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Campus & Community
The flourishing of Genesis
Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi breakthrough
In a breakthrough on the road toward ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi, Harvard researchers have demonstrated for the first time a laser that can emit microwaves wirelessly, modulate them, and receive external radio frequency signals.
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Science & Tech
Day of the golden jackal
The surprising success story of the golden jackal in Europe holds lessons about nature’s resilience and about how nature might respond to the evolutionary pressure exerted by humans as we change the natural landscape. The Gazette spoke with doctoral student Nathan Ranc for insight.
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Health
Bugged by vaping
New research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has examined 75 popular e-cigarette brands and found that 27 percent contained traces of bacterial and fungal toxins associated with myriad health problems.
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Campus & Community
They’re alive!
The living walls at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center — eight organic interior designs made of climbing, creeping arms of trees and blocks of ferns and other tropical plants —are a welcome addition to Harvard’s newly configured social hub year-round.
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Science & Tech
Arboretum gets a solar boost
The Weld Hill Solar Project, currently underway, is the Arnold Arboretum’s third and largest solar project and Harvard’s most ambitious sustainability initiative to date, with nearly 1,300 solar panels powering a 45,000-square-foot science laboratory and teaching facility in Roslindale.
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Campus & Community
Running out of time
Harvard seniors share their bucket lists of things to do during their final semester.
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Campus & Community
The green escape
A sustainability-themed escape room served as a test of puzzle-solving skills and a lesson on sustainable lifestyle shifts during Harvard Heat Week.
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Health
The dietary factor
Based on new research, a randomized placebo-controlled trial in humans indicates that a popular food ingredient called propionate may raise the risk of diabetes and obesity.
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Campus & Community
On having — and being — a role model
An interview with Bridget Terry Long, the new dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, on her first eight months on the job.
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Campus & Community
Carnegie Corporation names fellowship winners
Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the Andrew Carnegie Fellows named this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Also known as the “Brainy Award,” the fellowship grants up to $200,000 to each of 32 researchers writing and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Campus & Community
Opening eyes on higher education
Eight students from Highline High School in Burien, Wash., recently spent five days in Boston and Cambridge visiting Harvard and MIT as part of the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program.
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Science & Tech
Written in the bones
Harvard doctoral students offered a glimpse of the future of evolutionary inquiry, outlining projects that touch on the human pelvis, butterfly hybrids, field and forest mice, and the mystery of an ancient pile of bones.
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Science & Tech
Containing the sun
Scientists from Harvard and Princeton have teamed up to create an artificial intelligence algorithm that can predict destructive disruptions in nuclear fusion experiments
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Campus & Community
In recognition of extraordinary service
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, Dan H. Fenn Jr. ’44, A.M. ’72, and Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 will receive the 2019 Harvard Medal.
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Science & Tech
Protecting P-town
Architect and GSD Professor Scott Cohen discusses his studio course that considered how architects could help his beloved Provincetown, Mass., address the prospect of rising seas due to climate change while still retaining its quirky magic.
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Health
Sparking a national debate
Environmental protection is not a goal to achieve but a task to be undertaken by one generation and handed to the next, Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, told the Gazette in an Earth Day interview.
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Science & Tech
Rocketwoman
Fifty years ago this summer, Neil Armstrong took his “giant leap for mankind” on the moon. In his wake hundreds of others have flown into space, including Ellen Ochoa, a four-time shuttle astronaut who stepped down as director of the Johnson Space Center in 2018 and is currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy…
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Science & Tech
Clearing the way for cleaner air in China
Researchers have analyzed technical and economic viability for China to move toward carbon-negative electric power generation and found that China can do so in an economically competitive way.
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Nation & World
In the crosshairs of an academic crackdown
Sociologist Amy Austin Holmes, an associate professor at the American Unviersity in Cairo and a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center, thought her research was “safe” — until she was labeled an operative by Egypt’s authoritarian regime.
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Nation & World
Parsing the Mueller report
Hours after the release of the Mueller report, the Gazette asks Harvard professor and former prosecutor Alex Whiting what it all means.
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Campus & Community
New student survey asks about sexual assault and misconduct
Harvard launches its first new survey on sexual misconduct in four years and expects different answers in light of the “Me Too” movement.
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Science & Tech
Before the Big Bang
Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.
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Campus & Community
At WHRB, Harvard student turns on radio and tunes in listeners
Henna Hundal ’19 works as interviewer on her own radio show on Harvard’s WHRB, bringing the larger world to her listening audience.
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Campus & Community
Bridge to a new life
Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.
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Health
Calculating genetic risk for obesity
A “polygenic score” for obesity, a quantitative tool that predicts an individual’s inherited risk for becoming overweight, may identify an opportunity for early intervention.
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Health
Seeing brain activity in ‘almost real time’
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, King’s College London, and other institutions have developed a technique for measuring brain activity that’s 60 times faster than traditional fMRI.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Jesse McCarthy
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
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Campus & Community
‘Everyone is a teacher’
Students present 30 projects at inaugural Education Innovation Showcase at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
New dean for Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting, former dean of architecture at Rice University, returns to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as dean of the Graduate School of Design.
