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Campus & Community
Harvard Library takes steps toward reopening
As Harvard begins a phased reopening, University Librarian Martha Whitehead outlines how the libraries will reestablishes core services.
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Campus & Community
Returning to fight for disabled workers rights
Kennedy School graduate Ariella Barker returns to her job as an attorney for the city of New York, where she’ll resume advocacy for disabled workers.
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Nation & World
The fire this time
As protests continue over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, discusses the underlying social and cognitive factors at work in police violence against Black people.
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Campus & Community
Amid darkening clouds, the best road forward
Chief financial officer offers updates on the University’s fiscal health and future plans amid the downturn triggered by the pandemic.
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Health
Adding up the cost of pandemic health care
A new report published by the Brookings Institution estimates national health care spending for COVID-19 care and discusses its policy implications.
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Science & Tech
Horizontal helper
Cassandra Extavour and Leo Blondel provide the strongest suggestive evidence yet that at least part of a specific gene came from bacterial genomes.
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Campus & Community
Helping African teens thrive
When Tom Osborn arrived at Harvard from Kenya, he was already an internationally recognized entrepreneur. Four years later, he’s launched a nonprofit that is boosting the grades and well-being of high-schoolers back home.
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Health
Loss of taste and smell is best indicator of COVID-19, study shows
Researchers deploying a smartphone app to 2.6 million users have determined that the loss of smell and taste are most predictive symptoms of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
A look at Radcliffe past and present
Radcliffe Day included a discussion between current dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Tomiko Brown-Nagin and former dean Drew Faust, who addressed the history and future of the institute.
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Campus & Community
Architects of their future
For the first time in its history, the Harvard Graduate School of Design has four Native American students enrolled.
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Work & Economy
A look at the future as Beijing seeks more influence over Hong Kong
With the National Party Congress, China’s annual legislative session, concluded, the Ash Center sat down with Director Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, to discuss a new security law that could define the future of Beijing’s relationship with Hong Kong.
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Health
Pod-based e-cigarettes efficiently addictive
A new Harvard Chan School study has found that pod-based e-cigarettes’ efficient delivery of nicotine may foster greater dependence than other types of e-cigarettes.
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Nation & World
Leap of faith
Hannah Stohler is executive director of Marguerite’s Place, a transitional living program for women & children in crisis in Nashua, New Hampshire. Previously, she held roles in leadership and programming at nonprofit organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Campus & Community
A long, good run
After 44 years at Harvard, Bob Scalise retires as John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, capping a tenure of accomplishment and change.
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Science & Tech
Filling gaps in our understanding of how cities began to rise
Genomic analysis shows long-term genetic mixing in West Asia before the rise of the world’s first cities
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Campus & Community
A season of surprises
Texas teacher Shanna Peeples got more than a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “… it gave me this integration of so many things and it let me write myself into more authenticity,” she says.
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Nation & World
Future design
As a leading architect and urbanist, Charles Waldheim is helping Miami adapt to a changing climate.
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Campus & Community
Conan arrives, and the crowd goes wild! (Not really)
Comedian Conan O’Brien ’85 addressed the Class of 2020 Thursday as part of an afternoon of virtual ceremonies that captured the joy, poignancy, and humor of the day.
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Campus & Community
The danger of ‘misinformation, disinformation, delusions, and deceit’
Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron warned of the dangers of “misinformation, disinformation, delusions and deceit” as he joined an online celebration that sent the graduating Class of 2020 into an uncertain world.
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 8,227 degrees and certificates
Harvard University awarded a total of 8,174 degrees and certificates over the 2019–20 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Back where she began, but much changed
Economist Talia Gillis held her own commencement ceremony while quarantined in her childhood home in Jerusalem, along with her husband and three children.
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Campus & Community
Providing insight and inspiration
Michael Phillips will deliver the Senior English Address and Sana Raoof the Graduate English Address at Harvard’s Honoring the Class of 2020 on May 28.
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Campus & Community
Walking with my baby; an eclectic ‘MixTape’; and taking people back to the ballgame
Stories from Harvard faculty, students, and staff about work and life in the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Recalling a pioneer of modern political economy
Alberto Alesina, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), died at age 63.
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Campus & Community
Harvard readies for a different kind of celebration
Harvard’s graduation will look much different this year, but the University is preparing to take it in stride with a virtual celebration.
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Campus & Community
Reflecting on 2019-20
A compilation of memories from Harvard’s 2019-20 academic year.
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Arts & Culture
Taking a break for beauty
Virtual, 30-minute art breaks organized by the Harvard Art Museums are designed to help doctors briefly disengage from the pressures and stresses of their work in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
A captain for our planet
Throughout her academic career — from Princeton University to University of Cambridge, and finally Harvard — Christina Chang, Ph.D. ’20, has worked toward a more sustainable world one invention at a time.
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Campus & Community
A letter to the Class of 2020
Harvard Alumni Association President Alice Hill ’81, Ph.D. ’91, reminds the Class of 2020 that they are “part of a community … that reaches to all parts of the world,” encouraging them maintain the connection.
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Campus & Community
The COVID-19 evacuation wasn’t Harvard’s first
A look at how the coronavirus pandemic upended classes and life at Harvard, when the University sent students back home and began online learning, in an extraordinary measure that has only one precedent in its 384-year history.
