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Nation & World
From Kyiv to Harvard and back
Harvard Scholars at Risk program allows physicians to continue their education during wartime.
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Technology
Struggling to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
GSD Associate Professor Holly Samuelson explains how climate change is catalyzing dramatic new city and state regulations as architects, designers, and developers are struggling to stay current.
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Campus & Community
After four generations, an emergency focus on climate change
Julia Malits will be the fourth generation of women in her family to go into medicine. She will be the first, though, to focus on emergency medicine and climate change.
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Science & Tech
2 very different microbes immune to the same viruses? Scientists were puzzled.
Genomic analysis suggests host diversity is far greater than previously thought.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First sets the stage for spring
Arts First took over stages, museums, and other venues across Harvard’s campus during the four-day festival.
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Campus & Community
Escaping hurdles in conservative Eastern European homeland
As a middle schooler, Ilinca Mazureac knew two things for certain — she was going to be a scientist, and she was gay.
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Arts & Culture
Changing face of Shehuo festival
Photographer Zhang Xiao documented the Shehuo festival over a decade of modernization, creating a portrait of how traditional practices sustain themselves amid rapid change. The new bilingual photographic exhibition “Shehuo: Community Fire” is at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.
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Campus & Community
Larry Wilmore named Class Day speaker
Celebrated TV producer, actor, comedian, and writer selected by Class of 2023 for “challenging traditional ideas of race and politics.”
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Nation & World
A doctor’s lessons from Haiti, Turkey, Ukraine border
Rushing to war and disaster zones to provide urgent care has convinced Morgan Broccoli there’s a smarter way to help.
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Science & Tech
Bringing Stone Age genomic material back to life
Scientific breakthroughs will enable exploration of Earth’s biochemical past, with hopes of discovering new therapeutic molecules.
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Campus & Community
Wonders never cease
Henry Cerbone spent his time at Harvard drawing on many intellectual threads in his effort to explore and understand the world.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating cross-University innovation
The Challenge is open to students and alumni from all Harvard Schools, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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Campus & Community
James Joseph McCarthy, 75
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late James Joseph McCarthy was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Roy Jay Glauber, 93
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Roy Jay Glauber was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Edward Osborne Wilson, 92
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Edward Osborne Wilson was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Eduard Franz Sekler, 96
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Eduard Franz Sekler was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Henry Rosovsky, 95
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Henry Rosovsky was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Science & Tech
How will the world end? Possibly with a belch, not a whimper.
Scientists say it’s a preview of Earth’s fate in 5 billion years.
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Campus & Community
Broadening access and deepening impact, starting with listening
Axim Collaborative CEO Stephanie Khurana is focused on listening to others in the education industry, and focusing on underrepresented students.
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Campus & Community
President-elect Gay names Katie O’Dair chief of staff
“Ideal partner” brings decades of higher ed experience to the new role.
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Science & Tech
How greatest biological discovery of 20th century got passed over
Harvard Professor Richard Losick highlights flawed, human side of science in his MSI Distinguished Achievement Award lecture.
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Arts & Culture
Turning debris into haute couture
“Marine Debris Fashion Show,” a student design competition featuring outfits made from items humans dumped in oceans, was a highlight of the Arts First Festival.
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Campus & Community
As teen, he was embarrassed by his migrant worker mom’s job
Filipino Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara recalls how his mother’s job embarrassed him as a teen and he was “ashamed” to tell classmates and friends, but says he now understands the plight of millions like her around world, and wants to help.
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Health
‘Happiness is not a destination … Happiness is the way’
Harvard Chan School of Public Health celebrates opening of $25 million Thich Nhat Hanh Center for research, approaches to mindfulness.
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Science & Tech
DNA shows poorly understood empire was multiethnic with strong female leadership
Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the Xiongnu people, the world’s first nomadic empire.
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Nation
Gen Z, millennials need to be prepared to fight for change
Tenn. lawmaker Justin Pearson, Parkland survivor David Hogg ’23 talk about tighter gun control, GOP attempts to restrict voting rights, importance of local politics.