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Nation & World
Halting urban violence seen as a key to ending poverty
Harvard Kennedy School researcher and former Obama official Thomas Abt’s new book offers a concrete prescription for bringing peace to the streets.
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Campus & Community
Welcoming the summer solstice
People of all ages gathered at Harvard to celebrate the longest day of the year with performances, arts and crafts, and more.
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Campus & Community
The lessons he learned from the class he taught
Dennis Norman, faculty chair of the Harvard University Native American Program, is retiring at the end of June. In a Gazette profile, he highlights the course he has taught at the Kennedy School that sends students to work in Native American communities.
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Health
Study finds performance-enhancing bacteria in human microbiome
A single microbe accumulating in the microbiome of elite athletes can enhance exercise performance in mice, paving the way to highly validated performance-enhancing probiotics.
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Arts & Culture
Boston Ballet dances the night away
The Boston Ballet company spends an afternoon and evening shooting a promotional video in the forest-like setting of Arnold Arboretum.
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Campus & Community
One thing to change: Anecdotes aren’t data
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, points to a number of instances where the use of anecdotes over data creates a false narrative.
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Science & Tech
Blood-brain barrier chip performs human-like drug and antibody transport
Wyss Institute scientists have developed chip technology that mimics the blood-brain barrier in humans. The new models will help researchers study drugs to treat cancer, neurodegeneration, and other diseases of the central nervous system.
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Science & Tech
The little robot that could
The iRobot Corp. announced its acquisition of Root Robotics, Inc., whose educational Root coding robot got its start as a summer research project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2011
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Health
Is your home making you sick?
In a recent online report, researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have compiled 36 expert tips to help make your home a healthier place to live. Happily, most of them are quick fixes that can have a major impact on well-being.
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Nation & World
How workplace harassment programs fail
Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?
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Health
Gut microbes eat our medication
Study published in Science shows that gut microbes can chew up medications, with serious side effects.
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Arts & Culture
A pastoral romance
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will stage a fresh take on “Pride and Prejudice,” Jane Austen’s tale of 19th-century love, on June 23 courtesy of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project and playwright Kate Hamill.
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Campus & Community
Cooking up a TV career
Nick DiGiovanni competes on “MasterChef” — while earning his undergraduate degree in food and climate at Harvard at the same time.
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Campus & Community
From lecture to comedy sketch
Students see professors stand up in front of a class every day, but they don’t often see them do stand-up onstage. The Harvard College Stand Up Comic Society has changed that with the Harvard faculty comedy showcase.
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Campus & Community
Investing in Allston
Harvard President Larry Bacow helped honor 16 local nonprofits at the 11th annual Harvard Allston Partnership Fund ceremony at the Ed Portal in Allston.
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Arts & Culture
‘There they are, on our dinner plates’
Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.
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Health
‘An era where it has never not been about drugs’
The Gazette spoke with History of Science Professor Anne Harrington about her new book, “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness,” which traces the treatment of mental disorders from its early years to the Prozac Nation of today.
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Campus & Community
FAS announces ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration positions
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will hire a cluster of faculty in the area of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration during the upcoming academic year, Dean Claudine Gay announced.
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Health
Chemists’ breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent
Chemists at Harvard and Eisai, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, have synthesized halichondrin, a potent anti-cancer agent found naturally in sea sponges. Because of the molecule’s “fiendishly complex” design, the feat took three decades.
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Campus & Community
New research campus seeks a developer
The Harvard Allston Land Co. is requesting proposals for the initial phase of an Enterprise Research Campus on 14 acres on Western Avenue in Allston.
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Campus & Community
Three cheers for Harvard Heroes
Supporters packed Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall to cheer for the 61 Harvard Heroes.
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Arts & Culture
Summer in the city
Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.
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Work & Economy
The economist who connected across politics
Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard, major political adviser, and president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, died Tuesday at age 79.
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Campus & Community
Seeing the light of independence
Talking to graduates from the first class of the College Success program, a collaboration between the Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind.
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Health
Put down those cold cuts
Longitudinal study associates increasing consumption of red meat, especially processed meat, over eight years with a higher risk of death in the subsequent eight years.
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Health
Streamlining care through electronic consultations
Mass. General researchers have found that electronic consultations in allergy and immunology can simplify the process of providing the most appropriate care, often reducing the need for in-person specialist visits.
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Campus & Community
Changes coming to Gen Ed
This fall, Harvard College will launch a new General Education program for undergraduates, which now offers a total of 160 courses.
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Health
As measles cases crack 1,000, a look at what to do
Harvard public health and public safety experts recommended public education, elimination of nonmedical vaccination exemptions for schoolkids, and potentially more severe penalties as a way to get parents to comply with measles vaccination guidelines.
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Campus & Community
Afsahi named chief development officer for FAS
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced a new dean of development: Armin Afsahi, who has led successful campaigns at the University of Denver, the University of California, San Diego, and Georgetown University.
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Nation & World
The sparring over trade
Far more than avocados and Modelo beer will be affected if the U.S. follows through on threats to start taxing Mexico, China, and other countries. Sustained disputes could destabilize the global economy, prompt an economic downturn, and pose national security risks.
