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Work & Economy
Can Trump fire Fed chairman?
Law professor and former Fed Board member says it’s possible but likely market reaction should give pause
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Campus & Community
Pulse Survey finds strong sense of belonging and respect at Harvard
Gaps identified, particularly related to sharing opinions and forming relationships with people holding different views.
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Health
How halt in funding hurts efforts to ensure safety of patients in medical research
Stop-work order disrupts system that facilitates oversight of studies happening at multiple sites
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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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Health
Weighing cure for sick kids against troubling ethical questions
Science Center talk outlines potential and risks of gene editing
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Science & Tech
Turns out, bonobos ‘talk’ a lot like humans
Researchers compile dictionary of vocalizations suggesting the animals use equivalent of word compounds, phrasings to communicate complex social situations
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Science & Tech
He got the stop-work order. Then the scrambling began.
Wyss’ Don Ingber details rush to hold onto consequential projects, talented researchers — and system that has driven American innovation
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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
Bile imbalance linked to liver cancer
Key molecular switch identified, sheds new light on treatment interventions
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Health
FDA-approved smoking cessation pill helps break vaping habit
Clinical trial shows teens and young adults had three times more success quitting than their placebo counterparts
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Nation & World
New, bigger humanitarian crisis in Darfur. But this time, no global outcry.
Regional specialists sound alarm, say displacement, starvation affect many more than two decades ago.
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Arts & Culture
Future doesn’t have to be dystopian, says Ruha Benjamin
In Tanner Lectures, Princeton sociologist talks AI, social justice
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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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Health
Rewriting genetic destiny
David Liu, Breakthrough Prize recipient, retraces path to an ‘incredibly exciting’ disease fighter: ‘This is the essence of basic science.’
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Science & Tech
Long trail from 1992 discovery to 2024 Nobel
Gary Ruvkun recounts years of research, which gradually drew interest, mostly fueled by NIH grants
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Campus & Community
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named Class Day speaker
NBA icon, award-winning author, and humanitarian chosen for ‘his lasting efforts to build a more just and compassionate world’
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Campus & Community
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
Filing argues freeze of research funding violates First Amendment, laws, procedures
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Nation & World
Freezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research
Projects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness
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Arts & Culture
What really scares Katie Kitamura
Ahead of Harvard visit, author talks performance, privacy, and horror inspiration for latest novel
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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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Health
Why bother?
What makes someone run 26.2 miles? Boston Marathon’s lead psychologist has heard it all.
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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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Health
Stopping the bleeding
Terence Blue has spent his life managing hemophilia. A new gene therapy offers relief from constant worry and daily needles — ‘I am actually healing faster than I ever have.’
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Health
Immune-system strategy used to treat cancer may help with Alzheimer’s
Turning off checkpoint molecules freed microglia to attack plaques in brain, improved memory in mice
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Campus & Community
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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Nation & World
What we still need to learn from pandemic
School closures, shutdowns caused lasting damage, and debate was shut down in favor of groupthink, public policy experts say
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Science & Tech
Hunting a basic building block of universe
Researchers find way to confirm existence of axions, which make up dark matter
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Campus & Community
‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions
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Campus & Community
The food was good. The conversation was better.
‘Our Harvard’ brings students together to tackle tough issues
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Work & Economy
When making positive change, sometimes you ‘break things’
Key is to avoid hurting people in process, Gina Raimondo says
