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Campus & Community
A Wampanoag Thanksgiving
To expose students to Native American culture, Pforzheimer House invited Wampanoag chef Sherry Pocknett to cook and share Native American food with students.
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Campus & Community
Joining the ranks of Rhodes
Realizing new dreams, Harvard’s four newest Rhodes Scholars unveil plans for their Oxford years.
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Nation & World
New national motto: You’re wrong, I’m right
The Gazette asked Harvard scholars for thoughts on how communities across the U.S. might work toward post-election compromise.
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Arts & Culture
Getting to the truth of blood libel
In winning Phi Beta Kappa’s 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for “The Murder of William of Norwich,” E.M. Rose, a visiting scholar at Harvard, found recognition by illuminating the real history behind an imaginary event.
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Health
A hydrogel that helps stop uncontrolled bleeding
Harvard researchers have developed a hydrogel that can be easily injected into blood vessels, helping to stop uncontrolled bleeding even in patients on blood-thinners or with bleeding disorders.
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Health
Updating embryo research guidelines
Scientists and ethicists gathered at Harvard Law School to discuss the ethics of human embryo experimentation and whether a two-week developmental time limit on their use is appropriate any longer.
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Science & Tech
Global concerns on climate change
Harvard experts gather to discuss climate change in all its complexity, and share some surprising views.
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Health
What do we know about suicide? Not nearly enough
Despite decades of research aimed at understanding suicide, scientists are no better at predicting self-harm than they were a half-century ago.
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Health
In lost toes, a stirring Shackleton subplot
New research highlights the skill and poise of doctors who tended to stranded crewmen in the famed Shackleton saga.
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Campus & Community
Worlds of religion at Harvard
A day in the life of a resident of the Center for the Study of World Relgions
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Health
Science of stripes
Scientists have shown that to interrupt the development of pigment cells that form their stripes, African striped mice and chipmunks both use a gene that until now had been associated primarily with cranio-facial development.
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Work & Economy
Taking the stigma out of poverty
A two-day workshop will examine how poverty leads to social exclusion, and how to reduce it.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Nov. 16
On November 16 the Faculty Council heard a proposal to establish a master’s degree in Data Science and a proposal on course scheduling. The Council next meets on November 30.…
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Health
Recommendations to aid NFL players’ health
A new Harvard report addresses legal and ethical factors affecting the health of players in the National Football League, and makes recommendations to improve it.
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Nation & World
‘Desperate but not hopeless times’
A Europe showing cracks in its unity now adds worries about U.S. ties to its concerns, analysts tell a Harvard panel.
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Nation & World
Larry Wilmore on the election
In the end, comedian Larry Wilmore said in delivering the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, Americans elected the president they wanted.
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Health
Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders
Startup Magenta Therapeutics licenses technologies from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital that could help transform treatment.
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Science & Tech
What’s next for climate change policy
Harvard environmental experts looking ahead to a Trump administration see trouble for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and U.S. international climate action, but add that the nation’s environmental protection regulatory framework would be difficult to dismantle, and there may be hope for new approaches to addressing environmental ills.
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Campus & Community
Stuck between two lives
Alfredo Garcia, an undocumented student at Harvard Divinity School, is pursuing a master’s in theological studies. He also works to help undocumented youths pursue higher education, and advocates for immigration reform.
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Arts & Culture
‘Disappearing’ Chilean art
New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.
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Campus & Community
Embracing varieties of religious experience
An interview with Dean David Hempton to mark the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Danielle Allen named University Professor
Danielle Allen has been named a University Professor. The political theorist and classicist has been recognized for her scholarly work on justice and citizenship.
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Science & Tech
Human health risks from hydroelectric projects
Harvard researchers found 90 percent of new or proposed hydroelectric power plants will increase the concentration of toxic methylmercury in the food web near indigenous communities in Canada.
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Health
‘DNA is not destiny’
A new study examines whether lifestyle changes can offset genetic risk of heart disease.
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Campus & Community
The career afterlife
Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative fellows find new ways to explore life after one career ends and they move into the social sector.
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Nation & World
Fear among some immigrants
New pressures are expected on undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Centuries of honor and prestige
A new library exhibit will explore the 350-year-old relationship between the U.S. military and Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Diversifying the arts
Harvard alumni, faculty describe efforts on and off campus to diversify the arts.
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Campus & Community
Siyani Chambers: Back on point
Siyani Chambers was looking forward to finishing his senior year as starting point guard for the men’s basketball team until an injury took him off the court and off campus for a year. Now he’s back.
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Campus & Community
Harvard ROTC: Soldiers and Scholars
Photos from Harvard ROTC’s 100th birthday show the intersection of service and academics through time.
