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Arts & Culture
This year, a single digitization focus at Houghton
For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”
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Nation & World
Another long-overdue reckoning for America
Against the backdrop of the nation’s reckoning with its historical mistreatment of people of color, the Washington Redskins retired its name and in a recent ruling, the Supreme Court confirmed that nearly half of Oklahoma is Native American land. We ask some members of the Harvard community what these two developments mean to them.
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Nation & World
Insights into online learning
Pioneering online-learning initiative edX offers guidance and support as colleges sort out fall plans.
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Health
Vaccines may arrive in record time, but the virus has been faster
Vaccines that might protect against COVID-19 have entered phase 3 trials — the last step before regular approval in humans — in record time, but the virus has moved faster, experts say.
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Campus & Community
Annette Gordon-Reed named University Professor
Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
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Nation & World
The biggest land conservation legislation in a generation
Harvard Kennedy School’s Linda Bilmes analyzes the complicated history and likely impact of the Great American Outdoors Act.
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Campus & Community
Leading Harvard economist Emmanuel Farhi dies at 41
Macroeconomist and Harvard Professor Emmanuel Farhi, who made important contributions to real-world fiscal policy, died unexpectedly on July 23 at 41 years old.
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Health
How COVID-19 causes smell loss
New study finds olfactory support cells, not neurons, are vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection.
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Nation & World
Agonizing over school-reopening plans? Think Marie Kondo
A recent report released by researchers from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology outlines how schools grappling with online and in-person teaching options and making up for lost time can think creatively about reopening.
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Science & Tech
A speedier solution for molecular biomedical research
New quantum-classical algorithm brings nuclear magnetic resonance readings closer to “near-term” quantum computing.
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Arts & Culture
Teaching children to be antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi discusses his new book, how to start conversations about racism with children and with adults, and how to dismantle racist policies.
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Campus & Community
Eating popcorn at home with Joanne Chang
Flour Bakery owner Joanne Chang ’91 makes sticky-bun popcorn for the Gazette in her own kitchen.
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Science & Tech
This is what a scientist looks like
Project aims to give young students real-life STEM role models
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Arts & Culture
Protesting police violence, a playlist
Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.
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Science & Tech
Forestalling food waste
With the goal of reducing food waste, a student-developed device predicts when an avocado will be ripe
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Campus & Community
Improving emotional wellness for students
Provost’s Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health details eight recommendations that address a mix of social, academic, and institutional issues.
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Campus & Community
30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Michael Ashley Stein, J.D. ’88, addressed what Harvard has done since then to expand accessibility on its campuses, and provided perspective on what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.
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Science & Tech
Mystery of the missing molecules
When scientists moved from manipulating atoms to messing with molecules, molecules started to disappear from view. Professor Kang-Kuen Ni has figured out why.
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Science & Tech
Getting under the skin of psoriasis
Researchers have created a treatment that when applied directly to the skin in a mouse model of psoriasis, significantly reduces levels of inflammation and symptoms of psoriasis without systemic side effects.
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Science & Tech
A versatile vessel for next-gen therapeutics
The startup company Vesigen will develop and commercialize the drug-delivery technology created in the lab of Harvard Chan School Professor Quan Lu.
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Campus & Community
Three students in 3 countries share in the ‘Postcards From Here’ series
Jaidyn Probst ’23 of Redwood Falls, Minn., Maarten de Vries ’21 of Elten, Germany, and Luke Walker ’22 of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, share what life is like back home in the Postcard From Here series.
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Science & Tech
‘Universal phenomenon’ shared by metastatic prostate tumors
Prostate cancer progresses to a more-dangerous metastatic state by resurrecting dormant molecular mechanisms that had guided the fetal development of the prostate gland but had been subsequently switched off.
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Science & Tech
Getting to the bottom of goosebumps
Researchers have found that the same cell types that cause goosebumps are responsible for controlling hair growth.
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Nation & World
The conscience of a nation
Few political leaders who successfully transition from activists to lawmakers do so without losing the fire and focus on the causes that brought them to prominence. But Civil Rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died Friday, was that kind of rare leader.
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Health
‘Before a tsunami hits’
Seven researchers discuss the importance of COVID-19 research and pandemic preparedness, the value of teamwork, and the fragility of life.
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Nation & World
A big election amid pandemic in a riven land
Harvard faculty consider the logistical and political challenges as states prepare to try to safely run a presidential election in the middle of a global pandemic.
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Campus & Community
It’s back to the stacks
100 library staff return to Harvard’s campus as physical collection access resumes.
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Arts & Culture
Snow White and the darkness within us
Harvard Professor Maria Tatar collected versions of the tale of Snow White from around the world and explains how they give us a way to think about what we prefer not to.
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Campus & Community
Same old labs but not
Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”
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Health
Study suggests undetected cases help speed COVID-19 spread
Modeling study offers fresh insights into stealthy nature of coronavirus and how easily it jumps from person to person.
