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Campus & Community
HAA honors three with Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that David L. Evans, Leila T. Fawaz A.M. ’72, Ph.D. ’79, and Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, will receive the 2020 Harvard Medal.
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Campus & Community
Coming full circuit
From a high school electricity class in Kenya, Billy Koech knew he was destined to become an electrical engineer. This May, he will graduate from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences doing just that.
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Campus & Community
Doing the right thing
Jose Cerda III ’88, Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95, and Theresa Reno-Weber, M.P.P. ’08, offer the Class of 2020 advice about the value of public service.
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Health
The mother of invention
COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.
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Campus & Community
A warning on homeschooling
Q&A with HLS professor and child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet, who calls for a radical transformation in homeschooling.
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Campus & Community
Reason to smile
After he graduates from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Jeffrey Taylor will pursue a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery where he’ll one day reconstruct damaged jaws, fix life-altering facial deformities.
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Campus & Community
Reopening research operations
The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.
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Campus & Community
Scenes from the socially distant
In this latest dispatch, Harvard staff, faculty, and students share their life from afar.
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Campus & Community
Nine faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Nine Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
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Health
Sticking to the healthy diet?
A newly identified “metabolic signature” can evaluate an individual’s adherence and metabolic response to the Mediterranean diet and help predict future risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Health
What pandemic dreams may come
Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Positive disruption
Saamon Legoski, a student in Harvard Chan School’s M.P.H.-45 program is on a mission for environmental justice.
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Campus & Community
Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next
Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
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Science & Tech
Gut microbiome influences ALS outcomes
The researchers found that in mice with a common ALS genetic mutation, changing the gut microbiome could prevent or improve disease symptoms.
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Campus & Community
Once on this island
Marvin Merritt IV ’20 was born and raised on the small island of Deer Isle, Maine, the centerpiece for his senior thesis and a single destination in this artist’s journey.
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Campus & Community
$16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID
MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.
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Nation & World
The aftermath of wars
The battlefronts of World War II and COVID-19 may look very different, but long term consequences remain the constant
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Health
A COVID-19 battle with many fronts
The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.
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Campus & Community
Birth of a sleuth
As a first-year, Jordan Villegas ’20 took his passion for archival research to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and spent his next four years becoming a Radcliffe triple threat.
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Health
Volunteers juice COVID testing at Beth Israel
An outpouring of volunteers and equipment from the Harvard medical community have helped a Harvard hospital testing lab meet COVID’s challenge.
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Nation & World
Gateway City: Viewed as an intersection of slavery, capitalism, imperialism
A new book by historian Walter Johnson sees the history of St. Louis as emblematic of the racial, economic, and legal schisms in America.
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Health
Mapping the cancer connection
A new study takes the most comprehensive look to date at the connection between the ancestry and the molecular makeup of cancer.
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Health
Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’
Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.
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Nation & World
For Native Americans, COVID-19 is ‘the worst of both worlds at the same time’
Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.
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Campus & Community
Elevating people of color and women in the workplace
Deeneaus ‘D’ Polk, M.P.P. ’20, found his way from Mississippi to Harvard Kennedy School via Germany — but his plan is to return to the South and bring opportunity to jobseekers.
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Health
How far are we from a vaccine? Depends on who ‘we’ is
Rising nationalism and global inequity will be hurdles to the distribution of COVID vaccines, despite the comparatively “lightning” fast scientific response to the pandemic so far, a Harvard infectious disease expert said Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Breaking ground with new degree
Juan Reynoso will be the second Harvard student to have completed a new joint Master in Public Health/Master in Urban Planning degree program.
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Campus & Community
Erin McDermott named athletic director
Erin McDermott has been named the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard announced today.
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Work & Economy
Real-time data to address real-time problems
A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.
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Health
Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle
Wilderness medicine fellows were among those whose attention has been turned homeward, where they’re pitching in to fight COVID-19 in the ER.
