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Health
Hope for AIDS vaccine?
Progress on several fronts has raised optimism about the possibility of achieving an effective AIDS vaccine in the coming years, a speaker at the Harvard School of Public Health said Tuesday (Nov. 9).
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Health
The rise of chronic disease
Heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases are becoming enormous problems in the developing world and need more attention even as the challenge of fighting infectious diseases like AIDS shows no sign of abating, according to Institute of Medicine President Harvey Fineberg.
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Campus & Community
Overjoyed
Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.
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Arts & Culture
Suffering, through an Asian lens
Several Asian scholars and historians gathered at the Faculty Club Nov. 5 to discuss the cultures of suffering produced by war and tragedy, as shown in the book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” by Harvard President Drew Faust.
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Health
Tracking nanoparticles
Using a real-time imaging system, scientists have tracked a group of near-infrared fluorescent nanoparticles from the airspaces of the lungs into the body and out again, providing a description of the characteristics and behavior of the particles that could be used in developing therapeutic agents to treat pulmonary disease.
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Health
Where surgery is lacking
Authorities on global health and surgery gathered Nov. 5 to discuss how to address the lack of trained surgeons and adequate operating rooms in developing nations.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe appoints director of communications
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Alison Franklin director of communications.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Shorts Film Festival seeks film submissions
The Harvard Shorts Film Festival is open for submissions until Feb. 4.
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Campus & Community
FAS Dean Smith looks ahead
As it emerges from the worst of the global financial crisis, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is renewing its focus on priorities ranging from House Renewal to innovative pedagogy. With the release of the 2010 FAS annual report, Dean Michael D. Smith, John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spoke…
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Health
‘Another set of fingers’
An interdisciplinary group of leading Harvard geneticists and stem cell researchers has found a new genetic aspect of cell reprogramming that may ultimately help in the fine-tuning of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into specific cell types.
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Nation & World
Giving children ‘Room to Read’
Building on the library model developed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in the late 1800s, philanthropist John Wood and his nonprofit, Room to Read, are aiding education in the developing world.
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Nation & World
Setting the stage for Roe v. Wade
Linda Greenhouse, a former New York Times reporter and now the Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale University, and Reva Siegel, the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale, provided new perspectives on interpreting Roe v. Wade during the 2010-11 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at…
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Health
Obesity rate will reach at least 42%
Researchers at Harvard University say America’s obesity epidemic won’t plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data.
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Nation & World
The rights of women
UNESCO director-general cites progress on international rights, but says gender equality lags in regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where as many as 12 million girls never attend school.
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Science & Tech
The looming water shortage
The head of Nestlé explored ways to address a looming worldwide water crisis during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Arts & Culture
The measure of the man
James Kloppenberg, chair of Harvard’s History Department, is out with a new book called “Reading Obama,” which parses the American president through his own writings.
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Arts & Culture
Principles of Brownfield Regeneration: Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land
Professor of Landscape Architecture Niall Kirkwood and co. argue that brownfields — idle property typically contaminated — are central to a sustainable planning strategy of thwarting sprawl, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and more.
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Arts & Culture
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation’s founding, including the battle waged by the tea party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to “take back America.”
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Nation & World
Trading places
Economist Marc Melitz improves models of international trade by viewing broad trends in tandem with the behavior of individual corporations.
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Campus & Community
David Turnbull
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 19, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Turnbull was a pioneer in the development of multi-disciplinary materials science.
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Arts & Culture
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory
Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus, presents an autobiography that details his musical studies before discovering philosophy, and his many, many years at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Adams House
Drag Night in Adams House lets its residents really strut their stuff.
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Campus & Community
Fakhri A. Bazzaz
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 19, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Fakhri A. Bazzaz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Bazzaz was an ecologist who greatly influenced scientific thought and public policy on climate change.
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Campus & Community
When one sentence just won’t do
A Harvard College senior discusses the difficulties of explaining her senior thesis in the sciences, particularly since the topic can make people cringe.
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Science & Tech
The search for China’s roots
Archaeologist Rowan Flad is seeking early traces of one of the world’s oldest civilizations.
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Campus & Community
Wild Harvard
Nature watchers around campus, open to the hard-to-see creatures nearby, deliver a message of attention and affection.
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Health
Bird, meet cousin alligator
Assistant professor Arkhat Abzhanov looks to birds’ relatives by way of dinosaurs — alligators — for clues to their evolution.
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Campus & Community
Food for thought
Harvard graduate and Food Literacy Project administrator Dara Olmsted loves working with food and helping others connect to the environmental and nutritional implications of what they eat.
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Campus & Community
No ordinary leader
Dominant. That’s the only word to describe the Harvard women’s basketball team over the past 25 years. The team has won 11 Ivy League championships since 1986 — a little less than one every other year — and 70 percent of its games in interleague play.
