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...comfortable and welcoming space, but that’s not the most important part of what we do,” Susan B. Marine, the center’s director, says. “As the year went on, we became better at telling people about our mission, and people became more interested in using us as a co-sponsorship venue for events as well...
...Harvard, Patil has made it his mission to research both on small and large scales. He studies the last two Buddhist scholars who wrote in Sanskrit in India, and also attempts to recover large parts of ignored South Asian intellectual history...
...Harvard libraries have been forced to contend with a question of their purpose in the digital age: how can libraries fulfill their mission of collecting and storing knowledge when much of this information is “born digitally,” appearing on the Internet rather than in print...
...happened, a new and even more committed crop of students arose from the remains to begin the effort again. This year, together with 12 talented and exceptionally hard working student interns, I’ve been committed to making sure that this women’s center fulfills its mission by attending to the legacies of the past, while being responsive to the present...
...occasion, bringing ideas and energy for projects of importance to them from the moment our doors opened. I was caught off guard, however, at the cynicism that greeted the opening of the Center this year on the part of some, who wondered aloud about the relevance of our primary mission (to raise awareness of women’s and gender issues, and to celebrate contributions by women that challenge, motivate and inspire) in the midst of so much progress for women, both at Harvard and in the world at large...