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Science & Tech
Siding with science
A Q&A with Gina McCarthy, former EPA administrator and current director of the Harvard Chan School’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment.
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Campus & Community
Harvard program gets high marks
In a recent survey of parents who have completed the Harvard Mind Matters program offered in Cambridge and Boston schools, more than 98 percent were pleased with the materials and outcome.
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Science & Tech
‘Error’ brings opportunity to metaLAB
For the first time, Harvard’s metaLAB travels to Austria for Ars Electronica, Europe’s premier festival for art, technology, and social reflection.
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Work & Economy
Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills
Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in struggling Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.
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Campus & Community
A world of potential
Harvard faculty members have traveled the world lately, making exploratory trips that will enable students’ own global adventures in the years to come.
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Science & Tech
Understanding insect damage over time
A study used herbarium specimens to track insect eating patterns across more than a century and found that four species collected in the early 2000s were 23 percent more likely to be damaged than those collected in the early 1900s.
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Health
Gawande confronts the inevitable
Death, imperfection, and rock ’n’ roll were all part of surgeon-author Atul Gawande’s conversation with Dean David Hempton at HDS convocation.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Robert Reid-Pharr
Q&A with Robert Reid-Pharr as part of a series introducing new faculty members.
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Science & Tech
Examining aftershocks with AI
Sparked by a suggestion from researchers at Google, Harvard scientists are using artificial intelligence technology to analyze a database of earthquakes from around the world in an effort to predict where aftershocks might occur. Using deep-learning algorithms, they developed a system that, while still imprecise, was able to forecast aftershocks significantly better than random assignment.
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Health
Exercise can ‘clean up’ Alzheimer’s environment
Study finds that inducing production of new neurons can improve cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Campus & Community
Update on panel’s examination of April arrest
In a Q&A session, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed talked about the work of the committee she chairs that’s looking into the arrest of a Harvard student last April, and what’s likely to come from that examination.
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Nation & World
Matters of life or death
Students learn lessons with Law School Professor Carol Steiker, who teaches “Capital Punishment in America” in the fall and a clinic in the spring. Her students represent death row prisoners by working as interns with law firms, NGOs, and governmental agencies.
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Arts & Culture
Terry Tempest Williams, in thought
In an interview, environmental writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams talks about what she learned during a year as a writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
A boost for school principals
The Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School have partnered to offer a new certificate program for school principals.
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Arts & Culture
‘Weathering Change’
Twenty-one Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni address climate change through poetry and art in “Weathering Change.”
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Campus & Community
Students take the lead on new climate program
A new program, led by students, will help interested professional students at Harvard engage to address climate change.
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Campus & Community
Alums return to assist and reminisce at convocation
A group of alumni volunteers return to campus to marshal the first official gathering for the Class of 2022 at the First-Year Convocation.
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Campus & Community
Bacow stays in the moment at Morning Prayers
Contemplation and reflection were foremost in the mind of Harvard President Larry Bacow during his remarks at Morning Prayers.
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Science & Tech
Data analysis could be key to success
New course brings data to a different audience as its importance continues to grow in different directions.
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Campus & Community
A warmth to beat the heat
Harvard College’s Class of 2022 filled Tercentenary Theatre on Monday for First-Year Convocation to hear lessons on fellowship and friendship, responsibility and reward that will last beyond the school year.
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Nation & World
Hundreds of experts, scholars back Harvard in admissions suit
More than 500 social scientists, 16 statisticians and economists, numerous Asian American organizations, Harvard student and alumni groups and coalitions, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed briefs in support of the University’s admissions policies on Thursday.
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Arts & Culture
A luminous vision for Harvard Yard
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”
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Campus & Community
Keeping first-years informed
The Harvard program First-Year Librarians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is an effort to strengthen connections between students and staff.
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Science & Tech
Printing with sound
Harvard researchers have developed a new printing technology that uses sound waves to control the size of liquid droplets independent of fluid viscosity.
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Health
A telephone for your microbiome
Genetic engineering allows different species of bacteria to communicate with each other in the gut of a living mouse, setting the stage for a synthetic microbiome.
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Work & Economy
Another challenge pays off
A project that won the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge in 2015 is poised to transform how we make emergency calls. RapidSOS is one of many student ideas brought to life with help from the President’s Challenge and the Harvard Innovation Lab.
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Science & Tech
Movement monitor
A team of researchers from the Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, and the University of Tübingen is turning to artificial intelligence technology to make it far easier than ever before to track animals’ movements in the lab.
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Science & Tech
Learning catalysts’ secrets
Cynthia Friend, who recently received a multimillion dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, is well positioned to help “change the face and carbon footprint of the chemical industries sector,” one of her team’s goals.
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Campus & Community
New leadership at Lowell House
Lowell House will get new faculty deans at the end of the academic year: Nina Zipser, dean for faculty affairs and planning, and David Laibson, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics.
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Campus & Community
Former president, CEO of NAACP joins Kennedy School
The former president and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, has joined the Harvard Kennedy School as professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice. He is the first leader of a national Civil Rights organization to join the School’s senior faculty.
