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Science & Tech
Anthropologists dig into fossilized dental plaque for clues to ancient trade
Scientists study ancient human teeth to learn about their surprising diet.
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Campus & Community
Harvard plans full return to campus life
The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is planning for a full return to campus in the fall, including opening residential accommodations at full density and holding classes in person.
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Work & Economy
Fast-growing life sciences manufacturing startup settles into Allston
Harvard’s life sciences innovation community on its Allston campus gained another member last month in the fast-growing manufacturing startup National Resilience Inc.
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Health
‘Zinc fingers’ may help treat Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers have used a genetic engineering strategy to dramatically reduce levels of tau — a key protein that accumulates and becomes tangled in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease — in an animal model of the condition.
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Arts & Culture
The sound of lockdown
Theater, Dance & Media students join Junot Díaz and other writers in an audio version of Radcliffe’s fall magazine.
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Science & Tech
A next step in renewable Bionic Leaf fuel production
New system uses the sun and impure water to make renewable energy.
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Campus & Community
Open access
“Science Rehashed” aims to increase accessibility to the latest scientific research.
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Nation & World
From Russia, without love
Russia expert Fiona Hill discusses the outlook for U.S.-Russia relations under the new Biden administration.
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Arts & Culture
Let us listen then, you and I
The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will celebrate its 90th anniversary by making some of its first recordings — of the poet T.S. Eliot reading his own work — available to the general public on March 19.
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Nation & World
Hidden figures
Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.
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Campus & Community
Science and Engineering Complex named one of the world’s healthiest lab buildings
New lab complex will help Harvard progress toward its Sustainability Plan and achieve its goals to be fossil fuel-neutral by 2026 and fossil fuel-free by 2050.
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Nation & World
Racism, far before slavery
At a Harvard Lecture, Wellesley College Professor Cord J. Whitaker discusses Black history beyond beyond chattel slavery in the Americas.
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Nation & World
Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds
New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.
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Campus & Community
Where Health Services stands with COVID vaccine
University Health Services awaits increase supply of vaccines, indicating it has the ability to administer twice the number of vaccines to the Harvard community.
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Health
Double benefits for heart-healthy lifestyle
The risk of future cancers was lowest among participants in a community-based observational study who had a heart-healthy lifestyle.
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Campus & Community
A chance to help work work better
The President’s Administrative Innovation Fund is looking for staff solutions to administrative challenges, centered on the future of work.
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Health
How a mutated coronavirus evades immune system defenses
A Harvard Medical School study shows how SARS-CoV-2 mutations allow the virus to evade the defenses of patients with compromised immune systems.
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Campus & Community
Harvard president reflects on past year, and looks ahead
Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on how the Harvard community has met the challenges posed by COVID-19, and to look ahead how the University is tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems.
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Nation & World
Cease-fire terms during Pontiac’s War: British retreat and one Black boy
In an excerpt from “400 Souls,” Harvard’s Tiya Miles discusses Chief Pontiac seeking a visible status symbol in a boy enslaved by an officer.
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Science & Tech
Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
A new Harvard study challenges the accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
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Work & Economy
Harvard Chan School launches public health program for business leaders
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health launches public health program for business leaders.
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Campus & Community
The value of the written word
Peer Advising Fellow pen pals help Harvard first-years fit in — even from afar.
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Nation & World
Making gifts that keep on giving
Former Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch ’01, M.P.P. ’08, J.D. ’08, started a GoFundMe campaign to help the Navajo and Hopi communities respond to the coronavirus pandemic. She has raised $18 million.
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Science & Tech
Black hole on the move
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected a moving supermassive black hole.
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Science & Tech
Model explains how life may have emerged on Mars
Harvard researchers have solved a decades-old mystery about how the early Martian atmosphere and climate may have evolved to support periods of warmth and running water on the planet.
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Health
Dental students fill the gap in online learning
Five Harvard School of Dental Medicine students created “My Dental Key,” an online platform with step-by-step video tutorials of dental procedures to supplement clinical and classroom learning.
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Science & Tech
All the ingredients for an expert space baker
Claire Lamman doubles as an astronomy graduate student at Harvard and an expert space baker.
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Campus & Community
‘We’re so much more than our day job’
The first Harvard Staff Art Show featured more than 280 pieces by 167 artists who work in other positions at the University
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Arts & Culture
Houghton acquires 1st edition of 1st African American novel
Through the efforts of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Houghton Library has acquired a first edition of the first novel published by an African American in the U.S.
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Health
Professor, banking giant join on studies of rapid COVID tests to avoid future shutdowns
A new trial seeks to test whether cheap rapid tests given three times a week can keep the workplace safe despite the coronavirus pandemic.
