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Health
From fresh food to magic mushrooms
Author and journalist Michael Pollan has spent a fellowship year at Radcliffe changing directions and focusing on a fresh project, exploring a budding rebirth of psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses.
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Health
How our bodies harness energy
Robert A. Lue, faculty director of the Harvard Ed Portal, offered his audience insight into his upcoming HarvardX course “Cell Biology: Mitochondria,” during a talk on April 21.
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Campus & Community
Painting unveiled of College’s first African-American graduate
Officials unveiled a painting of Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard College’s first African-American graduate, in Annenberg Hall.
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Arts & Culture
The architect as artist
In honor of his creative achievements, architect Frank Gehry received the Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony that marked the kickoff to Arts First, Harvard’s four-day celebration of student and faculty creativity.
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Campus & Community
My dinner with Dr. Hawking
A day after attending Stephen Hawking’s talk at Harvard, reporter Peter Reuell received an invitation from Cumrun Vafa — would he be interested in attending a dinner party in Hawking’s honor?
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Campus & Community
Style by degrees: Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School students, staff, and faculty are known for their sleek, polished style – sometimes with a hint of the unexpected.
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Campus & Community
She followed her star
Moiya McTier ’16 blends her loves of space science and writing in a double concentration in astronomy and folklore and mythology, leading to a science fiction senior thesis.
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Campus & Community
A monk with one foot in the world
Buddhist monk Tajay Bongsa wants to unite social and economic progress with dual master’s degrees in theology and business.
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Arts & Culture
Guarding the dazzle of the past
The Gazette visited the Weissman Preservation Center to see how conservators preserve Harvard’s rare and unique collections.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 27
On April 27, the members of the Faculty Council approved preliminary versions of the University Extension School courses for 2016–2017 and Courses of Instruction for 2016–2017.
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Science & Tech
Advancing ingenuity
Between academic discovery and product development lurks a lull in research funding that inventors call the “chasm of death,” where a prototype or a proof of concept can feel just…
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Campus & Community
Humanizing the humanities
Leaving a legacy of curriculum innovation and diplomacy, Dean of Arts and Humanities Diana Sorensen steps down after 10 years of elevating the division.
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Campus & Community
SurgiBox wins $70,000 President’s Challenge
SurgiBox, a collapsible, safe, and aseptic surgery device, won this year’s $70,000 grand prize in the President’s Challenge.
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Health
New weapons against agricultural pests
Using phage-assisted continuous evolution (PACE) technology developed by Harvard professor David Liu and his co-workers, a team of researchers has evolved new forms of a natural insecticidal protein called “Bt toxin,” which can be used to help control Bt toxin resistance in insects.
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Campus & Community
On-the-job learning
The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) offers local teenagers the chance to work at Harvard, and offers Harvard departments a way to fill temporary staffing needs while strengthening its connection to the community.
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Nation & World
World Trade Organization, front and center
Top academics, government officials, legal practitioners, and representatives from major think tanks, NGOs, and financial institutions meet this week at Harvard Law School to debate the present and future of the World Trade Organization.
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Campus & Community
Nicco Mele named director of Shorenstein Center
Nicco Mele, the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California, is the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Arts & Culture
Taking his thesis on the road
Michael Meo, who will graduate from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in May, led 22 people of all ages and abilities on a grueling 1,000-mile bicycle trek through the Mexican desert, which became the subject of his master’s thesis.
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Arts & Culture
Comic genius
Cartoonist and visiting lecturer Peter Kuper spoke to the Gazette about comics as an art form, and some of the comic materials in Harvard’s collections.
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Campus & Community
Sharing his creative gifts
South Carolina native Joshuah Campbell, who is graduating with joint degrees in music and French, has discovered the serious side of performing.
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Arts & Culture
A true giant
On the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’ death, the Gazette sat down with Professor Mary Gaylord to talk about the lasting influence of “Don Quixote.”
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Nation & World
Checkup for finance ministers
Nine finance ministers from developing countries gathered at Loeb House to discuss the importance of health to a nation’s economic performance and explore ways for health and finance ministers to work together.
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Campus & Community
Air Force ROTC returns to Harvard
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Harvard President Drew Faust signed an agreement Friday to bring the Air Force ROTC program officially to campus.
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Nation & World
Three diplomatic women
Three diplomats discuss the demands of life as a U.S. ambassador and advise HKS students as they prepare to enter the Foreign Service.
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Health
Inequality runs deeper than health law
The Affordable Care Act has narrowed health disparities along class and race lines, but not nearly as much as needed.
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Arts & Culture
A way with other words
Sexism, racism, and even neglect can stand in the way of a great writer receiving a Nobel Prize. But of all the barriers, it is language that remains the most…
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Health
A quest for happiness
A gift from the Lee Kum Kee family in Hong Kong will fund a new Harvard center to study how to increase happiness and, by extension, health.
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Health
Changing your body, from the top down
A Harvard Launch Lab startup headed by a Harvard Business School grad is focusing on the “battle between the ears” to transform people’s bodies, opening another front in the battle against obesity.
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Arts & Culture
An A.R.T. season to provoke, immerse, entertain
The American Repertory Theater’s new season takes aim at some important topics, including class, gender identity, turning points in Irish and Argentinian history, and the crisis facing American education.
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Arts & Culture
For Ana Tijoux, hip-hop is home
Growing up, Ana Tijoux didn’t know where to call home. As the France-born-and-bred daughter of Chilean parents living in political exile, she felt conflicted about her identity — until she…
