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Arts & Culture
Hope and loss made vivid
Arab-American artist Helen Zughaib tells the story of the Middle East’s spate of revolutions with brightly colored paintings in her latest exhibit, “Arab Spring/Unfinished Journeys.”
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Health
Cocoa for pleasure — and health?
A study by Harvard Medical School faculty members at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is exploring the health benefits of cocoa in a massive, 18,000-person study that may provide answers hinted at in smaller studies.
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Nation & World
Student from Aleppo fears shift of fate
Karen Mardini ’18, who grew up in Aleppo, Syria, says that the Trump immigration order has made her feel uncertain about her future in the U.S.
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Arts & Culture
Jeff Koons: High king of middlebrow
Though he may be the favorite artist of oligarchs, Jeff Koons sees his art as democratic experience for viewers and a vehicle for his own transcendence and self-actualization.
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Nation & World
All hail partisan politics
Using the case-study method, Harvard Business School historian David Moss examines pivotal moments in American history where disagreement and conflict reshaped our democracy for the better.
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Science & Tech
No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.
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Health
Patients’ cells provide possible treatment for blood disorder
Harvard researchers were able, for the first time, to use patients’ own cells to create cells similar to those in bone marrow, and identify potential treatments for a rare blood disorder.
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Nation & World
Hands of a healer, heart of a Syrian
Harvard Scholars at Risk fellow Mahmoud Hariri is focused on helping others gain the experience they need to become doctors in his war-ravaged country, where skilled medical professionals are increasingly rare.
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Campus & Community
Herbert W. Levi, 93
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 7, 2017, the following Minute was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Edward Louis Keenan Jr., 79
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Feb. 7, 2017, the following Minute was placed upon the records.
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Nation & World
The problem with U.S. secrets
A Harvard Kennedy School panel sees a major threat to good governance when U.S. presidents decide to keep sweeping secrets.
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Science & Tech
Catalyzing discovery
In a trio of studies published earlier this month, researchers have shown that the process of catalysis is more dynamic than previously imagined, and that molecular forces can vastly influence the process.
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Science & Tech
Study opens door to better sleep, work, health
Harvard study is the first to show that working in high-performing, green-certified buildings can improve employee decision-making using objective cognitive simulations.
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Campus & Community
Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill named Radcliffe medalists
“NewsHour” co-anchors Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill will be awarded Radcliffe medals on Radcliffe Day, May 26.
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Nation & World
Drawing wisdom from the young
Speaking at a student conference at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said the young may be able to prompt Americans to work together again politically.
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Science & Tech
Not your average paper airplane
Students threw paper airplanes in class for inspiration, not trouble, in a workshop led by a record-setting designer.
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Arts & Culture
Drawing wisdom from drawings
A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums offers up a diverse sampling of the museums’ rich collection of drawings, while highlighting the creativity of Harvard’s classrooms.
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Arts & Culture
A study in contrast: Copley’s America, America’s Copley
Historian Jane Kamensky’s new book explores the life and times of painter John Singleton Copley.
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Campus & Community
Actor John Lithgow to receive Harvard Arts Medal
Award-winning actor John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, is the recipient of the 2017 Harvard Arts Medal, which marks the opening of Arts First at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
A pudding pot for Ryan Reynolds
Hasty Pudding welcomes ‘Deadpool’ actor Ryan Reynolds as its Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
Honoring the Crimson line
Harvard officials, staff, administrators, faculty, alumni, and students stood alongside alumni veterans and active servicemen and -women at a reception at Pusey Library for an evocative exhibition that traces the interwoven histories of two of the country’s oldest institutions: Harvard and the U.S. military.
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Health
Playing catch-up on marijuana
The Gazette speaks with the Medical School’s Staci Gruber, who thinks that state marijuana legalization policy has run ahead of science.
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Science & Tech
The unsettling chemicals around us
There are thousands of unapproved chemicals, often banned elsewhere, in the U.S. environment, panelists at a Harvard forum say.
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Science & Tech
Inaugural DataFest reflects a growing interest
The inaugural session of the Harvard DataFest conference brought attention to Harvard’s growing interest in data science.
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Science & Tech
A revised portrait of psychopaths
A study suggests that while psychopaths do feel regret, however, it doesn’t affect their choices.
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Campus & Community
Queries, and support, on travel concerns
Town hall session outlines Harvard’s programmatic safety net for community members during this period of tightened immigration.
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Nation & World
Sizing up Gorsuch on style, substance
Law School scholars react to President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
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Science & Tech
Adaptive learning featured in HarvardX course
A course featuring adaptive learning explores the technological feasibility, implications, and design of such a system to improve massive open online courses.
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Nation & World
Pursuing veritas in a ‘post-truth’ era
Top reporters and editors discuss the future of news, as well as the opportunities and the challenges the industry faces in what many observers call the “post-truth” era.
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Arts & Culture
A vocal stand
Harvard Choruses will join a performance of Grammy-winning composer Craig Hella Johnson’s “Considering Matthew Shepard” Feb. 5 at Symphony Hall.
