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Philanthropist Melinda Gates to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Photo by Jason BellMelinda A. Gates will receive the Radcliffe Medal in May in recognition of her significant impact on women and girls worldwide through her work as a philanthropist and entrepreneur.
Melinda Gates to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Melinda Gates, the philanthropist who co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband, Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07 (the co-founder of Microsoft), will receive the institute’s highest honor, the Radcliffe Medal.
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Internet of Things
Illustration by Oliver BurstonRadcliffe fellow Fran Berman explores ways regulation can minimize online risk, maximize safety, control environmental impact, and help society.
At Radcliffe, Students Connect with Angela Davis’ Activism
Photo by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe InstituteTechBoston Academy high school students studying equity and activism deepen their understanding of Angela Davis with a visit to the Schlesinger Library.
A Flight from Homophobia
"I was about to be outed in a country that hates homosexuals," said former teacher and current Radcliffe fellow Neal Hovelmeier, who hopes to one day to return to Zimbabwe. Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff PhotographerFearing for his safety after being outed, educator and novelist Neal Hovelmeier RI '20 flees Zimbabwe to become Harvard Scholar at Risk.
Nearby Stellar Nurseries Ride a Giant Wave
The Radcliffe Wave (red points) next to the Sun (yellow point) inside a cartoon model of our galaxy in the WorldWide Telescope software. Image courtesy of WorldWide Telescope, Alyssa Goodman et al.Clouds of star-forming gas trace a long, mysterious ripple through the Milky Way, upending our picture of the Sun's neighborhood.
To Serve Better—Speak, Memory
Alaskan Native poet Joan Naviyuk Kane is teaching her two sons, John and George, the Qawiaraq dialect of the Inupiaq language. Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff PhotographerPoet Joan Naviyuk Kane RI '20 is fiercely dedicated to sustaining her Alaskan Inupiac language: "I think being attentive to loss doesn’t have to be devastating. It can really inform people to take action and to participate."
The Giant in Our Stars
In this illustration, the "Radcliffe Wave" data is overlaid on an image of the Milky Way galaxy. Image from the WorldWide Telescope, courtesy of Alyssa GoodmanInterconnected stellar nurseries, named the Radcliffe Wave, form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy.
Something Appears to Have Collided with the Milky Way and Created a Huge Wave in the Galactic Plane
Visualization of the Radcliffe Wave. The wave is marked by red dots. The Sun is represented by a yellow dot to show our proximity to this huge structure. Courtesy of Alyssa Goodman/Harvard UniversityAn enormous wave has been discovered in the Milky Way that may have formed as a result of a collision with a massive mystery object—potentially a clump of dark matter.
Astronomers Discover Huge Gaseous Wave Holding Milky Way's Newest Stars
A side-on visualisation shows the undulating nature of the Radcliffe Wave and the position of the sun. Photograph: Harvard UniversityAstronomers have discovered a gigantic, undulating wave of dust and gas where newborn stars are forged over a 50 million billion mile stretch of the Milky Way.