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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.
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Campus & Community
In praise of Henry Rosovsky at 90
Colleagues, friends honor longtime Harvard administrator Henry Rosovsky at 90.
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Nation & World
How leaders are shaped
The Harvard historian has a new book about five leaders — Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson — and what links their stories.
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Nation & World
Waiting for the pendulum to swing back won’t cut it
Georgetown Professor Michael Kazin says the ideas of the left are more popular than ever, but to succeed changes must be made — and he lists three ways that can happen.
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Arts & Culture
Pain, joy, and wisdom
Four Harvard professors engage students in a weekly dialogue that looks at wisdom as it relates to how we experience the world, and the strategies we need to have a moral life amid uncertainty.
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Nation & World
Protecting those who have protected us
David Shulkin, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, spoke to Harvard Law School in advance of giving the 2017 Disabled American Veterans Distinguished Lecture at Harvard Law School.
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Arts & Culture
Ideas (and sneakers) were in the air
Designer Virgil Abloh’s Harvard lecture mirrored his multiplatform career: bold, dynamic, and audacious.
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Arts & Culture
Music and meaning, the Marsalis way
Wynton Marsalis was back at Harvard on Monday night to celebrate the release of the video version of his first lecture performance at Harvard from 2011, “Music as Metaphor,” and to discuss the importance of the arts.
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Health
Understanding what plagues us
A Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study symposium looked at epidemics and emerging ways to contain contagion, both biological and societal.
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Nation & World
Beyond the Nobel Peace Prize
Two Harvard Law clinicians and four students took part in negotiating the treaty banning nuclear weapons as partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Nation & World
Martin Luther, fallible reformer
Michelle C. Sanchez of Harvard Divinity School considers the legacy of Martin Luther 500 years after his 95 Theses set the Reformation in motion.
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Nation & World
Sunstein on impeachment
In a new book, Harvard’s Cass R. Sunstein discusses the vital role that the impeachment process plays in American democracy and dispels some misconceptions about the scope of presidential powers.
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Arts & Culture
Feejee Mermaid is unattractive attraction
Feejee Mermaid offers haunting image at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Nation & World
For politics, a ray of hope
At a time when American politics are beset by deep divisions and regular paralysis, five U.S. senators told a Harvard Law School audience that there is real reason for concern and yet some hope for their institution and the country.
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Arts & Culture
Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.
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Nation & World
Racial discrimination still rules, poll says
A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.
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Campus & Community
Harvard committed record $414 million to financial aid in 2016-17
This past academic year, Harvard distributed a record $414 million in financial aid to students across the University.
