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Nation & World
Sampling innovations in teaching and learning
In year-end showcase, Bok Center showcases new approaches for innovative teaching and learning.
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Science & Tech
Research may provide the tools to create better schools
Harvard and MIT study reveals that cognitive science field experiments are critical to understanding human learning and education.
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Health
On Thoreau’s 200th birthday, a gift for botany
Marking Thoreau’s 200th birthday, Harvard University Herbaria will post images of more than 800 plants the author and naturalist collected, part of a larger digitization effort.
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Health
Probing protein diversity
A team of researchers has found that the stability plays a key role in the evolution of different protein structures.
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Science & Tech
Reconciling predictions of climate change
Harvard researchers are able to provide a best estimate regarding how much the Earth will warm as a result of doubled CO2 emissions.
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Arts & Culture
Fresh thinking on history of feminism
Students in a new class on feminism learned about unsung leaders in the struggle for women’s rights.
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Campus & Community
An academic partnership where all learn
A collaboration among the Graduate School of Education, Harvard Art Museums, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School empowers young teachers and high school students to teach and learn from original works of art.
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Arts & Culture
The Harvard in Thoreau
As the bicentennial nears for the birth of Henry David Thoreau, it’s clear that Harvard College influenced the churlish naturalist far more than he would have admitted, author says.
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Nation & World
Rwanda’s women as leaders, not victims
Swanee Hunt, a lecturer at the Kennedy School and former U.S. ambassador to Austria, has written a book about the role of women in leading post-genocide Rwanda.
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Campus & Community
Another year on the cutting edge
The festival will begin Oct. 10 and feature symposia, lectures, and interactive events examining a wide range of topics.
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Campus & Community
Reflections on a year
A collection of scenes from the 2016-2017 school year at Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Inequality’s influence
A new study has found that, following momentary exposure to inequality, support for a “millionaire’s tax” dropped by more than 50 percent.
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Science & Tech
How the brain handles tools
A new study shows that, despite having no experience using tools with their hands, the brains of people born without hands represent tools and hands much the same as seen in the brains of people born with hands.
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Health
Rising threat: Death by fentanyl
Sarah Wakeman, an addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the role of fentanyl in the country’s opioid crisis.
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Campus & Community
Third-graders get creative
An Ed Portal exhibit celebrates an educational initiative between the Ed Portal, Harvard Art Museums, and Gardner Pilot Academy to create an experiential learning program for third-graders.
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Campus & Community
‘I’ve had an amazing experience’
Nannerl Keohane, stepping down after 12 years on the Harvard Corporation, offers her thoughts on recent changes to the organization and on the challenges facing Harvard and higher education.
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Campus & Community
A mic drop for Tom Lee
Tom Lee, head of Harvard’s Learning from Performers program, is stepping down after 23 years.
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Campus & Community
Mouthwatering science
An Ed Portal cooking workshop explored the science behind aioli and ice cream.
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Campus & Community
Harvard appoints Muslim chaplain
Khalil Abdur-Rashid, an adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University and co-founder of the Islamic Seminary of America, has been appointed Harvard’s Muslim chaplain.
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Campus & Community
With Faust as template, thoughts on the next president
Harvard Corporation member explains where the search for Drew Faust’s successor will focus, and how it will work.
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Campus & Community
A cornerstone of Allston innovation
The high-end manufacturing and assembly workstations of the Maker Space will be open to all members of the Harvard community.
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Science & Tech
Feeling the impact of fracking
As a fellow at Radcliffe, environmental historian Conevery Bolton Valencius is investigating connections between fracking and earthquakes.
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Health
RNA errors linked to ALS and dementia
A new Harvard Medical School study shows how malfunctioning RNA may lead to ALS and a form of dementia.
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Campus & Community
A decade of leadership
Harvard President Drew Faust announced that she will step down as president on June 30, 2018. The Gazette looks back on some memorable moments from the last 10 years.
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Campus & Community
Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, has announced that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
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Science & Tech
For IT Summit, a focus on innovation
The annual Harvard IT Summit at Sanders Theatre brought together professionals, key partners, and faculty for a day of programming and sessions to explore technology innovations and best practices in higher education.
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Science & Tech
Scholars greet Paris exit as multifaceted mistake
Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.
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Science & Tech
A house that produces energy
Harvard’s Ali Malkawi explains his efforts to create a house will be transformed into an energy-efficient headquarters and lab space for the Graduate School of Design’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities.
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Campus & Community
New springboard for tech leadership
Harvard Business School and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have announced a joint master’s program aimed at shaping leadership in tech.
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Science & Tech
From drinking straws to robots
Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, scientists George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of walking, using drinking straws, and inflatable tubing. The team was even able to create a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the water’s surface.
