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Arts & Culture
How plants have influenced human societies
Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks’ Plants Humanities Lab hope to shed light on the historical relationships between humans and their environments — and improve our current and future relationships with nature.
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Health
Give her some space
The Gazette spoke with Harvard psychologist Michael Hollander about the toll anxiety can take on performance and what must change to ensure athletes get the help they need.
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Campus & Community
New 24/7 mental-health hotline for Harvard students opens
Counseling and Mental Health Services has launched a new 24/7 hotline for students who have mental health concerns or questions of any kind, whether they are in immediate distress or not, on campus or elsewhere.
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Nation & World
How far can Biden go?
Harvard Law School’s W. Neil Eggleston says President Biden is on solid legal ground to mandate that federal workers get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Health
Preventing childhood obesity in the first 1,000 days of life
A new study demonstrates how changing parents’ health behavior and how clinicians deliver care to mothers and infants decreases excess weight gain in infants.
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Health
Reaching people where they live and die
Robert Blendon examined the divide among Americans over vaccine mandates.
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Campus & Community
Veteran biotech executive to run new center aimed at boosting cell and gene therapies
Landmark Bio, a new center for advanced cell manufacturing, announced that former Orchard Therapeutics, Amgen, and Genzyme executive Ran Zheng will take over as chief executive. Landmark Bio is a partnership of Boston-area universities, hospitals, and private industry led by Harvard and MIT.
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Nation & World
Haiti assassination revives concerns over ‘private armies’
After authorities say Haiti’s president was assassinated by a hired hit squad, a former senior CIA career official talks about the world of private armies.
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Nation & World
From bad to worse in Latin America
Associate Professor Alisha Holland discusses the political impact of the pandemic in Latin America.
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Campus & Community
A pioneering geneticist and Renaissance man of parts
Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.
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Science & Tech
Living proof
A study by Harvard researchers demonstrates that jumping spiders can distinguish living from nonliving objects based on their movement.
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Science & Tech
Mark I, rebooted
After a yearlong delay, the landmark Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator shifts residences to its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Nation & World
Hey, I know that sprinter in the 200!
Harvard is sending a range of competitors, both current students and alumni, to the Olympic/Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
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Arts & Culture
Tuning up for a return to performing in person
After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.
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Science & Tech
What exactly is a ‘fire tornado’?
What is a fire tornado? Harvard’s Loretta Mickley sheds some light.
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Work & Economy
Why all the abuse of servers, flight staffs, sales clerks as COVID rules ease?
Ryan W. Buell discusses what’s behind the sudden spike in customer rage at service workers and what firms can do to support their employees.
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Campus & Community
Simple brilliance
In the summertime the days lengthen, the landscape brightens, calling to mind crisp sheets on a clothesline, billowy clouds, or a crisp culinary uniform.
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Health
Gut check
Changes in gut microbiome in longitudinal study of infants precede onset of celiac disease.
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Campus & Community
First-time teachers thrown into the COVID deep end
During the pandemic, the Harvard Teacher Fellows program quickly shifted its training from in-person to online teaching.
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Campus & Community
Slavery isn’t dead, Clint Smith says. It isn’t even past.
Shining a light on the complex history of slavery and how we understand its lasting impacts is at the heart of Clint Smith’s latest work.
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Campus & Community
Lifting restrictions, urging vaccination
HUHS Director Giang Nguyen discusses the delta variant of COVID-19 and gives a first look at what campus re-entry will look like.
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Work & Economy
A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?
Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.
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Health
Researchers identify signaling molecule that may help prevent Alzheimer’s
New research in humans and mice identifies a particular signaling molecule that can help modify inflammation and the immune system to protect against Alzheimer’s disease.
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Science & Tech
Taking a step toward discovering the cause of joint disease
A Harvard study could lead to potential therapeutics for one of the most prominent ailments of the elderly and one of the most prominent musculoskeletal defects in newborns.
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Health
Assessing the delta variant
Coronavirus ultimately not over, says Harvard Chan School’s William Hanage.
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Nation & World
Why do we need critical race theory? Here is my family’s story
As part of the Gazette’s Unequal series, Tauheedah Baker-Jones, Ed.L.D. ’21, explains why we need critical race theory in K-12 curriculum.
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Nation & World
How COVID taught America about inequity in education
This installment of the Unequal series looks at the how the pandemic called attention to issues surrounding the racial achievement gap in America.
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Arts & Culture
Take a bow
Since Theater, Dance & Media launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration, almost 40 College students have graduated with a concentration in TDM and more than 90 have pursued secondary concentrations in the field.
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Health
The omega-3 fatty acid that may improve heart health
A high dose of a purified ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic acid in patients at elevated cardiac risk significantly reduces cardiovascular events.
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Campus & Community
The evolution of bigotry
James H. Sidanius devoted much of his career to social justice and racial equality.
