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Nation & World
Searching for deeper learning
An interview with HGSE professor Jal Mehta about the book “In Search of Deeper Learning” he co-authored with Sarah Fine, Ed.M. ’13, Ed.D. ’17. The book examines the American high school and where students are experiencing deeper learning, which involves engagement, joy, and a sense of community.
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Health
Mental health as a diversity issue
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Summer Panel focuses on the impacts of mental illness in the workplace and what can be done about it.
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Science & Tech
Want to avoid climate-related disasters? Try moving
For decades, the response to flooding and hurricanes was a vow to rebuild. A.R. Siders believes the time has come to consider managed retreat, or the practice of moving communities away from disaster-prone areas to safer lands.
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Science & Tech
Clever crows
A new paper, co-authored by Dakota McCoy, a graduate student working in the lab of George Putnam Professor of Biology David Haig, suggests that, after using tools, crows were more optimistic.
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Science & Tech
Prospects clouded for finding life on the largest class of planets
Led by Laura Kreidberg, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a new study shows that LHS 3844b, a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a small sun 48.6 light-years away, has no detectable atmosphere
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Campus & Community
Paulsell named interim Pusey Minister
Harvard President Larry Bacow announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School Professor Stephanie Paulsell as interim Pusey Minister at the Memorial Church.
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Science & Tech
How the moon came to be
A fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Professor of Geochemistry Stein Jacobsen, Yaray Ku is working on a project aimed at understanding how the moon formed, and to do it, she’s working with actual lunar samples.
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Campus & Community
A summer of helping
Harvard College first-year Ezra Feder spends his summer doing public service through Artists For Humanity, a nonprofit that provides employment in art and design to lower-income teens in the city.
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Science & Tech
Astronomy Lab sees the light — and wants everyone else to, too
Accessibility devices at the lab use sound to allow the visually impaired to envision the stars
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Science & Tech
Uncovering how cells become organs
Tiny sensors are embedded into stretchable, integrated mesh that grows with the developing tissue, allowing scientists to track how cells grow into organs.
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Work & Economy
Bond rate shift may suggest recession
An inverted bond yield curve often has been a harbinger of recession, though the odds of one are still only 1 in 3 for this year, Harvard analyst says.
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Campus & Community
First phase of Bartlett Station opens
Harvard President Larry Bacow joined Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Massachusetts State Rep. Chynah Tyler, Boston City Councilor Kim Janey, and others cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Bartlett Station, mixed-use development in Roxbury.
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Arts & Culture
The Spice Girls of Henry VIII
“Six,” the hit British musical bound for A.R.T., recasts the six wives of Henry VIII as girl-power pop stars.
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Campus & Community
Summer explorers
For the fourth year, Harvard’s Summer Explorations helped local students stay sharp over the school break while learning in free weeklong workshops at the Ed Portal in Allston.
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Campus & Community
Pulling disabilities out of the shadows
An interview with Nikita Andersson and Miso Kwak, master’s students at the Graduate School of Education, who launched the first student publication on disability last spring.
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Arts & Culture
Photography without a camera
Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
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Science & Tech
A red oak live tweets climate change
Tree in Harvard Forest outfitted with sensors, cameras, and other digital equipment sends out on-the-ground coverage.
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Health
Probiotic hydrogels heal gut wounds that other treatments can’t reach
Harvard researchers have developed hydrogels that can be produced from bacterial cultures and applied to intestinal surfaces for faster wound healing.
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Campus & Community
Harvard recommits $20M to create local affordable housing
Greater Boston is facing a housing crisis that is hitting lower-income and working-class residents particularly hard. To combat the crisis, Harvard University is recommitting $20 million toward local affordable housing.
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Health
At the corner of med and tech
Undergraduate Michael Chen, who created an extraordinary program to help treat TB, also works with a student program to treat ordinary patients.
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Work & Economy
The story of how you came to buy that car
HBS branding expert Jill Avery on the stories that marketers create to get today’s consumers to buy
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Campus & Community
Passing the barre
A photo gallery captures the hard work leading up to Harvard Ballet Company’s recent performance.
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Campus & Community
Planting herself in the right career
Recently, Harvard Law School grad Nisha Vora released her debut cookbook, “The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook,” which builds on her success as a chronicler of vegan recipes and photos on her popular site, Rainbow Plant Life.
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Science & Tech
Predicting the strength of earthquakes
Scientists will be able to predict earthquake magnitudes earlier thanks to new research by Marine Denolle, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Mercury levels in fish are on the rise
A new study concludes that while the regulation of mercury emissions have successfully reduced methylmercury levels in fish, spiking temperatures are driving those levels back up and will play a major role in the methylmercury levels of marine life in the future.
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Nation & World
Want to stop mass shootings?
In the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the Gazette spoke with David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.” Hemenway has spent much of…
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Campus & Community
Remembering Anne Monius, 54
Anne E. Monius, professor of South Asian religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away Aug. 3, at the age of 54. An Oct. 11 memorial gathering will be held at Loeb House.
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Health
What fuels prejudice?
A postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Psychology Professor Matt Nock,Brian O’Shea is the lead author of a study that suggests racial tension may stem not from different groups being exposed to each other, but fear of a different sort of exposure — exposure to infectious diseases. The study is described in a July…
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Campus & Community
Funding promising scientists
Associate Professor of Physics Cora Dvorkin and Associate Professor of Computer Science Stratos Idreos will each receive at least $150,000 a year for the next five years through the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program.
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Nation & World
Given support and a choice, families move to where children do best
A collaboration between Harvard’s Opportunity Insights and public housing agencies in Washington state found that giving support and advice about housing options to families with housing choice vouchers led to significantly more of them moving to areas where children have higher recorded rates of upward mobility.
