Harvard University (videos of June 2017)

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1:02:03 The State of the Nation's Housing 2017 A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market has, by many measures, returned to normal. Housing demand, home prices, and construction volumes are all on the rise, an...
1:10:48 RESONANCE: A MODERNISM with Erin Moure During her 2017 WPR Creative fellowship, Erin Moure engaged in a journey of listening in situ to the recorded voices of four American women Modernist poets--- Muriel Rukeyser, Anais Nin, Angelina G...
7:33 Debate as pedagogy featuring Professor Eric Beerbohm (FAS) Professor Eric Beerbohm (government) discussed his use of debate in the classroom as a means to help students grapple with abstract topics at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)...
12:31 Debate as pedagogy featuring Professor Charles Nesson (HLS) Professor Charles Nesson (law) shared his experimentation with three debate/discussion tools at the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Speaker Series event on April 24, 2017.
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48:29 Harvard IT Summit 2017: Afternoon Closing and Keynote by Karim R. Lakhani More than 1400 IT professionals from around Harvard convened to connect more closely to the University mission, learn from one another, and build our IT community. In the afternoon program, Karim R...
53:15 Harvard IT Summit 2017: Morning Welcome and Keynote by Nicco Mele More than 1400 IT professionals from around Harvard convened to connect more closely to the University mission, learn from one another, and build our IT community. In the morning program, Nicco Mel...
46:46 Chris Bowler | The Future of Ocean Ecosystems || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series and the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Chris Bowler RI ’17 explores how past environments affec...
50:37 Jal Mehta | Learning Deeply at Scale: The Challenge of Our Times || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Jal Mehta RI ’17 looks beneath the surface of pedagogical methods in American high schools. What...
0:53 Harvard Arthrobots Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Harvard researchers have created an entirely new type of semi-soft robots capable of standing and walking using drinking straws and inflatable tubing. The...
1:26:28 Title IX over Time || Radcliffe Institute To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, hosted a conversation about the impact of Title ...
53:21 Eugene Wang | What Was the Terracotta Army For? || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Eugene Wang RI ’17 argues against the common theory that the Terracotta Army’s purpose was to de...
1:18:25 Anthony Tan | Full Concert || Radcliffe Institute As part of the 2016–2017 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Anthony Tan ’17 presents “An Overall Augmented Sense of Well Being” and Other Works . . . featur...
32:57 Anthony Tan | An Overall Augmented Sense of Well Being || Radcliffe Institute AN OVERALL AUGMENTED SENSE OF WELL BEING (world premiere)
For amplified quartet and electronics
Composed by Anthony Tan RI ’17
Karin Hellqvist, violin*
Heloisa Amaral, piano*
Joshua Hyde, saxopho...
10:48 Anthony Tan | Endlessnessnessness || Radcliffe Institute ENDLESSNESSNESSNESS
Improvisation for prepared upright piano and two-channel electronics by Anthony Tan RI ’17
Anthony Tan, piano and electronics
2:34 Harvard MEDscience brings science to life for local high-schoolers Harvard’s MEDscience program offers local high-schoolers hands-on learning. The program, which is currently in 11 Boston Public Schools, is a semester long high school biology curriculum that studi...
1:22:06 Next in Science: Epidemiology | Part 2 || Radcliffe Institute The "Next in Science" series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fell...
1:23:48 Next in Science: Epidemiology | Part 1 || Radcliffe Institute The "Next in Science" series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fell...
1:07:19 Radcliffe Day 2017 | Honoring Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff || Radcliffe Institute The Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University honors the excellence, integrity, and impact of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff—both journalists and coanchors of PBS NewsHour—with Radc...
1:35:05 Radcliffe Day 2017 | (Un)Truths and Their Consequences || Radcliffe Institute WELCOME
Lizabeth Cohen RI ’02, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
SPEAKER (08:48)
David Brooks, New York Times co...
1:37 How Humans Walk…With Robots Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital shed light on how humans respond – or do not respond – to forces applied by rehabilitative robots.
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0:43 Soft Exosuit for Running Building upon previous soft exosuit technology, researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a soft exosuit for running. This exosuit applies forces to the hip joint using thin...