Blackberry Smoke Announces Acoustic Spring Tour
Southern rock act Blackberry Smoke has announced an upcoming “Break It Down Tour” 2019 spring acoustic tour, marking the band’s first-ever run of unplugged shows. The five-piece band is bringing English duo Ida Mae with them to handle the tour’s opening duties.Blackberry Smoke will open up their acoustic “Break It Down Tour” with a two night run at Lexington, KY’s Lexington Opera House on March 14th and 15th, before stops at Kalamazoo, MI’s State Theatre (3/16); Kent, OH’s Kent Stage (3/17); Wabash, IN’s Honeywell Center (3/19); Bloomington, IL’s Castle Theatre (3/21); Waukegan, IL’s Genesee Theatre (3/22); Medina, MN’s Medina Entertainment Center (3/23); Rockford, IL’s Coronado Theater (3/24); and Evansville, IN’s Victory Theatre on March 26th.The quintet will then play a two-night stand at Rocky Mount, VA’s Harvester Performance Center on March 28th and 29th, before stops at Englewood, NJ’s Bergen Performing Arts Center (4/1); Ithaca, NY’s State Theatre (4/4); Easton, PA’s State Theatre (4/5); and a two-night closing run at New York City’s City Winery on March 6th and 7th.Tickets for Blackberry Smoke’s upcoming acoustic tour go on sale this Friday, January 11th at 10 a.m. local time.For more information and a full list of upcoming tour dates, head to the band’s website here.Blackberry Smoke “Break It Down” Acoustic Spring Tour Dates:3/14/19 – Lexington, KY – Lexington Opera House3/15/19 – Lexington, KY – Lexington Opera House3/16/19 – Kalamazoo, MI – Kalamazoo State Theatre3/17/2019 – Kent, OH – The Kent Stage3/19/2019 – Wabash, IN – Honeywell Center3/21/2019 – Bloomington, IL – Castle Theatre3/22/2019 – Waukegan, IL – The Genesee Theatre3/23/2019 – Medina, MN – Medina Entertainment Center3/24/2019 – Rockford, IL – Coronado Theater3/26/2019 – Evansville, IN – The Victory Theatre3/28/2019 – Rocky Mount, VA – Harvester Performance Center3/29/2019 – Rocky Mount, VA – Harvester Performance Center4/1/2019 – Englewood, NJ – Bergen Performing Arts Center4/4/2019 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre4/5/2019 – Easton, PA – State Theatre4/6/2019 – New York, NY – City Winery4/7/2019 – New York, NY – City WineryView All Tour Dates
On Sunday, The String Cheese Incident returned to Runaway Bay, Jamaica’s Jewel Paradise Cove for the third day of their International Incident destination event. The entirety of Sunday’s first set featured a pre-announced collaboration with longtime friend Keller Williams. It’s important to note that in 1999, SCI and Keller Williams collaborated on a full-length studio album entitled Breathe.The Keller Williams Incident set kicked off with “Callaloo and Red Snapper” off of the aforementioned album, before the seven-piece unit moved into a cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Eyes Of The World”. Bill Nershi and Michael Kang traded off some twangy solos, before the band worked through more Breathe cuts, including “Blatant Ripoff”, the album’s title-track, and “Vacate”. Keller stepped front and center to lead the band through “Sing for my Dinner”, a song that SCI helped back Keller on his 2007 album Dream. Following Keller’s “Mullet Cut” and “Kidney In A Cooler”, the Keller Williams Incident delivered the last Breathe tune of the night with “Best Feeling”, before the septet brought their collaborative set to a close with a breezy cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Scarlet Begonias”.The String Cheese Incident ft. Keller Williams – “Best Feeling”[Video: Connor Holleb]The String Cheese Incident returned sans Keller, opening up their second set of the evening with an exploratory take on “Just One Story”. Kang let it all hang out, firing off explosive solos on his electric mandolin, before Kyle Hollingsworth took the lead and moved into a more spacey realm. “Just One Story” smoothly made way for “Sirens”, as the jammin’ Jamaica crowd honed in on the intimate tune aside the beautiful Caribbean waters. The six-piece powerhouse picked up the pace with the Hollingsworth-led “Let’s Go Outside”, before delivering noteworthy takes on “Sweet Spot” and “Windy Mountain”. SCI came back to finish “Just One Story”, closing out their explosive set with some impeccable fiddle work by Kang. The String Cheese Incident initiated a full-on dance party with their first encore of “Bumpin’ Reel” and a ripping “Restless Wind”, and then came back out for a second encore of “Rosie”, bringing the Sunday night rager to a final halt.The String Cheese Incident has a busy 2019 ahead of them, as the band’s celebrating their 25th anniversary with an extensive nationwide tour. For a full list of The String Cheese Incident’s upcoming tour dates and ticketing information, head to their website.Setlist: The String Cheese Incident | Jewel Paradise Cove | Runaway Bay, Jamaica | 1/27/2019Set One: Callaloo and Red Snapper* > Eyes of the World*, Blatant Ripoff,* Breathe* > Vacate* > Sing for my Dinner* > Mullet Cut* > Kidney in a Cooler*, Best Feeling* > Scarlet Begonias*Set Two: Just One Story > Sirens > Let’s Go Outside, Sweet Spot, Windy Mountain > Just One StoryEncore 1: Bumpin’ Reel, Restless WindEncore 2: Rosie
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard University has chosen actress Anne Hathaway as the 2010 Woman of the Year.Award festivities will be held Jan. 28 at 2:30 p.m. when Hathaway will lead a parade through the streets of Cambridge. Afterward, the president of the theatricals, Clifford Murray ’10, and the vice president of the cast, Derek Mueller ’10, will roast the actress and present her with her Pudding Pot at 3:15 p.m. at the New College Theatre, the Hasty Pudding’s historic home in the heart of Harvard Square since 1889. After the roast, several numbers from the Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s 162nd production, “Commie Dearest,” will be previewed at about 3:40 p.m., followed by a press conference at about 4:10 p.m.The Man of the Year event will take place on Feb. 5. The recipient of this year’s award will be announced next week.For more information about the events, please contact the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ press manager, D.J. Smolinsky ’11. He can be reached at 516.729.7858 or by e-mail at press@hastypudding.org.The awards are presented annually to performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment.” Established in 1951, the Woman of the Year award has been granted to many notable entertainers, including Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Taylor, and, most recently, Renée Zellweger. The Man of the Year award was established in 1963. Its past recipients include Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Bruce Willis, and, last year, James Franco.Continuing to emerge as one of Hollywood’s most engaging talents, Hathaway shot to stardom in films such as “The Devil Wears Prada.” She went on to receive nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance in Jonathan Demme’s recently acclaimed “Rachel Getting Married,” for which she was named best actress by the National Board of Review.Hathaway has impressed audiences with her range as an actress, from her lauded dramatic performances in “Becoming Jane,” “Passengers,” and “Brokeback Mountain,” to her comedic turns in such films as “Get Smart,” “The Princess Diaries,” and “Ella Enchanted.” Hathaway also took to the New York stage last summer in Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Twelfth Night,” playing Viola.Hathaway will next star in the ensemble romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day,” to be released in February, and as the White Queen alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” hitting theaters in March.Director Garry Marshall has said of her, “The multi-talented Hathaway is a combination of Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn, and Judy Garland.”To purchase tickets to “Commie Dearest,” contact the New College box office at 617.495.5205. The show opens Feb. 5 at the Man of the Year ceremony and continues in Cambridge until March 7. Performances are each Wednesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 4 and 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. The company then will travel to New York to perform at Hunter College’s Kaye Playhouse on March 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. The tour continues to the Hamilton City Hall in Bermuda for performances on March 18 to 20 at 8 p.m.
We usually think of commencement as college’s end, but the word actually means the beginning, since everyday life is what follows. In this video, seven renowned Harvard instructors give their takeaway advice on how to thrive in the wider world, how to chart a fulfilling future, and how to give back along the way.
Harvard physicists have achieved the first quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials. Their achievement marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as the first experimental demonstration of a means by which quantum bits, or “qubits,” can communicate with one another over great distances.A team led by physicist Mikhail D. Lukin reported the findings in the latest edition of the journal Nature.“In quantum computing and quantum communication, a big question has been whether or how it would be possible to actually connect qubits, separated by long distances, to one another,” said Lukin, a professor of physics at Harvard. “As the first demonstration of quantum entanglement between a solid-state material and photons, our work is an important advance toward linking qubits together into a quantum network.”Quantum networking applications such as long-distance communication and distributed computing (in which computers interact through a network) would require the nodes that process and store quantum data in qubits to be connected to one another by entanglement: a state where two atoms become indelibly linked so that one inherits the properties of the other. This state has previously been demonstrated only with photons and individual ions or atoms.“Our work takes this one step further, showing how one can engineer and control the interaction between individual photons and matter in a solid-state material,” said first author Emre Togan, a Harvard graduate student in physics. “What’s more, we show that the photons can be imprinted with the information stored in a qubit.”Quantum entanglement, famously termed “spooky action at a distance” by a skeptical Albert Einstein, is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics. It allows distribution of quantum information over tens of thousands of kilometers, limited only by how fast and how far members of the entangled pair can propagate in space.The new result builds on earlier work by Lukin’s group, using single-atom impurities in diamonds as qubits. Lukin and colleagues have previously shown that these impurities can be controlled by focusing laser light on a diamond lattice flaw, where nitrogen replaces an atom of carbon. That work showed that the so-called “spin degrees of freedom” of these impurities make excellent quantum memory.Lukin and his co-authors now say that these impurities are also remarkable because, when excited with a sequence of finely tuned microwave and laser pulses, they can emit photons one at a time, so that photons are entangled with quantum memory. Such a stream of photons can be used for secure transmission of information.Lukin and Togan’s co-authors on the Nature paper are Yiwen Chu, Alexei Trifonov, Jeronimo Maze, and Alexander S. Zibrov, all at Harvard; Liang Jiang of Harvard and the California Institute of Technology; Lilian I. Childress of Harvard and Bates College; M.V. Gurudev Dutt of Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh; A.S. Sorensen at the University of Copenhagen; and Philip R. Hemmer of Texas A&M University. The work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, the National Science Foundation, the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and the Packard Foundation.
Atul Gawande, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH, spoke with Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s “On Point” about health care and health reform on Jan. 4, 2011. Republicans in the House of Representatives are bringing forward a vote to repeal the reform law, which was passed last March, but Gawande says that “repeal would be a return to stalemate.” Without the new law, he said, by 2019 health insurance will cost “roughly double” what it does now for a family policy and that the federal debt will continue to balloon.Gawande also appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” Jan. 5 to discuss his book, “The Checklist Manifesto,” which has just been released in paperback.
A native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Dr. J. Richard (“Dick”) Gaintner received his undergraduate education at Lehigh University and his M.D. degree four years later in 1962 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Following residency in medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, he served as Captain in the US Army Medical Corps, first at the Army Hospital in Fort Carson, Colorado, and then as Assistant Chief of Staff at the 85th Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon, receiving in 1966 the Army Commendation Medal for “Meritorious Service in the Republic of Vietnam.”He returned to Hopkins for a year as Fellow in Hematology and then, in 1967, joined the first faculty of the newly-established University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In 1975, he became Vice President for Medical Affairs at New Britain General Hospital. This experience, combining the context of medical practice, its teaching and administration, led to his appointment in 1977 as Associate Dean for Administration at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and subsequently as Vice President and Deputy Director of Johns Hopkins Hospital.In 1983, Dr. Gaintner moved to Albany Medical Center as President and CEO, and six years later to New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston as its President and CEO, joining the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he rose to Professor of Medicine. Shortly after assuming these responsibilities, while reviewing the history of the New England Deaconess Hospital, Dr. Gaintner came upon a statement by Mary E. Lunn, who was the Superintendent at the founding of the institution in 1896, wherein she envisioned the hospital as a place where “science and kindliness unite in combating disease”. Her comment resonated with Dr. Gaintner such that he adopted it as the institution’s mission statement and used it as a guiding principle for the development of the New England Deaconess Hospital under his leadership.During his seven year tenure as President and CEO of the New England Deaconess Hospital (NEDH) he quickly restored the hospital to fiscal stability while providing the underpinning for a remarkable growth in the clinical and academic programs. Under his leadership the new Clinical Center was conceived, financed and built, giving the NEDH one of the finest inpatient clinical facilities in Boston. With subsequent events, this facility became a major component of the merger with the Beth Israel Hospital (BI). During his tenure he brought together with Deaconess a variety of neighboring hospitals to form Pathway Health Network, to include New England Baptist Hospital, Nashoba Hospital in Ayer, Deaconess-Glover in Needham, and Deaconess-Waltham Hospital.In the early 1990’s it became clear that despite formation of the Pathway Health Network, the Deaconess needed a major partner to continue to grow. His vision and statesmanship played a major role in the merger of the NEDH and BI to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which has subsequently been proven to be one of the most successful true mergers of major academic medical centers in the country.With the 1996 merger of Deaconess and Beth Israel Hospitals, and the inclusion of Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital to the Pathway group, the CareGroup HealthCare System was formed, with Dr. Gaintner becoming President, then the second largest hospital network in New England. A year later, he was recruited as CEO of Shands Healthcare in Gainesville, Florida, bringing more than a modicum of order and forward thrust to a relatively young network that initially confronted him with what was characterized by The Free Library as “…the usual complement of internal divisions and conflicts, reflecting an underlying uncertainty about mission, frustration over the lack of alignment among the system’s components, and the natural tendency to try to fix blame rather than confront the fundamental changes underway in health care.” This report goes on to characterize the basis of his success at Shands: “Gaintner’s mild-mannered complexity reflects both developmentally acquired attributes – blue collar upbringing, undergraduate philosophy major, physician, businessman, insatiable reader – as well as core personality characteristics – inevitable optimist, empathetic listener, pragmatist and conciliator. This constellation of attributes underlies clinical and managerial intuition that blends into an artful style…. Gaintner’s approach is characterized by consistent, straightforward messages. His skill is honing in on values and the critical issues upon which complex decisions pivot. He continually returns to the fundamentals, believes in collaboration, meets with everybody (even competitors) and keeps the lines of communication open. He believes that discussion can illuminate common ground, even in the most complicated and contentious relationships.”After four years at Shands, Dr. Gaintner retired, only to be called to Georgetown University as Interim Executive Vice President for Health Services, but was shortly obliged by illness to return home to Gainesville. A beloved second home for many years was in Duxbury, Massachusetts where he maintained a long-standing interest in nearby Plymouth’s Jordan Hospital. In 2001 he was invited to join the Jordan Health Systems Board.Widely recognized as an outstanding member of American academic medicine, Dr. Gaintner had been a member of the Executive Board of the Association of American Medical Colleges and Chair of its Council of Teaching Hospitals, Board member of the American Hospital Association and of the American College of Physician Executives.Dick Gaintner died of pancreatic cancer on May 25, 2004. He was survived by his wife, Suzanne Butler Gaintner, three daughters, Wendy Holcomb of Tacoma, Washington, Sally G. Hess of Phoenix, Arizona, and Jenny Gaintner of Freeland, Maryland, and seven grandchildren.On May 19, 2004, Dr. J. Richard Gaintner was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, a fitting honor bestowed upon highly selected former Hopkins faculty members who have gained marked distinction in their respective fields.Respectfully submitted,Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D.Robert C. Moellering, Jr., M.D.Adolf W. Karchmer, M.D., Chair
Dear Colleagues,As many of you know, William A. Graham announced his intention to step down as dean of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of this academic year, following a decade of leadership. As we begin the search for the next dean, I write to describe the search process and invite your thoughts and engagement.Dean Graham has been a dedicated leader of the Divinity School, helping to build on its important legacy within Harvard while also guiding the significant expansion of its work across religious and cultural divides. I am deeply grateful for his long and varied service to the University — as a scholar, teacher, and dean — and I am pleased that he will remain an active faculty member in the years ahead.I plan to commence the search immediately, with the goal of identifying a new dean to begin service in the next academic year. To that end, I welcome your thoughts on key opportunities and challenges facing the School, the qualities we should seek in the next dean, and specific individuals whom we should consider. Please submit in confidence any comments, suggestions, or other thoughts you may have to divinitysearch@harvard.edu.To assist in the search process, I have asked the following faculty members from the Divinity School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) with expertise in relevant fields to serve on a faculty search advisory committee:Davíd Carrasco, HDS and FAS: Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in FASDiana Eck, HDS and FAS: Professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in FASJanet Gyatso, HDS: Hershey Professor of Buddhist StudiesDavid Hempton, HDS: Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological StudiesEvelyn Higginbotham, FAS: Victor S. Thomas Professor of History, professor of African and African American studies, chair of the Department of African and African American StudiesAmy Hollywood, HDS: Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian StudiesKaren L. King, HDS: Hollis Professor of DivinityJames Kloppenberg, FAS: Charles Warren Professor of American HistoryDavid C. Lamberth, HDS: Professor of philosophy and theologyPeter Machinist, HDS and FAS: Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental LanguagesLaura S. Nasrallah, HDS: Professor of New Testament and Early ChristianityStephanie Paulsell, HDS: Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry StudiesMalika Zeghal, FAS: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and LifeThe advisory committee will meet through the academic year until the conclusion of the search, and I thank the members for devoting their time to the important task at hand.I would also like to thank members of the Divinity School community, with whom I met last week, for sharing their thoughts with me about this important moment for the study of religion at Harvard. I look forward to receiving input from them and the larger Harvard community throughout the search process.Sincerely,Drew Faust
When Lucas Scanlon, MC/MPA 2012 candidate, arrived at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this fall, he didn’t expect to find many sympathizers. A Tea Party activist from Texas, Scanlon anticipated staunch opposition to many of his political ideals, only to learn that many of his fellow students were open to learning more about the party and what it stands for.“My classmates are here because they believe in something. They are American citizens fighting for what they believe in. I listen to them, and they listen to me,” Scanlon says. “Sometimes we agree, but we are always respectful of each other. With that respect, we find the common ground to really listen and understand. At that point, even if we still disagree, we understand why.”In an effort to further serious political conversations on campus, Scanlon has founded a Tea Party caucus at the Kennedy School, inviting students of all persuasions to attend and participate.“Harvard should be able to have the deeper conversation,” Scanlon says. “My hope is that I can help people find a way to be true to their own convictions and yet still find a way to listen and understand so that we have a chance of working together.”While Scanlon aspires to incite a conversation about fiscal responsibility, his classmate Ben Beachy, MPP 2012 candidate, seeks to fast forward the policy debate about economic inequality. Beachy is one of hundreds of people taking part in the Occupy Boston protests in Dewey Square.“Movements such as this one have historically shaped U.S. politics by carving out sufficient space in the public debate for policy changes to advance,” Beachy says.
When the “next big thing” is invented in a dorm room, ruminated over in a late-night café, or discovered in a laboratory, it will now find more support in the Cambridge area, giving its inventors a better reason to stay connected.Today, the Experiment Fund, a new seed-stage investment fund, opens its doors with backing from storied venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Designed specifically to support student start-ups and nurture novel technologies and platforms created in Cambridge (or by innovators educated in Cambridge), the Experiment Fund will eventually include additional strategic angel investors and advisers.“We are very excited about the Experiment Fund; we believe it will provide a much-needed set of people, skills, and financial resources to spur the innovation and idea creation of our students,” says Cherry A. Murray, dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).Murray, who helped to realize the fund, will designate SEAS faculty members to advise student entrepreneurs about the Experiment Fund and other available opportunities and resources, such as the new Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab).The idea to provide an intensely local company-building resource to young innovators originally grew out of close collaboration between venture capitalist Patrick Chung, academic and entrepreneur David Edwards, and scholar-turned-entrepreneur Hugo Van Vuuren.“Cambridge has always seeded and cultivated brilliant minds and entrepreneurs, and now they’ll have another reason to stay rooted in and draw strength from these fertile soils,” says Chung, who is co-head of NEA’s consumer and seed-stage investing practices.Chung received his A.B. degree in environmental science from Harvard College and a joint J.D.-M.B.A. degree from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.“Students will have an obvious place to go once they breach the boundary of the classroom,” adds Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at SEAS and founder of Le Laboratoire in Paris.“We are very excited to work with everyone on campus to infuse the fund with our global platform and entrepreneur-first tradition,” says Harry Weller, general partner at NEA and graduate of Harvard Business School.Van Vuuren, a 2007 graduate of Harvard College, student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, adds, “The fund is looking for smart and resourceful people, zealous full-time teams, and experiments in need of seed funding and hands-on help to get off the ground.”Designed to attract engineers, entrepreneurs, and designers and to empower them to test and build bold ideas, the Experiment Fund will explore three core areas: Information, health care, and energy technologies.Chung, who serves as an expert-in-residence at SEAS, expects the fund to support several promising companies in the coming two years. Each new venture will receive up to $250,000 over that same period.While the fund expects to cultivate student innovation initially at Harvard, it will function completely independently of the University and will invest broadly on the East Coast.