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Health
Coffee connection gets stronger
Data from a large observational study suggests coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of metastatic colorectal cancer progression and death.
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Nation & World
Appeals court hears arguments in admissions case
A three-judge panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in the appeal of a ruling last fall that found Harvard’s admissions policies do not discriminate on the basis of race.
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Health
A public-relations campaign to build trust in COVID vaccine?
A public campaign to build trust may be needed if a successful vaccine candidate is to be taken by enough Americans to interrupt the COVID pandemic, a Harvard public health expert said.
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Science & Tech
How the West became WEIRD
In his new book Joe Henrich looks at how the West became psychologically peculiar and prosperous.
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Nation & World
Science and citizenship
Over the course of 10 weeks this summer, Harvard Medical School graduate students spent their time outside of the lab working at the Massachusetts State House as fellows in the Scientific Citizenship Initiative.
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Nation & World
In this election, ‘costly signal deployment’
As the 2020 presidential campaign rhetoric heats up, Harvard experimental psychologist Joshua D. Greene, who studies the science behind tribal instincts and moral judgments, looks at the strategy behind President Trump’s increasingly provocative, extreme language.
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Campus & Community
Inspired to action, eager to serve
The global Harvard community participated in the University’s first Global Day of Service.
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Science & Tech
On the clock
Researchers have built two machine learning models that gauge biological age and predict remaining lifespan in mice.
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Science & Tech
Viewing flattened fossils in a new light
Harvard and Chinese scientists study Cambrian fossils using micro-CT and 3D models.
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Nation & World
Report finds fathers feel closer to children during pandemic
Recent Harvard research has uncovered one significant — if perhaps fleeting — silver lining for fathers and children during the coronavirus pandemic. Fathers across the U.S., many of whom now work at home due to coronavirus lockdowns, are feeling closer to their children.
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Science & Tech
A cool first for Harvard
Harvard researchers become the first to cool a polyatomic molecule using light.
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Work & Economy
Pandemic’s path of destruction widens
According to a Harvard study, a majority of households with children in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston are facing serious financial problems.
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Science & Tech
Inside Harvard’s COVID tracing effort
A look at COVID-19 contact tracing efforts at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Dissecting racial disparities in Mass. criminal justice system
Brook Hopkins and Felix Owusu are two of the authors on a report on racial disparities in Massachusetts state prisons
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Campus & Community
Preparing grad and professional Schools for remote fall
We look at how the different graduate Schools are handling online learning in the fall.
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Health
Child’s best friend
Mass. General study finds that the loss of a pet can potentially trigger mental health issues in children.
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Campus & Community
Richard A. Smith dies at 95
Richard A. Smith, a former member of both of Harvard’s governing boards, has died at age 95. Smith was a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1991 to 2000, and…
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Health
Curating the experience of Black America in the age of pandemic
To document the effects of COVID-19 on Black Americans, two colleagues and friends created an open-source library guide to serve as a repository of material and a platform to start a dialogue.
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Campus & Community
Catherine Dulac wins Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences
Catherine Dulac is awarded a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her pioneering work identifying the neural circuitry that regulates parenting behavior.
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Health
Each one, teach one
A Harvard Medical School student from Tanzania is working to help other international students navigate the process of getting into a U.S. medical school.
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Campus & Community
Serving up job training
Breaktime Cafe, started by two Harvard students, works to feed vulnerable community members.
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Science & Tech
Students use computational biology to confront COVID-19
A team of undergrads is using computational biology to create a therapeutic that enables the body to quickly develop COVID-19 antibodies and jump-start the immune system’s battle against the disease.
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Arts & Culture
Portrait of the documentarian as a young man
“A New England Document” by Che R. Applewhaite ’21 profiles Lorna and Lawrence Marshall and details their extended expeditions with their children to Africa’s Kalahari Desert starting in the 1950s.
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Campus & Community
‘I wanted to warn future social movements that listening only to one’s own side can generate dangerous amounts of unrealism’
Jane Mansbridge, one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic theory talks about her “jagged trajectory” toward success.
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Campus & Community
Pandemic helps set new dean’s priorities
William V. Giannobile, D.M.Sc. ’96, P.D. ’96, talks about assuming his role as dean of Harvard Dental School of Medicine in the midst of a pandemic and what he envisions for the future.
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Campus & Community
How to make a better Harvard Police Department
Review committee details process, and how their findings may inform search for new Harvard University Police Department chief.
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Science & Tech
Far-out findings from the cosmos
CfA astronomers theorize that the solar system originally had two suns as they further research a sneezing star and ‘Oumuamua.
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Science & Tech
Imagine clothing that stretches or shrinks to fit you
SEAS researchers have developed a material made from recycled wool can be 3D-printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory.
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Campus & Community
How textbooks taught white supremacy
We interview historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, who is writing the book “Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race in American History.”
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Campus & Community
What Harvard learned at Summer School
When the pandemic pushed it totally online, Harvard Summer School strengthen its already strong virtual presence. This is what they learned.
