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Health
Insomnia in a pandemic
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted an online forum on “Coronavirus, social distancing, and acute insomnia: How to avoid chronic sleep problems before they get started.”
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Campus & Community
So what have you been up to?
The Gazette reached out to members of the Harvard community as they entered their second month of social isolation to find out what they are reading, watching, doing, and listening to in the age of coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Herzl re-imagined
Derek Penslar at Harvard University discusses his new book on Theodor Herzl with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Nation & World
Keeping ethics alive during the pandemic
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has launched the COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative, a series of white papers from some 40 thinkers on issues of justice, values, and civil liberties designed to inform policymakers during the crisis.
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Campus & Community
Explore Widener in all its glory, from your desk or phone
Explore Harvard’s Widener Library, from its marble rotunda to the Loker Reading Room, through a new 360-degree virtual tour.
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Campus & Community
A new name for the Semitic Museum
Harvard Museum of Ancient Near East more “accurately reflects the diversity of the collection.”
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Health
COVID-19 may not go away in warmer weather as do colds
Harvard researchers are turning to two common cold viruses to learn lessons about how the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 might behave in the coming months.
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Nation & World
An impact in real time
Justin Rose is working in Baltimore’s vibrant communities to help solve problems using data.
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Science & Tech
Toward an unhackable quantum internet
Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. The research is the missing link toward a practical quantum internet.
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Health
COVID-19 targets communities of color
Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
Dispatches from socially distancing students and faculty
Harvard students and faculty offer glimpses into their lives during social distancing.
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Health
Coronavirus and the heart
Heart damage has recently emerged as yet another grim outcome in the virus’s repertoire of possible complications.
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Health
Global race to a COVID-19 vaccine
Team at Harvard plans to launch a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine in the fall.
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Nation & World
Reporting on the world between the wars
Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott looks at the international journalists who brought the world home between wars.
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Nation & World
Community contact tracing
An initiative to accelerate the Massachusetts’ efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing is being done through a new collaboration with Partners In Health in which Harvard Medical School faculty will play key leadership roles.
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Nation & World
Obama: In trying times, truth first
During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, in the background
Harvard’s best angles, to display in the background of conference calls.
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Nation & World
Time to fix American education with race-for-space resolve
Q&A with Harvard’s Paul Reville about the impact of the coronavirus on education.
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Campus & Community
By phone and online, the care continues
A Q&A with Harvard University Health Services’ Executive Director Giang Nguyen about the steps taken to move as much care online as it could as the novel coronavirus approached. He also outlines new resources available to the Harvard community.
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Nation & World
Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on correctional institutions
Working in real time, Harvard researchers are surveying correctional facilities to find out how U.S. prisons and jails are being affected by the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
SEAS moves opening of Science and Engineering Complex to spring semester ’21
Temporary suspension of construction work by the city of Boston has pushed back the planned fall opening of Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until next spring semester.
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Health
Relearning ways to grieve
With everything from hugs to funerals now forbidden or unrecognizable, a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health online forum focused on “How the Discomfort of Grief Can Help Us: Recognizing and Adapting to Loss During the COVID-19 Outbreak.”
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Science & Tech
Students come together with Congregate
With the move to online classes, a group of Harvard students quickly formed a team and collaborated over spring break to develop Congregate, a web platform that enables users to host events or gatherings that are broken into many dynamically generated conversation rooms.
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Health
Hope for managing hospital admissions of COVID-19 cases
A top emergency-preparedness official with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital says recent modeling shows social distancing is working to flatten the curve.
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Health
Innovating to train medical pros on using mechanical ventilators
Harvard and EdX, the virtual learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT, announced the launch of a free online course designed to train frontline medical professionals to operate the mechanical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Science & Tech
‘Faster protection with less material’
Further research and development on a class of molecules called bisphosphonates might turbocharge a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, and help bring immunity to huge populations more quickly.
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Health
Injections to become pills, in vision of Harvard-launched startup
New formulations enable oral delivery of therapeutics traditionally delivered intravenously.
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Campus & Community
Blessings from afar
How Harvard is observing Easter and Passover in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
‘The world changed, so we changed with it’
While the majority of the Wyss Institute is working remotely, a small but dedicated team is still coming into the lab to help treat and cure COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Harbingers of Housing Day
The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.
