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Nation & World
Rallying religious and health leaders to prevent child abuse
“Faith and Flourishing: Strategies for Preventing and Healing Child Sexual Abuse,” an online symposium on April 8, will bring together survivors, public health experts, and religious leaders from various traditions to explore best practices for confronting and ending such abuse as well as promoting recovery.
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Health
Cancer vaccine shows durable immune effects
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and affiliated institutions have shown that a personalized cancer vaccine that is specific to an individual’s tumor has lasting effects, detecting vaccine-related immune system changes years after the vaccine was given.
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Campus & Community
Navigating the Yard
Alyssa Goodman’s class in predictive systems took 28 students all over Harvard Yard as they followed the same directions.
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Nation & World
An emphasis on diversity in Biden’s first court nominees
Maya Sen, a political scientist and professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, praises President Biden’s initial picks to fill vacancies on the federal bench.
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Science & Tech
How chronic stress leads to hair loss
A Harvard study has confirmed that stress can lead to hair loss.
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Campus & Community
Where the wild things are
Capturing the creatures that grace Harvard’s buildings, gates, and shields
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Arts & Culture
Agassiz’s other photographs tell a global tale of scientific racism
In 1865, Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz traveled to Brazil to create a photographic catalog of people of different races as anatomic evidence in support of his beliefs. Scholars, artists, and curators from Brazil and the U.S. will reflect on these lesser-known images during a panel discussion called “Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy” hosted by…
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Nation & World
A reckoning on Native American remains and cultural objects
Gazette spoke with Philip Deloria, chair of the NAGPRA Advisory Committee, and past chair of the Repatriation Committee at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, to learn about the importance of following both the law and the spirit of the process, what the Peabody has already accomplished, and its future plans.
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Arts & Culture
Round 2: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’
William Tsutsui, who teaches a course that explores the rich history of Japanese monsters, says which one will win the new “Godzilla vs. Kong” is anybody’s guess.
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Nation & World
Post-pandemic challenges for schools
Bridget Long, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the field of education.
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Science & Tech
Finding a way forward on climate change
If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.
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Nation & World
Reordering the court
The Law School panel “Reform of the Supreme Court?” looked at current problems in the Supreme Court, and possible ways to fix them.
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Nation & World
Fighting for equality at the ballot box
Law School affiliates talk about the fight for racial equality at the voting booth.
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Nation & World
Origins of a storm and the roots of a reckoning
Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, examines the roots of this current racial reckoning in the leadership that grew out of the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Nation & World
In their own words
Aaron Mukerjee ’16, J.D. ’21, discusses the The Voting Rights Act, which aims to help minority-language voters have their voices heard.
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Health
When the heart takes a beating
New study provides insights on how stress-related brain activity can temporarily damage the heart.
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Nation & World
Keeping students on campus for their health and safety?
During the influenza pandemic of 1918, Harvard kept students on campus and imposed quarantine and isolation when necessary.
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Nation & World
The main public health tool during 1918 pandemic? Social distancing
The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.
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Arts & Culture
Who is this museum for?
During a Harvard panel, experts discuss how displays and artifacts reflect choices about whose story is told, and how and why.
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Health
COVID-19 vaccine protects mothers — and their newborns
Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns.
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Work & Economy
Is ‘business as usual’ gone for good?
A recent survey from Harvard Business School Online shows that working online did work. In fact, many professionals even experienced advancement and growth — both on the job and at home — this year.
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Nation & World
Celebrating a bicentennial of democracy in its birthplace
Two hundred years ago today, Greece declared its independence. From the start, Harvard was there, helping both in the fledgling Mediterranean country and back in the United States.
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Nation & World
The scapegoating of Asian Americans
Anti-Asian hate crimes were on the rise in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis, but after the Atlanta shootings that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, there is renewed sense of urgency to denounce racism and scapegoating.
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Arts & Culture
A digital piece of art worth $69 million
Harvard art expert Mary Schneider Enriquez reflects on the sale of a digital collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. The digital work fetched an eye-popping $69 million in auction last week as a non-fungible token, a type of digital file that uses computer networks to prove a digital item’s authenticity, and…
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Campus & Community
Harvard creates Office for Gender Equity
Harvard is forming a new Office for Gender Equity that will bring together resources previously housed in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and the Title IX Office. The new office will be headed by Title IX coordinator Nicole Merhill.
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Science & Tech
Image of black hole’s magnetic fields captured for first time
Images released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration reveal how the black hole, some 55 million light-years away, appears in polarized light.
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Health
Seeking ‘a leadership moment’ on global vaccination
A $25 billion investment in global vaccines would bring a five-to-one economic return and save many lives, according to Rebecca Weintraub, an HMS global health expert.
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Campus & Community
For Harvard police, a renewed focus on community, communications
The Gazette spoke with Denis Downing about how Harvard University Police Department has implemented the recommendations of 21CP Solutions’ review, and what he hopes to accomplish before a new chief is appointed.
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Science & Tech
DNA, assemble
A concept for seeded all-or-nothing assembly of micron-scale DNA nanostructures that could extend nanofabrication capabilities and enable creation of highly specific diagnostics.
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Health
In the gut microbiome, at least, it’s nurture, not nature
Environmental factors such as diet make major impacts in the gut microbiome, a new study shows.
