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Arts & Culture
Radical, playful, plugged in
“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.
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Health
The unsavory side of sugar
“Epidemiologic, Physiologic, and Policy Considerations of the Sugar Epidemic” brought health and science experts together at Harvard Medical School to discuss sugar’s effects on health and public policy.
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Science & Tech
Mining Facebook data for science
An organization co-created by Harvard scientists is set to release a massive trove of Facebook data, strictly for research purposes.
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Nation & World
Military, veterans study at Harvard
The Warrior-Scholar Project at Harvard aims to ease military veterans’ transition to college life.
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Campus & Community
New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources
The newly redesigned Harvard Library website puts users first, with features that make it easy to discover and use its services, tools, and collections.
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Science & Tech
Game-changing game changes
Games that can change based on players’ actions help Harvard’s Martin Nowak and his fellow researchers to understand the evolution of cooperation.
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Campus & Community
The Harvard-Yenching Library, by the numbers
With 1.4 million volumes in more than a dozen languages, the Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest academic library for East Asian studies in the Western world.
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Campus & Community
Questions, answers with Harvard’s Muslim chaplain
In a Q&A session, Harvard’s Muslim chaplain, Khalil Abdur-Rashid, explains what he’s found here, and where he’d like to focus his ministry next.
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Campus & Community
New chief of staff
Patti Bellinger has been named chief of staff and strategic adviser to Harvard President Larry Bacow.
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Arts & Culture
For Marilynne Robinson, literary explorer, gifts of language reward journey
A Q&A with Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Gilead” trilogy and Iowa Writers’ Workshop emeritus.
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Science & Tech
Personality pressure
Harvard researchers demonstrated a link between individual variation in risk-taking behavior and survival of animals in changing environments.
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Science & Tech
150 years later, her star is still rising
At Harvard College Observatory in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henrietta Swan Leavitt developed a powerful new tool for estimating the distances of stars and galaxies.
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Health
Five habits that make for a fit family
A new Harvard study finds that children are 75 percent less likely to become obese when their mothers followed five healthy habits as compared with children whose mothers did not follow any such habit.
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Campus & Community
New Griffin Director of Financial Aid
Jake Kaufmann ’93 will replace Sally Donahue as the Griffin Director of Financial Aid on July 16. Donahue is retiring after 36 years at Harvard.
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Nation & World
A full-time job fighting hate
The ADL’s Evan Bernstein believes hate can be countered with a better understanding of the connected world in which we live.
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Science & Tech
Swimming robo roach makes a splash
Harvard’s Ambulatory Microrobot explores new surfaces.
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Arts & Culture
Declaration of authenticity
Researchers, including Harvard’s Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, have learned much more about a Colonial-era copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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Campus & Community
For President Faust, a festive farewell
In a final, festive farewell, Harvard President Drew Faust said goodbye to her position as the University’s top administrator.
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Nation & World
Harvard ramps up focus on Europe
A new academic program at the Kennedy School trains resources on an old and sometimes forgotten friend to the United States: Europe.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry with personages
For her new TV show, the Harvard professor sits down with the likes of Bono, Bill Clinton, and Shaquille O’Neal for in-depth discussions of one poem in each 24-minute episode.
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Nation & World
‘From nowhere to somewhere’
After surviving the slaughter in Darfur, Guy Josif Adam finds his way to Harvard Extension School with dreams of harnessing his education to transform Darfur and the wider turbulent region.
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Science & Tech
How to feel the heat
A team of researchers was able to show how sensory neurons in the face detect temperature, and how this information is later passed on to the hindbrain of zebrafish, where it is processed to produce behavior.
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Nation & World
Impact of Justice Kennedy’s retirement examined
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the country’s top court Wednesday. Kennedy has long been a crucial swing vote on key Supreme Court decisions, and his replacement…
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Science & Tech
We solved the problem! Now let’s unsolve it.
Harvard researcher Daniel Gilbert’s “prevalence-induced concept change” speaks to humankind’s conflicted relationship with progress.
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Campus & Community
Joe O’Donnell bids Harvard Corporation adieu
For more than 50 years, prominent Boston business executive Joe O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, has served in different capacities at Harvard, as an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association, a Corporation member, and an Overseer. He will step down from the Corporation on June 30.
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Campus & Community
Highlighting rural America on education map
A group of Harvard-trained educators is working to direct more attention to challenges faced by teachers and students in rural America.
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Arts & Culture
David Wojnarowicz’s ‘Transgressions’ resurrected
Harvard Art Museums introduces public to artist and activist David Wojnarowicz with film screenings on June 27.
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Health
Flight attendants have higher rates of breast, uterine, other cancers
U.S. flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer, including breast, uterine, and cervical, when compared with the general public, according to research from the Harvard Chan School.
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Nation & World
The global glory of soccer
With the World Cup underway, the Gazette interviewed Mariano Siskind, professor of Romance languages and literatures and comparative literature, about the world’s biggest sports event, the humanity of the biggest soccer stars, and the meaning of soccer.
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Arts & Culture
‘Secular sermons,’ straight to your phone
A discussion with “Ministry of Ideas” host Zachary Davis, M.T.S. ’19, about the unique power of podcasts and the need for greater religious literacy in America.
