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Science & Tech
Electrons, up really close
Working in a basement lab at Harvard, a group of researchers led by John Doyle, the Henry B. Silsbee Professor of Physics, have been part of a team making the most precise measurement of the shape of the field around an electron. The results suggest that some theories for what lies beyond the standard model…
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Nation & World
New thinking for Germany
In an interview, a former high-ranking German official and Harvard fellow suggests his country would benefit from new thinking and policies.
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Nation & World
Du Bois as eminent sociologist
As a sociologist, W.E.B. Du Bois expanded his field in major ways, often without credit or recognition, a researcher says in address.
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Arts & Culture
Immigration, under the stage lights
At Harvard, a Houghton Library exhibit showcases the influence of immigration on American theater.
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Science & Tech
A measure of success for groundwater storage
A recent study used seismic noise to measure the size and water levels in underground aquifers, focusing on California’s San Gabriel Valley aquifer, which had to meet the demands of 1 million people during a five-year drought.
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Arts & Culture
Stories that haunt them
In the days before Halloween, we asked Min Jin Lee, Maria Tatar, and other serious campus readers to share with us the stories that have scared them most — and why.
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Arts & Culture
A professor’s journey to belief
As part of a speaker series, Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad shares his winding past toward belief.
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Campus & Community
‘Frankenweek’ will take the measure of the monster
“Frankenweek at Harvard” marks the bicentennial of novelist Mary Shelley’s classic invention.
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Arts & Culture
Watching ‘Scandal’ in a Faulkner state of mind
For “Faulkner, Interracialism and Popular Television,” Harvard’s Linda Chavers pairs the white Southern writer’s work with the TV series “Scandal” from African-American writer-producer Shonda Rhimes.
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Work & Economy
Racial and economic disparities intertwined, study finds
While African-Americans have moved to higher ranks on the income distribution scale in the decades since the Civil Rights Movement, those improvements have largely been blunted by rapid income growth for the richest members of society and income stagnation among lower- and middle-income families.
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Nation & World
‘Network Propaganda’ explored
“Network Propaganda,” which is based on a three-year study, examines American politics and the media ecosystem surrounding the 2016 presidential election.
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Campus & Community
Not just a humanities cat
Meet Remy, Harvard’s resident cat by day, whose campus rambles have inspired a Facebook page with more than 1,000 followers.
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Campus & Community
For Harvard, a look at the financials
Reflecting on the end of the fiscal year June 30, the Gazette sat down with Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance Thomas Hollister to talk about the last budget year and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
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Campus & Community
Summit celebrates Asian American ‘innovators, instigators, and inspirers’
Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance organizers envision the Oct. 26‒28 summit as something that will “inspire innovation and be a starting place for instigating local and global transformation.”
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Nation & World
Giving Du Bois his due
Dean Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, discusses the vast intellectual legacy of Du Bois and how the field of sociology has finally begun to reconsider his rightful place in the discipline’s history books.
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Campus & Community
Mostafavi to step down as GSD dean
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) since January 2008, announced Oct. 24 that he will step down from the position at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.
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Health
At Harvard Chan School, nano safety is no small concern
Philip Demokritou, director of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, sat down with the Gazette to talk about the aims of the center, its recent work on novel nanoparticles, and the potential benefits of a safer-by-design approach.
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Arts & Culture
The plot, and the fog, thicken
Fujiko Nakaya’s climate-responsive fog sculpture at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum set the stage for a special twilight performance of “Macbeth.”
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Nation & World
Finding their place in the world
To kick off Worldwide Week at Harvard, students share stories of trips abroad that changed their career choices and their lives.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Ellis Monk
Ellis Monk, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Sociology, focuses on social inequality through a comparative global lens, with particular attention to race in the United States and Brazil.
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Campus & Community
‘Pathway to public service’
Lexi Smith ’18, who is the latest Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, wants to serve at the city level because that’s where she sees the tangible action for environmental change.
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Nation & World
Admissions lawsuit enters second week
Harvard officials continue to take the stand in the second week of a trial in U.S. Federal District Court. The case challenges the University’s admissions process and the right to consider race as one factor among many when considering applicants for admission as discriminatory to Asian American applicants.
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Science & Tech
Breaking down backbones
Harvard scientists are using the fossil record and a close examination of the vertebrae of thousands of modern animals to understand how and when specialized regions in the spines of mammals developed.
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Nation & World
Uncovering the economics of foot-binding
A recent study is suggesting that the real underpinnings of foot-binding may have been economic.
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Campus & Community
7 projects win Global Institute grants
Seven projects that feature interdisciplinary, cross-collaborative research and span five Harvard Schools will receive grants from the Harvard Global Institute.
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Arts & Culture
The beetles have landed
“The Rockefeller Beetles,” a new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, features hundreds of specimens from an exceptional collection that reflects the story of a man whose childhood pursuit grew into a lifelong passion.
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Nation & World
Judges and their toughest cases
At Harvard Law School Library, a panel drew lessons from a new book containing firsthand accounts of the some of the hardest cases in judges’ careers.
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Arts & Culture
Coetzee recalls a reading childhood
Accepting the Mahindra Award for Global Distinction in the Humanities, Nobelist author J.M. Coetzee treated the audience filling Sanders Theatre to thoughts about his earliest reading and the concept of a mother tongue.
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Nation & World
A minority turns on the light
In an interview, Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, professor of African and African American studies, and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, talks about his organization and the emerging Afro-Latin American social movement.
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Arts & Culture
The search for a California sphinx
At what other event would you hear, “This time there would be no Jell-O?” mused Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian last Wednesday at the Harvard Art Museums. It sounded like a…
