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Arts & Culture
Creative opportunity
The tradition of visiting faculty at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies brings art and insight to the classroom.
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Campus & Community
Tropical Storm Irene
Harvard University officials responded to reports of downed utility lines and broken branches, but received no reports of injuries or serious damage as Tropical Storm Irene passed through the region.…
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Science & Tech
Brain navigation
Hanspeter Pfister, an expert in high-performance computing and visualization, is part of an interdisciplinary team collaborating on the Connectome Project at the Center for Brain Science. The project aims to create a wiring diagram of all the neurons in the brain.
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Health
From skin cells to motor neurons
Harvard stem cell researchers have succeeded in reprogramming adult mouse skin cells directly into the type of motor neurons damaged in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, best known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and spinal muscular atrophy.
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Campus & Community
Hammonds greets Class of 2015
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds welcomed members of the Class of 2015 to campus during a session at Sanders Theatre.
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Health
Tax on sugary drinks?
The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for decades, yet long-term prevention efforts have barely begun and are inadequate, according to a new paper from international public health experts published in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal The Lancet.
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Campus & Community
Harvard battles MIT in consulting competition
Harvard hosted the third annual MIT vs. Harvard Case Competition.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Mobile Yard Tour app
Harvard University is commemorating its 375th anniversary this year with a special gift — a mobile tour of Harvard Yard for visitors, neighbors, and members of the Harvard community.
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Health
Attacking Ebola
Two Harvard-led research teams report identifying a critical protein that Ebola virus exploits to cause deadly infections. The protein target is an essential element through which the virus enters living cells to cause disease.
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Health
The efficient caveman cook
Harvard researchers say the rise of cooking likely occurred more than 1.9 million years ago and bestowed on human ancestors a gift of time in the form of hours each day not spent eating.
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Health
Detecting heart-valve infection
A novel imaging probe developed by a Harvard-led team of investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital may make it possible to diagnose accurately a dangerous infection of the heart valves.
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Nation & World
True cost of medical malpractice
The debates over health care reform may soon become more informed. A new study undertaken by a group of researchers, including Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Professor Amitabh Chandra, provides a detailed snapshot of U.S. medical malpractice claims, awards, and frequency by specialty.
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Health
Cancer stem cells made, not born
In cancer, tumors aren’t uniform: they are more like complex societies, each with a unique balance of cancer cell types playing different roles. Understanding this “social structure” of tumors is critical for treatment decisions in the clinic because different cell types may be sensitive to different drugs.
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Campus & Community
One person’s trash …
Children will turn rubbish into toys during the “Trash Tales” event at the Peabody Museum on Aug. 20.
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Campus & Community
Peabody receives $150,000 grant
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a $150,000 Museums for America grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Health
Too much variety
More choices for Medicare beneficiaries may not always be better, according to Harvard Medical School research.
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Campus & Community
Hidden Spaces: The tiny cemetery
Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The little cemetery, hidden at the far end of the 265-acre Arboretum, holds several headstones and a crypt and was once part of the Walter Street “Berrying” Ground.
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Arts & Culture
Mapping out Harry Potter’s world
The Harvard Museum of Natural History celebrates the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter in a gallery scavenger hunt that has proven to be a popular and educational experience.
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Campus & Community
Intuitive eating seminar open for enrollment
Harvard University Health Services’ Intuitive Eating Seminar is open for registration.
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Science & Tech
Electrical conductor sparks interest
Harvard and Stanford chemists have created and purified an organic semiconductor with excellent electrical properties, simultaneously confirming a screening process being used to find new photovoltaic materials.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College student awarded Pearson Prize
Harvard College’s Niharika Jain is one of 70 students from around the country who have been awarded the Pearson Prize for Higher Education.
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Campus & Community
Havens, professor of psychology, dies
Leston Havens, professor of psychology emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died on July 29 after an extended illness.
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Health
Clearer view of Parkinson’s
A new study finds that a protein key to Parkinson’s disease has likely been mischaracterized. The protein, alpha-synuclein, appears to have a radically different structure in healthy cells than previously thought, challenging existing disease paradigms and suggesting a new therapeutic approach.
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Health
Alien world is blacker than coal
Imagine a giant world like Jupiter, but more alien than any planet in our solar system. Instead of displaying gleaming clouds colored white and salmon, this world is darker than the blackest lump of coal. It glows only with a feeble red light like a stove’s electric burner — the result of scorching heat from…
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Health
What’s behind the predictably loopy gut
Between conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and coiling within the tiny abdomen. Within a given species, the developing vertebrate gut always loops into the same formation — however, until now, it has not been clear why.
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Campus & Community
Brown wins Sacks Award for research
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences has presented the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Emery N. Brown of MIT and Harvard.
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Campus & Community
The classroom, circa 2050
Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy encourages students to design an offbeat, futuristic high school, applying geometry lessons in the process.
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Health
Risky eating
A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers finds a strong association between the consumption of red meat — particularly when the meat is processed — and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Nation & World
Closing the workplace gender gap
Behavioral economist Iris Bohnet studies gender gaps in economic opportunity, trust and betrayal aversion, and how these and related issues affect the workings of governments, economies, organizations, and individual interactions.
