Harvard Gazette February 14, 2012
 
 

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Triumphs against disease

minot As Harvard marks its 375th anniversary, the Gazette looks back at the Harvard researchers and physicians who helped to vanquish disease, from testing and distributing the first American smallpox vaccine in 1800, to the breakthrough in the 1940s that led to a polio vaccine, to the modern advances against AIDS.

Welcome, entrepreneurs

startup Hundreds of undergraduates flocked to the Harvard Innovation Lab for the second annual Start-Up Career Fair, which was an opportunity for them to meet with representatives from some of the country’s most innovative and fast-growing companies, and to learn about jobs and internships at them.

Where medicine meets artistry

transit By any measure, the Transit Gallery at Harvard Medical School is an eccentric space for viewing art. Harvard’s youngest gallery is in an interior walkway connecting buildings on the School’s quadrangle. The gallery’s latest show, “Phantom Limbs and Nostalgic Technologies,” relays a longtime artistic plea: Slow down. Look. Imagine.


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