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Campus & Community
Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.
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Campus & Community
Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.
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Arts & Culture
Summertime, and the reading is easy
A look at what Harvard faculty members will be reading in their downtime this summer.
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Campus & Community
Tough as a rugby player
A fierce field general on the women’s rugby team, Harvard College senior Shelby Lin is also a math and economics star with a bright future.
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Health
Putting off baby
Panelists at HSPH examined the trend toward delayed parenting identified in a recent government report.
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Nation & World
The groundwork for learning abroad
The President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences is supporting development by faculty members of courses in Sweden, Mexico, Turkey, Shanghai, and other locations abroad to enhance the international experiences offered to Harvard students.
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Campus & Community
Early outlines for Smith Center
Extensive outreach within the Harvard community is beginning to shape the development of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center as a cornerstone addition to President Drew Faust’s Common Spaces initiative.
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Campus & Community
To win a contract, win a contest
A new class at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, “Design Competitions,” used the academic setting this semester to look at a competitive activity familiar (and exhausting) to architects and planners worldwide.
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Arts & Culture
On a date, with everyone
Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights.
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Health
Strategy for diabetes treatment
Harvard scientists have discovered a compound that inhibits insulin-degrading enzyme from breaking down insulin in the body.
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Campus & Community
Survey finds faculty satisfaction rate at 81 percent
The vast majority of Harvard faculty report that they are satisfied with their positions here, according to the latest Faculty Climate Survey released today by the Office for Faculty Development and Diversity.
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Arts & Culture
A light touch for Rothko murals
Abstract artist Mark Rothko’s series of Harvard murals will be displayed in November using a digital technology that casts light on the paintings to restore their faded colors.
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Campus & Community
‘Puzzling out’ Paul
Harvard Professor Laura Nasrallah encouraged a crowd at the Harvard Allston Education Portal to consider the historical letters of Christian texts — an effort she explores in her HarvardX course “Letters of Paul.”
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Campus & Community
Eric Mazur wins Minerva Prize
The Minerva Academy on Tuesday named Eric Mazur the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education.
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Campus & Community
‘Physics was paradise’
Interview with Professor Melissa Franklin as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held May 14
On May 14 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss a student disciplinary case.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Kid Who Would Be Pope’
Harvard’s Office for the Arts Director Jack Megan isn’t just a supporter of artistic talent, he’s a talented artist himself. Megan and his brother Tom co-wrote the musical “The Kid Who Would Be Pope,” which won the Richard Rodgers Award for emerging theatrical talent and is having a stage reading off-Broadway.
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Campus & Community
May Day poetry at Lowell House
As part of the traditional daylong May Day celebration, a poetry reading by the Lowell House Poemical Society took place May 1 at Lowell House, with festivities also featuring an early morning waltz on the Weeks Bridge, a bacchanal, and a recital with the historic Lowell House bells.
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Health
Research to lose sleep over
Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
HAA honors three
President Drew Faust will award Harvard Medals to three alumni during the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Commencement Day, May 29. Recipients include Anand G. Mahindra ’77, M.B.A. ’81, J. Louis Newell ’57, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. ’63.
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Arts & Culture
32 Greek plays, no waiting
Radcliffe Fellow and director Sean Graney has adapted 32 surviving Greek tragedies into one theatrical event that he hopes will start a conversation.
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Campus & Community
Chemist Thérèse Wilson dies at 88
Thérèse Wilson, a chemist at Harvard for more than five decades and an expert in chemiluminescence and bioluminescence, died peacefully in Cambridge on April 28.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with Alicia Oeser
The Gazette sat down with the new director of Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Alicia Oeser, to discuss the dual mission of providing support services to those who have experienced sexual assault and offering education and outreach programs to decrease the incidence of sexual assault on campus.
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Science & Tech
Studying energy, environment
Beginning this fall, Harvard undergraduates will be able to select a secondary field of study in energy and environment, which will allow students in an array of concentrations to gain exposure to issues such as climate change.
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Campus & Community
Leadership under stress
Leadership under fire and decision-making under stress were invoked, praised, and perhaps slightly demystified on Wednesday during an event that brought 600 Harvard alumni a taste of the campus today even as it urged them to consider the Harvard of tomorrow.
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Health
Parental controls
It could be that the key to being a better parent is all in your head, Harvard researchers say.
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Campus & Community
New resources for Office of Sexual Assault Prevention
Harvard University will invest new resources immediately to expand and strengthen its Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, President Drew Faust announced.
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Campus & Community
‘I spend a fair amount of time thinking about what might go wrong’
Interview with Professor Walter Willett as part of the Experience series.
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Nation & World
Punitive damages
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a clinical law professor and director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, talks about U.S. crime and incarceration policies that have led to an unprecedented rate of mass imprisonment. He also discusses the reforms that might reverse that upward trend.
