Featured series 
Year: 2012
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Nation & World
Losick awarded Horwitz Prize
Richard M. Losick, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard, has been named one of three winners of the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize by Columbia University in recognition of his work to understand the intricate, dynamic, and three-dimensional organization of bacterial cells.
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Bon appétit! Julia at 100
In honor of what would have been French chef Julia Child’s 100th birthday, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America hosted an entertaining and informative daylong symposium.
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HAA honors four Aloian Scholars
In honor of the Aloian Memorial Scholarships program’s 25th anniversary, the Harvard Alumni Association has selected four students to receive Aloian scholarships. They will be honored on Sept. 27.
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Stem cells need recovery time, too
A new study describes the mechanism behind impaired muscle repair during aging and a strategy that may help rejuvenate aging tissue by manipulating the environment in which muscle stem cells reside.
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Kids are what they eat
Sugary cereals, oversized soft drinks, and quarter-pound cheeseburgers are among the unhealthy food choices kids face daily. Junk food, most of it highly processed, and sugar-sweetened beverages are major contributors to the childhood obesity epidemic.
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On the streets of Allston
Approximately 400 Harvard runners participated in the ninth annual Brian Honan 5K Run/Walk on Sunday.
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Visions of doom
A pair of Harvard events looked at the artistic legacy of Pompeii — a kind of “Apocalypse Then.”
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Controlling behavior, remotely
Researchers have been able to take control of tiny, transparent worms by manipulating neurons in their brains, using precisely targeted pulses of laser light.
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An invasion of New England
While new species naturally expand to other places and sometimes disrupt the scene when they arrive, the pace of introduction of invasive species has picked up enormously over the past century and a half, stressing and transforming New England forests.
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Finding our way
Elizabeth Spelke, a professor of psychology, discussed research on how humans develop navigational skills in an event at the Barker Center.
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Managing just fine
Measurements of stress hormones and self-reports of anxiety show that leaders in stable organizations experience less stress than their subordinates, likely because they have greater control over their office lives.
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Pecking order
Harvard researchers have found that a new investigation of tissues and signaling pathways in finches’ beaks reveals surprising flexibility in the birds’ evolutionary tool kit.
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Mathews and Wells elected to Harvard Corporation
Jessica Tuchman Mathews and Theodore V. Wells Jr. have been elected to become the newest members of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the Harvard Corporation), the University announced today.
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The literary landscape
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, the Literary Homecoming drew representatives from the English Department, the Harvard Review, the Harvard Advocate, Speak Out Loud, Tuesday magazine, among others.
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A president next door
Harvard President Drew Faust — with a mischievous gift in tow — helped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology welcome its new president, L. Rafael Reif, at his inauguration on Friday.
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The tale of Benny and Jenny
In the first lecture of the season’s American Literature and Culture Series, Harvard history Professor Jill Lepore previews her book on Jane Franklin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s little-known yet favored sister.
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A firm voice on Europe
Jan Fischer, former PM and current presidential candidate in the Czech Republic, talked to a Harvard audience about the debt crisis and the possibility of a full European federation.
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A welcome from John Harvard
In honor of Rafael Reif’s inauguration as the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the iconic John Harvard Statue seated in Harvard Yard was decked out with an MIT cap, scarf, and pennant.
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For a health reform model, try Brazil
Scholars and public health experts gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to examine Brazil’s progress toward meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development goals, and to see if there are lessons that can be applied to other countries.
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Middle East in motion
Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, journalist Rami Khouri presented an overview of the “bewildering and exhilarating changes” that have swept the Middle East since the Arab Spring.
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Mighty exhibit
Roberto Mighty’s exhibit, “First Contact,” opens Sept. 23 with a one-time film screening and an artist presentation. The exhibit is the culmination of Mighty’s yearlong artist residency at the Harvard Forest. The exhibit continues through October.
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Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 19
At its second meeting of the year on Sept. 19, the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the 2012-13 academic year. They also heard a preview of the Dean’s Annual Report to the faculty and presentations on academic integrity, Harvard’s international strategy, and edX.
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Spoiled opportunity
Republican objections to a climate change “tax” have stained the cap-and-trade approach to tackling climate change, making it politically unpalatable, even though it proved effective at fighting acid rain over the past two decades.
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Rapid acts of kindness
In a series of experiments, Harvard researchers found that people who make quick decisions act less selfishly than those who deliberate.
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The sacred Toni Morrison
The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.
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Explaining the baby bust
Postindustrial countries from Japan to Italy are experiencing startling low birthrates, but the entry of women into the workforce isn’t to blame, according to Sociology Professor Mary Brinton, whose research looks at more subtle factors, including attitudes toward men’s and women’s roles in the workplace and the home.
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Emergency planning
Six of Harvard’s deep thinkers on climate change and sustainability took the stage Sept. 18 in the second annual Harvard Thinks Green.
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Death and the Civil War
Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”
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A warning from inside Tunisia
A Tunisian constitutional expert said Sept. 17 that recent violence, coupled with moves by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party to enshrine religion in the nation’s new constitution, are a bad sign for a pluralistic, democratic future.
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Suggestion of a married Jesus
Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, a Harvard professor says.
