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Arts & Culture
The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan
Laura L. Adams, a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, delivers an insightful look into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era.
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Arts & Culture
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, a venerable critic, takes another crack at the 20th century’s greatest poets’ last works and how their style reflects their contemplations of death.
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Arts & Culture
Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy
D.N. Rodowick, a professor of visual and environmental studies, edits this collection of writings on Deleuze, a French philosopher and prolific writer on literature, film, and fine art.
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Nation & World
A church rises again
Harvard undergrads on Alternative Spring Break learn construction techniques while helping to complete a rebuilt Alabama church.
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Science & Tech
Portals into Haiti, Chile
Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.
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Nation & World
Classic college vs. online learning
Two top players in the field of higher education explored two almost polar approaches to learning during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Nation & World
Rolling up their sleeves
Harvard students and alumni arrive at work sites to begin construction, tutoring, other tasks as part of Alternative Spring Break, a tradition of public service initiated by the student-run Phillips Brooks House Association.
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Health
Epstein-Barr Virus implicated as a cause of MS
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that the risk of multiple…
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Health
War-related stress associated with increased risk of asthma
The trauma experienced during war may increase the risk of developing asthma, according to the results of a new study by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard…
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Science & Tech
An earlier changing climate
Human societies in Europe at the end of the last ice age expanded north across a harsh but changing environment, as glaciers melted and the world got warmer and more humid.
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Nation & World
Plugged in
Leading government technology officers explored how technology can drive democracy forward during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School Forum.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held on March 10
At its tenth meeting of the year (March 10), the Faculty Council discussed final exams and study abroad transcripts with Jay Harris, the Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies and dean of undergraduate education. The council was also briefed about Harvard’s digital dissemination efforts.
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Health
Right this way! See it! Taste it!
Former FDA commissioner David Kessler says overeating has to be attacked the same way that tobacco was in the past, by making it socially unacceptable.
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Science & Tech
Scientists discover how ocean bacterium turns carbon into fuel
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. We hear this mantra time and again. When it comes to carbon—the “Most Wanted” element in terms of climate change—nature has got reuse and recycle covered. However, it’s up to us to reduce.
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Campus & Community
Few U.S. studies compare one drug to another
Comparing medical treatments to find the best and the cheapest may be a pillar of U.S. healthcare reform efforts, but very little such research is being done, according to a report from Harvard Medical School published on Tuesday
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Campus & Community
Poll finds widespread pessimism among the young
The poll by Harvard’s Institute of Politics found that six out of 10 young adults surveyed worry they may not meet their current bills and obligations.
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Science & Tech
Reality check
Author-turned-activist Bill McKibben says the fight to arrest global warming requires an international movement to force political change.
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Health
Alzheimer’s-associated protein may be part of the innate immune system
Amyloid-beta protein – the primary constituent of the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients – may be part of the body’s first-line system to defend against infection.…
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Nation & World
‘Jazz’ diplomacy
Richard Holbrooke, a diplomat for nearly 50 years, imparts to a Harvard audience his insights into current international conflicts, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
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Campus & Community
Crimson sweep individual championships
Laura Gemmell ’13 and Colin West ’10 took home College Squash Association individual national championships (March 5-7), continuing Harvard’s dominance in the squash world this season.
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Campus & Community
Looking ahead
On Junior Parents Weekend, students’ mothers and fathers began to ponder what life might be like after graduation from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Princeton douses Crimson hopes
Women’s basketball team falls to first-place Princeton for first home loss in more than a year.
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Nation & World
Chomsky rates Obama’s first year
Activist Noam Chomsky tells the Memorial Church gathering that President Obama, after a year in office, projects a foreign policy with real vision, but “hasn’t succeeded much in practice.”
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Health
It’s all in the cortex
Research suggests that the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument.
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Nation & World
Transfer ‘ensemble,’ Port-au-Prince
Transporting patients from one location to another in post-quake Haiti can be a complicated task; often involving barriers of logistics, distance, and language. Sometimes the greatest challenge is a ticking clock.
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Campus & Community
Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out
Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the “climategate” emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they’ve since fallen to levels lower…
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Campus & Community
Reducing car and truck carbon emissions difficult but feasible
A new study from current and former researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs finds that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation will be a much bigger challenge than conventional wisdom assumes – requiring substantially higher fuel prices combined with more stringent regulation.
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Nation & World
Passionate advocate of human rights
Canadian Supreme Court judge, child of Holocaust survivors, argues passionately that nations should value human rights over simple laws, and that the United Nations should step up.
