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Nation & World
Shadowing the Supreme Court
Every January, a handful of Harvard Law School students head to Washington, D.C., to work on cases bound for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Health
Evolution in real time
After 26 years of workdays spent watching bacteria multiply, Richard Lenski has learned that evolution doesn’t always occur in steps so slow and steady that change can’t be observed.
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Arts & Culture
All for love
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Gazette partnered with the Woodberry Poetry Room in selecting a poem fitting of the holiday devoted to love.
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Science & Tech
Robots to the rescue
Inspired by termites’ resilience and collective intelligence, a team of computer scientists and engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has created an autonomous robotic construction crew. The system needs no supervisor, just simple robots that cooperate.
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Nation & World
Can love be taught?
Richard Weissbourd discusses whether love can be effectively taught in schools, reflects on the state of sex-ed, and examines where love is best modeled in the media.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 5
On Feb. 5 the members of the Faculty Council met in camera to discuss three student disciplinary cases.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 12
On Feb. 12 the members of the Faculty Council met with the president to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty and heard a proposal from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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Nation & World
A faith in global care
Harvard University Professor Paul Farmer, whose nonprofit Partners In Health has improved lives in some of the world’s poorest places, said he was inspired early by the liberation theology movement.
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Campus & Community
Harvard loves LL Cool J
LL Cool J, recording artist, actor, author, and philanthropist, has been named the 2014 Harvard University Artist of the Year.
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Campus & Community
Reconnecting graduates
The Harvard Alumni Association and HarvardX are launching an experimental online learning and engagement site for University alumni.
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Campus & Community
‘Vigil of Prayer and Remembrance’ to be held
In response to recent tragedies, the Harvard Chaplains Office will hold a “Vigil of Prayer and Remembrance” on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
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Science & Tech
Closing the gender gap in computer science
Young women studying computer science were introduced to a group of potential role models as part of a weekend conference at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The event, organized by Harvard Women in Computer Science, drew some of the most successful women in the field.
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Science & Tech
Love, it’s a battlefield
With the approach of Valentine’s Day, Harvard experts discuss expectations and students reveal their plans.
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Science & Tech
Surviving Valentine’s Day after a breakup
Shiri Cohen’s tips for surviving Valentine’s Day after a breakup.
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Nation & World
When talking with God
Social anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann’s most recent book, “When God Talks Back,” examines the evangelical experience through an anthropological and psychological lens.
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Science & Tech
A decidedly mixed bag
A new research paper from Harvard Business School says food shoppers who bring their own bags are more likely than those who use disposables to buy healthy organic goods, but also treats like ice cream and chips.
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Campus & Community
Of masks and mirth
Harvard students from across the University celebrated “One Harvard” at the fourth annual masquerade ball.
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Health
At the Arboretum, an unquiet winter
Despite the dormant appearance of the trees, the Arnold Arboretum isn’t waiting for spring, as pruning, mowing, research, and planning continue to move ahead at full speed.
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Campus & Community
Kenneth Chenault and Karen Gordon Mills to join Harvard Corporation
Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D.’76, and Karen Gordon Mills, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected to become members of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.
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Health
The threat from superbugs
Hospital stewardship programs, community education, and legal changes to allow pharmaceutical companies to profit longer from new antibiotics are among reforms that experts suggest to fight drug-resistant bacteria.
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Campus & Community
A Hasty entrance for Neil Patrick Harris
Actor Neil Patrick Harris comes to Harvard as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year.
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Campus & Community
A Harvard education, without worry
Harvard is marking the 10th anniversary of a revolutionary financial aid program that eliminates the cost of the College for those in need, and reduces it for struggling middle-class families.
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Health
Nutritional supplement slows onset of Huntington’s
The first clinical trial of a drug intended to delay the onset of symptoms of Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals that high-dose treatment with the nutritional supplement creatine was safe and well tolerated by most study participants. Neuroimaging also showed a treatment-associated slowing of regional brain atrophy, evidence that creatine might slow the progression of presymptomatic…
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Nation & World
GSE dean debates online speech
In a January course, Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan asked whether schools should punish students for online speech.
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Campus & Community
Keeping the faith, outdoors
The Outdoor Church, a group founded by Harvard Divinity School graduates, and supported by current HDS students, ministers to the homeless every week during an open-air service.
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Arts & Culture
Potential en masse
Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times talks about the importance of public space, his role as a critic, and the art and beauty of architecture. Kimmelman spoke at the Radcliffe Institute on Feb. 6.
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Nation & World
Layers of choice
Nobel laureate, psychologist, and best-selling author Daniel Kahneman joined Harvard University Professor Cass Sunstein at Harvard Business School for a wide-ranging discussion on behavioral science.
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Nation & World
Shadowing the work of nations
More than 3,000 high school students came to Boston last week for the 61st Harvard Model United Nations, an annual conference and the oldest such gathering in the world.
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Nation & World
Perilous plight for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Syrian refugees struggling in Lebanon are on the edge of catastrophe, according to a new report from the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.
