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Nation & World
The fight for environmental justice
The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.
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Campus & Community
10 join American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, including 10 from the Harvard community.
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Health
With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’
Since the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, public health experts have noted the disproportionate toll on Black and brown Americans. Those groups are at much greater risk of getting infected than white people; they are two to three times likelier to be hospitalized, and twice as likely to die, according to recent estimates from the…
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Campus & Community
New ideas for global warming solutions win $1M in funding
Nine research teams will share $1 million in the seventh round of Climate Change Solutions Fund awards for proposals that create critical knowledge, propel novel ideas, and lead progress toward solutions that can be applied at Harvard and around the world.
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Nation & World
In 14 months lost, some new educational gains
“Making Schools More Human,” part of the Graduate School of Education’s Education Now webinar series, explored what was learned from the pandemic that can be used to improve education going forward.
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Health
Salad or cheeseburger?
People in our social networks influence the food we eat — both healthy and unhealthy — according to a large study of hospital employees.
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Nation & World
The GOP house divided
Why are so many elected members of the Republican Party still following Trump? Self-preservation, said Tim Alberta, who covered Republican and conservative politics for Politico magazine and is a newly named staff writer for The Atlantic, during a Shorenstein Center virtual talk about the GOP’s future with Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker.
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Campus & Community
Eyes on tomorrow, voices of today
From environmental justice to environmental litigation, Harvard students shared their passion for the natural world and their designs on the fight for its future.
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Nation & World
Ensuring the Floyd trial becomes a turning point
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks reacts to the jury’s verdict in the trial of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man.
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Arts & Culture
A 400-year community chronicle of African America
Keisha N. Blain, historian and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, discusses working on her newest book, a compilation of essays, short stories, and poems by 90 Black historians, authors, academics, journalists, and activists that traces the history of African America from 1619 to 2019.
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Work & Economy
Isaiah Andrews wins Clark Medal
Harvard economist Isaiah Andrews has won the John Bates Clark Medal, recognized for developing statistical tools and models that help scholars to overcome research obstacles that can lead to inaccuracies.
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Campus & Community
Rediscovering the Square
In Harvard Square, new businesses emerge and old favorites awaken after a long pandemic year.
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Campus & Community
A sense of humor, giving space, trying to listen: Advice from 73 years of marriage
Judith and Herman Chernoff are believed to be among the oldest living couples in Massachusetts, if not the oldest. How have they done it? Herman Chernoff, a Harvard professor emeritus, and his wife are happy to share some tips.
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Health
Sleep easy
Research reveals distinct types of cells that may be involved in breathing-related diseases in infants.
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Arts & Culture
Unearthing ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’
Author and activist Julia Wright, filmmaker Malcolm Wright, and author and Radcliffe Fellow Kiese Laymon discuss the uncut version of Richard Wright’s novel “The Man Who Lived Underground” during a talk supported in part by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
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Campus & Community
My grandpa’s 100 hats
Shannon Freyer, an animal-care technician in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, shares stories about her grandfather, who died on his 86th birthday due to COVID-19.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First and all over
The 11-day Arts First festival kicks off April 19, with programming featuring some of Harvard’s best visual arts, music, dance, and performance.
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Campus & Community
Kevin Young to speak at 151st meeting of Alumni Association
Celebrated poet Kevin Young ’92 will give the address at the 151st Harvard Alumni Association Annual Meeting. Young is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Campus & Community
A taste of the old normal
Since the start of April, about 200 students, faculty, and staff have been taking part in a monthlong, in-person-and-virtual hybrid learning pilot for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
A year of ‘never off’
As director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Joseph G. Allen offers special insight on how the pandemic affected him, his work, and his family.
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Arts & Culture
How to get away with a Pudding Pot
Hasty Pudding Theatricals announces Viola Davis as 2021 Woman of the Year.
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Science & Tech
Dissecting the ‘undruggable’
Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.
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Work & Economy
Local small business roundtable sees reasons for hope
At a Harvard-hosted panel, local small business owners and political leaders talked about lessons learned from the pandemic, and how to apply them to the days ahead.
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Health
Untangling a young patient’s autoimmune mystery
The Complex Care Service was created for patients like Emily Hedspeth who are, as Thompson described, “the sickest 1 percent of the sickest 1 percent.”
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Arts & Culture
A poem for Venus
In her poem “The Story of Venus,” Suzannah Omonuk imagines what life may have been like for the young enslaved woman living on campus in the 18th century.
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Campus & Community
New, improved, and almost open
With renovations complete, accessibility enhanced, and new collections to show off, staff at the Houghton Library look forward to welcoming visitors again.
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Campus & Community
Smile for the birdie
Harvard Professor Gonzalo Giribet takes on bird photography as pandemic hobby.
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Campus & Community
A teacher for 40 years and a neighborhood ‘den mother’
Ronald Chandler remembers his mother, Carol Marie Chandler.
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Campus & Community
Three alumni to receive 2021 Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Walter K. Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr ’71, and Preston N. Williams, Ph.D. ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. The awards will be presented virtually to the 2021 and 2020 recipients at the association’s annual meeting on June 4.
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Campus & Community
Preservation in a pandemic — and beyond
Preservation Services Director Brenda Bernier discusses preservation during a pandemic — and what comes next.
