| Radcliffe Home | Harvard Home | Search
| For Alumnae | For Students | Site Map
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University
  | About the Institute | Fellowship Program
  | Events | Academic Engagement
  | Make a Gift | Schlesinger Library
Celebrate 10 Years of the Radcliffe Institute!


News
Profiles & Timeline
Events
Radcliffe in 10

 

News

"Celebrating the Radcliffe Institute’s First 10 Years"
Radcliffe fellows returned to Cambridge from all over the world to discuss their work during the Radcliffe Institute’s 10th anniversary symposium, held on October 8 and 9.  

"Radcliffe Redux, at 10" (Harvard University Gazette)
A decade ago the famous college became an institute, now itself famous and flourishing.

"Independent Yet Integral, a Relevant 'Refuge for Scholars': The Radcliffe Institute at 10" (Harvard Magazine)

"Radcliffe Celebrates 10th Anniversary" (The Harvard Crimson)

"Risking Unknown Roads" (Harvard University Gazette)
Radcliffe marks a transformational decade.

"Celebrating the Radcliffe Institute's 10th Anniversary" (Harvard Magazine)

***

Profiles & Timeline

Profiles: The Radcliffe Institute at 10

Meet some of the extraordinary women and men who have conducted transformative research and produced pathbreaking creative work at the Radcliffe Institute.

Sheila-Patek_credit-Tony-Rinaldo  Shimon-Attie_credit-Tony-Rinaldo  Glenda-Gilmore_credit-Tony-Rinaldo  Vincent-Brown_credit-Lolita_Parker_Jr 

David-C.-Parkes_credit-Tony-Rinaldo  Susan-Faludi_credit-Tony-Rinaldo  Yochai-Benkler_credit-Jean_Baptiste_Labrune

Timeline: The Evolution of the Radcliffe Institute

View highlights from the Radcliffe Institute's first 10 years.

***

Events

Symposium
"Celebrate 10 Years! Crossing Boundaries at the Radcliffe Institute"
Thursday, October 8, 2009–Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday, 1–5:30 p.m., Friday 9 a.m.–1 p.m.; Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
Alison Knowles, 2009–2010 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute; Independent Artist (United States)
Monday, October 19, 2009, 4 p.m.

Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health; T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
Monday, November 2, 2009, 4 p.m.

Dean's Lecture Series
Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4 p.m.

Rosalie Silberman Abella, Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Monday, March 1, 2010, 4 p.m.

Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Coauthor, Freakonomics
Monday, March 22, 2010, 4 p.m.

Carolyn Porco, Director of Mission Operations and Cassini Imaging Team Leader, Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerationS (CICLOPS), Space Science Institute
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4 p.m.

Conference
"Gender and Space"

Thursday, April 15, 2010–Friday, April 16, 2010

Science Symposium
"Patterning in Nature"

Friday, April 30, 2010

***

               

RADCLIFFE IN 10


• Sponsored 90 Exploratory and Advanced Seminars
(72 Exploratory and 18 Advanced)

• Held 6 gender conferences

• Organized 7 science symposia

• Presented more than 100 lectures and panels,
as well as more than 250 public fellows’ lectures

• Received more than 6,500 applications for its fellowship program

• Hosted more than 450 fellows

• Supported 89 creative artists, 146 humanists,
111 social scientists, and 110 natural scientists and mathematicians

• Acquired 1,800 manuscript collections; and innumerable photographs for the holdings of the
Schlesinger Library on
the History of Women in America

• Registered more than 36,000 in-person visits to the Schlesinger Library

• Conducted 3 sustainable building renovations
in Radcliffe Yard and dug 7 geothermal wells