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...Institute’s celebration of crossing boundaries will entail a symposium to be held later this week...
artners in Health gathered local residents and worldwide PIH workers on Saturday for the 16th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium to “celebrate the year’s achievements and strategize for the future,” according to Ophelia Dahl, PIH Executive Director. PIH—a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit organization with partners in Latin America, Africa, and Russia—was founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack. They were later joined by Dahl and Jim Y. Kim, who recently left Harvard to become the President of Dartmouth University.The symposium brought...
...well - General Motors has just instituted a workweek of four 10-hour days at several of its plants. "There is a sense that this is ready to take off," says R. Michael Fischl, an associate dean at the University of Connecticut's law school, which is organizing a symposium on four-day weeks...
...series and organizes field trips for the fellows to Florence and other Italian cities. An annual conference in the spring draws prominent Renaissance scholars from around the world. This October, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Berenson’s death, the villa will host a three-day symposium on the Berensons’ intellectual world with over a dozen different scholars delivering papers on Berenson’s life and legacy. Also in October, I Tatti will complete a major renovation of one wing of the library, and next spring, a new building will open with studies...
Global health experts addressed the potentially devastating implications of global hunger and encouraged students to raise local awareness at a symposium held in the Science Center yesterday evening. Participants in the four-person discussion, entitled “The Ingredients of Food Security,” included Howard A. Zucker, the former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, along with colleagues in economics, political science, and humanitarian outreach. Zucker began the event by asking attendees to consider the amount of food that goes to waste during an average restaurant dinner. “Now just imagine...