"Last semester, students in Gojko Barjamovic’s general education course “Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives” touched the ancient past. For class credit, undergrads spent hours helping recreate plaster casts of ancient reliefs that once hung in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud and Nineveh, territory in Northern Iraq today controlled by ISIL." See complete article and video.
Thanks to the generous support for Harvard's long term preservation initiative by the Arcadia Fund, the first official release of FITS with video support using the MediaInfo tool is now available. FITS now includes MediaInfo output in standard FITS XML, and also optionally creates standards based metadata output based on the EBUCore technical metadata schema.
Video file formats now supported by FITS, for both format identification and...
Charrise Barron is PhD Candidate in African American Studies, with a primary field of concentration in religion and secondary in ethnomusicology. Her research interests center on African American history, religion, and sacred music. She also studies black American music more broadly, as well as Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism. Her dissertation explores contemporary African American gospel music in the United States since the 1990s, and its marked shifts away from previous eras of gospel. Focusing on...
Vox | Situates findings as part of broader trend to reexamine results of the War on Poverty and the social safety net, including recent analyses by Christopher Wimer (Ph.D. '07) and by Christopher Jencks.
Stopping the body count: A comprehensive approach to move towards zero tuberculosis deaths, was the title of a two-day event at the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai where TB professionals from across the globe convened. The meeting launched a series of manuscripts published in The Lancet describing a...
Serious Science | Sociologist Christopher Winship discusses how experimental thinking can be applied in contexts where experiments are not possible. Part of Serious Science's online project to spread scientific ideas via conversations with scientists.
