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Science & Tech
Why your online data isn’t safe
With a spate of massive data privacy breaches in the last two years, Harvard Law Professor Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center, discusses whether regulating big tech is the answer.
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Campus & Community
Art of chess
Players bond and battle during Community Chess Weekend at Harvard’s Smith Campus Center.
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Campus & Community
Expanded Counseling and Mental Health Services
Paul Barreira and Barbara Lewis discuss the expansion of Counseling and Mental Health Services in the Smith Center, and how it broadens their mission.
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Arts & Culture
The serious business of comics
During Harvard visit, artist Scott McCloud explains how comics can promote a new way of seeing.
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Campus & Community
An update on Harvard’s diversity, inclusion efforts
In a Q&A session, presidential adviser and strategist John Silvanus Wilson discusses progress implementing the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging.
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Arts & Culture
Special exhibits mark Bacow inauguration
To honor its past and its future, Harvard will offer special exhibits on Oct. 4 and 5 during the inauguration of Larry Bacow, the University’s 29th president.
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Arts & Culture
Anthropology with a family touch
Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”
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Work & Economy
Reviving the American dream, one neighborhood at a time
New economics research and policy institute to probe ways to boost opportunity in the U.S.
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Health
Ellen Langer’s state of mindfulness
Professor Ellen Langer once apologized when she bumped into a mannequin, the kind of automatic, mindless response she says robs us of the benefits of being mindfully engaged in day-to-day…
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Campus & Community
A celebration of diversity
Harvard Yard performances highlight, embrace the complexity of diversity.
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Arts & Culture
‘Lens of Love’ focuses on justice
The Rev. Jonathan Walton’s new book, “A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in its World for Our World,” is an exploration of his interpretive approach, which reads biblical stories through the eyes of the vulnerable and marginalized.
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Campus & Community
Harvard adds to Title IX initiatives
Harvard University continues to expand on its commitment to prevent and respond to instances of sexual and gender-based harassment, including sexual assault, introducing several new initiatives this fall to serve students, faculty, and staff.
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Campus & Community
Undergrads fill the gap
Six Harvard College students taught English as a second language to new residents of Boston as part of the inaugural Phillips Brooks House Association Adult ESOL program.
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Arts & Culture
Where ideas, tensions converge
Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard’s faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
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Arts & Culture
Behind an eerie sound, science, espionage, and dashed dreams
Dorit Chrysler, a musicologist, composer, and leading thereminist, sat down with Harvard physicist John Huth at the Radcliffe Institute on for a conversation set to music.
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Health
Is MS risk influenced by friends and families’ unhealthy habits?
A new study explores how health habits within personal social networks may impact neurological outcomes, with a special focus on multiple sclerosis.
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Science & Tech
Pitcher plants build own communities
Harvard research has shown that the “miniature ecosystems” housed in pitcher plants from opposite sides of the world are strikingly similar, suggesting that there may be something about the plants themselves that drives the formation of those communities.
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Science & Tech
Studying environmental issues in China
A group of Harvard undergraduatess interested in fighting environmental decline spent the summer studying China’s problems and working alongside scholars whose efforts are directed at a host of issues.
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Campus & Community
A Nobel incubator
Professor Richard Losick shares the story of a single floor in a single building on Divinity Avenue that served as a scientific home to three Nobel laureates and a training ground for six future laureates. A 10th researcher followed the same path, though he was on the floor above.
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Campus & Community
University community discovers special bond in unique setting
Marking its 10th anniversary, Harvard Housing’s Graduate Commons Program offers housing that brings together graduate students, faculty, staff, and their families through integrative events and programming that fosters community.
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Nation & World
The upper-class tool kit
Upper-class parents have tools to help their children succeed in a changing world and improve their social status, advantages not readily available to poorer families, according to a panel at a Harvard conference.
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Health
Where there’s global unrest, there are often pandemics
Pandemics are political, and the spread of disease is a common consequence of global conflict. In a lecture titled “Conflict and the Global Threat of Pandemics,” Michele Barry of Stanford University examined the relationship between unrest and health crises.
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Nation & World
A summer of service to cities
Through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, student fellows this summer helped mayors around the nation to improve the lives of residents.
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Nation & World
Kerrey: Let’s re-emphasize critical thinking
Let’s re-emphasize critical thinking, Bob Kerrey, former U.S. senator and current Minerva chairman tells HILT conference.
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Campus & Community
The center in the crossroads
Harvard’s redesigned Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center officially opened Sept. 20 with a dedication ceremony attended by Harvard President Larry Bacow, President Emerita Drew Faust, and members of the Harvard and Cambridge communities.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Schools vote to take on challenge
Harvard Votes Challenge provides push to register eligible students, with TurboVote making it even easier.
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Arts & Culture
Intoxicating art
Nearly 60 examples of animal-shaped drinking objects make up “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings,” a new Harvard Art Museums exhibit that celebrates artistry and the exchange of ideas across cultures and centuries.
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Campus & Community
New VP for alumni affairs and development
Brian K. Lee has been appointed Harvard’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Larry Bacow announced.
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Arts & Culture
At GSD, a tale of four cities
At the Graduate School of Design, the exhibit “Urban Intermedia” stands as “an experiment and the beginning of an ongoing discussion on new kinds of practices around the study of cities,” said co-curator Eve Blau.
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Arts & Culture
Dancing with the future
A multimedia production incorporates dance, music, and spoken word to explore how humans might cooperate with future generations to try to solve problems like climate change. “Dancing with the Future” will premiere at Farkas Hall on Sept. 25.
