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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 significant, Per Wästberg, the chairman of the five-member Nobel Committee for Literature, told a Harvard audience on Tuesday. Although committee members read English, German, French,…
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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 found hip-hop. Tijoux first heard the music in the inner neighborhoods of Paris while accompanying her mother on her social-work rounds to immigrant families from…
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Science & Tech
Pursuing sustainability
William Clark, co-author of a new book on sustainable development, discusses connecting science and practice, balancing conservation with use.
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Science & Tech
Sustainability front and center for Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau talked about carrying on the family legacy of environmental advocacy in delivering the Extension School’s Lowell Lecture.
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Campus & Community
Greening starts at home
In myriad ways, Harvard is working across its campus to reduce energy use, curb climate change.
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Arts & Culture
Speaking up through Shakespeare
An exhibit at Houghton Library marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death includes artifacts that recognize the acting and activism of black Shakespearean actors.
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Campus & Community
Toward a path less riddled
Research by doctoral student Anthony Abraham Jack has left a mark on campus life.
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Science & Tech
The complex relationship between heat and ozone
If emission rates continue unchecked, regions of the United States could experience between three and nine additional days of unhealthy ozone levels each year by 2050, according to a new study from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Election of Harvard faculty to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 213 new members. They include several Harvard faculty members. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Mass.
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Campus & Community
Sandberg named chief marshal
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, will lead the 25th reunion class at Harvard’s Commencement as chief marshal.
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Campus & Community
A focus on what we eat
In Harvard’s Foodbetter program, faculty and administrators join forces to inspire a healthy, sustainable, and just food system at home and abroad.
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Campus & Community
Carrie Fisher of ‘Star Wars’ fame continues the battle
Carrie Fisher of “Star Wars” fame shared her battles with addiction and mental illness at the Memorial Church on Monday, where she was honored with an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism.
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Campus & Community
Reinforcement for Harvard-Brazil bridge
The Lemann Foundation, which has supported Harvard University for many years, announced an expansion of financial aid to undergraduate and graduate students from Brazil, among other initiatives.
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Science & Tech
Guardians of the sky
After a flood threatened to destroy the Harvard College Observatory’s trove of glass plate negatives, staff members and students from around the University showed up to help move the plates to safety.
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Campus & Community
The link between art and history
The Harvard Graduate School of Education and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School are collaborating on a program that brings history to life through the Harvard Art Museums’ collections.
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Health
New view of germ cells
Cassandra Extavour is the author of a new study that points to a different mechanism as an ancestral process for specifying germ cells.
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Science & Tech
Hawking at Harvard
Acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking discussed the mysterious qualities of black holes during his lecture at a packed Sanders Theatre.
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Arts & Culture
Singer sensation
Legendary tenor and opera director Plácido Domingo was masterful in a charming conversation called “Giving Voice” at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
The workings of the Overseers
With an Overseer election underway, the Gazette talked with the incoming and outgoing presidents of the Board of Overseers about the board, its role at the University, and their experiences serving on it.
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Science & Tech
Root, the code-teaching robot
A Wyss Institute robot named Root is designed to teach computer coding to anyone from a 5-year-old to an intermediate programmer.
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Nation & World
Faith still strong in Iran nuclear deal
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, a key architect of the historic Iran nuclear deal, talks about the essential role science can play in diplomatic efforts to solve major global challenges.
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Health
Of medicine and ethics
Shifts in the medical care field can allow health care providers both to prosper and to serve patients better, speaker tells Harvard Medical School conference.
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Campus & Community
Stanley Hoffmann, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2016, the Memorial Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held April 13
On April 13 the members of the Faculty Council discussed the rescission of degrees.
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Science & Tech
Destination: Nearest star
Harvard Astronomy Department chair Abraham Loeb played an important role in drafting initial plans announced Tuesday for a proposed trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. Loeb talked about the plan and its biggest challenges.
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Campus & Community
A call to walk in the light
In recognition of the Boston Marathon bombings and as part of One Boston Day, Harvard police officer and affiliated minister Kevin Bryant offered hope to the community during the University’s Morning Prayers service at Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel.
