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Health
Gains in cancer treatment through eyes of a survivor
A Harvard-sponsored HUBweek panel discussed recent developments in cancer treatment, including advances in immuno-oncology.
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Nation & World
Now more than ever, political discussion is critical, professor says
At an Ed Portal public lecture on “Driving Forces in American Government,” Kennedy School Professor Tom Patterson urged his audience to keep talking about politics.
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Nation & World
Questions and concerns about America’s future
The Institute of Politics at Harvard opened up the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum to students’ questions and concerns about America.
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Nation & World
Crime, fear, and loathing
In their book “The Truth about Crime,” Harvard Professors Jean and John Comaroff consider how shifts in attitudes toward criminality have contributed to the fear of other people, to racial violence, and to public distrust of government.
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Nation & World
Harvard student finds his place in rural Uganda
Austin Valido ’18 shares his transition from Harvard student to living in rural Uganda and the lessons he learned.
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Health
Research rebuts idea that epidurals prolong labor
A study by BIDMC has found that long-standing concerns on the effects of epidurals on the second stage of labor may be misguided and out of date.
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Campus & Community
Learning to navigate the path to college
College & Career Conversations resource fair at the Ed Portal helps parents navigate a realistic path toward college.
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Nation & World
Finding the humor in politics, barely
The host of “The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper” shared thoughts on Trump, satire, and our polarized nation during a visit to the Kennedy School.
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Science & Tech
When machines rule, should humans object?
Harvard scholars shared concerns and ideas in a HUBweek panel titled “Programming the Future of AI: Ethics, Governance, and Justice.”
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Campus & Community
Scroll through Colonial life
After two years and 450,000 documents, the digitized Colonial North American Project will be available online to the public in late October.
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Science & Tech
In surge of strawberries, some dirty details
Julie Guthman sets her sights on a tangled story involving land, plant breeding, border policy, pathogens, and highly effective, highly toxic soil fumigants.
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Campus & Community
‘Genius’-level honor for Harvard historian
Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant.
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Campus & Community
Strengthening Harvard’s ties to South Asia
Lakshmi Mittal and his family announced a $25 million gift to establish an endowed fund for the South Asia Institute. The center will be renamed the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Serving the common good
Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowships allow recipients to give back to communities, agencies, and nonprofits.
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Arts & Culture
New adventures in editing
An interview with George Andreou, who took the helm as new director of the Harvard University Press in September.
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Science & Tech
Putting tomorrow’s doctors on opioid alert
Gov. Charlie Baker joined HMS faculty members in discussing the opioid crisis and the role physician education must play in fighting it.
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Nation & World
Straight talk with TV’s Joe and Mika
“Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski stop by Harvard to discuss the difficulties women face getting equitable treatment in the workplace, the future of the Republican Party, and critique their former friend President
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Arts & Culture
Kazuo Ishiguro’s (mostly) brilliant blandness
Harvard professor and New Yorker book critic James Wood talks to the Gazette about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize in literature.
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Campus & Community
Calls for hope and action
With words of hope and rousing calls to action, the fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Medals ceremony brought the stars out at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Harvard HUBweek programs return
This October, Harvard hosts events during the third annual HUBweek festival.
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Campus & Community
A touch of rot
A new exhibit inside the Glass Flowers gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History proves that a bad apple doesn’t always spoil the bunch.
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Science & Tech
How to defend against your own mind
Harvard psychology chair Mahzarin Banaji is working with a research fellow to launch a new project called “Outsmarting Human Minds.”
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Campus & Community
A decade of growth at SEAS
Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences celebrates 10 years of innovative research.
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Campus & Community
Renovation of Smith Field marks many improvements
The $6.5 million renovation to William F. Smith Field in Allston makes numerous improvements.
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Campus & Community
Lights, camera, Cabot
At the Cabot Science Library camera, multimedia studios require no more than a flash drive and imagination.
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Nation & World
Honoring Charles Ogletree
Harvard Law School held a symposium to honor Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.
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Nation & World
The national anthem as lightning rod
Harvard scholars and experts weigh in on NFL players’ recent protests during the national anthem.
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Campus & Community
Cohen to step down as Radcliffe Institute dean
Lizabeth Cohen, who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2011, announced she will step down from that post next June. She plans to return to teaching and research in Harvard’s Department of History following a year’s sabbatical.
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Arts & Culture
An American in Moscow
Sebastian Reyes ’19 took a course in Soviet film and ran with it — all the way to Russia.
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Health
A new era in the study of evolution
Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos talks about his new book, “Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution.”
