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Work & Economy
Stantcheva awarded Clark Medal
Honored as a leading under-40 economist for pioneering insights on tax policy, innovation, behavior
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Health
Bile imbalance linked to liver cancer
Key molecular switch identified, sheds new light on treatment interventions
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Health
FDA-approved smoking cessation pill helps break vaping habit
Clinical trial shows teens and young adults had three times more success quitting than their placebo counterparts
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Nation & World
New, bigger humanitarian crisis in Darfur. But this time, no global outcry.
Regional specialists sound alarm, say displacement, starvation affect many more than two decades ago.
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Arts & Culture
Future doesn’t have to be dystopian, says Ruha Benjamin
In Tanner Lectures, Princeton sociologist talks AI, social justice
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Health
U.S. pregnancy-related deaths continuing to rise
Study researcher says nation, which leads high-income peers in maternal mortality, needs better prenatal, extended postpartum care
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Health
Rewriting genetic destiny
David Liu, Breakthrough Prize recipient, retraces path to an ‘incredibly exciting’ disease fighter: ‘This is the essence of basic science.’
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Science & Tech
Long trail from 1992 discovery to 2024 Nobel
Gary Ruvkun recounts years of research, which gradually drew interest, mostly fueled by NIH grants
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Campus & Community
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named Class Day speaker
NBA icon, award-winning author, and humanitarian chosen for ‘his lasting efforts to build a more just and compassionate world’
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Campus & Community
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
Filing argues freeze of research funding violates First Amendment, laws, procedures
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Nation & World
Freezing funding halts medical, engineering, and scientific research
Projects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness
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Arts & Culture
What really scares Katie Kitamura
Ahead of Harvard visit, author talks performance, privacy, and horror inspiration for latest novel
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Campus & Community
Endowment offers Harvard flexibility but also risks
Economist speaks of balancing act between immediate needs and long-term planning
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Health
Why bother?
What makes someone run 26.2 miles? Boston Marathon’s lead psychologist has heard it all.
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Nation & World
‘If you’re boring, you’re not going to educate.’
Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker
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Health
Stopping the bleeding
Terence Blue has spent his life managing hemophilia. A new gene therapy offers relief from constant worry and daily needles — ‘I am actually healing faster than I ever have.’
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Health
Immune-system strategy used to treat cancer may help with Alzheimer’s
Turning off checkpoint molecules freed microglia to attack plaques in brain, improved memory in mice
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Campus & Community
Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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Nation & World
What we still need to learn from pandemic
School closures, shutdowns caused lasting damage, and debate was shut down in favor of groupthink, public policy experts say
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Science & Tech
Hunting a basic building block of universe
Researchers find way to confirm existence of axions, which make up dark matter
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Campus & Community
‘This is weakening the United States.’
Scholars react to Trump administration actions against Harvard and other institutions
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Campus & Community
The food was good. The conversation was better.
‘Our Harvard’ brings students together to tackle tough issues
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Work & Economy
When making positive change, sometimes you ‘break things’
Key is to avoid hurting people in process, Gina Raimondo says
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Campus & Community
New experiences at their fingertips
Course on tactile reading shows students ‘Why Braille Matters’
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Campus & Community
Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
Changes pushed by government ‘unmoored from the law,’ Garber says. ‘The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.’
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Arts & Culture
Becky G gets real at Cultural Rhythms
Artist of the Year applauds student performers for ‘leaning into authenticity’
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Campus & Community
Helping the U.S. fight addiction, cancer, other afflictions
A snapshot of research backed by partnership between government agencies and higher ed
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Nation & World
Leveraging social capital to defend worthy causes, people in need of representation
Legal scholar and Law School grad returns for student panel
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Nation & World
EPA plans target climate change initiatives
Environmental law experts say rollbacks will reverse advances in recent decades
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Nation & World
No quick end to Russia-Ukraine war, analysts say
Former national security official Fiona Hill says that much will depend on whether other European nations step up
