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Morning Prayers service with speaker, Anne Marie Hunter, Executive Director and Founder, Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence, Boston, October 12, 2018.

Professor Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Sunday sermon Oct. 7, 2018 in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.

Morning Prayers service with speaker, Lara Glass, MDiv '17, Student Program Fellow in the Memorial Church, October 10, 2018.

Morning Prayers service with speaker, Getzel Davis, Associate Rabbi and Jewish Educator, Director of Graduate Programming at Harvard Hillel., October 15, 2018.

Morning Prayers service with speaker, Anwar Omeish ‘19, President, Phillips Brooks House Association, October 18, 2018

Morning Prayers service with speaker, Theoharis C. Theoharis, Associate Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, October 16, 2018.

Morning Prayers service with speaker, Burns Stanfield, President of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, Pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston, October 17, 2018.

Morning Prayers service with speaker Katherine Schofield, Interim Minister, The Memorial Church, October 19, 2018.

The Rev. Dr. Stephanie Paulsell, Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church; Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School, sermon on Sunday, October 14, 2018 in the Memorial Church.

This seminar was given on November 1, 2018 by Severin Borenstein, Professor and aFaculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley. It was given as part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series.

Today, many individuals are at risk for cancer due to heredity factors. Megan Underhill, PhD, RN, AOCNS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses her work in genetic testing and the importance family, perceptions and knowledge play in supporting those at risk.

Teresa Acuña, Associate Director for Democratic Governance at the Ash Center, sits down with Victoria McCullough, Social Impact & Public Policy Lead at Tumblr, for a conversation about Tumblr, civic engagement and more. Victoria McCullough currently leads the Social Impact and Public Policy team at Tumblr focusing on engaging and activating advocacy groups, activists, and other changemakers to tel...

John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., Senior Advisor and Strategist to the President of Harvard University, will be talking with Prof. Sara Bleich on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Watch the webcast to learn more about what steps Harvard University is taking to building a more inclusive environment, and what lessons can be learned from fellow universities like Morehouse College and other HBCU’s.

This seminar was given on November 8, 2018 by Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. It was given as part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Seminar Series.

Natasha Warikoo, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the Harvard trial and whether college admissions can ever truly be fair.

Robby Mook (@RobbyMook), Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Manager and a Belfer Center Senior Fellow, sits down with with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) to talk about lessons from the 2016 campaign, the Defending Digital Democracy Project, and dark chocolate. _______________ Subscribe to the podcast: hvrd.me/K2K330e5mfD More about Robby Mook: www.belfercenter.org/person/robby-mook Belfer Center web...

Healthcare has again emerged as a pivotal issue for American voters. Conversations around preexisting conditions protections, short-term health plans, drug costs and premium rates are as contentious as ever. Debates around Medicare and Medicaid have grabbed headlines, while the Affordable Care Act has remained divisive, despite helping millions become insured. Against this backdrop, state governme...

Why isn’t King Kong scaling the Empire State Building right now? Should we worry about Godzilla rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean? Shane Campbell-Staton, co-host of the podcast The Biology of Superheroes and Harvard PhD ’15 in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, talks about our favorite movie monsters, and some of the biological processes that could make them come to life. Full Transcri...

Irvin Scott, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about why faith leaders can be key players in educational outcomes for children in their communities.

Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late. Full Transcript: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-monsters-episode-2-parasites The Veritalk...

"Watch Your Words: How Strategic Communication Can Shape Sustainability Regulation, Its Reception, and Its Implementation in Organizations...a socio-legal presentation with examples from Denmark, the EU and the UK." This seminar was given on October 18, 2018 by Prof. Karin Buhmann, Copenhagen Business School. It was given as part of M-RCBG's Business & Government Seminar Series.

What is the status of evidence-based environmental policy in the U.S? Sweeping policy shifts, regulatory rollbacks, and decisions such as the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement prompt questions. This Forum provided an opportunity to discuss the challenges facing environmental science today. Panelists explored areas potentially or already impacted by change, such as the Clean Power Plan, m...

Dr. Richardson (see October 10 episode) returns to discuss the theories and systems that currently shape how we understand public health, including how these perceptions can be problematic to our progress.

How do you build a culture of preparedness, educate the public—what are the limits of relying upon the public in a response, and understand the dynamics of active shooter and other mass casualty events? Dr. Eric Goralnick, Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital will share with us his experiences in the Boston Marathon bombing response and expertise on the intersec...

Many of us spend hours each day on our smartphones, whether it's texting friends or using our GPS for directions. And each of those actions leaves behind a digital breadcrumb. In this week's episode we're digging into our archives to explain how researchers are mining this data to improve health. JP Onnela, associate professor of biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will exp...