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Nation & World
Intersectionality: The many layers of an individual
Recognizing all of an individual’s identifying characteristics promotes diversity, Brandeis lecturer Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson told an audience at an FAS Diversity Dialogue.
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Arts & Culture
Now on air: The women
A group of avant-garde women involved in Boston’s community radio scene in the 1970s and ’80s gathered for a soulful reunion that showcased the feminist movement.
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Arts & Culture
The king of ‘absolutely irrational’
The sculptural artist Christo discusses the impetus and execution of his latest projects while speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Science & Tech
As Americans vote, will hackers pounce?
Panelists at the Kennedy School discussed the possibility of hackers targeting the U.S. vote.
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Science & Tech
Giving ‘good’ a rigorous inspection
Harvard scholars Joshua Greene and Steven Pinker were joined by Princeton philosopher Peter Singer in a conversation examining how to be moral — and happy.
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Campus & Community
Autumn arrives in Harvard Yard
The incandescent foliage of New England is on full display across the Harvard campuses on both sides of the Charles River.
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Nation & World
Less crime, and fewer incarcerations
As New York became a safer city, incarcerations dropped too, new study says.
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Science & Tech
Science, meet YouTube
Harvard graduate student Molly Edwards is the creator and host of “Science IRL (In Real Life),” a YouTube channel she launched more than a year ago while working as a lab technician at New York University. The show is dedicated to taking viewers inside labs for an up-close-and-personal view of the day-to-day work of scientists.
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Arts & Culture
A sound all his own
Harry Yeff, better known as beatboxer Reeps One, speaks to the Gazette about finding his voice, bringing it to the classroom, and leaving it on the stage.
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Health
New approach to cancer treatment carries success with caveat
Restoring the cancer-killing zeal of T cells is being seen as one of the most successful new approaches to cancer treatment in nearly a decade, although researchers note it has shown effectiveness in only about a quarter of cases.
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Arts & Culture
Reshaping sculpture
Sculptor Nora Schultz, a new VES assistant professor, spoke to the Gazette about her influences, her fascination with robotics, and how her own projects inform her teaching.
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Campus & Community
From one dreamer to another
Monica Tesoriero and Kalan Chang are products of the Harvard Bridge Program, which connects workers with citizenship and career-development services.
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Nation & World
Devils in the details
HLS staff members talk about the haunting experience of digitizing documents from the Nuremberg war trials.
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Campus & Community
Gift from Jeremy Lin ’10 funds financial aid and Lavietes Pavilion renovation
A $1 million gift from Brooklyn Nets guard Jeremy Lin ’10 will go towards supporting the Harvard Financial Aid initiative and improvements to the Lavietes Pavilion.
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Arts & Culture
Theater from the inside
Oberon’s presentation of “The Garden” is an intimate, inside-out theater experience for tiny audiences.
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Nation & World
Voting rights, unsettled
As the presidential election nears, Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar provides historical context on the efforts by some states to place new restrictions on voting rights.
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Health
The first fully 3-D-printed heart-on-a-chip
A new approach to manufacturing organs-on-chips developed by Harvard researchers could cut the length and cost of clinical trials significantly.
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Campus & Community
Steven Hyman awarded 2016 Sarnat Prize
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded Professor Steven Hyman ’80 the 2016 Sarnat Prize for his work on treating and understanding psychiatric disorders as biological diseases.
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Arts & Culture
Rose petals for the lost
Recently the Harvard Art Museums acquired the evocative “A Flor de Piel,” a room-sized tapestry by contemporary Colombian artist Doris Salcedo made of thousands of dyed rose petals stitched together to form a giant burial shroud. For the director of Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, this was a first.
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Nation & World
A tension as old as the country
The Gazette interviewed Kristen Carpenter ’98, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, about the current relations between Native Americans and state and federal government.
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Nation & World
Youth justice study finds prison counterproductive
A study by the Harvard Kennedy School cites high recidivism, bloating costs, and widespread abuses in U.S. juvenile detention centers and calls for support- and education-focused rehabilitation alternatives.
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Nation & World
The stressed-out electorate
Harvard analysts discuss findings of a new study that shows more than half of Americans say the presidential election is stressing them out.
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Arts & Culture
Visual synesthesia
The words “Folding, Refraction, Touch” provided a useful framework for the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s exhibition of works by Wolfgang Tillmans and other modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with the German photographer.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard’s religious past
A Harvard Divinity School lecturer says that to understand where the University is, it’s important to see where it’s been.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 19
On October 19 the Faculty Council heard a review of the Biomedical Engineering concentration and a proposal on course scheduling. They also met with Provost Garber to ask and answer…
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Nation & World
The unchanging election
Veteran pollster Peter D. Hart analyzes the 2016 election and sees far less volatility than headlines would suggest.
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Arts & Culture
A family history of wartime heroism
Artemis Joukowsky worked with Ken Burns on a documentary about his grandparents, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, who helped hundreds escape Nazi death squads in from 1939 to 1940.
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Campus & Community
At Carpenter Center, an explosion of creativity
The Carpenter Center, designed by renowned architect Le Corbusier, is intended for creative activity within its spaces.
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Arts & Culture
A monstrous passion
As part of our humanities series, Charles Hyman ’19 talks about finding intellectual life in the study of dead languages.
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Nation & World
Poll shows gap between parent views and expert assessments of quality of U.S. child care
A recent poll suggests a major gap between parents’ views and research experts’ assessments of the quality of child care in the U.S.
