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Campus & Community
A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid
Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.
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Campus & Community
Engineering a startup by degrees
When Michael Mancinelli ’15 arrived on campus to begin his journey through the M.S./M.B.A. program, it almost felt like he was coming home.
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Campus & Community
Open, wide
Once he graduates from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s endodontics program this month, William “Brennan” Arden will return to military service.
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Campus & Community
A community health advocate finds her voice
The COVID pandemic and anti-racism protests in 2020 gave Brett Dennis-Duke’s ongoing thesis work both urgency and perspective.
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Campus & Community
Teaching caregivers the language of anti-racism
The pilot run of the “GCP Family Book Club: Exploring Race and Identity” won kudos from participants.
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Campus & Community
Communities spirit
Class of 2021 graduate Christopher Altizer believes in the importance of a support network.
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Campus & Community
Turning hip-hop on its head
Austin Martin created Rhymes with Reason, a gamified learning experience that teaches students vocabulary and other ELA skills through hip-hop.
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Nation & World
Recalling the Tulsa race massacre, and calling for reparations
Rights activists and academics remember the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and focus on what remains to be done.
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Campus & Community
Forging ‘paths to creating impact together’
Harvard Alumni Association announces its new president, Vanessa Liu.
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Campus & Community
Some pomp for the circumstance
Harvard will kick off this year’s graduation ceremonies on May 23 with a range of virtual events to honor and recognize the Class of 2021.
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Campus & Community
A collection of values, not just of valuables
With her new degree, Carmen Beals, A.L.M. ’21, is making a shift in her career as she works to diversify museums.
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Science & Tech
So why did you love ‘My Octopus Teacher’?
A panel of experts discuss the award-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher” and the inner life of the octopus.
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Science & Tech
Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time
Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.
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Campus & Community
Hausammann and Margulies to retire
Anne Margulies and Marilyn Hausammann, two of Harvard’s leading executives, with nearly 40 years of service to the University between them, will retire at the end of May.
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Campus & Community
Conversations of a different kind
For Graduate School of Design student Ayaka Yamashita, studying design was a way to understand human difference through various perspectives and mediums.
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Health
A key to the next pandemic: An early-warning system
How to stop a pandemic? Spot it early, let the pros spread the news, and engineer the heck out of it.
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Campus & Community
All roads lead to Samyra
More than 5,300 people (and counting) follow Samyra Miller ’21 on Instagram, where she dispenses information and opinions on everything from how to choose a good Gen Ed course and strategies for navigating campus social scenes to where to get good coffee and her shopping hauls.
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Campus & Community
Pinning down a new future
Wrestling provided life lessons for senior Cliff Wang, even when the sport was taken from him.
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Campus & Community
In slavery’s shadow
Kelly Brignac grew up in New Orleans, immersed in customs that had deep roots in French culture. Now she is graduating with a Ph.D. that explores the exportation of French culture, and its roots in the slave trade.
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Campus & Community
Putting science to work
Inspired by a first-year human rights seminar, Francesco Rolando wants to help remove barriers to health care, especially for marginalized populations.
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Science & Tech
Charting the universe
Nearly 40 years after creating the first, iconic map of the universe, researchers aim for the largest map ever.
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Campus & Community
Here comes the sun, on Memorial Drive
Joggers, walkers, cyclists, and skateboarders enjoy the weekend closure of Memorial Drive along the Charles River.
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Science & Tech
High-speed internet at a crossroads
Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.
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Health
When 45 is the new 50
An independent expert panel has recommended that individuals of average risk for colorectal cancer begin screening exams at 45 years of age instead of the traditional 50.
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Campus & Community
Lessons in leadership
Monica Pesswani, M.C./M.P.A. ’21, came to Harvard seeking a global perspective as she worked to create educational equality in India.
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Science & Tech
A gut feeling
Researchers identify links between genetic makeup of bacteria in human gut and several human diseases.
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Nation & World
Harvard argues admissions suit isn’t worthy of Supreme Court review
Citing 40 years of legal precedent and two lower court rulings in Harvard’s favor, Harvard on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the request by Students for Fair Admissions that it review the College’s whole-person admissions practices and revisit decades of case law allowing the consideration of race as one factor among many…
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Campus & Community
Cultivating a career in science
It was her interest in research that brought Zahra Aldawood, D.M.Sc. ’18, M.M.Sc. ’21, to Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
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Campus & Community
Keeping her goals in focus
Rawan Alhawamdeh has a vision for improving the lives of children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and giftedness.
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Work & Economy
Is inflation a problem now? Maybe, but more likely not
Alberto F. Cavallo talks about what’s driving prices up, how far they may still go, and what COVID has revealed about the U.S. economy.
