Tag: Faculty
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Science & Tech
Highly sensitive science
David Ginty probes pleasure and pain to shed light on autism and other conditions
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Health
What might cancer treatment teach us about dealing with retinal disease?
Joan Miller’s innovative thinking led to therapies for macular degeneration that have helped millions, made her better leader
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Campus & Community
Projects help students ‘build bridges’ across differences
Online games and small group discussions provide opportunities for people with contrasting points of view to engage
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Arts & Culture
From ‘joyous’ to ‘erotically engaged’ to ‘white-hot angry’
Stephanie Burt’s new anthology rounds up 51 works by queer and trans poets spanning generations
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Science & Tech
Still waiting
75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding extraterrestrial life?
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Science & Tech
Numbers tell one story about climate change. People tell another.
Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities
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Health
Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure
Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete
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Science & Tech
Why are you cursing?
Steven Pinker breaks down the history of taboo words, different categories of swearing, and the meaning conveyed by a bleep
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Campus & Community
Entering ‘our problem world’
University honors — and challenges — newly elected members of Phi Beta Kappa at ceremony
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Campus & Community
Upholding the mission in a year of turmoil
Garber greets Commencement with high hopes for students and a strong affirmation of University’s contributions to U.S. growth, health
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
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Science & Tech
Chance to branch off in new directions
Seven novel research projects awarded grants by Star-Friedman Challenge
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Nation & World
Things money can’t buy — like happiness and better health
That’s according to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which over its 87-year run has generated data that benefits work on other issues
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Science & Tech
‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’
Panelists in University-wide symposium explore promise, peril of AI in academia
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Health
Tips for staying alive, decades in the making
JoAnn Manson has spent her career researching – and highlighting – how everyday choices influence health
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Campus & Community
Using the best GenAI has to offer
HUIT creates safe space to experiment, faculty share how they integrated it into their teaching
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Recognized for excellence in teaching in fields ranging from geometry to politics
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Campus & Community
Long career in search of ‘how to improve the human condition’
Medical anthropology pioneer Arthur Kleinman takes a bow
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Health
Worth the grind
Hard work of securing a federal grant pays off for researchers: ‘It means you can do something to try to help people.’
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Campus & Community
Garber announces new steps to combat bias against Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians
Moves come amid release of final report from Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias
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Arts & Culture
Discoveries on a musical path
From Benin to Cuba to the Americas, Yosvany Terry sees how tradition safeguards culture and identity
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Work & Economy
Stantcheva awarded Clark Medal
Honored as a leading under-40 economist for pioneering insights on tax policy, innovation, behavior
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Health
U.S. pregnancy-related deaths continuing to rise
Study researcher says nation, which leads high-income peers in maternal mortality, needs better prenatal, extended postpartum care
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Campus & Community
Endowment offers Harvard flexibility but also risks
Economist speaks of balancing act between immediate needs and long-term planning
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Nation & World
‘If you’re boring, you’re not going to educate.’
Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker
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Campus & Community
‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions