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Nation & World
Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’
Cuban writer and journalist Jorge Olivera is a dissident who was sentenced to prison and eventually released on humanitarian grounds. He’s now a Scholar at Risk hosted by Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature.
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Campus & Community
Opening doors, defining dreams
Last year’s Presidential Public Service Fellows spent a summer answering Drew Faust’s questions “What is your responsibility to others? What values guide your work?”
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Campus & Community
Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge wins Breakthrough Prize
Harvard Medical School geneticist Stephen Elledge won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize for unraveling the mechanism by which cells sense DNA damage and initiate self-repair.
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Campus & Community
Planting the seeds of STEM
Harvard students from the Digital Literacy Project (DLP) are providing computer science curricula to seven local middle schools this year. The DLP outreach model is unusual because lessons are presented during the school day.
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Health
Can happiness lead toward health?
A new Harvard center on health and happiness had its academic coming-out party Friday, hosting a daylong symposium that highlighted what science does and doesn’t say about the interaction of health and happiness, and identifying pathways where investigators should probe next.
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Health
Hunger for change
A panel sponsored by the Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Union of Concerned Scientists brought food luminaries to talk about the need for a national food policy.
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Nation & World
Cuba under Fidel’s long shadow
The Gazette interviewed Jorge Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and a prominent expert on Cuba, about Fidel Castro’s mixed legacy, and the Cuban Revolution.
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Nation & World
The election’s over, the ire isn’t
Three weeks after a remarkably nasty presidential election, emotions remain raw, as was evidenced when the Trump and Clinton camps met for the first time at Harvard Kennedy School for a debriefing conference this week.
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Campus & Community
Two Harvard scholars headed across the pond
Two Harvard students were among those selected to receive prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which support up to two years of study in the United Kingdom.
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Nation & World
ClassACT casts a mold for leadership
The classmates of Benazir Bhutto ’73 have established an international leadership program in her name.
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Arts & Culture
Stewarding arts philanthropy
New Dumbarton Oaks humanities fellowship mixes study and career preparation.
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Work & Economy
Giving women the edge
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day brought powerful business minds to campus.
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Arts & Culture
Blackest black
A sample of Vantablack, as dark as dark can get according to its maker, is now part of the pigments collection at Harvard Art Museums.
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Campus & Community
The archaeology of Harvard Yard
Year after year, the annual archaeological dig in Harvard Yard unearths treasures and insights.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 30
On Nov. 30 the members of the Faculty Council approved the Harvard Summer School course list for 2017. They also approved a proposal to establish a master’s degree in Data Science…
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Health
How Zika infects the growing brain
Studies have suggested that the Zika virus enters neural progenitor cells by grabbing onto a specific protein called AXL on the cell surface. Now, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Novartis have shown that this is not the only route of infection. The scientists demonstrated that Zika infected neural progenitor cells even when…
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Campus & Community
Using podcasts to capture stories
Gardner Pilot Academy sixth-graders were given the opportunity to tell their stories at PRX’s Podcast Garage, which partners with Harvard University to promote a dynamic, creative community known as the Zone 3 initiative.
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Nation & World
Likely policies under Trump
Faculty at Harvard’s Government Department consider the potential ramifications of the new administration under President Donald Trump.
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Arts & Culture
Three chords and some Kierkegaard
A profile of College student and pop-rocker Brynn Elliott, whose scholarship in philosophy informs her songwriting.
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Nation & World
Hard time gets a hard look
A new graduate seminar gives students a chance to develop ideas on reforming the U.S. criminal justice system.
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Arts & Culture
What a freshman sees
For College student Jasper Johnston ’20, discovering Harvard is a shared experience through Instagram.
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Campus & Community
Helping the homeless, in high school and college
The spirit of a Cambridge Rindge and Latin program carries on when its students head for Harvard.
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Nation & World
Think different, maybe
New research from Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino suggests that by supporting “constructive nonconformity” at work, organizations can improve employee engagement.
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Campus & Community
Support for the undocumented
With changes in U.S. immigration policy possible, Harvard outlines its support network for undocumented students who might be affected.
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Campus & Community
Worn railings, wistful thoughts
Intimacy and memory intertwine for undergraduates living in the Dudley Co-op.
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Science & Tech
For bigger data, more storage
With big data becoming routine and applications penetrating even areas not traditionally thought of as data-heavy, Harvard is part of a multi-university collaboration designed to better store and provide faster access to the enormous data sets increasingly common in research into genomics, particle physics, and a host of other fields.
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Campus & Community
Seeing past disabilities in the job search
Harvard Extension School and the Perkins School for the Blind have teamed up to create a self-paced edX course that will educate recruiters and hiring managers in best practices when considering a job candidate with a disability.
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Nation & World
Trump and the law
Harvard Law School analysts consider the changes a Trump administration may make that would affect the law, the courts, and the power of government agencies.
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Health
Colorful clones track stem cells
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have used a colorful cell-labeling technique to track the development of the blood system and trace the lineage of an adult blood cell traveling through the vast networks of veins, arteries, and capillaries back to its parent stem cell in the marrow.
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Campus & Community
A garden grows at Longwood
A design contest driven by student competition and community involvement is leading to a “street-level, rooftop” garden in Longwood Medical area.
