Tag: Harvard

  • Nation & World

    Gut details

    New findings have the potential to help researchers more accurately identify microbiome enzymes and quantify their relative abundance.

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    When bias hurts profits

    Based on data collected from a French grocery store chain, a new Harvard study has found that minority workers were far less efficient in a handful of important metrics when working with biased managers.

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    To advance sustainability, fight inequality, researcher says

    A new Harvard study argues that technological approaches to sustainability must be accompanied by efforts to reduce inequality.

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    Lab opens doors for an undergrad experience

    As part of Harvard’s Wintersession, a handful of freshmen got the chance to experience the reality of lab work by exploring how altering genes in yeast affected the cells’ functions.

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    Catalyzing discovery

    In a trio of studies published earlier this month, researchers have shown that the process of catalysis is more dynamic than previously imagined, and that molecular forces can vastly influence the process.

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    A revised portrait of psychopaths

    A study suggests that while psychopaths do feel regret, however, it doesn’t affect their choices.

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    Finding comfort at home and here

    A Harvard undergraduate who now calls two coasts home learns to bridge the 3,000-mile gap.

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    My 21 years in Cambridge

    A Harvard undergrad reflects on leaving home, but staying put.

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    Trials for a global university

    With travel to the United States temporarily banned from some Muslim-majority nations, Harvard officials and students are rallying to support members of the global University’s international community.

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    Advance in high-pressure physics

    Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating metallic hydrogen. In addition to helping scientists answer some fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, including as a room-temperature superconductor.

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    Top stories of 2016

    A look back at some of the Gazette’s most popular stories of 2016.

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    Recognition for their discoveries

    Harvard physicists Cumrun Vafa and Andrew Strominger have been named winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their groundbreaking work in a number of areas, including black hole theory, quantum gravity, and string theory.

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    Spotting speedy brain activity

    Using ultra-fast MRI scans, scientists are able to track rapid oscillations in brain activity that previously would have gone undetected, a development that could open the door to understanding fast-occurring cognitive processes that once appeared off-limits to scientists.

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    Diamonds are a lab’s best friend

    Using the atomic-scale quantum defects in diamonds known as nitrogen-vacancy centers to detect the magnetic field generated by neural signals, scientists working in the lab of Ronald Walsworth, a faculty member in Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Physics Department, demonstrated a noninvasive technique that can show the activity of neurons.

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    Rhodes and Marshall scholars

    At this time of year, most Harvard seniors are worrying about job interviews or graduate school applications, but not Dhruva Bhat and Julius Bright Ross. The two seniors will spend the next two years studying in the United Kingdom, Bhat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ross as a Marshall Scholar.

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    Harvard students, meet the Stone Age

    Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.

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    Harvard joins American Talent Initiative

    Harvard has joined the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of colleges and universities that seeks to attract, enroll, and graduate high-achieving, lower-income students.

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    Curbing carbon on campus

    Harvard University achieves ambitious climate goal set in 2008.

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    Two Harvard scholars headed across the pond

    Two Harvard students were among those selected to receive prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which support up to two years of study in the United Kingdom.

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    Yalies by the dozen

    With The Game at Harvard this year, two campuses merged into one as Yalies poured into Cambridge by the busload to stay in the Houses and get ready for some football. An undergraduate describes the scene.

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    Joining the ranks of Rhodes

    Realizing new dreams, Harvard’s four newest Rhodes Scholars unveil plans for their Oxford years.

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    What do we know about suicide? Not nearly enough

    Despite decades of research aimed at understanding suicide, scientists are no better at predicting self-harm than they were a half-century ago.

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    Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders

    Startup Magenta Therapeutics licenses technologies from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital that could help transform treatment.

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    Danielle Allen named University Professor

    Danielle Allen has been named a University Professor. The political theorist and classicist has been recognized for her scholarly work on justice and citizenship.

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    Harvard ROTC: Soldiers and Scholars

    Photos from Harvard ROTC’s 100th birthday show the intersection of service and academics through time.

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    Science, meet YouTube

    Harvard graduate student Molly Edwards is the creator and host of “Science IRL (In Real Life),” a YouTube channel she launched more than a year ago while working as a lab technician at New York University. The show is dedicated to taking viewers inside labs for an up-close-and-personal view of the day-to-day work of scientists.

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    No letup for Nobel winner

    Oliver Hart, the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences, takes on an old question in a new paper — what should the goals of a public company be?

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    Across Harvard, art you can touch

    Sculptures are dotted across campus in both public and private spaces.

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    Ten from Harvard named HHMI Faculty Scholars

    Ten Harvard scientists have won the support of a new funding initiative by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Gates Foundation.

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    Teaching computers to identify odors

    Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers were able to “train” a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents, and identify whether specific odors were present in a mix of smells.

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