Month: June 2016

  • Nation & World

    Child’s remark the impetus for marriage equality suit

    Julie Goodridge returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to participate in last semester’s Askwith Forum and speak about her role in the same-sex marriage movement.

    2 minutes
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    Fast-tracking their dreams

    Autumne Franklin ’16, Jade Miller ’17, and Gabrielle Thomas ’19 are three standouts among the Harvard athletes competing for a spot with Team USA at the Summer Olympics.

    1 minute
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    Unveiling Jupiter’s mysteries

    In less than a week, the spacecraft Juno will reach Jupiter, culminating a five-year, billion-dollar journey. Its mission: to orbit and peer deep inside the gas giant and unravel its origin and evolution. One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Jupiter is how it generates its powerful magnetic field, the strongest in the solar system.

    3 minutes
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    Taking care of their own

    Harvard Divinity School master’s candidate Nestor Pimienta launched a program for students to tutor children of Harvard workers, hoping to build stronger bonds among students, workers, and their families.

    4 minutes
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    Strong statement on abortion access

    Harvard Law School professor I. Glenn Cohen breaks down the ruling and its ramifications.

    6 minutes
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    Celebrating a decade in São Paulo

    The Lemann Brazil Research Fund furthers connections between Harvard and Brazil.

    4 minutes
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    Nature as storm defender

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s new program “Next in Science” brought together early career scientists to present their research to Harvard and the public. The event, which included speakers from the University of Glasgow and the Sea Education Association, offered a preview of Radcliffe’s October ocean symposium, “From Sea to Changing Sea.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tackling carbon emissions in China

    A Beijing symposium co-sponsored by the Harvard China Project and the Harvard Global Institute explored the possibility of China adopting a carbon tax as a way to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Gazette spoke with economist Dale Jorgenson, the Samuel W. Morris University Professor, and Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project,…

    14 minutes
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    On demand, and now on schedule

    Joshua Meier ’18, a computer science and chemistry concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, launched TaxiLater, an iPhone app that lets users arrange an Uber pickup hours, days, or even months in advance.

    4 minutes
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    After Brexit, a changed future

    Harvard analysts talk about the effects of the United Kingdom’s referendum to leave the European Union on both Britain and the continent.

    3 minutes
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    Finding beauty in the bizarre

    The Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910,” on view through Aug. 14, borrows its name from the 1857 collection of symbolist poems about decadence and eroticism by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It also captures the essence of an artistic movement that sought to render the invisible visible through the use…

    3 minutes
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    Defending breakthrough research

    Harvard initiates patent infringement suits to protect inventors’ rights in computer-chip technology.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hidden Spaces: The Sunken Garden in Radcliffe Yard

    Young and old travel from near and far to the Radcliffe sunken garden to sit and enjoy this splendid oasis in the city.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Limitations on the undocumented

    A divided Supreme Court ruled against President Obama’s executive actions that could have aided 5 million illegal immigrants, and Harvard analysts reacted.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Affirming whole-person admissions

    Universities may continue to consider racial and ethnic backgrounds in evaluating their applicants for admission, Supreme Court rules.

    3 minutes
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    Graceful exit

    Grace Scheibner, the first director of Harvard’s Commencement office, is stepping down after 24 years in the role.

    2 minutes
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    Labors of love for scholar at heart

    Leo Damrosch has the relaxed air of a man six years into retirement. Since adding emeritus to his title as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Damrosch has won a National Book Critics Circle award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013 for “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World.” More recently, “Eternity’s Sunrise: The…

    3 minutes
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    A chance to soar, through science

    At a pair of events, Cambridge eighth-graders presented projects they researched while at Harvard.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Paul C. Martin dies at 85

    Paul C. Martin, the prolific theoretical physicist who led Harvard Division of Applied Sciences for 20 years, has died at 85.

    4 minutes
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    Courtyard named for Rothenberg

    The courtyard at Winthrop House’s Standish Hall will be renamed in honor of longtime Harvard supporter James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, who died last July.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Against suicide, a century of little progress

    Matthew Nock, a psychology professor, talked to the Gazette about a recent federal report showing a sharp rise in suicide in the United States.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Acting dean for Medical School

    Barbara McNeil, health policy expert and longtime faculty member, to serve as interim dean at Harvard Medical School.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard professor wins Blavatnik Award

    Harvard Professor David Charbonneau has won a Blavatnik Award for his work identifying faraway planets, and other science.

    4 minutes
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    Britain muses: Play bridge or solitaire?

    Former Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander discusses the issues behind the national referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union and the potential economic and political ramifications should voters decide to sever ties.

    10 minutes
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    Left to their demons

    The Gazette spoke with psychologist Richard Mollica about a lesser known crisis zone for the displaced: mental health.

    7 minutes
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    First area cell transplantation center

    An expansive effort by several Harvard-affiliated units and hospitals has created the first cell transplantation center in the Boston area.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A pathway to success

    The Allston Brighton Adult Education Collaborative brings together social services and organizations to help local residents improve their lives and prospects.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Looking indoors to health

    Harvard’s University Construction Management Council is celebrating its 10th year and forging ahead on projects such as acting to remove flame retardants and other toxic chemicals from building interiors.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fishing gaps called malnutrition threat

    Declining fish catches around the world have set off concerns about malnutrition, especially among the poor.

    5 minutes
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    Together in sorrow, and resolve

    A vigil was held at Tercentenary Theatre yesterday to honor the victims of the Orlando mass shooting.

    3 minutes