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Campus & Community
Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96
Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.
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Campus & Community
Speaking the language of sympathy
Bennett Capozzi ’17, a History & Literature concentrator with a Language Citation in Arabic, will travel to Jordan to master the language he learned at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Stepping down and speaking up
In an interview with the Gazette, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow reflects on her eight years leading the School.
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Health
Closing in on a breakthrough
New findings from the lab of Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley suggest a path for creating immune-matched blood cells, derived from patients’ own cells, for treatment purposes.
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Campus & Community
Learning to let it fly
In her last piece before graduating, student correspondent Amanda Beattie ’17 reflects on the lessons she and her friends have learned in their four years as Harvard undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Sanes receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Joshua R. Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and founding director of the Center for Brain Science, has been named recipient of the 2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
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Arts & Culture
Tango with a serious message
“Arrabal,” a new American Repertory Theater show with a book by Harvard graduate John Weidman explores the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship through tango and music.
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Campus & Community
Afternoon of Engagement offered personal anecdotes, suggestions
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging’s campus-wide event provided questions, answers, and insight.
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Arts & Culture
Reviving the Philosophy Chamber
A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Campus & Community
‘There was just no way I was going to do what everyone else did’
Interview with Professor Pamela Silver as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Making rhyme and reason speak for him
Obasi Shaw ’17, an English concentrator with a secondary on computer science, wrote a rap album for his senior creative writing thesis, a first at the Department of English.
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Arts & Culture
‘Where the Roads All End’ is where story begins
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology curator Ilisa Barbash talks about her book “Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari.”
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Campus & Community
Moving the needle
Will Butler of the indie rock band Arcade Fire will graduate from Harvard Kennedy School’s midcareer master’s program with a goal of helping others.
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Nation & World
A U.N. leader looks back
In a Q&A session, Kennedy School fellow Ban Ki-moon reflects on his decade-long tenure as United Nations general secretary.
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Campus & Community
Inspired by physics and art
Julia Grotto ’17 combines art, science, and public service to paint a complete picture of her life at Harvard.
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Work & Economy
Black leadership, front and center
Harvard Business School course focuses on case studies of black business leaders and their challenges.
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Campus & Community
Support that matters
The annual Celebration of Scholarships dinner brought together students who benefit from financial aid and donors who support the program.
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Health
Probe of Alzheimer’s follows paths of infection
Starting with microbes, Harvard-MGH researchers outline a devastating chain of events
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Campus & Community
A call to do justice
A graduate of West Point, David E. White Jr., J.D. ’17, came to Harvard Law School after a tour in Afghanistan as a lieutenant and platoon leader. At the Law School, he honed his passions for leadership, public service, and justice.
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Health
The power of picturing thoughts
A new Harvard study shows that people create visual images to accompany their inner speech even when they are prompted to use verbal thinking, suggesting that visual thinking is deeply ingrained in the human brain.
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Nation & World
The fallout from Comey’s firing
Harvard Law School Professor Alex Whiting discusses the legal issues swirling around President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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Campus & Community
Challenge to meet future needs accomplished
Three student ventures have been recognized with 2017 President’s Innovation Challenge awards, and three runners-up also won awards.
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Science & Tech
Human stem cells model the kidney’s filtration barrier
Researchers say their glomerulus-on-a-chip lined by human stem cell-derived kidney cells could help model patient-specific kidney diseases and guide therapeutic discovery.
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Arts & Culture
‘Vanity Lane’ wasn’t always an easy path
Graduate student La’Toya Princess Jackson ’19 presents her original ballet, “Vanity Lane,” during DanceFest at Arts First.
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Campus & Community
Misty Copeland, offstage
Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal dancer, shares her life story with students.
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Campus & Community
Harvard yield highest since 1960s
Nearly 84 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2021 have chosen to matriculate at Harvard College. The last time the yield reached this level was in 1969.
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Campus & Community
‘There were just so many things that I was curious about’
Interview with Professor Joseph Nye as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Being ‘smart’ about her education
Amanda Rich found the Harvard Extension School a perfect landing spot for her third degree.
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Science & Tech
Sorrow, frustration, hope in opioid crisis
The Ed School and the Harvard Chan School brought together experts to discuss the nation’s opioid crisis in separate panel events.
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Campus & Community
Business School Professor David A. Garvin dies at 64
David A. Garvin, Harvard Business School’s C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, died at his home in Lexington, Mass., on Sunday, April 30, after a long battle with cancer. He was 64 years old.
