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At yesterday’s conference, Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of global health and social medicine, spoke about how the Ebola outbreak exposed the need to raise the standard of basic medical care in West Africa. Farmer said that “low aspirations” are “the poison we have to work against.”

University News |

HMS Ebola conference emphasizes importance of basic supportive care

At a Harvard Medical School conference, experts discussed lessons from the epidemic.

Frames from <i>Oidhche Sheanchais (A Night of Storytelling)</i>, directed by Robert Flaherty.

Arts & Culture |

Harvard screens rare Irish film, “A Night of Storytelling”

The first Irish “talkie,” long thought lost, comes to light at the Harvard Film Archive.

Homi Bhaba, conference organizer and director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, led off the symposium at the First Church in Cambridge on February 12.

University News |

Panelists discuss legacy of World War I for Harvard’s Mellon Seminar on Violence

Scholars gathered by the Mahindra Humanities Center examine the wounds left by “the war to end all wars.”

Sarah Manguso

Montage | March-April 2015

Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness asks, why write?

Dissecting her diary, a writer weaponizes solipsism.

Vijay Iyer

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2015

Profile of Vijay Iyer

Harvard’s first tenured professor and jazz-artist-in-residence.

Visualizations like Stephen Malinowski&rsquo;s Music Animation Machine version of Debussy&rsquo;s Arabesque no. 1 for piano solo can lead to new insights into musical compositions.

Right Now | March-April 2015

Harvard music professors create dynamic music theory diagrams

Two scholars—in jazz, and in German music—team up on a tool that makes musical structure visible.

Graduate School of Education professors Tina Grotzer and Christopher Dede have designed virtual realities, such as the pond above, for students to explore as scientists: for example, by collecting data along the shoreline or underwater, via submarine.

Features | March-April 2015

Teaching with technology, for a new generation

From the “Teaching Machine” to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology

Arts & Culture |

A Far Cry's debut recording receives recognition

An answer to the chamber orchestra's Dreams and Prayers

Though A Far Cry tours nationally and abroad, the group still calls Boston home, renting a storefront in Jamaica Plain as rehearsal space.

Montage | January-February 2015

Self-conducting chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, grows into its eighth season

A Far Cry plays con spirito—and without a baton.

The Cooper Gallery opened with its first exhibit on October 21, which will be on view until January 8.

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2015

Harvard's African and African American art gallery opens

Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.

Deborah Zaitchik and Susan Carey

Right Now | January-February 2015

Is executive function foundational for conceptual learning, Harvard profs ask

Studying the role of “executive function” in learning, in minds young and old

Kara Walker's most recent work of public art, known as <i>A Subtlety,</i> made news months after its closing, when she produced a video, <i>An Audience,</i> compiling visitor reactions to the work in its final hours.

Arts & Culture |

Kara Walker gives talk at Radcliffe Institute about her life and art

At the Radcliffe Institute, the artist unraveled some of the mysteries of her installation, A Subtlety.