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Campus & Community
Sounds of silence
Despite COVID-19, the sound of the Lowell House bells can still be heard from a distance
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Campus & Community
Managing construction’s return to a ‘new normal’
Campus Services and construction officials at Harvard spoke to the Gazette about safely and responsibly resuming construction projects after Boston’s stay-home advisory is lifted.
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Campus & Community
A virtual celebration of innovation at Harvard
The Bertarelli Foundation prizes awarded $510,000 to winners of the 2020 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, in which Harvard students and alumni showcase their solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems across industries.
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Campus & Community
Clearing the air
Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20, is boosting Alaskans’ health by promoting dialogue between public health officials and the community. Now with COVID-19, Nelson said that her Harvard Chan School training in risk communication is proving invaluable
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Nation & World
‘He was fearless’
In a deeply competitive business not known for magnanimity, top editors, publishers, and media critics explain why The Washington Post’s Martin Baron is such an admired newsroom leader.
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Nation & World
Martin Baron, on his life, his calling, and the importance of shedding light
In a question-and-answer session, Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post and this year’s graduation speaker, talks about his life and times.
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Campus & Community
A new mission in Haiti
When Christophe Millien finishes his graduate studies at Harvard Medical School this month, he will return to Haiti to address the medical problem caused by uterine fibroids suffered by Haitian women.
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Nation & World
Major outpouring of support for University in legal battle over admissions approach
Hundreds of social scientists, business executives, Nobel laureates, state attorneys general, colleges rebut group appealing judgment in favor of Harvard admissions policies.
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Nation & World
Fauci offers mayors candid advice on what to expect as nation begins to reopen
Anthony Fauci told mayors and city leaders at a seminar hosted at Harvard Kennedy School that they should “expect” to see new “blips of infections” as communities begin to reopen, but not to be “discouraged.”
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Health
Stroke, heart-attack cases plummet during pandemic
A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study showed dramatic drops in hospital visits for heart attacks and stroke, which likely led to uncounted deaths at home during the COVID crisis. Perhaps more troubling is the potential for long-term damage to decades’ work to catch conditions in their earliest, most treatable stages.
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Campus & Community
Hitting full stride in emergency medicine
Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.
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Campus & Community
An enduring bond
Four sets of roommates from the Class of 2020 gave the Gazette a glimpse of life inside the dorms back in 2017. Where are they now?
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Campus & Community
‘When you see death all the time, you go into this mode of increased energy and sharper focus’
Pioneering AIDS researcher Myron “Max” Essex was one of the first to propose that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS.
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Health
Love in the time of COVID
An expert in romantic relationships talks about the ways couples can keep relationships healthy in the time of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Thesis focus surfaces in West Virginia
D.C. attorney Bradley Ashton Thomas came to Harvard Extension School, discovering a small town in West Virginia along the way.
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Arts & Culture
Leaving a mark on campus
The new art exhibition “Windows of Harvard” can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online.
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Work & Economy
‘If it’s not over on the disease … it’s not over on the balance sheet’
Harvard Kennedy School economist Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises who will become chief economist and vice president at the World Bank next month, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy and the global challenges on the horizon.
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Campus & Community
Exploring from home
Harvard Ed Portal’s virtual field trips help students see the world.
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Health
Vaccines can protect against COVID-19 in nonhuman primates, study says
Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed vaccines — currently being tested in animal models — that are designed to train the body’s immune system to recognize the virus swiftly upon exposure and respond quickly to disable it.
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Campus & Community
‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’
Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.
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Health
A summer like no other
Summer message from a health expert: Go outside and play, but don’t forget about COVID.
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Campus & Community
Dear Harvard
Students launch virtual postcard project to keep the Harvard community connected.
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Campus & Community
In tune with a program of dual study
Avanti Nagral decided to try the new dual-degree program and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard while getting her master’s from Berklee College of Music — all in five years.
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Campus & Community
Rising above a biased system he’s now determined to change
Growing up in Mattapan, Kwame Adams refused to be defined by low expectations. Now the Ed School grad aims to help Boston students of color avoid the same biases he faced.
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Campus & Community
A drive that’s taken her around the world
Lessons learned from Rewan Abdelwahab’s four trips to five countries during her time at Harvard.
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Work & Economy
Democratizing work for the people and the planet
An op-ed that was cosigned by more than 5,000 researchers from universities around the globe, issued an urgent plea: We need to transform the way we work.
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Nation & World
‘The lesson is to never forget’
Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors
Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Getting handwritten letters make friends feel less far away
Integrative biology concentrator Allison Law ’20 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Natick, Mass., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Wishing there’d been just a little more time to savor senior year on campus
Neuroscience concentrator Hayoung Ahn describes how things are going in Queens, N.Y., now that she’s back home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
