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Science & Tech
Combing out a tangled problem
A new technique speeds creation of nanowire devices, boosting research into what’s happening inside cells.
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Nation & World
Water, life, and climate change in South Asia
In his latest book, Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, describes the ageless link between water and prosperity in South Asia and examines the new challenges of climate change.
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Health
Reeling in rising distracted driving deaths
Crashes caused by distracted drivers are believed to have been the biggest cause of a 14 percent rise in traffic fatalities since 2014. The Harvard Chan School’s Center for Health Communication is mounting an anti-distracted driving campaign this fall to make headway against a problem that has proven resistant to change despite efforts by government,…
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Campus & Community
John H. Shaw steps down
John H. Shaw, the Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology, steps down at the end of June, having served as chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences since 2006.
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Science & Tech
Oceans away
A new NASA-funded program will study water worlds and environments to understand the limits of life as part of the search for life on other planets.
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Campus & Community
Executive education with a soul
For the second year in a row, Harvard Divinity School offers an executive course that draws on history and religious traditions around the world to help participants become agents of change.
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Think more like children
Abraham “Avi” Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, argues that academia shouldn’t just be about proving theories, but about exploration.
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Nation & World
Stonewall then and now
Harvard scholars reflect on the history and legacy of the 1969 Stonewall demonstrations that triggered the contemporary battle for LGBT rights in America.
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Science & Tech
Speeding up single-cell genomics research
Harvard researchers have devised a time-saving method that makes it possible to speed up the process of profiling gene regulation in tens of thousands of individual human cells in a single day, a development that promises to boost genomics research.
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Campus & Community
In search of Quentin Compson
A group of William Faulkner fans visited a plaque on the Anderson Bridge honoring his best-known character.
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Campus & Community
Chicken soup for the soul
Harvard Divinity School graduate Israel Buffardi experienced an unconventional journey to his Unitarian Universalist ministry.
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Health
Fears arise that new federal fetal-tissue restrictions will hobble a ‘workhorse’ of research
With the Trump administration halting fetal tissue research at two prominent scientific institutions and new plans to review such research elsewhere, Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley discussed the importance of research using these tissues, which would otherwise be discarded, in creating vaccines and treatments and enhancing our understanding of human biology.
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Science & Tech
The RoboBee flies solo
Several decades in the making, the Harvard Microbiotics Lab’s RoboBee made its first solo flight.
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Science & Tech
Leave those calluses alone
A running-studies pioneer takes a look at walking, with and without shoes, and gives calluses a thumbs-up.
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Nation & World
Halting urban violence seen as a key to ending poverty
Harvard Kennedy School researcher and former Obama official Thomas Abt’s new book offers a concrete prescription for bringing peace to the streets.
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Campus & Community
Welcoming the summer solstice
People of all ages gathered at Harvard to celebrate the longest day of the year with performances, arts and crafts, and more.
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Campus & Community
The lessons he learned from the class he taught
Dennis Norman, faculty chair of the Harvard University Native American Program, is retiring at the end of June. In a Gazette profile, he highlights the course he has taught at the Kennedy School that sends students to work in Native American communities.
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Health
Study finds performance-enhancing bacteria in human microbiome
A single microbe accumulating in the microbiome of elite athletes can enhance exercise performance in mice, paving the way to highly validated performance-enhancing probiotics.
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Arts & Culture
Boston Ballet dances the night away
The Boston Ballet company spends an afternoon and evening shooting a promotional video in the forest-like setting of Arnold Arboretum.
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Anecdotes aren’t data
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, points to a number of instances where the use of anecdotes over data creates a false narrative.
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Science & Tech
Blood-brain barrier chip performs human-like drug and antibody transport
Wyss Institute scientists have developed chip technology that mimics the blood-brain barrier in humans. The new models will help researchers study drugs to treat cancer, neurodegeneration, and other diseases of the central nervous system.
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Science & Tech
The little robot that could
The iRobot Corp. announced its acquisition of Root Robotics, Inc., whose educational Root coding robot got its start as a summer research project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2011
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Health
Is your home making you sick?
In a recent online report, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have compiled 36 expert tips to help make your home a healthier place to live. Happily, most of them are quick fixes that can have a major impact on well-being.
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Nation & World
How workplace harassment programs fail
Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?
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Health
Gut microbes eat our medication
Study published in Science shows that gut microbes can chew up medications, with serious side effects.
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Arts & Culture
A pastoral romance
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will stage a fresh take on “Pride and Prejudice,” Jane Austen’s tale of 19th-century love, on June 23 courtesy of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project and playwright Kate Hamill.
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Campus & Community
Cooking up a TV career
Nick DiGiovanni competes on “MasterChef” — while earning his undergraduate degree in food and climate at Harvard at the same time.
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Campus & Community
From lecture to comedy sketch
Students see professors stand up in front of a class every day, but they don’t often see them do stand-up onstage. The Harvard College Stand Up Comic Society has changed that with the Harvard faculty comedy showcase.
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Campus & Community
Investing in Allston
Harvard President Larry Bacow helped honor 16 local nonprofits at the 11th annual Harvard Allston Partnership Fund ceremony at the Ed Portal in Allston.
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Arts & Culture
‘There they are, on our dinner plates’
Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.
