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Nation & World
What would Dick do?
A panel including Al Gore, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roger Porter, and Harvey Fineberg, with Graham Allison moderating, discussed what Richard Neustadt would have thought of the Trump presidency on the 100th anniversary of the late Kennedy School professor’s birth.
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Campus & Community
Provost convenes task force to address students’ psychological well-being
With mental health issues among young people increasing both at the University and nationwide, Harvard’s Office of the Provost has convened a task force to assess and respond to students’ psychological well-being.
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Arts & Culture
‘East Side’ story
Student-penned musical “The East Side” puts the spotlight on the Harvard Asian Student Arts Project.
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Health
Hold the soda, hold the fat shaming
Health and policy expert Sara Bleich has found that when trying to change the way people eat, being prescriptive isn’t always the answer.
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Campus & Community
Per Nykrog, 88
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 2, 2019, a tribute to the life and service of the late Per Nykrog was placed upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Divinity School professor retains her grade-school wonder
Harvard Divinity School Professor Anne Monius’ determination to get to Harvard started on a grammar school field trip. Today she inspires students to love learning as much as she does.
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Science & Tech
Putting ‘the language of the Earth on the agenda’
At Harvard, indigenous Alaskan elder Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq and Polynesian navigator Nainoa Thompson offered a close-to-the-earth perspective on climate change.
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Science & Tech
Breaking down ‘Beowulf’
Using a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem’s meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers found new evidence that “Beowulf” is the work of a single author.
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Campus & Community
Coding for a cause
Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.
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Arts & Culture
Stories get an A+
Students reflect on a transformative semester on campus as part of The Transcript Project, now in its second year.
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Campus & Community
Bringing back hope
In conversation with Bridget Terry Long, dean of the Graduate School of Education, President Larry Bacow discusses the role of universities in building economic opportunity.
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Nation & World
Citizens arrested
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but are not treated equally, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said at Radcliffe conference on “Unsettled Citizens.”
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Health
Inoculating against misinformation
A new survey by Harvard researchers shows that trust in leaders and institutions are at a low ebb in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlighting the importance of gaining trust as part of the response to the growing Ebola epidemic there.
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Science & Tech
Building a better med student
Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Blavatnik Institute are developing an algorithm with information that is so complex, it will understand everything a first-year medical student knows.
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Nation & World
Nadia Murad: The making of an activist
Nadia Murad came to Harvard as a survivor of genocide under ISIS, an advocate for victims of sexual violence, and the first Iraqi citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Her talk focused on her personal journey and how her ordeal turned her into an activist.
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Nation & World
Fifty-seven stories
Masha Gessen’s lecture “How We Think About Migration,” was delivered Wednesday at Paine Hall. It was the first of two lectures on “How Do We Talk About Migration” that Gessen delivered as part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.
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Nation & World
Mulling the Mueller report
A panel of journalists and former Rep. Barbara Comstock discussed what might lie ahead for presidential investigations Wednesday at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Nation & World
Deal or no deal?
Amanda Sloat, senior fellow at the Project on Europe at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, explains the chaos befalling the U.K. as it hashes out Brexit.
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Science & Tech
Beware the deeper water
For the past decade, scientist Greg Skomal and a team of researchers have been tagging and studying great white sharks off the Massachusetts coast. He hopes his work tracking the sharks’ movement, biology, and behavior will help shed light on the giant predators, help protection efforts, and perhaps reduce their encounters with humans.
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Campus & Community
‘If we’re not including trans people, we’re not really having conversations’
Actress Laverne Cox, fashion designer Christian Siriano, and fashion blogger Nicolette Mason, talk with culture expert Jess Weiner at Harvard’s first gender equity summit.
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Science & Tech
Tapping the collective mind
Machine learning is an adaptive form of artificial intelligence that could allow physicians to use the collective wisdom of billions of medical decisions, patient cases, and outcomes to inform diagnosis and treatment.
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Campus & Community
Harvard scientists receive Canada Gairdner Awards
Two Harvard Medical School researchers, Vikram Patel and Timothy Springer, have received the prestigious Canada Gairdner Award for transformational work in the fields of biomedicine and global health.
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Campus & Community
Telling the untold stories
Two Harvard graduate students host an event exploring the experiences of people who have returned to their countries of birth after having lived in the U.S. for many years.
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Nation & World
None if by sea
Radcliffe fellow and former director of advocacy and communications for Doctors Without Borders helped rescue 77,000 Mediterranean immigrants over four years — until politicians shut down the operation.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing beauty in the mundane
Willie Cole brings his art to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with “Willie Cole: Beauties.”
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Science & Tech
A soft touch
A new rubber computer combines the feel of a human hand with the thought process of a traditional computer, replacing the last hard components in soft robots. Now, soft robotics can travel where metals and electronics cannot — high-radiation disaster areas, outer space, and deep underwater — and turn invisible to the naked eye or…
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Arts & Culture
The aesthetic attitude to art
Senior researcher at Project Zero and Boston College Professor of Psychology Ellen Winner’s latest book, “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration,” is based on years of research both at Harvard and BC, and looks at art through psychological and philosophical lenses.
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Campus & Community
A new day for Adams House
“Keep Adams House ‘weird’” was the message students, faculty deans, and staff residents delivered to architects as they planned work on the Harvard dorm, which is set for a “renewal” that will upgrade its amenities and improve its accessibility in three phases starting this summer.
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Health
Homeless, hopeless, and sick
Humanitarian workers from around the globe will visit Harvard to discuss how best to treat the increasing number of diabetics among refugee populations. Symposium organizers talk about the problem and what they hope the symposium will accomplish.
