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Arts & Culture
Hollywood’s messaging problem: Sometimes people feel insulted
Experts took a virtual look at the role of satire in pushing climate change action, with reviews mixed on a recent film.
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Campus & Community
Biography of a place
Harvard course asks students to write a history of the Radcliffe Quadrangle.
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Campus & Community
13 projects win grants to continue fostering diversity, inclusion on campus
Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging selects 13 Harvard projects as winners of the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund Grants.
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Campus & Community
Sarah Karmon named new HAA executive director
Sarah Karmon will succeed Philip Lovejoy as the new HAA executive director. She will be the first woman to take the top administrative role for alumni group.
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Campus & Community
Tackling climate change with ‘sleeves rolled up’
The state of climate change and sustainability education at Harvard was the focus of a virtual forum hosted by the Division of Continuing Education and Harvard Extension School.
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Health
‘What kind of husband could stand by idly for four years while his wife’s breast cancer grew?’
Barrett Rollins, wife Jane Weeks were Dana-Farber stars who kept her cancer secret nearly to end
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Health
DASH diet’s impact differs based on race and gender
A new study shows that the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, especially for women and Black adults.
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Nation & World
Change the Senate
Disproportionate influence of smaller states creates ‘significant democratic deficit,’ Vicki Jackson argues
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Campus & Community
Seeking a leader for the moment, and the future
Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker discusses community input and what the search committee is looking for in the next president.
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Science & Tech
Raising health care’s climate voice
The health impacts of climate change are gaining greater recognition, but the most important thing, one expert said, is to keep telling people’s stories.
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Campus & Community
Three new University Professors
Catherine Dulac, Robert J. Sampson, and Arlene Sharpe have been named Harvard University Professors, Harvard’s highest distinction for a faculty member.
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Science & Tech
Glimmers of movement, hope at COP27
The most significant climate change action during COP27 this month occurred thousands of miles away, in Bali, Indonesia, when the U.S. and China agreed to restart what had been a successful partnership to cut globe warming emissions before the two nations’ relations soured in recent years.
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Work & Economy
Is there method to Musk’s madness on Twitter?
Harvard Business School’s Andy Wu says given his track record at SpaceX and Tesla, it’s not surprising what Elon Musk has been doing at Twitter.
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Nation & World
How demagogues wield social media
Cognitive scientist details research on the different ways Republicans and Democrats, use Twitter.
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Nation & World
Fighting for 9/11 families, first responders, vets
Comedian Jon Stewart, who has done advocacy work on behalf of U.S. military veterans and 9/11 first responders for two decades, spoke about what he’s learned during a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
Enshrine an affirmative right to vote
Amendment would demonstrate ‘absolute commitment’ to full participation in U.S. democracy, argues Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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Health
New CDC guidelines a ‘corrective’ for opioid prescriptions, specialist says
The CDC updates its 2016 opioid prescribing guidelines, to emphasize flexibility over rigid practices and laws whose aim is to reduce addiction.
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Arts & Culture
A singular poet
Creative process and Jewish tradition were central to a lively conversation as Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück delivered the Center for Jewish Studies’ annual Doft Lecture.
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Nation & World
Will anything come of Jan. 6 hearings?
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Harvard Law School and Harvard College alum, previews what the public can expect from the committee in the coming weeks.
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Nation & World
Rushing to save her homeland — or at least its story
Harvard bibliographer Olha Aleksic rushes to save her homeland — or at least its story.
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Campus & Community
Headed for Oxford
Part of the new cohort of U.S. Rhodes Scholars, they are pursuing different paths, looking to make difference.
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Nation & World
Halting rising violence against health care workers
Law School discussion weighs effectiveness of legislation, technology, policies.
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Nation & World
A Cup as complex as world
Mideast scholar Cemal Kafadar untangles anti-gay, migrant labor, geopolitical tensions rising as World Cup soccer tournament is set to begin in Arab nation for the first time.
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Campus & Community
Hollister to step down as University CFO
Chief Financial Officer Thomas J. Hollister plans to step down at the end of the academic year.
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Work & Economy
Can tech save us from worst of climate change effects? Doesn’t look good
Study by two Prize Fellows focuses on economic impact on agriculture.
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Nation & World
Climate change in urban America, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Calif. reservation
Co-organized by several Harvard College environmental groups, an event on Nov. 16 will highlight stories of the impact of climate change in seven students’ communities. Organizers aim to highlight stories of students who are taking part in the fight against climate change.
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Campus & Community
How they’re feeling
Mental health is a crisis-level issue for young people today, research says. We asked Harvard students to look inside and tell us why.
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Campus & Community
Henry Rosovsky, former acting University president, FAS dean, dead at 95
Beloved economist recalled as innovative administrator, renowned scholar, invaluable counselor, dear friend.
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Arts & Culture
What coin tells you about realm
New classics professor Irene Soto Marín mines answers to question about ancient Egyptian life, economy from everyday artifacts.
