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Campus & Community
Turning Harvard virtual
A look at how Harvard University Information Technology helped the University, including the College and 12 graduate Schools, move all classes online.
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Science & Tech
Scientists map human protein interactions
Scientists produce a reference map of human protein interactions, releasing data helpful for understanding diseases including cancer and infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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Health
A flawed masterpiece
In a new paper published in Cell, Harvard researchers exploring the genetic features that help make the knee possible found that the regulatory switches involved in its development also play a role in a partially heritable disease.
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Health
How masks and buildings can be barriers to the coronavirus
According to Harvard’s Joe Allen, coronavirus is likely being transmitted in buildings through ventilation systems. But there are ways to minimize risks.
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Science & Tech
Design School turns 3D printers into PPE producers
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) began production of personal protective equipment (PPE) on Sunday.
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Health
From a care of souls to the care of bodies
Kevin Cranston discusses the critical and continuing need for adequate testing and about how data helps inform policy and procedures during a pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and MIT donate $500,000 to Cambridge
Harvard University has donated $250,000 to support a temporary emergency shelter in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
Graduate School of Design’s dean diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah M. Whiting diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Health
Epidemiologist says COVID-19 may be more infectious than thought
Efforts to protect nursing home patients should include moving residents from facilities and increased testing, said Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina.
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Campus & Community
‘I thought: This is going to be interesting’
Nearly two weeks after he announced that he and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow, had been exposed to the novel coronavirus, Harvard President Larry Bacow shared his experience with the pandemic illness.
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Health
Harvard to help track the virus
Soon hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, and taking part in efforts to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Leadership on the front line
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative help hundreds of city leaders tackle the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Mobile clinics finding their place in pandemic
Harvard Medical School’s Family Van co-hosted a webinar to discuss what the mobile clinics have to offer during the coronavirus pandemic — and it’s a lot.
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Health
Mask decontamination methods: Strengths, weaknesses, gaps
As health care workers resort to mask reuse, a coalition of professionals compares risks, benefits of major decontamination methods.
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Nation & World
In prisons, a looming coronavirus crisis
Experts from across the University are calling for state officials to limit the number of people in jails and prisons in an effort to stop the virus’ spread.
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Campus & Community
Zooming through the grad Schools
A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.
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Nation & World
Waste not, want not
Since early March, Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic has been writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.
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Health
Organized to fight the pandemic
The newly formed Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness aims to address both the immediate and long-term implications of the coronavirus crisis. The effort, led by Harvard Medical School, will work to stem the tide of COVID-19 but, more importantly, to lay the groundwork for dealing with future pandemics.
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Health
From the lab to COVID front lines
Aldatu Biosciences, a company born in Harvard’s labs and nurtured in its entrepreneurial ecosystem, helps the region ramp up COVID-19 testing.
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Campus & Community
Harvard board elections moved to summer in response to virus disruptions
Harvard’s governing boards have announced the delay of the 2020 Overseer and HAA Elected Director elections until July to allow voters time to respond and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Health
New blood test can detect wide range of cancers
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy.
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Health
A multipronged attack against a shared enemy
As the pandemic intensifies, Harvard scientists work to find a treatment.
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Campus & Community
For professors who have taught at Extension School, Zoom is an old friend
The Division of Continuing Education, which offers nearly 900 online courses each year, is helping the College move to online learning.
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Science & Tech
Facing a pandemic, Broad does a quick pivot
Facing a pandemic, scientific and administrative teams across the Broad Institute raced to enable coronavirus testing in a matter of days.
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Campus & Community
College adopts grading policy changes for spring term
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard College will adopt an Emergency Satisfactory/Emergency Unsatisfactory (SEM/UEM) grading policy for the spring semester.