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Campus & Community
The House that will be home
On Housing Day, first-year students learn where they will spend their next years at Harvard, and the Houses are as varied as the residents who inhabit them.
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Nation & World
Just a misdemeanor? Think again
Criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff wrote a book about how the misdemeanor system punishes the poor and people of color. The book has inspired a documentary film, which will be released on March 11.
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Campus & Community
Looking back on Harvard’s COVID response one year later
Health experts, leaders, and staff offered input, helped devise Harvard’s coronavirus policy and procedures.
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Campus & Community
Bhargava is Class of 1996’s pick for chief marshal
Anurima Bhargava ’96, director and president of Anthem of Us, will serve as chief marshal as Harvard honors the Class of 2021.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard grad reflects on ‘Twilight Zone’ type of year
Harvard alum discusses his Grammy-nominated song “Stand Up” from the biopic “Harriet.”
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Nation & World
Madame Secretary
Former diplomat Madeleine Albright says sexism was a bigger hurdle at home than abroad.
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Nation & World
How the Black Church saved Black America
Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.
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Health
Lessons from Katrina on how pandemic may affect kids
Harvard researchers looked at Katrina’s impact on children and how the lessons learned there could be applied to the COVID pandemic.
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Nation & World
Predicting homicides in disadvantaged neighborhoods
A neighborhood’s well-being depends not only on its own socioeconomic conditions but on those of the neighborhoods its residents visit and are visited by.
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Nation & World
Native American program turns 50
The Harvard University Native American Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We look at how it started and its hopes for the future.
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Science & Tech
Uncovering hidden chemicals
New tool finds and fingerprints previously undetected PFAS compounds in watersheds on Cape Cod.
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Nation & World
The conservative club that came to dominate the Supreme Court
In a new audiobook “Takeover,” Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman explores the rise of the Federalist Society.
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Science & Tech
A ‘miracle poison’ for novel therapeutics
Researchers prove they can engineer proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential new treatments to help neuroregeneration, cytokine storm.
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Nation & World
Head of global atomic energy agency details 11th-hour talks with Tehran
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi discussed his recent trip to Iran, his negotiations with Iranian leaders, along with the extra burdens placed on his agency by the dangers of the pandemic.
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Science & Tech
Engaging AI in the battle against Alzheimer’s
A team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence-based method to screen currently available medications as possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The method could represent a rapid and inexpensive way to repurpose existing therapies.
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Campus & Community
The new breakfast club
What started 13 years ago as a welcome gesture from a towering figure at the Law School to a new basketball coach has become a monthly balm, an oasis of multigenerational community and education.
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Nation & World
New database tracks data on slaves, slavers, and allies
A new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), offers a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped emancipate enslaved people.
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Campus & Community
Adams House renewal moves forward
Adams House marks its first phase of renewal with the completion of Claverly Hall.
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Science & Tech
Know why conversations either seem too short or too long?
Conversations don’t end when people want them to because few people know how to end them politely, a Harvard study finds.
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Campus & Community
Bernard Bailyn, 97
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Crombie Schelling, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Schelling was a Nobel laureate in economics and developed principles for avoiding nuclear war.
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Campus & Community
Multimedia maven
Kristen Pope of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education is dedicated to uplifting her community.
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Campus & Community
Sidney Verba, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Bailyn was one of Harvard’s most eminent historians.
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Campus & Community
Thomas Crombie Schelling, 95
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 2, 2021, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Verba profoundly changed political science and was one of Harvard’s most influential academic administrators.
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Nation & World
Two mayors talk pandemic, civic unrest, and the value of a network of peers
The Gazette recently spoke to Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, N.Y., and Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and asked them to share how their experience at Harvard as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative prepared them to face the toughest year of their careers.
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Health
When even grief is taken away
With 500,000 deaths due to COVID, the U.S. has become a nation in mourning, often alone, also dealing with the trauma of the pandemic’s other effects, a combination that worries mental health experts.
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Arts & Culture
Magic, up close and personal
A small band of magicians present “The Conjurors’ Club” with the American Repertory Theater through April 4.
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Science & Tech
Smaller, faster, greener
Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing.
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Science & Tech
Signs of quantum science
Harvard’s Center for Integrated Quantum Materials and The Learning Center for the Deaf are working together to develop American Sign Language modules on quantum science topics for undergraduate students with the aim of increasing STEM opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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Campus & Community
Bloomberg Philanthropies & Harvard create new Bloomberg Center for Cities to support mayors
Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University announced they will expand support for city leaders with a $150 million investment to establish the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Redrawing the civics education roadmap
In a report released March 1, “A Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy,” researchers at Harvard, Tufts, and other institutions laid out a strategy and other recommendations for a large-scale recommitment to the field of civics, which has seen investment decline during the last 50 years.
