Tag: FAS
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The cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs
New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs
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Guess who’s coming to dinner
Marya T. Mtshali spoke to the Gazette about the long history of American fears of racial mixing, the importance of decentering whiteness in discussions of race and relationships, and why we should value love as a scholarly subject.
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Organizing, but not compartmentalizing
LaTosha Brown, founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium, shares insight on increasing voter turnout in a post-election conversation on Feb. 11.
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Laurie Anderson is, as always, undaunted
As the recipient of this year’s Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry Laurie Anderson tells us how she is designing her six Norton Lectures for a virtual audience.
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Working for change that’s both aspirational and real
As president of the Undergraduate Council, Noah Harris ’22 has set his agenda.
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New faculty: Sarah Dimick
Harvard Assistant Professor Sarah Dimick wants to expand the understanding of connections between literature and the environment.
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So how to make the best of ‘senior spring’ in COVID times?
Returning members of Harvard College’s Class of 2021 detail their hopes and expectations for their final semester.
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‘The most charismatic and strange of all flowering plants’
Sapria genome shows astonishing gene loss and gene theft.
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Recognizing pain but seizing hope
Harvard faculty and students reflect on a solemn, powerful presidential inaugural for troubled times.
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Project for Asian and International Relations goes virtual
HPAIR Harvard Conference 2021: Embracing Change goes virtual, running Jan. 15-18.
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Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, dies at 86
Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, has died at 86. The professor of international economics also held many senior roles in U.S. government.
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Harvard partners in national alliance to diversify STEM postdocs and faculty
Harvard is a partner in an effort to increase the number of postdoctoral researchers and faculty in STEM fields who come from historically underrepresented minority groups.
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Voices raised in glee
Glee clubs from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton mesh online in song to celebrate diversity and fellowship.
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Strictly Ballzoom
Ballzoom, a digital format that lets teams compete, was a first thanks to Harvard students.
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Zooming to the ocean floor
OEB 119 students are patched in via livestream and a satellite call to a team of researchers leading an exploration on the seafloor.
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College expands undergraduate cohorts invited to campus for spring
After a successful fall, Harvard College administration had decided that this spring seniors and juniors, students from far time zones, and those who must be on campus to progress academically will be invited back to campus.
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A family’s secret language, a reckoning with a Nazi past
Martin Puchner shares his knowledge of Rotwelsch in his new book, “The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate.”
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‘Garden’ party
“The Garden” is a new arts course that lets students explore tools and ideas across the disciplines of visual art, film, dance, and music.
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From fins to limbs and water to land
Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.
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Evidence of the interconnectedness of global climate
Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.
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Physics Department loses a center of gravity
Dedicated and beloved Harvard Physics Department staffer Carol Davis retires after five decades.
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2020 Rhodes, Mitchell Scholars named
Six Harvard College seniors have been awarded 2020 Rhodes Scholarships and a senior and recent alum were named George J. Mitchell Scholars.
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The election in the classroom
Data-driven course on election analytics lets students take a deeper dive into elections past and present.
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How they leveled the playing field
Zachary Nowak’s fall course, HIST 1852: “The Game: College Sports as History,” had current students interview 99 former Harvard athletes, 96 of whom were women, and used the resulting transcripts as the foundations for their final papers.