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Campus & Community
Serving up job training
Breaktime Cafe, started by two Harvard students, works to feed vulnerable community members.
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Science & Tech
Students use computational biology to confront COVID-19
A team of undergrads is using computational biology to create a therapeutic that enables the body to quickly develop COVID-19 antibodies and jump-start the immune system’s battle against the disease.
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Arts & Culture
Portrait of the documentarian as a young man
“A New England Document” by Che R. Applewhaite ’21 profiles Lorna and Lawrence Marshall and details their extended expeditions with their children to Africa’s Kalahari Desert starting in the 1950s.
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Campus & Community
‘I wanted to warn future social movements that listening only to one’s own side can generate dangerous amounts of unrealism’
Jane Mansbridge, one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic theory talks about her “jagged trajectory” toward success.
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Campus & Community
Pandemic helps set new dean’s priorities
William V. Giannobile, D.M.Sc. ’96, P.D. ’96, talks about assuming his role as dean of Harvard Dental School of Medicine in the midst of a pandemic and what he envisions for the future.
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Campus & Community
How to make a better Harvard Police Department
Review committee details process, and how their findings may inform search for new Harvard University Police Department chief.
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Science & Tech
Far-out findings from the cosmos
CfA astronomers theorize that the solar system originally had two suns as they further research a sneezing star and ‘Oumuamua.
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Science & Tech
Imagine clothing that stretches or shrinks to fit you
SEAS researchers have developed a material made from recycled wool can be 3D-printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory.
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Campus & Community
How textbooks taught white supremacy
We interview historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, who is writing the book “Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race in American History.”
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Campus & Community
What Harvard learned at Summer School
When the pandemic pushed it totally online, Harvard Summer School strengthen its already strong virtual presence. This is what they learned.
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Campus & Community
University to begin transition to unobserved COVID-19 testing
After approval from the FDA, Harvard University will begin to transition to unobserved, self-administered COVID-19 screening tests for all individuals authorized to live or be on campus as part of continued efforts to monitor and control the virus.
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Arts & Culture
In translation, he found his raison d’être
Thomas Piketty translator Arthur Goldhammer talks about his circuitous route to success in a field he never studied.
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Health
‘Robust protection’
BIDMC-led research team reports vaccine protection against severe COVID-19-related pneumonia and death.
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Campus & Community
Harvard partners with national labs on quantum computing
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers across the country. Harvard researchers will play important roles in three of the centers.
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Campus & Community
‘Find your way to heal this world’
In the University’s first-ever virtual first-year Convocation, President Lawrence S. Bacow on Tuesday urged the Class of 2024 to “find your way to heal this world.”
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Campus & Community
An empty square, a full summer, teaching tuba
In “Postcards From Home,” three students share thoughtful insights on how the pandemic is changing their lives and those around them.
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Science & Tech
Differing diets of bonobo groups offer insights into how culture is created
According to new study, bonobo hunting tendencies show proof of culture
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Science & Tech
Where the wild things are — now that humans are locked down
Researchers led by Christian Rutz, 2019–2020 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, are examining human impact on wildlife using data collected during the pandemic quarantine.
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Work & Economy
Opening health care access to trans community
Soltan Bryce, an M.B.A. student and trans man, leads the growth of a digital startup that’s bringing much-needed health care to the historically neglected trans community.
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Health
Strong signals
Study findings support use of county-level cell phone location data as tool to estimate future trends of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nation & World
Helping teachers and principals confront their own racism
Interview with Sarah Fiarman and Tracey Benson, former school principals and HGSE graduates, who co-wrote “Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism” to help teachers and school leaders start conversations about race in schools.
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Campus & Community
First-years make their move
For first-years, move-in day offers excitement, with a touch of anxiety.
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Nation & World
Why some Americans refuse to social distance and wear masks
Michael Sandel offers up his thoughts on what we owe others in the age of coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Crowd-sourcing the story of a people
Tiya Miles, a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the Gazette about the vital role of public history in shaping American cultural understanding.
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Health
The value of talking to strangers — and nodding acquaintances
How COVID-19 is evaporating our casual connections and taking an important source of happiness.
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Nation & World
Defining a centennial
A panel discussed the political experiences of Black women in the years between the ratification of the 19th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Health
Breathing freely
Mass General study shows the benefits of inhaled nitric oxide therapy for pregnant patients with severe and critical COVID-19.
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Science & Tech
Synthetic lining in small intestine may help treat diabetes, obesity
Researchers have developed a synthetic lining that could deliver drugs in a sustained way to the small intestine, offering hope for those suffering from lactose intolerance, diabetes, and obesity.
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Campus & Community
National Science Foundation awards $20M to launch artificial-intelligence institute
Harvard partners with MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts to launch NSF artificial intelligence institute.
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Campus & Community
GSAS students come to campus
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed students to campus, with 50 populating its four residence halls.
