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Campus & Community
Phi Beta Kappa ceremony honors 168 students
Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and poet Dan Chiasson, poetry critic for The New Yorker and a professor at Wellesley College, spoke before honored students and faculty at the 229th Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises at Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning.
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Nation & World
Angela Merkel, the scientist who became a world leader
In advance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s arrival at Harvard as its Commencement speaker, those who know her describe her rise to global prominence.
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Campus & Community
Three students tell it like it was (and will be)
Students will share their memories of Harvard, lessons learned, and hopes for the future in three traditional addresses on Commencement Day.
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Campus & Community
Changing trajectory
After Harvard wait-listed him, Dylan Wile had made plans to attend another university. A call from an admissions officer changed everything.
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Campus & Community
Ready for takeoff
Air Force major and new parent Bradley DeWees completed his doctorate at Harvard’s Kennedy School in just three years.
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Campus & Community
Future M.D.’s passion to help comes in many forms
Cynthia Luo, who’s concentrating in both molecular and cellular biology and English, was inspired by her time in Uganda to become a physician and improve global health.
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Campus & Community
‘Adventuring with purpose’
Harvard’s Liz Roux could look back on sorrow and tragedy, but she runs looking ahead, at adventures and opportunities and people to encourage her.
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Campus & Community
Choctaw Nation’s Burrage thrives at Harvard
Truman Burrage is a stellar graduating senior, an Oklahoma native, and a member of the Choctaw Nation who has been admitted to Harvard Law School.
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Science & Tech
A new vision for neuroscience
For decades scientists have been searching for a way to watch a live broadcast of neurons firing in real time. Now, a Harvard researcher has done it with mice.
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Campus & Community
Reflections of a president, one year in
In an interview, Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on his first year in office, the importance of truth as a principle, his commitment to public service, and what he’s most looking forward to during his first Commencement as the University’s leader.
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Campus & Community
Fighting for humane mental health treatment
Faraaz Mahomed, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is working to protect the rights of those using mental health systems throughout the world.
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Campus & Community
Picturing history through a personal lens
Wonik Son has examined post-World War II humanitarian images for what they say about injury and disability and where they fit into history, including his own.
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Campus & Community
Giving to the next generation
Professor Catherine Dulac used the money from her endowed position to fund the studies of an overloaded neuroscience undergrad.
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Campus & Community
Life in the fast lane
Aurora Straus, a race-car driver and Harvard first-year, is a role model for girls but still encounters sexism around the track.
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Campus & Community
A justice reformer
Dominique Erney witnessed criminal justice too close to her family, and graduates prepared to fight for reform in the system.
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Campus & Community
Breyer to step down from Harvard Corporation
Venture capitalist James Breyer, M.B.A. ’87, will step down from the Harvard Corporation on June 30 after serving for six years.
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Campus & Community
Places we love
Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.
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Arts & Culture
The ‘American Schindler’
Author Julie Orringer’s latest novel, “The Flight Portfolio,” tells the story of Harvard graduate Varian Fry, a journalist and editor sometimes referred to as the “American Schindler,” who worked in France during World War II to help save Jewish members of Europe’s cultural elite from Nazi concentration camps. Orringer worked on the book during a…
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Campus & Community
Reframing cultures
Throughout her time at Harvard, Mahnoor Ali has been devoted to exploring intercultural relations and expanding dialogue.
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Campus & Community
Peabody’s incoming director shares strategies for new era in museum work
Jane Pickering, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, will become the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s director on July 1.
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Campus & Community
Parsing the data — together
Data, and conversations about its management and fair use, took center stage at the ninth annual Harvard IT Summit last week, held on the campus of Harvard Business School.
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Campus & Community
The long, deep ties between Harvard and Germany
In advance of Angela Merkel’s visit, the Gazette looked at a number of key episodes between Germany and Harvard throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Science & Tech
Researcher connects the dots in fin-to-limb evolution
With an innovative technique called anatomical network analysis, clear patterns emerge that help solve the puzzle of how fins became limbs 420 million years ago.
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Campus & Community
Four deans, and their journeys
Four Harvard deans discuss their role models and their work as top administrators.
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Campus & Community
Opening the door for scientific leaps
The projects range from making one the world’s smallest flying machines to opening a new lane of research in the study of climate change to developing a groundbreaking technology that conducts electricity with 100 percent efficiency to an investigation of how environmental change affects bees.
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Campus & Community
Pickering named director of Peabody Museum
Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.
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Campus & Community
Finding rhythm in reverence
M.Div. candidate Aric Flemming is taking a year off to immerse himself in music, both spiritual and secular.
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Health
Shorter shifts lead to better-rested doctors
In a multiyear randomized clinical trial, investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that senior resident physicians who work no more than 16 consecutive hours get an average of 8 percent more sleep than those who work extended-duration shifts of 24 hours or more.
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Campus & Community
Heading to Hungary to study and help
Sara Bobok returns repeatedly to her native Hungary, where she’ll next study sex trafficking, aiming to make an impact on the country’s young people.
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Campus & Community
Whew, that’s done!
One of Harvard’s rites of passage is to write a thesis. Students and administrators talk about the process, the requirements, and the ordeal of undertaking an independent project that is unlike any other in students’ College years.
