In the News
Missouri Opioid Prescribing Rate Went Up 10% In 2018, County Program Finds
Lia Chiarello RI '20 talks about prescription drug monitoring databases, which help doctors and pharmacists check a person’s prescription history before they give out potentially addictive controlled substances.
Two Receive Roslyn Abramson Award
Durba Mitra. Photo by Jon Chase, Harvard CorrespondentRadcliffe Professor Durba Mitra has been named a winner of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to Harvard assistant or associate professors for excellence in teaching undergraduates.
A Gentle Grip on Gelatinous Creatures
Courtesy of Wyss Institute at Harvard UniversityTo study jellyfish and other fragile marine life without damaging them, researchers at the Wyss Institute and David Gruber RI '18 developed an ultra-soft gripper to gently grasp jellyfish and release them without harm.
Toward the Negotiated City
The redeveloped Government Center, Boston, 1971, and surrounding private buildings. Photo courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed & PartnersLizabeth Cohen, dean emerita of the Radcliffe Institute, presents a history of postwar city building in her new book, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.
Revisiting Angela Davis
Elizabeth Hinton arranges materials for the Angela Davis exhibit with (from left) Radcliffe arts program manager Meg Rotzel, gallery coordinator Joe Zane, and Pforzheimer fellow Jackie Wang. Photo by Stu RosnerProfessor Elizabeth Hinton is curating an exhibit and conference at the Radcliffe Institue drawing on materials from the Schlesinger Library's Angela Y. Davis archives.
The Sugar That Saturates the American Diet Has a Barbaric History as the "White Gold" That Fueled Slavery
Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Photo by Tony RinaldoRadcliffe Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad traces the sugar industry as part of the 1619 Project, a major initiative from the New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
Archiving Controversial Digital Materials
By documenting social justice movements online, archivists are discovering the need to create collections of born-digital materials related to current events from both the fringe and mainstream.
Radcliffe Mourns the Writer and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison in 2007. Photo by Tony RinaldoToni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is an inspiration to many here at the Institute. She delivered the marquee lecture celebrating the founding of the Radcliffe Institute in 2001, and we honored her with the Radcliffe Medal in 2007.
Research and Everyday Life
Photo by Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff PhotographerThis summer, Ciara Hervás '21 is collecting historical data on black women’s suffrage organizations for a digital data hub called the Suffrage Portal, part of the Radcliffe Institute's Long 19th Amendment project.
Harvard Reflects on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s Moon Walk
Earth and moon. Courtesy of NASARadcliffe science faculty director Alyssa Goodman and fellow astronomers share recollections of humankind’s first walk on the moon 50 years ago, as well as their thoughts on its wide-ranging legacy.