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Health
How to be your best in 5 minutes
Harvard Business School social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains how tapping into our inner strength can help us make the most of life’s big challenges.
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Health
A brain link to autism
Using a visual test that is known to prompt different reactions in autistic and normal brains, Harvard researchers have shown that those differences were associated with a breakdown in the signaling pathway used by one of the brain’s chief inhibitory neurotransmitters.
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Campus & Community
England beckons for trio of scholars
Harvard Quincy House residents Rebecca Panovka and Bianca Mulaney were recently selected to receive Marshall Scholarships. They will be joined in the United Kingdom by Yen Pham ’15-’16, who recently received a Rhodes Scholarship in her native Australia.
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Health
Metastasis study illuminates how cancer will ‘hijack’ healthy cells
A study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital offers a new view of how cancer cells extend their reach, co-opting and transforming normal cells through “metastatic hijacking.” The researchers also found that in preclinical models, pharmacological intervention can prevent this from occurring.
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Health
Human-gut-on-a-chip model offers hope for IBD sufferers
In a new study, the Wyss Institute’s human-gut-on-a-chip technology is used to co-culture gut microbiome and human intestinal cells, which could spur innovation of novel therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.
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Science & Tech
Disclosures on fracking lacking, study finds
Harvard researchers examined the nation’s registry, where oil and gas production companies disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, and found that they do it less than in the past.
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Health
Building calm into the day
The Center for Wellness at Harvard University Health Services sponsors a range of meditation options for students.
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Campus & Community
3 named to National Academy of Inventors
Three Harvard professors and scientists have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Science & Tech
At last, global fretting on climate change
The Paris agreement to fight climate change greatly expands the international commitment to the cause, Harvard Professor Stavins says.
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Campus & Community
Renowned scholar joins Kennedy School and Radcliffe Institute
Khalil Gibran Muhammad has been named professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and appointed the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He will begin at Harvard on July 1.
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Science & Tech
Mapping the road ahead for climate research
The need for continuous rigorous and relevant climate science will be more important than ever. With that framing, a group of scholars on Wednesday shared their ideas for improving the process by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carries out its research agenda, at a side panel at the U.N. Climate Change Conference…
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Science & Tech
How climate agreement impacts business
The private sector — from large corporations to small businesses — will undoubtedly be impacted by whatever international agreement emerges from the U.N. Climate Change Conference taking place in Paris, but opinions vary as to how burdensome and costly those impacts will be.
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Nation & World
Bent toward violence
Harvard psychiatrist Ronald Schouten answers questions on the San Bernardino attack and the psychology behind both terrorism and the fear it spreads.
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Nation & World
Unraveling Mexican secrets
Mexican journalist Jacinto Rodriguez spent more than a decade examining documents at the National Archive of Mexico. Now he’s reviewing documents at the Houghton Library, looking for clues to the relationship between intellectuals and power in Mexico in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Science & Tech
Sick planet, sick people
Harvard scientists are helping launch a new initiative to foster collaboration among scientists working at the intersection of the environment and health.
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Campus & Community
First admissions to Class of ’20
Harvard College admits 918 under Early Action program to the Class of 2020.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Federico Capasso co-recipient of Rumford Prize
Harvard physicist Federico Capasso is the co-recipient of the 2015 Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He shares the prize with Alfred Cho in recognition of their contributions to the field of laser technology.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 9
On Dec. 9 the members of the Faculty Council heard a proposal to create a joint program in jazz with the Berklee College of Music.
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Nation & World
Struggle in the shadows
New book by Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, says undocumented young adults are at risk of becoming a disenfranchised underclass.
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Campus & Community
Style by degrees: Harvard Graduate School of Design
For the students, staff, and faculty at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, wearing black is an announcement of their craft. But increasingly, color has found its way back into vogue.
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Arts & Culture
Cass Sunstein, ‘Star Wars’ fan
Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, is writing a book about lessons that can be drawn from the box-office phenomenon “Star Wars.”
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Campus & Community
The less-traveled path
Harvard’s Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony pays tribute to more than 100 seniors.
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Nation & World
Shifting careers to drive change
Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative helps professionals transition to new careers aimed at solving societal problems.
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Health
Chemical flavorings found in e-cigarettes linked to respiratory disease
A Harvard study links chemicals used in flavored electronic cigarettes to cases of severe respiratory disease.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s alumni impact
Inaugural study shows that Harvard alumni worldwide create vast businesses and nonprofit organizations, accounting for millions of jobs, economic impact, and volunteering success.
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Arts & Culture
Se habla Español
Scholars gathered at Harvard’s Observatory of the Spanish Language to ponder how Spanish can continue thriving as the second-most-common language in the United States.
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Campus & Community
‘Bright Lights’ reflects well on Edison K-8
Principal for a Day program allows local leaders, including Harvard Vice President Paul Andrew, to see the changes that have occurred in the way students learn. Andrew visited Thomas Edison K-8 School in Brighton.
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Campus & Community
Yale professor examines unconscious biases by whites
“But I Don’t See Color! Consequences of Racial Color-Blindness,” was the topic of a talk by John Dovidio, the Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology at Yale University. The discussion was part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Diversity Dialogue series.
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Campus & Community
Harvard honors its military past with tour
The inaugural Official Harvard Military History Tours in November brought together 50 veterans who toured the many landmarks significant to Harvard’s distinguished military past.
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Campus & Community
Tilghman named to Harvard Corporation
Shirley M. Tilghman, president emerita and professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University, will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation.
