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05/12/2021 10:00 AM EDT
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For immediate release: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Boston, MA – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health today announced that Kizzmekia S. Corbett will join the School as an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. She will also hold an appointment at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute as the Shutzer Assistant Professor. Corbett comes to Harvard Chan School following more than six years as a research fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she was instrumental in groundbreaking research that directly led to development of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Her first day will be June 14, 2021.
On the Zoom screen, acclaimed writer Ocean Vuong donned a pair of tortoise shell glasses. In the background was a geometric array of potted plants hanging from his wall. He opened the virtual conversation with the ringing of a bell, a meditative gesture that prompted listeners to “call back” past versions of themselves. He read a poem titled “Not Even” from his forthcoming collection to the faceless audience of over one thousand participants. One particular line resonated powerfully:
“What if it wasn’t the crash that made me, but the debris?”
Though people often possess a deep aversion to the past, Vuong does not yield to this impulse. The enduring resonance of his texts emerges from his willingness to continually revisit the past as a space of reclamation and dialogue.
Harvard Divinity student crafts poem reflecting on universityâs past connections to slavery
By Charlie McKenna Globe Correspondent,Updated April 22, 2021, 1:34 p.m.
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Suzannah Omonuk, a first year student at Harvard University s Divinity School, wrote a poem in honor of one of the four enslaved people owned by the university s presidents in the 18th century.Courtesy of Suzannah Omonuk
Suzannah Omonuk, a first-year student at Harvard Universityâs Divinity School, wrote a poem in honor of Venus, one of the four enslaved people owned by Harvardâs presidents in the early 18th century, after she realized she and Venus likely shared things in common.
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