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Campus & Community
Office hours: 6 realities
The Gazette asked six Harvard professors for their thoughts on why few students attend office hours, ways to improve attendance, and what students are missing when they skip office hours.
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Campus & Community
3 Harvard seniors gain International Rhodes
Three members of Harvard College’s Class of 2018 have been selected to represent their respective countries, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, and Zambia as Rhodes Scholars.
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Health
For family, doctors, life and death were inseparable
Surgeons at MassGeneral Hospital for Children faced a wrenching decision in a procedure to separate twins conjoined at the abdomen and pelvis.
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Science & Tech
Climate made scary
Journalist David Wallace-Wells and others debated the most effective way to communicate climate urgency in a Harvard discussion.
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Campus & Community
Senior looks back as he moves forward
As his final year at Harvard begins its cycle, Matthew DeShaw ’18 finds more questions to be answered, more lessons to be learned.
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Nation & World
As Europe’s economic picture brightens, new threats emerge
Europe’s economic recovery is well underway, but the EU faces serious new threats, foreign policy experts said at a Harvard Summit in November.
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Science & Tech
Researchers create quantum calculator
Researchers have developed a special type of quantum computer, known as a quantum simulator, that is programmed by capturing super-cooled rubidium atoms with lasers and arranging them in a specific order, then allowing quantum mechanics to do the necessary calculations.
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Health
New clues to Alzheimer’s disease
McLean Hospital researchers have found energy dysfunction in the cells of late-onset Alzheimer’s patients, which may be a piece of the disease’s complex puzzle.
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Arts & Culture
Not easily persuasive
Visiting professor and Washington Post political columnist E.J. Dionne on how he started as a journalist, self-editing, and the art of persuasion.
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Science & Tech
Skin pigmentation is far more complex than thought
The genetics of skin pigmentation become progressively complex the closer populations reside to the equator.
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Health
A passion for nature, in beetles
A collection of 150,000 beetle specimens, donated by businessman and longtime Harvard benefactor David Rockefeller, arrives at the Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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Campus & Community
‘Principal for a Day’ offers lessons of a different grade
Being “Principal for a Day” teaches a Harvard executive lessons in partnership’s positive impact on local schools.
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Campus & Community
Science and Engineering Complex gets final beam
Harvard celebrates “topping-off” the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.
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Health
Alarming obesity projections for children in U.S.
If current trends continue, more than 57 percent of U.S. children will be obese at age 35, according to a new study from the Harvard Chan School.
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Nation & World
How Michael slipped away
Danielle Allen talks about her latest book, “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” a memoir of her cousin’s troubled life and death, and an indictment of mass incarceration and the war on drugs.
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Arts & Culture
Scholar’s eye for fashion
Harvard senior Lily Calcagnini’s history and literature concentration places fashion front and center in cultural theory.
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Arts & Culture
A more collaborative Carpenter Center
Dan Byers wants to build community around contemporary art as new director of the Carpenter Center.
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Campus & Community
Lamont wins Erasmus Prize
Michèle Lamont, Harvard’s Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, professor of African and African-American studies, and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been awarded the Erasmus Prize.
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Nation & World
‘We know’ Russia hacked election
Sen. Angus King of Maine, who serves on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, discussed the latest findings in the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Campus & Community
Inside Harvard’s green labs
Harvard scientists are all for collaborating when it comes to research, but challenge them to save energy in their labs and the competition can get fierce.
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Work & Economy
The NBA-HBS career connection
When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.
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Science & Tech
Babies understand cost-reward tradeoffs behind others’ actions, study says
Harvard and MIT study reveals that babies understand the cost-reward tradeoffs behind others’ actions.
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Health
Unraveling the brain’s secrets
Harvard scientists are among those who will receive more than $150 million in funding over the next five years through the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
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Nation & World
Taxing advanced degrees
Nobody enters a Ph.D. program to earn money. Students have long known that preparing for a career in research or academia often means trading financial reward today for the chance to tackle…
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Arts & Culture
We speak, therefore we are
Divinity School alum and indigenous Maskoke person Marcus Briggs-Cloud discusses his efforts to maintain his ancestral language and identity in the next installment of the Gazette’s podcast “Heard at Harvard.”
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Arts & Culture
The world according to Conrad
Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”
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Arts & Culture
Preserving a culture, one speaker at a time
Since 1996, the Yuchi Language Project has been fighting to preserve the language of the Yuchi people.
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Campus & Community
Food programs grow as Harvard cooks up new ideas
The University donates an average of 2,600 pounds of food each month to help feed the area’s hungry. Much of it comes as meals prepared by Harvard students.
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Nation & World
Zimbabwe after Mugabe
Glen Mpani, a Harvard Kennedy School Mason Fellow, discusses the soft coup in Zimbabwe that has toppled dictator Robert Mugabe and explains what the shake-up could mean for the beleaguered nation.
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Arts & Culture
Turn on, tune in, geek out
Houghton Library displays highlights from the 50,000 pieces inherited from a billionaire collector who was obsessed with the search for transcendence through sex, drugs, and rock ’n ’roll.
