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Campus & Community
Break down walls. Vanquish villains. Stand up and speak out. Facts and truth matter.
Ahead of Commencement ceremonies this week, we revisit inspiring messages from past speakers.
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Science & Tech
Thoreau’s flowers shine light on climate change
‘In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss’ exhibition marries art and science at Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Campus & Community
Gates recognized by University of Cambridge
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has been conferred an honorary degree, Litt.D., from the University of Cambridge, his alma mater.
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Campus & Community
Taking lessons from epic, everyday
Three student orators will deliver speeches to celebrate the Class of 2022 on Commencement Day on May 26. A student orator will deliver the Latin Salutatory on Sunday, May 29, to honor the Classes of 2020 and 2021.
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Campus & Community
Bill Lee on two decades of Harvard progress
William F. Lee will step down June 30 after nearly two decades of service on the University’s governing boards. In an interview with the Gazette, Lee reflected on his time in Harvard’s leadership.
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Campus & Community
Looking up
Photographer captures the campus details that often go over our heads.
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Health
Don’t let latest COVID surge overshadow progress, says Hanage
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor William Hanage explains how to stay on guard against subvariants, noting role of protective measures in transition to new pandemic phase.
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Campus & Community
Good days, tough days
Anastasia Onyango, her nurse mother, rising first-year sister wrestled with COVID anxieties, cabin fever, reckoning over race — and brother’s board games.
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Science & Tech
The language of dreams
Proficiency, place, emotion, or something else? These late-night conversations defy easy explanation.
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Campus & Community
Police chief recalls his first year of pandemic, progress
A year into the job, Chief Victor Clay says the University’s police department has made strides in accountability, transparency, and diversity.
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Campus & Community
Not only game
Aubree Muse graduated from the College in December 2021. She was recruited by Harvard to play on the softball team but had to quit the sport after she had spine surgery to remove a tumor inside a lumbar vertebra.
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Nation & World
Will rare U.S. unity on Ukraine lift Democrats?
Gerald Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal and an Institute of Politics Fellow this spring, discusses the political implications of U.S. support for Ukraine in the 2022 midterms.
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Campus & Community
Getting through it together
Before COVID, a cancer diagnosis. Here’s how one Harvard student and his family grew closer even as the world seemed to come apart.
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Health
Researchers find sleep benefit in higher dose of melatonin
In a small study of healthy adults aged 55 and older, 5 mg of melatonin increased total sleep time compared to a placebo.
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Science & Tech
10 teams tackle climate change
Ten research teams at Harvard will share $1.3 million in the eighth round of the Climate Change Solutions Fund awards, which address both local and global issues.
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Campus & Community
Good with left brain but invested in right as well
Brian Bertrand plans to use what he learned from his degree in statistics and in Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media program to help arts organizations maximize their success.
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Nation & World
Lessons in hate from the Holocaust to Buffalo
The event featured cast members from the documentary “Undeniable: The Truth to Remember,” which follows the lives of Holocaust survivors as they share their stories with Texas high school students.
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Nation & World
Women mostly stayed in workforce as pandemic unfolded, defying forecasts
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin says education was a larger factor than gender in labor disruptions.
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Campus & Community
Community by design
The first alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Design to serve as HAA president, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, is committed to creating inclusive alumni experiences.
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Health
How to cope with baby formula shortage
Harvard expert offers tips and cautions should the baby formula shortage hit home.
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Campus & Community
Blazing her own path
For Lucy Wickings ’22, a homeless, first-gen student, it was all uphill. Next she’s looking to help others.
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Nation & World
Snatching a culture back from state-sanctioned violence
Binalakshmi Nepram, a Harvard Library Fellow through Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program, has spent the past 15 years fighting the oppression of the nearly 50 million Indigenous people in Manipur, India.
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Campus & Community
Service comes first
Tyler Patrick, J.D.’22, is pursuing a joint program and will earn a J.D. at Harvard Law and M.P.A. at Princeton this year. He was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer in June of last year.
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Nation & World
Moves by Russia, China, North Korea rekindle nuclear concerns
In Kennedy School talk, global security experts scrutinize weapon deployment threats in Ukraine, accelerated missile tests, silo construction.
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Nation & World
An end and a beginning
Peabody returns sacred scrolls, pipe tomahawk to White Earth tribe in repatriation ceremony
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Science & Tech
‘The dawn of a new era in astronomy’
Harvard scientists discuss what the quest to image black holes could tell us about our universe.
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Campus & Community
Lapp to step down as executive VP
Katie Lapp, who has served as Harvard’s executive vice president since 2009, will step down from the role this summer.
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Science & Tech
First image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way
Pioneering Harvard-led global collaborative unveils latest portrait, bolstering understanding of relativity, gravity.
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Campus & Community
Three Medical School faculty elected to NAS
Three Harvard Medical School scientists are among the 150 individuals recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Work & Economy
Things may look shaky, but recession isn’t certainty
Harvard Kennedy School economist Jason Furman discusses stock market volatility and inflation.
