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Campus & Community
Harvard through Drew Faust’s eyes
The outgoing president reflects on her personal connections to campus in 360-degree video vignettes.
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Campus & Community
Documents released in admissions lawsuit
Harvard, plaintiff explain their stances in case likely to go to trial in October.
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Health
Big data targets drug resistance
Harvard Medical School symposium examines the role of big data in fighting drug-resistant microbes.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Heroes, including Faust, honored at Sanders Theatre
The 2018 Harvard Heroes ceremony at Sanders Theatre celebrated the efforts of 61 extraordinary employees, including President Drew Faust.
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Health
Survey of oncologists finds knowledge gap on medical marijuana
Harvard psychiatrist Ilana Braun found a knowledge gap on medical marijuana in a survey of oncologists nationwide.
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Campus & Community
Court to receive motions in admissions lawsuit
Harvard, plaintiff on Friday will present their competing positions in an admissions lawsuit against the College.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s Glaeser welcomes global shift to cities
City of Boston official Brian Golden joined Professor Edward Glaeser at the Ed Portal for a discussion focused on the future of cities.
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Nation & World
Local teachers get an education in addressing hard questions
To help give local educators the capacity to bring thoughtful ideas back to their communities, two students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education recently offered a program on race and equity in education.
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Campus & Community
Soyoung Lee named chief curator at Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums announced that Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Soyoung Lee will become its new chief curator effective Sept. 24.
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Campus & Community
Leveling the playing field
Often, getting into college and paying for it are two very different challenges. That’s where Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative comes in. By opening the doors to exceptional students regardless of their family income, the initiative has brought more diversity — both racially and economically — to Harvard College.
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Health
A better way of living
Aaron Bernstein, associate director for Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, studies how changes in transportation, diet, and energy can immediately benefit health.
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Campus & Community
Faust to receive Kluge Prize
The Library of Congress announced it will award to Harvard President Drew Faust the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
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Campus & Community
Sandel wins Asturias Award
Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, has won the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award in Social Sciences.
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Nation & World
Speaking up, reaching out
Lawyer and then-professor of law at Ambo University, Zelalem Kibret first visited a jailed politician in Ethiopia’s infamous Kaliti Prison in 2012, hoping to raise awareness about people arrested for challenging the status quo. In 2014, Zelalem found himself behind bars for speaking up.
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Campus & Community
Young alumni: Exposure to differences spurred growth
Young Harvard alumni explain how exposure to differences among a diverse College cohort broadened them.
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Science & Tech
IT for social justice
Keynote speakers at the eighth Harvard IT Summit focused on how technology can contribute to a more diverse, just, and civil society.
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Science & Tech
Eye-popping arachnids
Harvard researchers examined mysteries of color in the spider species Phoroncidia rubroargentea.
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Arts & Culture
A cast fit for an Egyptian king
Harvard students have created a replica of the ‘Dream Stela’ that rests between the paws of the Great Sphinx in Giza.
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Campus & Community
When a House is a bountiful home
Harvard roommates from varied backgrounds say that, in the College’s House system, their differences draw them together.
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Arts & Culture
‘Now I am the memory that’s left’
Patricia J. Williams changed the focus of her fellowship after the death of her mother last fall as she realized, “Now I am the memory that’s left.”
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Science & Tech
Team plans industrial-scale carbon removal plant
In a step to help fight global warming, Harvard Professor David Keith has a plan to repurpose existing technology to slash the costs of carbon capture.
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Arts & Culture
The proof is in the print
“Analog Culture” features approximately 90 prints from the celebrated Manhattan photo lab of Gary Schneider and John Erdman.
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Science & Tech
Virtual lab to extend reach of science education
Amgen and Harvard are teaming up to develop a free online education platform called LabXchange.
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Nation & World
Making soccer everyone’s game
A three-day symposium hosted by Harvard’s Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, titled “Participation, Inclusion and Social Responsibility in Global Sports,” probed issues of racism and inclusion.
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Campus & Community
STAGE struck
Phillips Brooks House Association’s STAGE worked with Cambridge and Boston youth on the fundamentals of theater, exploring plot, characterization, improvisation, and more.
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Arts & Culture
Michael Pollan takes a trip
Michael Pollan, author, lecturer, and science writer, experimented with psychedelics as part of his new book on the latest research in the field.
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Science & Tech
Creating piece of mind
A graduate student, who had a baseball-sized brain tumor, was curious to see what his brain looked like before the tumor was removed. This led him to colleagues who collaborated on a new 3-D printing technique.
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Campus & Community
Voicing their differences
The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.
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Health
Fired-up McCarthy takes leadership role at Harvard Chan School
The Harvard Chan School relaunched its center for health and environment with a new name, a new director, and a new collaboration with Google.
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Campus & Community
Take five, like, and share
Instagram series seeks to show Harvard students’ lighter sides, from their favorite music and TV to their quirks and pet peeves.
