A Pirates of Penzance Party</h1> <article> <h1>A Pirates of Penzance Party</h1> <p>Karla Strobel — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:11 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p><em>Harvard Magazine</em> features the ART production of the <em>Pirates of Penzance. </em>Director Sean Graney, who will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2013–2014, conceived and directed the new production and will likely do more work in collaboration with the ART during his fellowship year at Harvard. </p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Radcliffe Institute Recognizes Top Three Harvard Theses</h1> <p>Karla Strobel — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:30:20 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/radcliffe-institute-recognizes-top-three-harvard-theses"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p>The Radcliffe Institute awarded the Fay Prize to three graduating seniors whose theses set forth the most imaginative work and original research: mathematics concentrator Ashok Cutkosky, history and literature concentrator Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, and history concentrator Laura Savarese.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Beautiful "Flowers" Self-Assemble in a Beaker</h1> <p>Karla Strobel — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:24:44 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p>With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory—and not at the scale of inches, but microns. Radcliffe Advisor Joanna Aizenberg, an expert in biologically inspired materials science, biomineralization, and self-assembly, is the principal investigator for this research.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Equal Access: From Railcars to Websites</h1> <p>Heather Min — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:47:37 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/equal-access"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p><span>I wanted help learning more about the history of civil rights movements and how separate accommodations were often unequal, and the Schlesinger librarians said, “We can definitely help with that.”</span></p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Schlesinger Library Newsletter Spring 2013</h1> <p>Heather Min — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:29:52 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-library-newsletter/2013/spring"></a></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Films Mine the Archives</h1> <p>Heather Min — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:26 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/films-mine-archives"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p>Whether airing on your local public television station or playing film festivals around the world, each relies on hours of research and stacks of supporting materials. Where is that research done? Increasingly, the answer is the Schlesinger Library.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Elizabeth Blackwell’s Struggle to Become a Doctor</h1> <p>Heather Min — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:04:50 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/elizabeth-blackwells-struggle-become-doctor"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p>It wasn’t an interest in science or anatomy that motivated Elizabeth Blackwell to become the first woman in America to earn a medical degree; it was a dying friend’s plaint that she would have fared better if she’d had a “lady doctor.”</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Patty Gelfman: Representing Radcliffe College Alumnae</h1> <p>Heather Min — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:08:58 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/patty-gelfman-representing-radcliffe-college-alumnae"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p>Patty Gelfman ’56 led her Radcliffe class to make a generous gift to the Schlesinger Library for its 50th reunion. That gift has funded the processing of some of the library’s most illustrious collections, including those of Betty Friedan and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>How Latin Culture Got More Gay</h1> <p>Karla Strobel — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:45:54 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p><em>New York Times</em> Op-Ed by Radcliffe fellow Hector Carrillo on the expansion of same-sex marriage in Latin America and the U.S. </p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Writing in Code</h1> <p>Heather Min — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:21:29 +0000</p> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/schlesinger-newsletter/writing-in-code"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"><p><strong>A LONG LIFE IN SHORTHAND: FLORENCE JULIE LILLIBRIDGE</strong></p><p>One woman’s diaries, covering more than 30 years, offer an unexpected riddle.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> </main></body></html>