, and mentor of "warmth, optimism, curiosity, and inspiration.”
NPR reporter Ofeibea Quist-Arcton (right), with Marco Werman from PRI's "The World," delivered the Rama S. Mehta Lecture at Radcliffe. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff PhotographerStraight to the Heart of the Story
NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton speaks at Radcliffe on seeking the untold narratives of African women.
Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff PhotographerNew Faculty: Lauren Williams
Williams is the second woman to be tenured in Harvard’s Math Department and the Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.
Photo by Tony RinaldoAn Exciting Chapter for Min Jin Lee
Best-selling author and National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee is a 2018–2019 Radcliffe fellow at Harvard.
Reginald Dwayne Betts while he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2011-2012. Photo by Jessica ScrantonCould an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out
Reginald Dwayne Betts RI '12 writes: "After serving time for a crime I committed at 16, I discovered how hard it is for a felon to get a second chance."
Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff PhotographerUncovering the Economics of Foot-Binding
Foot-binding ended 100 years ago and people have long assumed that its demise was due to reform-minded efforts. But a study by Harvard's Melissa Brown RI '12 raises questions about that assumption.
Radcliffe Institute at Harvard to Host a Public Symposium Exploring "The Undiscovered" and How to Transform the Way Science Is Taught
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University announces its science symposium—“The Undiscovered”—to be held on October 26, 2018.
Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff PhotographerThe Serious Business of Comics
The world is full of visual stimuli. And the way we experience them isn’t just the stuff of comic book art, but the essence of life itself, according to Scott McCloud.
Catching Up to Pauli Murray
Drew Gilpin Faust writes about the reissue of Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage more than thirty years after it was first published.
Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff PhotographerBehind an Eerie Sound, Science, Espionage, and Dashed Dreams
Composer, musicologist, and theremin player Dorit Chrysler set history to sound, without the slightest touch, in a presentation with physicist John Huth.
EJ Hill during his performance "Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria" -- held at the Hammer Museum during the "Made in L.A." biennial. (Brian Forrest / Hammer Museum)EJ Hill Stood on a Podium at the Hammer for 78 Days in a Work about Race, Art, and Winning
"It’s hard being black, brown, and queer. It’s hard to be alive in spaces that are designed to kill you. But there I am, still standing."
Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff PhotographerNew Faculty: Shawon Kinew
Italian Renaissance and Baroque scholar Shawon Kinew—a Shutzer Assistant Professor at Radcliffe—talks to the Harvard Gazette about maintaining deep connections to the landscapes of her youth.
The soft robotic arm has interchangeable modular units that allow it to flex and rotate in response to the hand movements of a human operator wearing a glove equipped with wireless soft sensors. Credit: David Gruber/Baruch College, CUNYSoft Robotic Arm Acts as Extension of Human Hand
New device gives deep-sea researchers better dexterity for embracing delicate sea life.
Photo credit: GGAADDSchlesinger Library Awarded Grant to Create Comprehensive Digital Media Archive of #metoo
Funding from Harvard Library's S.T. Lee Innovation Grant will support a large-scale project to document the #metoo movement.
Radcliffe Institute Panelists Discuss Contemporary Feminism
“Feminisms Now!” featured a panel of five millennial feminist activists, artists, and writers who discussed the "intersectional" nature of 21st century feminism.
Protecting the Rights of Immigrants and Refugees
Stephanie DeGooyer RI '19 speaks with PBS's The Open Mind about the legacy of Hannah Arendt’s ideas in our age of mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war.