Month: June 2015

  • Nation & World

    What’s next for Your Harvard

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is planning the next events in its Your Harvard series of gatherings with alumni groups in Atlanta, Boston, and Toronto.

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    Getting to know the lab

    High school students have a chance to see how science works, and a role in research, through the CRLS Marine Science Internship program at Harvard.

    4 minutes
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    ‘One for the ages’

    The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage nationally is “one for the ages,” a Harvard legal analyst said, a judgment echoed by others.

    7 minutes
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    New face for the $10 bill

    Three Harvard scholars talk about the role of symbolism in the announcement that a woman will replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.

    5 minutes
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    Diagnosing Ebola in minutes

    A new test can accurately diagnose the Ebola virus disease within minutes at the point of care.

    6 minutes
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    Behind the findings

    The student group Science in the News recently held a daylong conference as part of its mission to make the research behind important breakthroughs accessible and understandable to non-scientists.

    3 minutes
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    Vivid reminders of war

    An exhibition by an Iranian artist recalls the heavy human cost of the long and brutal Iran-Iraq War.

    3 minutes
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    Alone with evolution

    Efforts by Harvard faculty to understand island evolution form the centerpiece of a new exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

    4 minutes
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    The art of political persuasion

    New political science research says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, political attitudes are a consequence of political actions, rather than their cause.

    5 minutes
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    Sequencing Ebola’s secrets

    A global team from Harvard University, the Broad Institute, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and other institutions sequenced more than 200 additional Ebola samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and changes over a long-term outbreak.

    4 minutes
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    A blessing to slow climate change

    Scholars in theology, policy, and science weigh in on the pope’s call for sweeping action against climate change.

    8 minutes
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    Another turning point for Obamacare

    Panelists at the Harvard Chan School weighed the possible implications of the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

    5 minutes
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    Incoming dean, rising School

    A question-and-answer session with Frank Doyle, incoming dean of the rapidly growing Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

    11 minutes
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    Coordinating against malaria

    Leaders in the global fight to eradicate malaria are at Harvard this week for a leadership training course that explores many facets of the scientific underpinnings of the effort to eradicate malaria from the planet.

    5 minutes
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    Race ready

    Profile of windsurfer Gonzalo Giribet as part of the Practice series.

    5 minutes
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    Cracking the egg

    Mary Caswell Stoddard of Harvard’s Society of Fellows is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her study of bird eggs.

    5 minutes
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    Unveiling the ancient climate of Mars

    The high seas of Mars may never have existed. According to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars, a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water drainage and erosion features seen today.

    5 minutes
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    Vital genes in fat production found

    Scientists at Harvard Stem Cell Institute have found a way to both make more energy-burning human brown fat cells and make the cells themselves more active, a discovery that could have therapeutic potential for diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases.

    3 minutes
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    Complicated legacy

    A Harvard Law School scholar reflects on the legacy of the 800-year-old Magna Carta.

    5 minutes
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    Science, on the edge

    Cambridge eighth-graders immersed themselves in science’s future during their visit to Harvard.

    4 minutes
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    Compelled to create art

    Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey took a leap and began a career in photography and teaching. Today he leads Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture.

    6 minutes
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    A new dean debuts

    Douglas W. Elmendorf, former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, was introduced on Thursday as the new dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A dearth of nutrition in school lunches

    About 200 people interested in improving the quality of meals served in America’s public schools gathered at Harvard to discuss topics ranging from getting wholesome food into schools to institutional barriers.

    5 minutes
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    Elmendorf to lead Kennedy School

    Douglas W. Elmendorf, former Harvard professor and director of the Congressional Budget Office, will become dean of the Harvard Kennedy School in January.

    5 minutes
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    Insights on where we learn

    Four-day Harvard conference focuses on academic spaces, and how to improve them.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard University: Year in Pictures 2014-2015

    Harvard University captures some of its most memorable moments from the 2014-15 academic year.

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    They get the job done

    Sixty-four people who selflessly keep the University running are this year’s Harvard Heroes, for demonstrating unwavering excellence within their departments and Schools.

    3 minutes
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    Injectable device delivers nano-view of the brain

    An international team of researchers has developed a method of fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe. The scaffolds can then be connected to devices and used to monitor neural activity, stimulate tissues, or even promote regeneration of neurons.

    4 minutes
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    A brighter future together

    A young students’ leadership group from Boston celebrates its success stories during a commencement gathering at Harvard.

    3 minutes
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    A clearer role for MOOCs

    Online courses are unlikely to take over higher education, says Lawrence Bacow, member of the Harvard Corporation and former president of Tufts University, but they can help revitalize learning.

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