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Campus & Community
The history of Harvard gates
A new book of text and photos outlines the individuality of the many entrances to Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
From Harvard to the NFL
NFL teams have signed five of Harvard’s graduating seniors.
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Health
A new platform for discovering antibiotics
Harvard chemists have created a platform for discovering antibiotics that they hope will shorten the time and difficulty involved in measuring their effectiveness, even as the body’s resistance to current antibiotics is rising.
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Campus & Community
Books of their youth
The Gazette asked a group of Harvard professors to talk about a book from their student days that has since gained in resonance or meaning.
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Campus & Community
Wrapping her mind around the past
Rivka B. Hyland ’16, an Islamic Studies concentrator who is proficient in eight languages, will continue her education at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar this fall.
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Science & Tech
RoboBees can perch to save energy
A RoboBee equipped with an electrode patch is supplied with a charge, allowing it to stick to almost any surface, from glass to wood to a leaf. The patch requires about 1,000 times less power to perch than it does to hover, extending the operational life of the robot.
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Health
Harvard licenses genotyping platform
Harvard University has granted a license to Aldatu Biosciences Inc., an early-stage diagnostics development company, for a novel genotyping platform that may help clinicians treating HIV to determine more quickly the most effective medication for each patient.
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Campus & Community
Seed capital for summer learning
Three new potential summer-abroad programs have been given seed funds from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences, money intended to finance exploratory travel to meet potential partners, explore excursion destinations, and do the kind of on-the-ground investigation that underlies a successful summer course.
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Arts & Culture
Drawing power
“Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt” serves as an intimate study of art in progress.
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Campus & Community
Storied Irving Street paves way to history
Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.
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Campus & Community
A mother and son at trails’ end
Harvard’s Commencement on May 26 will be twice as meaningful for Jane Brown when she shares the milestone with her son Harry Stone.
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Campus & Community
From around the world and across Harvard
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named 50 fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. Eleven of the incoming class are Harvard faculty.
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Nation & World
The quest to create an education system that works for all kids
Educators came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Tuesday for the kickoff of the Education Redesign Lab’s By All Means initiative, which will work closely in the field with six cities to tackle early childhood challenges.
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Arts & Culture
Radio heads
A dedicated group of students work hard to make WHRB, Harvard’s 24-hour radio station, run 365 days a year.
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Campus & Community
‘If you can stay present, that’s a better place to be’
Interview with women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Spiders to the rescue
During an instructive session at the Harvard Ed Portal, elementary school students learned the benefits of helpful spiders.
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Campus & Community
Ed School launches major early childhood initiative
The Harvard Graduate School of Education received the largest gift in its history from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation to focus on advancing early childhood education, which will distinguish HGSE as a national leader for work in this field.
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Campus & Community
2016 Harvard Deans’ Challenges winners announced
The 2016 winners of the Harvard Deans’ Challenges were announced in a ceremony at the Harvard i-lab on May 4. In its fourth year, the startup competition received more than 90 proposals from ventures representing 12 Harvard schools.
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Science & Tech
Putting the Glass Flowers in new light
The famed Glass Flowers gallery will reopen May 21 after the most extensive renovation in its history.
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Health
The eyes tell
A new study shows that gaze-following develops in monkeys in a way that’s nearly identical to humans, suggesting that the behavior has deep evolutionary roots.
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Arts & Culture
Trash becomes treasure, becomes art
Allston artist Konstantin Simun’s sculptures are inspired by his environment. His work is on display at the Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossings Gallery.
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Science & Tech
Printing metal in midair
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a laser-assisted direct ink writing method that prints microscopic metallic, free-standing 3-D structures in one step.
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Arts & Culture
From Swahili to Bemba to Twi
With more than 25 languages offered each semester, the African Language Program at Harvard is the world’s foremost.
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Campus & Community
Design, inspired by ‘the trays’
At Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the tiered, open spaces long known as “the trays” help fire students’ imaginations.
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Nation & World
Divided by trade
UPenn political scientist Diana Mutz spoke at Radcliffe on the gap between how citizens and economists view global trade.
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Campus & Community
Project Teach shows youngsters what’s possible
Project Teach brings local middle-school students to Harvard’s campus to help them learn about the college experience and explore their options.
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Campus & Community
A course that keeps teaching
Educators gathered at the Harvard Ed Portal for Data Wise, a new HarvardX course that will transform classroom dynamics and build “collaborative inquiry” among teachers. The Data Wise Leadership Institute will begin in June.
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Campus & Community
Unlocking doors
Dominique Donette, who is graduating from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, beat long odds in her quest to help empower the powerless.
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Campus & Community
Yield remains high for Class of 2020
Nearly 80 percent of applicants admitted to the Class of 2020 have chosen to enroll at Harvard College.
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Science & Tech
The high costs of imported pests
Scientists from Harvard Forest joined a group of experts calling for new regulations and stepped-up surveillance to stem a flood of invasive forest pests whose costs are borne by U.S. homeowners, cities, and towns.
