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Arts & Culture
All the right moves
Amirah Sackett uses dance to challenge conceptions of Muslim womanhood. The Chicago dancer, choreographer, educator, and activist combines hip-hop with Islamic themes to explore her identity and invites viewers to expand their understanding of movement as a mode of self-expression. The Gazette spoke to Sackett about the importance of education in the arts, her activism, and…
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Health
Learning not to fear
A study using mindfulness meditation showed changes over time in neural responses to pain and fear. The researchers found that changes in the hippocampus after mindfulness training were associated with enhanced ability to recall a safety memory, and thus respond in a more adaptive way.
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Nation & World
Level of campus sexual violence largely unchanged, survey says
A new survey at Harvard and 32 other institutions found that the levels of sexual violence are largely unchanged from a 2015 study. In a Q&A session, Harvard’s co-chairs of a steering committee focused on the survey’s implementation discussed the new results and what needs to happen next.
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Campus & Community
Michael Kremer wins Nobel in economics
Harvard’s Michael Kremer, the Gates Professor of Developing Societies, wins 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Health
Stigma of opioids a hurdle to solving crisis
“Can you think of all the tax dollars it’s cost for you to go to detox?” the doctor asked Raina McMahan when she arrived at the clinic in Revere seeking…
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Nation & World
Clinton, Nixon, and lessons in preparing for impeachment
Veterans of past impeachment battles offer insiders’ looks into the politics, procedure, and strategy of investigators and lawmakers.
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Work & Economy
The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online
The do’s and don’ts of sharing about your children online, according to a member of the Youth and Media team of researchers at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society,
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Science & Tech
A reliable clock for your microbiome
The microbiome is a treasure trove of information about human health and disease, but getting it to reveal its secrets is challenging, especially when attempting to study it in living subjects. A new genetic “repressilator” lets scientists noninvasively study its dynamics, acting like a clock that tracks how bacterial growth changes over time with single-cell…
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Nation & World
A stand-up stands up for migrants and immigration
Cristela Alonzo weaves the experiences of her difficult-yet-joyful upbringing into stand-up humor.
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Health
Bringing women to the forefront of global health
A Harvard panel on women in the global health workforce examines ways to keep pushing for gender equity.
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Health
Harvard to launch center for autism research
Created with $20 million gift, the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research at Harvard Medical School will aim to unravel the basic biology of autism and related disorders.
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Nation & World
Relief and vindication
Members of Harvard and the higher education community react to ruling in admission lawsuit.
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Nation & World
Choosing racial literacy
Although she’s only a College sophomore, Winona Guo has not only found what might be her lifelong pursuit, she’s already made a considerable impact doing it —much of it, including co-founding a nonprofit and co-writing a textbook, before she even graduated high school.
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Science & Tech
CRISPR enzyme programmed to kill viruses in human cells
Researchers have turned a CRISPR enzyme into an antiviral that can be programmed to detect and destroy RNA-based viruses in human cells.
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Campus & Community
The Harvard band at 100
To mark its 100th anniversary, the Harvard University Band will take to the field during halftime at the Cornell game on Saturday, swelling to 400 performers as alumni join the student members.
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Nation & World
A living witness to nuclear dystopia
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and a nuclear disarmament advocate, shares her experience.
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Campus & Community
New innovation fund launches
The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is announcing the official launch of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF), which will provide members of the Harvard community with competitive grants to pursue projects that use technology to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
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Health
Specialists take on opioid crisis
A conference sponsored by Harvard and the University of Michigan will examine the role that stigma plays in the nation’s opioid crisis and ways it slows and alters responses.
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Arts & Culture
Nas next to Mozart? Why not?
Since 2002, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute has been documenting hip-hop’s growing legacy and culture.
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Science & Tech
Unhidden figures
LaNell Williams wants to encourage more women of color to pursue doctorate degrees in fields such as physics. To help make that happen, she founded the Women+ of Color Project, which last week hosted a three-day workshop that invited 20 African American, Latinx, and Native American women interested in pursuing a career in a STEM…
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Yvette J. Jackson
Yvette J. Jackson, who joined Harvard as an assistant professor in the Department of Music this fall, is a composer of electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral music, with a focus on radio operas and immersive narrative soundscape productions.
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Campus & Community
The magic of the unexpected
William G. Kaelin Jr., the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process critical for survival.
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Science & Tech
Is technology evil?
A HubWeek panel exploring ethics in the digital world featured computer scientist and entrepreneur Rana el Kaliouby and Harvard Professor Danielle Allen.
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Campus & Community
The Muppets come to Harvard
The furry characters of “Sesame Street” came to Harvard’s Sanders Theater to partake in a special celebration that marked the lasting relationship between the College and the PBS children’s television series.
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Campus & Community
Worldwide Week spotlights Harvard’s global presence
Engaging the World: Harvard College International Opportunities Fair highlights the work being done worldwide by Harvard’s Schools, departments, research centers, faculty, and students.
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Health
Michael Pollan wants to change your mind
Author and Harvard professor Michael Pollan talks about his new book on psychedelic drugs, “How To Change Your Mind,” at HubWeek.
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Nation & World
The story behind the Weinstein story
Two years after journalists exposed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s stunning history of sexual assault against women, which ushered in a tidal wave of sexual harassment and assault accusations against similarly powerful men and the public social media recollections of assaults known as the #MeToo movement, New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor discusses her work on…
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Science & Tech
Red flags rise on global warming and the seas
The world’s oceans, glaciers, and ice caps are under assault by climate change. The Gazette spoke with former Obama science adviser John Holdren about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report examining the threat.
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Arts & Culture
A lost Yugoslavia
A selection of photographs from Nobel laureate Martin Karplus is on display at the Minda de Gunzburg Center’s Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery until Jan. 13, 2020.
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Science & Tech
Tiny tweezers
Using precisely focused lasers that act as “optical tweezers,” Harvard scientists have been able to capture and control individual ultracold molecules – the eventual building-blocks of a quantum computer – and study the collisions between them in more detail than ever before.
