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Health
Microbial menace
A new study has shown that — under certain conditions — gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts.
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Health
Hitting diabetes where we eat
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School to discuss recent developments in the fight against the country’s diabetes epidemic.
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Campus & Community
Looking for a person, and perspective
Bill Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, shared his views on the progress so far in the search for Harvard’s 29th leader and how the consultative process can help set the agenda ahead.
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Nation & World
The lives of Harvard’s Rhodes
Rhodes Scholars from Harvard reflect on learning at Oxford, the world’s oldest English-speaking university.
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Campus & Community
Crimson basketball shooting for top slot
Harvard men’s basketball has received positive preseason attention, including a 2-0 start.
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Campus & Community
To everything there is a season? It’s not as simple as that
Harvard scientists and Cambridge Public Schools educators are collaborating on a special-thinking program that clears up misconceptions and teaches eighth-graders the hard science behind the changing seasons.
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Science & Tech
Students help groups to pursue climate action
Harvard living lab course works to find practical alternatives to carbon use.
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Arts & Culture
Parsing the poet, Bob Dylan
A Harvard professor’s new book probes the influence of the great ancient poets, such as Homer and Virgil, on Bob Dylan and his music.
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Nation & World
For Faludi, a rare internal gaze
“Suspicious of the privileging of the personal,” author and journalist Susan Faludi, who’ll speak at the Schlesinger Library soon, has written an unexpected look at her own life.
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Campus & Community
Removing barriers to public service
Harvard College announced a $12.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boost the College’s efforts to develop the next generation of public service leaders.
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Nation & World
Advanced Leadership Initiative creates room for innovation
Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative brings 44 top business executives to campus so they can do something off course.
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Campus & Community
Harvard affirms, deepens commitment to veterans
A Veterans Day ceremony at the Memorial Church included the announcement of Harvard’s partnership with Service to School’s VetLink.
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Campus & Community
Army paratrooper lands at Law School
In honor of Veterans Day, Harvard Law School profiled four students who were leaders in the military. Among them is Steven Kerns of the U.S. Army.
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Science & Tech
Small media, big payback
Researchers found that if just three outlets write about a particular major national policy topic, discussion of that topic across social media rises by more than 62 percent.
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Health
Launching a space mission from the deepest ocean
Scientists from Harvard and Woods Hole are collaborating on deep-sea technologies that could be a model for exploring oceans on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Arts & Culture
More Dutch treasures for Harvard
Harvard Art Museums has announced a major gift of Dutch Golden Age drawings from the Maida and George Abrams collection.
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Campus & Community
Learning from a legend (a.k.a. Dad)
Jamie Bernstein remembered her father by heart during a visit to Harvard to discuss centennial celebrations of the legendary maestro’s life and legacy.
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Health
A ‘virtual dinner’ where the chefs are invisible
Harvard professors hosted a “virtual dinner” at the Harvard Ed Portal to explain the microbial processes involved in food production, preparation, and consumption.
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Health
Life of the party
A festival at the Harvard Museum of Natural History will feature these photos capturing an “invisible” world in all its glory.
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Nation & World
Face time with refugees
Shipping container visiting Harvard Divinity School gives immersive screen time with refugees living in Germany, Gaza City, Jordan, and Iraq.
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Campus & Community
Rock ’n’ roll recovery mission
The Big 6, a cover band formed at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is planning a concert to aid communities recovering from Hurricanes Harvey, Irene, and Maria.
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Arts & Culture
The incomparable da Vinci
Author and Harvard alumnus Walter Isaacson takes on the ultimate Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci.
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Campus & Community
Sir Elton extols power of the human spirit
In a visit to Harvard, musician and activist Sir Elton John accepted the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. In his remarks, John celebrated the power of the human spirit.
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Health
Greater health benefit from exercise than previously reported
A new study finds that physical activity has an even larger health benefit than thought in reducing the risk of death in women.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s hidden yard
Student residents find a tranquil retreat, scenic backdrop for celebrations.
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Nation & World
The lifeline of endowment aid
Education experts have expressed concern that taxing endowments would harm students and faculty and could impact critical programs and initiatives.
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Campus & Community
One space fits all
Pritzker Commons at the Science Center offers students a space to study, collaborate, and connect.
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Health
In pursuit of healthy aging
Manipulating mitochondrial networks inside cells may increase lifespan and promote health, according to a new study.
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Health
‘Best diet in America,’ but who knew?
The Harvard Chan School welcomed Lawrence Appel of Johns Hopkins to discuss his work testing the DASH diet.
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Arts & Culture
Stephanie Burt opens up
The Harvard poet discusses new book of poetry, life as a trans woman, and settling in as as co-poetry editor of The Nation.
