Tag: FAS
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How to move a dragon — fast
Harvard’s Dragon Boat racers find fun, fellowship, and amazing views of Boston.
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How to liberate African art
In a Harvard Center for African Studies workshop, scholar Ciraj Rassool urges fuller reckoning with colonial legacies.
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Were Jan. 6 attackers extremists? Protesters? Patriots?
How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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Tracing history of early seafarers through genes
New genetic research shows untold migration to remote Pacific islands was generally matrilocal.
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Teaching algorithms about skin tones
Google adopts sociologist’s skin-tone scale, which aims to promote inclusion, diversity, help fix problems in facial recognition, other technologies.
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Funny lady
Emma Eun-joo Choi ’23 is the host of the new NPR comedy podcast “Everyone & Their Mom.”
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Elif Batuman returns to Harvard
Author and alum Elif Batuman explains how changes, questions in her own life informed path of protagonist in new novel “Either/Or.”
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‘You need to take care of your female student athletes’
Harvard’s Director of Athletics Erin McDermott and former Senior Associate Director of Athletics Pat Henry reflect on legacy of Title IX on its 50th anniversary.
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Leeches as tool for map biodiversity
Scientists looking to measure the biodiversity of wild animals in a nature reserve are taking their lead from leeches.
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Mass shootings reignite youth gun control push
Parkland survivor Jaclyn Corin ’23 says her March for Our Lives group demands federal curbs at June 11 protests in D.C., hundreds of cities, towns.
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Taken out of context
In a peer-reviewed piece published in the journal Science, scholars from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab created a roadmap to help researchers take greater care when writing biological definitions and classifications of sex, mindful of how their language may be used in the public arena.
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Women mostly stayed in workforce as pandemic unfolded, defying forecasts
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin says education was a larger factor than gender in labor disruptions.
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Blazing her own path
For Lucy Wickings ’22, a homeless, first-gen student, it was all uphill. Next she’s looking to help others.
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An end and a beginning
Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony
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Bringing 17th-century Enlightenment tradition to Memorial Hall
The Harvard Undergraduate Salon for the Sciences and Humanities aims to revive the “age of conversation,” particularly about bridges between the two topics.
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Lessons on diplomacy, sustainability of International Space Station
Soyeon Yi, the first Korean astronaut, details her experiences with Americans and Russians while on a mission on the International Space Station.
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Three faculty named Harvard College Professors
Khaled El-Rouayheb, Ju Yon Kim, and James Mickens have been named Harvard College Professors. The professorships provide support for professional development.
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New approach may help clear hurdle to large-scale quantum computing
A team of physicists have created a new method for shuttling entangled atoms in a quantum processor at the forefront for building large-scale programmable quantum machines.
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Packing four years into three
Swimming star Felicia Pasadyn graduates early with highest student-athlete GPA at NCAA Championships.
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Scrutinizing narratives behind nation’s monuments
History of Art and Architecture Professors Sarah Lewis and Joseph Koerner have joined forces for a new class called “Monuments,” which aims to prompt critical conversations about the public works of remembrance.
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More than just another brick in a wall
The student creators of a new public art installation in Harvard Yard believe their work can drive change.
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6 things to know about Earth
Andrew Knoll, Harvard’s Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and author of the recent popular science book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters,” shares six facts about the Earth.
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Learning how to talk about divisive issues
Harvard students share their experiences as fellows in the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
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Making 3D printing truly 3D
Harvard researchers present a new method of volumetric 3D printing.
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The story behind Amartya Sen’s memoir
Nobel laureate, Harvard professor Amartya Sen talks about the challenges he faced writing his new memoir, “Home in the World.”
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How she went from being academic to creating Netflix show about one
Annie Julia Wyman, Ph.D. ’17 says her suggestibility led to “The Chair.”
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Let us not suffer Psets alone
Part study hall, part help desk, part social space, it proves math needn’t be all about solitary scholars racking their brains on Pythagorean theorems.
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Mastering move with high level of difficulty, prize-winning execution
Marissa Sumathipala was an Olympic hopeful, started a company at 17, and is now graduating Harvard.