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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.
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Nation & World
A supremely jolly affair
Six Supreme Court justices, five current and one retired, took part in an amiable public conversation at Sanders Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
Experts hope cities rise to the occasion
A Harvard panel on the future of cities examined challenges in planning and sustainability.
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Nation & World
‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health
The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.
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Arts & Culture
Honoring Mexican discovery
A Harvard delegation traveled to Mexico to take part in the inaugural talk of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series.
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Health
Invisible world comes to light
Harvard Museum of Natural History brings art and science together as two Harvard scientists capture the “invisible,” and stunningly beautiful, life force that is everywhere: microbes.
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Health
Bees, social and solitary
Harvard study reveals underlying genetic basis for halictid bee communication and social behavior.
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Nation & World
Improving education globally
Fernando Reimers’ new book, “One Student at a Time,” follows graduates from the Graduate School of Education’s International Policy Program and analyzes the impact they make, the challenges they face, and the lessons they learn and teach as they try to improve educational opportunity around the world.
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Arts & Culture
The queen of Halloween
Harvard Music Department administrator Lesley Bannatyne’s other life is as a Halloween expert. She has written five books on the topic, including a children’s work.
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Science & Tech
The selfie’s gone, but the damage is done
New HBS research examines whether we are less inhibited when posting on temporary social media and how others perceive the posts.
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Campus & Community
Looking back, but thinking ahead
Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Hollister take a look at the 2017 fiscal year.
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Nation & World
Detours, some fraught, on path to global citizenship
Harvard scholars participated in a Tom Ashbrook-moderated panel on global citizenship as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard.
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Health
A step forward in DNA base editing
Scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute have developed a new class of DNA base editor that can repair the type of mutations that account for half of human disease-associated point mutations. These single-letter mutations are associated with disorders ranging from genetic blindness to sickle-cell anemia to metabolic disorders to cystic fibrosis.
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Campus & Community
From the islands to the bayous
A Harvard grad student’s research on Canary Island descendants in the U.S. grows into a photo exhibit and book.
