Month: August 2016
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On becoming a man: Transgender in the workplace
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ summer Diversity Dialogue, “Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace,” gave voice to the transition and how to make it come together.
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From military policy to reality
Over summer, a Harvard ROTC cadet traded a Pentagon office for Slovak training exercises.
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Faith in the counsel of history
At the opening Morning Prayers of the academic term, President Drew Faust outlined her hopes for the future by turning her eye to the past and calling on her listeners to do the same.
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Welcoming the Class of 2020
Harvard President Drew Faust welcomed the College’s new crop of undergraduates during Freshman Convocation on Tuesday, urging them to embrace Veritas, with an eye toward inclusion and diversity, a goal of discovery, an openness to change, and a readiness to question assumptions and take chances.
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Seeing the sites
Wearing sun hats and armed with selfie sticks, iPhones, and video cameras, tourists from all over the world visit Harvard Square and Harvard University each summer. Giant tour buses idle…
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Harvard Divinity School examines its 200-year history
A special exhibit to mark Harvard Divinity School’s bicentennial year, “Faces of Divinity: Envisioning Inclusion for 200 Years,” tells the story of the School since its founding in 1816.
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Milky Way had blowout bash 6 million years ago
Researchers analyzed archival X-ray observations from the XMM-Newton spacecraft and found that the missing mass from the Milky Way is in the form of a million-degree gaseous fog permeating our galaxy.
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For freshmen, food for thought
Campus food experts say the first year in college is a time for change at the dining table as well as in the classroom.
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Harvard establishes research alliance with Tata companies
Harvard University has established a six-year, $8.4 million research alliance with a group of Tata companies. The first-of-its-kind initiative adds a new leadership-development component to the University’s research partnerships.
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The makings of Merrick Garland
Addressing the incoming class at Harvard Law School on Friday, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, recalled how, as a federal prosecutor, he helped convict the Oklahoma…
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Summer in the city, sort of
A College senior interns on an urban farm, and learns to grow friendships as well as crops.
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A boost for managing cities
A $32 million gift from Michael Bloomberg’s charitable foundation will support a new four-year collaboration with Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School to help hundreds of city mayors and their top staff members make government more responsive and effective for its citizens.
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Harvard researchers pinpoint enzyme that triggers cell demise in ALS
Scientists from Harvard Medical School (HMS) have identified a key instigator of nerve cell damage in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disorder.
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The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Developed by a team of Harvard researchers, the first autonomous, entirely soft robot is powered by a chemical reaction controlled by microfluidics. The 3-D-printed “octobot” has no electronics.
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The Yard awakens as freshmen arrive
After nearly 13 weeks of summer quiet, Harvard Yard awoke again as the Class of 2020 officially arrived on campus this morning.
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Exoplanet might have oxygen atmosphere, but not life
Researchers believe they may for the first time detect oxygen on a rocky planet outside the solar system.
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Ahead of Bauhaus centennial, a digital gateway
Some of the groundwork for a planned 2019 exhibit on Harvard and the Bauhaus has already found a place online.
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Science lesson brings sweet rewards
Harvard’s “Science and Cooking for Kids” program showed local children the snap behind the chocolate and the role chemistry plays in the process.
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‘Smoke waves’ will affect millions in coming decades
Wildfires threaten more than land and homes. The smoke they produce contains fine particles (PM2.5) that can poison the air for hundreds of miles. Air pollution from the 2016 Fort…
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National parks at a turning point
The Kennedy School’s Linda Bilmes took part in a centennial effort to identify goals and challenges for the national parks.
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How the brain develops
In an effort to get a clearer picture of how the brain and the connections between its regions change throughout development, Harvard scientists and researchers from three other universities will share a $14 million grant to support one of the most comprehensive brain-imaging studies ever undertaken.
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For journalism, the future is now
In a sign of the times, political technologist Nicco Mele is taking the helm at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy. In a Q&A session, he discusses the issues that he and his center will face.
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Toward a better screen
Harvard researchers have designed more than 1,000 new blue-light-emitting molecules for organic light-emitting diodes that could dramatically improve displays for televisions, phones, tablets, and more.
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New dean for Faculty of Medicine
George Q. Daley will become the next dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Harvard President Drew Faust and Provost Alan Garber announced.
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Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water of 33 states
A Harvard Chan School study has found that drinking-water samples near industrial sites, military fire-training areas, and wastewater-treatment plants have the highest levels of fluorinated compounds, which have been linked with cancer, hormone disruption, high cholesterol, and obesity.
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Resolving conflict: Men vs. women
Using videos of four sports in 44 countries, researchers found that men are far more likely to engage in friendly physical contact — handshakes, back pats and even hugs — following competition than women are.
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Calculating the odds of life between the Big Bang and the final fade
The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but our planet formed just 4.5 billion years ago. Some scientists think this time gap means that life on other planets could be…
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Design for movement
GSD architecture graduate Lauren Friedrich, M.Arch. ’16, looks at how architecture can better support health by providing unexpected physical challenges and minor obstacles rather than always prioritizing ease and comfort.