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Campus & Community
Overseers announce new president, vice chair
Meredith “Max” Hodges has been elected president of the Harvard University Board of Overseers for the 2023-24 academic year. Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee for the same term.
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Arts & Culture
City of poets
Eight student poets pick a corner of the city with historical, personal meaning and read an original work.
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Arts & Culture
What happens when computers take on one of ‘most human’ art forms?
New play to debut at Arts First Festival examines relationship between technology, humanity, and theater.
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Science & Tech
How mutant protein leads to melanoma
Discovery of new mechanism could have wide implications for other cancers.
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Nation
Fighting for our cognitive liberty
Sensors capable of detecting and decoding brain activity are already embedded into everyday devices, said experts at a webinar.
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Campus & Community
Benita Kayembe takes hard look at hidden human cost of electric cars
Studying at Harvard Chan School has helped graduate Benita Kayembe understand the forces that shape the health of people around the world.
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Arts & Culture
Merging sculpture, technology
Sculpture, technology merge in Ceramics Program as tool offers students another way to work with clay.
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Campus & Community
Transforming breath to activism
Theater, Dance & Media course, rooting in issues surrounding death of Eric Garner, blends ritual, meditation, reading, “radical dialogue.”
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Nation
Putting children first legally, politically, economically
An interview with Adam Benforado, J.D.’05, about his new book “A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All.”
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Science & Tech
How deadly lessons from Fukushima changed Japan and the world
Journalist, crisis expert at HKS event say it shifted nation’s attitude toward military, global sense of need to prepare for unexpected disasters.
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Health
The promising weirdness of biological age
More than you might assume, say researchers who studied three triggers of severe physiological stress: pregnancy, COVID, and surgery.
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Campus & Community
‘Working … to give people back their stories’
Richard Cellini discusses how his team is approaching the work of researching individuals of African and Native American descent who were enslaved by Harvard leaders and labored on Harvard’s campus.
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Work & Economy
Toomey doesn’t see recession looming
The former Republican senator offered his views on the state of the U.S. economy and the looming debt ceiling showdown in Washington.
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Nation
Dealing with legacy of slavery must include voices of descendants
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Memorialization Committee hosted the first of a series of programs to explore the role descendants of enslaved people play in helping institutions reckon with the history of slavery in the present.
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Science & Tech
Tracking rapidly changing patterns of suicidal thought
Smartphones enabled researchers to capture shifts multiple times a day, gathering data that could help guide more effective prevention.
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Campus & Community
When your office is water, woods, and sky
Students who’ve worked as rangers and interns at national parks and forests share stories about how great the outdoors really is.
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Campus & Community
Four to be honored with Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Paula A. Johnson ’80, M.D. ’84, M.P.H. ’85; Philip W. Lovejoy; Antonio Madero, M.B.A. ’61; and Rya W. Zobel ’53, L.L.B. ’56 will receive the 2023 Harvard Medal.
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Science & Tech
U.S. clean energy transition soon ‘to be on steroids’
Former Biden climate adviser Gina McCarthy brings insider’s view of status of battle against warming to Smith Center
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Science & Tech
Did rising seas drive Vikings out of Greenland?
A new geophysical analysis helps fill gaps in an archeological puzzle: why Norse vanished in the 15th century.
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Science & Tech
Oliver Stone wants you to reconsider nuclear power
In a Harvard talk following a preview of his new documentary, the director debates nuclear energy’s merits as a climate change solution.
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Health
Bad for all, sugary drinks may raise early death risk for Type 2 diabetics
Large-scale study finds sugar-sweetened beverages linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death for people with Type 2 diabetes.
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Campus & Community
17 faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
American Academy of Arts & Science named 17 Harvard faculty among its 269 newly elected members.
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Medicine
Can ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ make difference in public policy, health?
Two physician-writers who’ve worked on series like “ER,” “SVU,” and “New Amsterdam” discuss medium’s power to educate.
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Campus & Community
Bacow calls for immigration reform, backs policies to aid educational exchange
President says flow of workers, students bolsters U.S. economy, brings innovation, helps export democratic values.
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Nation
Lending hand as nation-building renaissance grows in Indian Country
Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development gets $15 million in gifts to expand research, sharing innovation, best practices.
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Science & Tech
‘The Last of Us,’ fruit fly edition
Postdoc Carolyn Elya sheds light on how parasitic fungus hijacks the nervous system of flies.
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Health
Who deserves a liver transplant?
With deaths from alcohol-related disease on rise, rules that deny patients life-saving care need revising, says researcher. How to ensure equity?
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Campus & Community
‘Brotherly-sisterly’ bond keeps Parkland survivors in fight
Jaclyn Corin and David Hogg were exhausted, still somewhat traumatized as first-years, but eventually found their way by different paths.
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Arts & Culture
Turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful
Rebecca Solnit offers new view of remaking the world, turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful.
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Arts & Culture
Playwright Michael R. Jackson urges students to heed ‘tickle’ of muse
Students talk lyrics, character conflict, listening to the muse with Pulitzer, Tony-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson at CompFest.
