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Science & Tech
Progress in quantum computing
Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.
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Campus & Community
One-stop service
While many members of the Harvard community were enjoying their summer break, the University’s parking, housing, and ID services were unified into one beautifully renovated Campus Service Center.
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Health
Dialing down sickle cell disease
Flipping a single molecular switch can reverse illness in an animal model of sickle cell disease, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 12
At the Oct. 12 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members met with Provost Alan M. Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty. They also discussed the Harvard Library.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard, then and now
Published to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary, “Explore Harvard,” a collection of contemporary and historical photographs, showcases the myriad intellectual exchanges that make the University a citadel of learning.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard’s year of exile
It’s little known, but Harvard wasn’t always in Cambridge. During the American Revolution, the College temporarily turned its campus over to the new colonial army, and moved inland to Concord.
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Nation & World
Teaching the teachers
Charged with enhancing undergraduate education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning annually assists scores of faculty members and teaching fellows.
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Health
Study locally, think globally
A new Harvard Medical School topic helps to train future physicians in the expanding field of global health.
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Campus & Community
Fight fiercely, Harvard
Boxing has longstanding roots at the University. A required sport in the halcyon days of Theodore Roosevelt, today the Harvard Boxing Club is keeping tradition alive, but with a modern twist — its inclusion of women.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Quincy House
Quincy House residents get down and dirty in the Mimi Aloian Pottery Studio.
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Health
Where (tiny) form follows function
A professor studies how the structure of large proteins influences how we feel heat, examining how the proteins behave and interact with molecules around them.
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Campus & Community
Health care changes ahead
Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.
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Nation & World
Widening national security concerns
A new collaboration between Harvard Law School and the Brookings Institution hopes to help define the widening, post-9/11 reality of what constitutes a threat to society.
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Campus & Community
Breakthrough
In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.
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Arts & Culture
Rethinking the Classics
David F. Elmer Assistant Professor of the Classics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
Surgical Anesthesia
Allan M. Brandt Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
First Programmable Computer
Michael D. Smith Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SEAS
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Campus & Community
Case Method
Todd Rakoff Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Harvard Law School
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Campus & Community
Sports Helmets, Catcher’s Mask
Thomas J. Gill IV Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Chief, MGH Sports Medicine Service
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Arts & Culture
The Power of Theater
Diane Paulus Artistic Director, American Repertory Theater Professor of the Practice of Theater, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
Reinforcement Theory
Mahzarin R. Banaji Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
The Invention of GIS
Charles Waldheim Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design
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Campus & Community
Multiple Intelligences
Tina Grotzer Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Science & Tech
The Cognitive Revolution
Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Harvard College Professor
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Campus & Community
Harvard Stories launches
Over the course of its history, Harvard has been home to hundreds of thousands of people who have as many stories to tell. As it celebrates its 375th anniversary, the University is launching Harvard Stories, a video oral-history project that showcases engaging personal narratives from members of the Harvard community.
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Campus & Community
Search begins for new dean of Harvard Divinity School
President Drew Faust announces the search for a new dean for the Harvard Divinity School. To assist in the search process, faculty members from the Divinity School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will serve on an advisory committee.
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Science & Tech
Tracking the pollution amid the remote
A national research project led by Harvard scientist Steven Wofsy tries to fill in the blanks of understanding how the Earth’s atmosphere works by crisscrossing the globe by jet, measuring air changes.
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Campus & Community
Leading Business Education
Nitin Nohria Dean, Harvard Business School Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration