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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.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the Challenge
Twenty would-be companies in four categories have been named finalists in the President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual “call to action, innovation, and entrepreneurship” at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Flowing together
Harvard community members who’ve taken Gaga dance courses have found the technique helps them let go of external pressures and focus their energy inward, achieving self-care and healing.
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Campus & Community
12 faculty honored for ‘compelling achievements’
Twelve Harvard faculty are among the more than 200 individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Nation & World
Raising successful kids
A Q&A with Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard, about his new book on how to raise successful children based on interviews with highly accomplished young people and their parents.
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Arts & Culture
Stuck in the middle with you
Neurology Professor Julian Fisher explores Massachusetts to tell stories of middle-class Americans through photography.
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Campus & Community
Two from Harvard win prestigious fellowship
Harvard students Noah Golowich and Alex Atanasov have been selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Fellowship, joining 199 previous Harvard students who have received the honor since 1964.
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Health
As the end nears, who’s in control?
Advocates and opponents of medical-aid-in-dying laws, also called physician-assisted death, gathered at Harvard Medical School for a two-day conference organized by the HMS Center for Bioethics.
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Science & Tech
Identifying exotic properties
Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.
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Science & Tech
Laying some groundwork for environmental protection
The Wyss Institute has developed a sheet pile driving robot, Romu, that works in uneven terrain to build metal walls that can act as dams, retaining walls, or building foundations.
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Health
Weighing in on workplace wellness programs
In the first major multisite randomized controlled trial of workplace wellness programs, researchers found that while they may help people change certain behaviors, they do little to improve overall health or lower health care spending.
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Nation & World
Pros at the con
Psychologist Maria Konnikova ’05, who studies the workings of con artists, talks about what underlies some recent pop culture scams and why we’re so fascinated by stories about them.
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Arts & Culture
Picturing vision and justice
A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”
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Health
Detecting DNA defects
A new algorithm designed by HMS scientists can be incorporated into standard genetic tests to successfully identify patients harboring a tumor-fueling DNA repair defect found in multiple cancers treatable with existing drugs.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the challenge
MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.
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Campus & Community
A healthy twofer
Harvard’s new Sustainable Healthful Food Standards, announced today, will challenge University food service to increase healthy options while also considering how the food is produced, taking into account sustainability, pesticide and fertilizer use, food-workers’ conditions, and animal welfare.
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Campus & Community
A leg up
The 13th annual Celebration of Scholarship dinner brought together brought together students who have benefited from financial aid and some of the many donors who support the program.
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Campus & Community
Running for a purpose
Harvard runners run the Boston Marathon to overcome challenges, be part of a community, and give back
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Nation & World
When it comes to politics, what’s love got to do with it?
The American Enterprise Institute’s Arthur C. Brooks and University Professor Danielle Allen agree to disagree (and sometimes to agree) in lively exchange over the political necessity of love.
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Nation & World
Journalist, whistleblower, or dangerous security leak?
Legal, intelligence, and news analysts discuss the arrest in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces conspiracy charges by U.S. federal prosecutors for the disclosure of classified national security documents stolen by Pfc. Chelsea Manning
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Campus & Community
Donoff to step down as dean of School of Dental Medicine
Bruce Donoff, dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine for 28 years, announced today that he will step down from the position effective Jan. 1, 2020.
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Campus & Community
Putting compassion into action
At an event marking the 40th anniversary of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center, faculty, students, and clients recall what it has meant to them.
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Campus & Community
Faculty diversity continues to grow
Harvard continues to make progress in its goal to diversify its faculty, with numbers of women and minorities reaching record highs.
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Campus & Community
Striking lessons from the 1960s
The occupation of University Hall in April 1969 and the strike that followed it left its mark on Harvard’s psyche. A daylong event Friday commemorates the 50th anniversary and brings today’s student activists into the conversation.
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Arts & Culture
Behind the ‘Thrones’
A course at Harvard teaches students about the real-world Game of Thrones.
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Science & Tech
Tackling climate change through study
Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, now in its fifth year, is awarding seven research projects $1 million in grants.
