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  • Nation & World

    How to be your best in 5 minutes

    Harvard Business School social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains how tapping into our inner strength can help us make the most of life’s big challenges.

    5 minutes
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    A brain link to autism

    Using a visual test that is known to prompt different reactions in autistic and normal brains, Harvard researchers have shown that those differences were associated with a breakdown in the signaling pathway used by one of the brain’s chief inhibitory neurotransmitters.

    5 minutes
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    Chemical flavorings found in e-cigarettes linked to respiratory disease

    A Harvard study links chemicals used in flavored electronic cigarettes to cases of severe respiratory disease.

    3 minutes
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    A digital portrait of Colonial life

    The website of the Colonial North American Project so far includes 150,000 images of diaries, journals, notebooks, and other rare documents from the 17th and 18th centuries.

    4 minutes
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    Growing up, giving back

    In summer, the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program, sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House, provides campers with a focus.

    4 minutes
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    Big boost for SEAS

    The Harvard community celebrates John A. Paulson’s $400 million gift to boost the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the University’s largest donation ever.

    5 minutes
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    Harvard receives its largest gift

    John A. Paulson gives $400 million to Harvard to endow the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the largest donation in the University’s history.

    6 minutes
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    Going forward, a look back

    The University in 2014-15 saw milestones with the reopening of the Harvard Art Museums and the renaming of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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    Strong enrollment for Class of 2019

    Nearly 81 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2019 plan to enroll in August. Last year, 80.9 percent matriculated; 81 percent did so the year before. The last time Harvard’s yield on admitted students reached these levels was 1969 for the Class of 1973.

    4 minutes
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    Uncertain forecast for Social Security

    A new study has found that the financial health of Social Security, the program millions of Americans have relied on for decades as a crucial part of their income, has been dramatically overstated.

    10 minutes
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    The era of climate responsibility

    At Harvard’s 10th annual Plant Biology Symposium, climate expert Chris Field talked about the need to evaluate environmental risks in the coming decades even as many people work to reduce climate-warming emissions.

    4 minutes
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    ‘Destruction across the city’

    Lara Phillips, a Harvard Medical School instructor in emergency medicine, was in Nepal during the April 25 earthquake that devastated Kathmandu and other areas. She and colleagues have traveled from the high-mountain clinic where they worked to offer assistance.

    5 minutes
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    The women who questioned Wall Street

    A trio of Wall Street’s toughest critics talks about gender and taking on what’s been called America’s ultimate boys’ club.

    5 minutes
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    After Nepal quake, Harvard responds

    With Nepal struggling to grasp the enormous calamity caused by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck north of Kathmandu Saturday, Harvard is mobilizing to help with technical and medical assistance and reaching out to faculty, staff, and students visiting the region.

    6 minutes
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    Fryer wins Clark Medal

    Roland Fryer, Harvard’s Henry Lee Professor of Economics, has been awarded the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given annually to a rising young economist.

    4 minutes
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    Undergrads collecting degrees, heading abroad

    Four graduating seniors will begin yearlong fellowships as part of the Fulbright Scholars program administered by the U.S. Department of State. Joy Ming, Tyreke White, and Amanda Reilly will all complete their studies at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year.

    8 minutes
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    Unsettled by the bomb

    A historian’s new book outlines the little-known role of black Americans in international campaigns to ban nuclear weapons.

    5 minutes
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    Theater, Dance, and Media

    A new arts concentration will offer classes this fall, and students will be able to declare the concentration officially in December.

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    Hand-held disasters

    Harvard’s Center for Health Communication last week arranged a media briefing at the Massachusetts State House on distracted driving, a problem that takes some 3,000 lives a year in the United States. The Gazette spoke to center director Jay Winsten about the problem.

    10 minutes
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    Harvard College admits 1,990

    On March 31, admission notifications were sent to 1,990 of the record 37,307 who applied for admission to the Harvard College Class of 2019.

    9 minutes
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    Pesticides result in lower sperm counts

    Men who ate fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues had lower sperm counts and lower percentages of normal sperm than those who ate produce with lower residue levels, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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    A close glimpse of James Baldwin

    Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.

    6 minutes
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    Soccer’s versatile beauty

    Harvard course uses the game of soccer to explore the complexity of the humanities.

    7 minutes
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    Smarter by the minute, sort of

    New research from Harvard and MIT shows that different cognitive skills peak at different times in lifespan.

    5 minutes
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    Keys to a split-second slime attack

    Researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and from universities in Chile, Costa Rica, and Brazil have been studying the secret power of the velvet worm.

    5 minutes
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    America, still at top

    Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye talks about America’s future as a global superpower in the 21st century.

    10 minutes
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    Staying power for shale gas

    The shale gas boom, which has transformed domestic and global energy markets, is still in its infancy, according to the chair of Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

    5 minutes
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    Revealed in verse

    Henri Cole is working on a new collection of poems while a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

    3 minutes
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    Case of the rotting mummies

    Chilean preservationists have turned to a Harvard scientist with a record of solving mysteries around threatened cultural artifacts.

    6 minutes
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    Crowd of Fulbrights

    For the second year in a row, Harvard is the leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, with 34 students ― 22 from the College, 12 in total from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, Graduate School of Design, and Graduate School of Education — receiving the prestigious grants.

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