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Campus & Community
Unveiling Lowell House renewal
Central to Lowell House renewal is Otto Hall, named in recognition of a gift from Alexander Otto ’90, M.B.A. ’94.
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Campus & Community
A voice for others
Rihanna received the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award during an hourlong ceremony before a raucous crowd that had waited hours to get a coveted seat inside jam-packed Sanders Theatre.
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Science & Tech
A mother’s influence
Researchers have shown, for the first time, that chimpanzees learn certain grooming behaviors from their mothers. Once learned, chimps continued to perform the behavior long after the deaths of their mothers.
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Campus & Community
Understanding Harvard’s ties to slavery
During a Q&A in advance of a conference on slavery at American universities, Harvard President Drew Faust explains the expanding effort in Cambridge to document the painful realities of the past.
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Health
The changes in drug research, testing
In December, Congress passed a bipartisan law to boost federal medical research spending and to ease the approval of new drugs. In a panel discussion, experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health talked about its pros and cons, including whether it will be funded, and whether the relaxed drug approval guidelines are…
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Nation & World
In Europe, nationalism rising
After the twin triumphs of Trump and Brexit, right-leaning European parties see fresh paths to political power.
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Nation & World
Focus on the future of food
At the Global Food+ 2017 summit, a panel heard 24 capsule discussions on the future of food in key areas, along with concerns about how to feed the world.
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Health
For better health, reduce greenhouse gases
The “Harvard Chan: This Week in Health” podcast sits down with Aaron Bernstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard Chan School, to discuss how climate change will impact health and health care costs.
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Work & Economy
A closer look at the post-election stock rally
A new Kennedy School paper looks at early investor reaction to Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Nation & World
Conservatives want results
With the Republican Party controlling Washington, one might consider this the best of times for the conservative movement. Yet the consensus at a Kennedy School forum was often just the opposite.
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Arts & Culture
Bogie, Bergman, and the Brattle
Harvard scholars weigh in on the range of factors that have made “Casablanca” one of the most beloved movies in history.
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Campus & Community
Actress Viola Davis named Harvard Artist of the Year
The Harvard Foundation has named Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis as the 2017 Artist of the Year for her powerhouse performances across TV, film, and theater and philanthropic dedication to her Rhode Island hometown.
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Health
Gut details
New findings have the potential to help researchers more accurately identify microbiome enzymes and quantify their relative abundance.
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Nation & World
To understand Trump, learn from his voters
To understand Donald Trump’s rise to power, Harvard Professor Michael Sandel says, it’s important to learn from his voters, who are concerned about economic inequality, professional hubris, dignified work, and patriotism.
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Nation & World
It can’t happen here, probably
Authoritarianism appears on the rise in the United States, but fascism does not, panelists say at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Campus & Community
Rihanna named Humanitarian of Year
The popular singer Rihanna has been named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year, and will come to campus to accept the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at a ceremony Feb. 28.
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Science & Tech
When bias hurts profits
Based on data collected from a French grocery store chain, a new Harvard study has found that minority workers were far less efficient in a handful of important metrics when working with biased managers.
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Arts & Culture
‘Moonlight’ reflection
Composer-pianist Nicholas Britell ’03 will celebrate with Harvard friends this weekend as his score for “Moonlight” competes for the Oscar for best original score.
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Nation & World
Stuck in legal limbo
A clinical instructor at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, Anna Crowe traveled to Jordan to study the challenges some Syrian refugees face to obtain the legal documentation they need to access basic services and humanitarian assistance.
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Arts & Culture
A close reading of Elizabeth Bishop
Megan Marshall ’77 talks about the personal and scholarly perspective behind her new biography of the poet Elizabeth Bishop.
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Campus & Community
Lamont wins Erasmus Prize
Weatherhead Center director Michèle Lamont wins the Erasmus Prize and is honored for her contributions to social sciences.
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Nation & World
U.S. intelligence: A ‘truth-devoted’ culture
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA officer and now a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, discusses the intelligence community’s investigation into Russian hacking of the 2016 election and the ongoing friction between these agencies and the administration of President Trump.
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Arts & Culture
More than language lessons
María Luisa Parra teaches a course that caters to students of Latino heritage who spoke Spanish at home but never had formal instruction in the language.
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Science & Tech
What to expect from Pruitt’s EPA
The Gazette speaks to Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and a past member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, about the future of the EPA under the leadership of Scott Pruitt.
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Science & Tech
To advance sustainability, fight inequality, researcher says
A new Harvard study argues that technological approaches to sustainability must be accompanied by efforts to reduce inequality.
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Campus & Community
Education is pivotal, Faust tells Miami students
Education is pivotal to changing your life for the better, Harvard President Drew Faust told an audience of Miami high school students on Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Lab opens doors for an undergrad experience
As part of Harvard’s Wintersession, a handful of freshmen got the chance to experience the reality of lab work by exploring how altering genes in yeast affected the cells’ functions.
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Nation & World
Khizr Khan, reluctant activist
Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who offered to lend Donald Trump his pocket Constitution in a rebuke of a proposed Muslim ban during the Democratic National Convention, urged Harvard students to “remain standing” for democratic values and principles during this “dark chapter” in American history.
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Arts & Culture
On stage: Nights of ‘the Iguana’
Director Michael Wilson is bringing Tennessee Williams’ “Night of the Iguana” to the American Repertory Theater with an all-star cast.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 15
On Feb. 15 the members of the Faculty Council heard a report from the General Education Implementation Committee and an update on the work of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion…