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Health
Working through pain? You’re not alone.
Researchers use Dutch tool to pursue full scale of functional limitations in U.S. labor force
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Campus & Community
Slavery researchers seek more detailed picture of pre-Civil War Harvard
Careful effort to identify leaders, faculty, and staff is key to descendants probe: ‘This work takes time to do well’
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Health
Is dirty air driving up dementia rates?
Federal funding cuts halt 3 studies exploring how pollution and heat affect the brain and heart
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Nation & World
‘By mid-March, corpses littered the street like newspapers’
Young Ukrainian mother and her toddler left to fend for themselves after husband joins soldiers defending Mariupol
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Campus & Community
Harvard aligns resources for combating bias, harassment
Office for Community Support, Non-Discrimination, Rights and Responsibilities targets discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment, and other misconduct
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Campus & Community
Harvard appoints Rabbi Getzel Davis as inaugural director of interfaith engagement
Presidential initiative will promote religious literacy and dialogue across faith and non-faith traditions
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Arts & Culture
From tragedy to ‘Ecstasy’
Ivy Pochoda’s feminist retelling of ‘The Bacchae’ examines freedom from inhibition with Electronic Dance Music beat
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Health
Getting to the root of teen distracted driving
7 in 10 young people use cellphones while behind the wheel, finds a new study that also takes a look at why
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Campus & Community
A popular TV show, cathartic commute, and dance that requires teamwork
Education lecturer finds leadership lessons in unlikely places
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Work & Economy
Will your job survive AI?
Expert on future of work says it’s a little early for dire predictions, but there are signs significant change may be coming
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Campus & Community
2 new initiatives strengthen Harvard’s academic engagement with Israel
Opportunities for undergraduate study abroad and research exchange in biomedicine
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Campus & Community
‘Learning without a net’
Here are 5 students doing summer research with faculty in topics from heat mortality to epigenetics, Legionnaires’ disease to anorexia
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Science & Tech
How do math, reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers.
Grant terminated at critical point of ambitious study following students for five years
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Science & Tech
AI leaps from math dunce to whiz
Experts describe how rapid advances are transforming field and classroom and expanding idea of what’s possible — ‘sky’s the limit’
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Science & Tech
Taking a second look at executive function
New study suggests what has long been considered innate aspect of human cognition may be more a matter of schooling
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Science & Tech
You’re a deer mouse, and bird is diving at you. What to do? Depends.
Neural study shows how evolution prepared two species to adopt different survival strategies to take advantage of native habitats
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Science & Tech
A step toward solving central mystery of life on Earth
Experiment with synthetic self-assembling materials suggests how it all might have begun
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Health
Going to bed earlier may help you hit fitness goals
New study finds link between sleep curfew, higher levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
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Campus & Community
Harvard seeks restoration of research funds
University argues Trump administration violated free speech rights, ignored procedural provisions in federal court hearing
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Health
Overlooked climate-change danger: Wildfire smoke
Researchers rush to get hands around multiple serious health risks as blazes mount — and get bigger
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Campus & Community
‘To Pope Leo XIV’
Gates meets with ‘ecumenical’ pontiff to present copy of family tree produced from research the scholar did for Times magazine piece
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Science & Tech
Snapshots from front lines of federal research funding cuts
Faculty detail scramble to save work and talented researchers, both those in labs and in pipeline
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Health
Road to game-changing cancer treatment
The recent development of cancer immunotherapies marks a turning point in the centuries-old quest to fight cancer by harnessing the power of patients’ own immune systems.
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Health
‘It’s through research that we can live longer, healthier lives’
Harvard scientists discuss potential impacts of federal funding cuts — from U.S. brain drain to fewer medical breakthroughs
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Health
‘Miraculous’ treatments for more patients
David Mooney’s team develops immunotherapies that work across many cancer types
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Health
Improving cancer care
Nancy Keating’s team uses healthcare data to study access to treatment across populations
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Health
Attack of the cells
Duane Wesemann’s lab looks to body’s immune system to understand and treat disorders, allergies
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Health
Hearing breakthrough
David Corey’s lab closes in on revolutionary interventions to treat hereditary deafness
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Health
HIV resurgence
Epidemiologist Jeff Imai-Eaton warns funding cuts could reverse decades of gains in prevention, care
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Campus & Community
Committee recommends maintaining name of Winthrop House, adding historical context
Garber, Hoekstra accept review panel’s proposal
