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Science & Tech
Wanted: Climate change solutions
Harvard will again fund grants of up to $150,000 for promising ideas to combat climate change.
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Nation & World
Kennedy assails prison shortcomings
During an appearance at Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy criticized the shortcomings of the American prison system, citing its “ongoing injustice.”
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Campus & Community
Taking the stairs
Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.
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Campus & Community
George Ledlie Prize awarded to Joanna Aizenberg
Professor Joanna Aizenberg has won the George Ledlie Prize, which is awarded once every two years.
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Health
Red blood cell production increases, but cost goes down
New research suggests a way to cost-effectively manufacture red blood cells from stem cells; the patients who could potentially benefit include those who cannot use blood currently available in blood banks.
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Science & Tech
Cosmic ‘Death Star’ destroys a planet
Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. “We’re watching a solar system get destroyed,” noted a Harvard researcher.
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Science & Tech
The tiny flying submarine
Harvard lab develops first insect-size robots capable of flight and swimming.
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Nation & World
Faust: Step up on climate change
At a State Department forum, Harvard President Drew Faust says that universities have a responsibility to play a key role in developing solutions to climate-change issues.
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Campus & Community
Nobel laureate honored with Humanitarian of the Year award
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Harvard Foundation’s 2015 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year on Oct. 16.
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Arts & Culture
For gallery visitors, a chance to be one with the art
A new installation at Radcliffe by a collaborative of engineers and artists transforms viewers into virtual artists.
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Campus & Community
Karisma dances for charity
A midmonth charity arts showcase called Karisma has raised $20,000, which will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Nepali hurricane relief efforts according to Karisma president and founding director Meenakshi Krishna ’17.
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Health
Converting skin cells to stem cells creates ‘kidney structures’
Researchers create complex kidney structures from human stem cells derived from the skin of adult patients.
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Arts & Culture
Behind the show, pages (and pages) of pain
New show explores the meeting of art and illness with help from the work of author Ayn Rand and composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Campus & Community
Pop art on spaghetti
In homage to the pop artist Corita Kent — who regularly featured food in her work — and the Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop,” Harvard University Dining Services hosted “Corita Night” in the University’s dining halls, with meatballs as the focus.
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Science & Tech
What it means when ‘The Doctor Is Out’
What happens when homophobia hits the hospital? “The Doctor Is Out: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Schuster on Being a Gay Physician at Harvard” was part of Harvard Medical School’s Diversity Dialogue series.
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Science & Tech
Harvard creates Global Institute
A multidisciplinary project to investigate climate change, energy security, and sustainable development in China has received the first $3.75 million grant from the new Harvard Global Institute.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 14
On Oct. 14 the Faculty Council met with Provost Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty and heard an update on the library.
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Nation & World
Facing ‘the challenge of our generation’
Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the array of foreign policy challenges facing the United States, speaking with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Graham Allison.
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Health
Working to break heroin’s grip
Specialists in addiction see promise in a more comprehensive approach to treating opioid abuse, aided by medication.
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Arts & Culture
South Asia Institute hosts exhibit for Nepal
Harvard’s South Asia Institute (SAI) is hosting an exhibit and fundraiser to help the country of Nepal and its people rebuild after the devastating earthquake of April 25. Thousands of Nepalese citizens were killed; tens of thousands more were injured and made homeless, while many of the city’s magnificent buildings and places of worship were…
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Campus & Community
All told in gold
While Harvard is known for its trademark crimson, it’s the flourishes of amber and suntanned illuminations scattered across campus that surprise and resonate.
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Arts & Culture
Body of work
An émigré physician at Harvard Medical School has written a book about the multitude of anatomy-based English expressions.
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Science & Tech
What drones can do
HUBweek drone demonstration at Harvard Stadium showcases potential usefulness of flying robots.
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Science & Tech
Big data, massive potential
Across Harvard, programs and researchers are mining big data, vast quantities of computerized information, often revolutionizing their fields in the process.
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Health
Relaxation response proves positive
Relaxation-response techniques, such as meditation, yoga, and prayer, could reduce the need for health care services by 43 percent, according to a Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital study that looked at participants in a relaxation-response-focused training program.
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Nation & World
Marianne Williamson brings spirituality to politics
Marianne Williamson, the internationally acclaimed spiritual leader, will discuss the moral evolution of America, starting from its founding, in her talk “On Consciousness, Spirituality, and Politics in America” at Harvard Divinity School on Oct. 14.
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Health
Closer view of the brain
A team of researchers has succeeded in imaging — at the nano scale — every item in a small portion of mouse brain. What they found, Lichtman said, could open the door to, among other things, understanding how learning alters the brain.
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Health
Basic care increases odds when headed to the hospital
Patients with trauma, stroke, heart attack, and respiratory failure who were transported by basic life support ambulances had a better chance of survival than patients who were transported by advanced life support ambulances, a study of Medicare patients in urban counties nationwide found.
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Arts & Culture
Art that lights the mind
A photographer and a neurobiologist explored the science and art behind seeing during a HUBweek lecture at the Harvard Art Museums.
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Campus & Community
Education as a tool against inequality
Harvard President Drew Faust tells U.S. mayors’ panel that addressing inequality nationally begins with investing in education.
