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Science & Tech
Inspired by jumping spiders
Inspired by the depth perception of spiders fixing to pounce on prey from a distance, Harvard researchers design a sensor that could be used in microrobotics, augmented reality, wearable devices.
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Campus & Community
Frames of mind: A window onto Harvard’s campus
A window Into Harvard’s campus through the lens of a camera.
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Science & Tech
A rose by any other name — could be confusing
Kanchi Gandhi is one of a small group of global experts who referees the rules of naming new plant species.
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Arts & Culture
The story of a museum and of America
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recalls his challenges in founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Nation & World
The conservative quandary
During a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School, several leading conservative voices discuss why the movement’s political tenets still matter, even for a political party loyal to President Trump.
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Campus & Community
A fairly bright fiscal 2019
Harvard closed the 2019 fiscal year last June 30 with a surplus. Harvard officials discuss the details of how the University got there.
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Arts & Culture
Persistence, courage take the dais
Rapper Queen Latifah, poets Elizabeth Alexander and Rita Dove, Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, artist Kerry James Marshall, and entrepreneur Robert F. Smith were honored with this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medals.
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Science & Tech
Both marathoner and sprinter
Scientists from Harvard and the University of Virginia have developed the first robotic tuna that can accurately mimic both the highly efficient swimming style of tuna, and their high speed.
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Health
A timely triage test for TB
A team of researchers has developed a point-of-care TB test that costs only $2 and gives results in about 30 minutes, lowering the barrier to care in low-resource settings and potentially saving millions of lives.
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Arts & Culture
Writing Black lives
“Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.
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Science & Tech
My three suns
Harvard astronomers are studying a newly discovered rocky planet with three suns called LTT1445Ab in the hopes it will provide valuable insights into Earth.
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Nation & World
A global look at LGBT violence and bias
Q&A with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the U.N. independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Nation & World
Illuminating the path to college
Harvard’s Project Teach helps students envision a future that includes higher education.
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Science & Tech
Learning apps for parents that help kids
Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Joe Blatt and Meredith Rowe conducted a study that developed learning apps to create foundations for literacy in young children.
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Nation & World
Inside the Mueller inquiry and the ‘deep state’
New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.
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Science & Tech
Defending science in a post-fact era
Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, author of “Why Trust Science?,” discusses the five pillars necessary for science to be considered trustworthy, the evidentiary value of self-reporting, and her Red State Pledge.
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Nation & World
Brexit on the edge
With the fate of Brexit up in the air, the Gazette speaks with Peter Ricketts, a former top diplomat and life peer in Britain’s House of Lords, for insight into what may happen next.
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Science & Tech
Genome editing with precision
Researchers have created a system called prime editing, a new CRISPR genome-editing approach that has the potential to correct up to 89 percent of known disease-causing genetic variations.
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Nation & World
End the Electoral College?
Harvard panel speakers differ on whether disabling the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote would solve presidential selection-system ills.
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Health
The speed of discovery
One year after the Blavatnik Family Foundation announced a $200 million commitment to Harvard Medical School, philanthropist Len Blavatnik spent the day at HMS visiting with scientists to learn more about research taking place on campus.
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Science & Tech
Real texture for lab-grown meat
Researchers are able to build muscle fibers, giving lab-grown meat the texture meat lovers seek.
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Nation & World
One by one, they’re making a difference
Marking the launch of “To Serve Better,” a series of stories about people committed to improving communities around the nation.
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Campus & Community
Looking ahead, informed by where he’s been
Hailing from Montana, Joe Gone is an interdisciplinary social scientist with both theoretical and applied interests and member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribe. He has spent the last 25 years working with indigenous communities to rethink community-based mental health services, and to harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing indigenous well-being.
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Campus & Community
How I spent my summer serving others
Over the past summer, 15 Harvard students helped communities around the country as part of the Presidential Public Service Fellowship (PPSF). President Larry Bacow honored them at a luncheon this month.
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Campus & Community
Reforming the criminal justice system
In a discussion at Harvard’s Memorial Church, Atlanta-based preacher Raphael G. Warnock called mass incarceration “a scandal on the soul of America,” and dared his listeners to “imagine a different future.”
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Campus & Community
Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Athletics director to retire at end of academic year
Bob Scalise, the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, says he will retire at the end of the academic year.
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Campus & Community
Exploring services for students
A network of available resources on campus includes groups to help with academic, social, and emotional challenges.
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Science & Tech
Scientists pinpoint neural activity’s role in human longevity
The brain’s neural activity, long implicated in disorders ranging from dementia to epilepsy, also plays a role in human aging and life span, according to research led by scientists in the Blavatnik Institute.
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Arts & Culture
Urban planning and social justice
Harvard historian Lizabeth Cohen’s latest book explores the life and career of Ed Logue, a Yale-trained lawyer who became an influential city planner and applied the lessons of Roosevelt’s New Deal to urban renewal.
