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The 2013 Harvard Horizons
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History of Science Grad Stephanie Dick to be Recognized by New GSAS Initiative



It's about Time!



Visit the new CHSI exhibition

"Time & Time Again:
How Science and Culture Shape the Past, Present, and Future
"
in Science Center 251 through December 6, 2013.

 

Please plan to join us for these related events:

 

 

 

Date "TIME & TIME AGAIN" Event
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013

EXHIBIT OPENING: 5:50PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013 Stories Through Time - A Family Festival
9:00 AM–4:00 PM at HMNH
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/family_programs/index.php
FEBRUARY 27 through APRIL 23, 2013 8 Artists Measure the Past, Present, and Future
Artist Talk and Reception on Wednesday March 13th, 4-6pm in Harvard Medical School’s Warren Alpert 563 and in the Transit Gallery (located in Gordon Hall’s Lower Level, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston.

Contact: Tania Rodriguez (Tania_Rodriguez@hms.harvard.edu)
TUESDAY
MARCH 12, 2013
FROM THE BIG BANG TO BROADWAY: How Things Evolve
Lecture by Robert Hazen, Research Scientist, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory and Professor of Earth Sciences, George Mason University
FRIDAY
APRIL 5, 2013
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE GALLERY REOPENING LECTURE   by Francis A. Macdonald, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University at HMNH
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php
SATURDAY
APRIL 20, 2013
CONCERT FROM THE BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA sponsored by the CHSI
8:00PM @ Sanders Theater
AUGUST 22 through 25, 2013 North American Sundial Society Annual Conference
at the Marriott Courtyard Boston Cambridge
777 Memorial Drive · Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
SEPTEMBER 22 through
OCTOBER 1, 2013

HMNH Trip: Time Travel: Looking at Science and Culture in and Around London,England
Leader: Dr. Sara Schechner


The David M. Lee Historical Lecture in Physics


featuring

Roy J. Glauber

Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics

"Recollections of Los Alamos & The Nuclear Era"

 

Tuesday, April 30 • 8:00PM
Science Center Lecture Hall D


with Reception to Follow

 

Special CHSI Exhibition "Time & Time Again" will be open during reception.

 

For more information, contact Harvard Physics:
617-495-2866

 

 

 

 

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News


April 9, 2013

Isaacson Delivers 2013 Rothschild

Renowned biographer Walter Isaacson addressed an avid audience, including Harvard President Drew Faust, delivering the 2013 Robert and Maurine Rothschild Lecture, The Genius of Jobs, Einstein, & Franklin, Monday, April 9.

View the lecture online here.

 

March 21, 2013

From the "Where are they now?" File

Recent HS doctoral recipient Alex Wellerstein's work, Nukemap, has been looming large on Jon Stewart's Daily Show recently.

 

March 1 , 2013

Sophomore Tutorial Redux

Profs Ann Harrington and Christopher Phillips receive kudos for their innovative changes to the Sophomore Tutorial, funded in part by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching.

 

February 26, 2013

Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Professor David Jones' new book, Broken Hearts: The Tangles History of Cardiac Care, is profiled in the March/April 2013 edition of Harvard Magazine.

 

January 28, 2013

The Hard work of Three HS Grad Students Celebrated

History of Science Ph.D. candidates Leena Akhtar, Lisa Haushofer, and Cara Kiernan Fallon's work with the Public Health Museum in Tewksbury was recently recognized in The Boston Globe and The Tewksbury Advocate. Leena, Lisa, and Cara completely reorganized the museum's exhibitions. Advisors to the project were professors Anne Harrington and David Jones, and CHSI Curator Sara Schechner.


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