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Health
Building ‘bravery muscles’ to fight rising anxiety among kids
Harvard psychologist says pandemic worsened trend and screening, early intervention key to avoiding bigger problems.
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Campus & Community
Continuing Ed Convocation is a first visit to campus for some
After a two-year absence due to COVID-19, Harvard Extension School welcomed admitted degree candidates back to campus at an in-person Convocation ceremony.
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Campus & Community
Weaving a piece of Indigenous history
Diné student Keana Gorman seeks to preserve Navajo traditions, way of life.
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Campus & Community
‘Access, awareness, prevention, and support’
Student mental health initiative co-chairs Giang Nguyen and Robin Glover discuss the state of their work.
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Work & Economy
Want more diversity in corporate America? Get rid of some programs
New book by Frank Dobbin suggests getting managers actively involved instead of feeling defensive, resentful is the best way to create a more diverse corporate America.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating a half-century of equity, achievement
Weekend competitions, events kick off yearlong Athletics Department tribute to transformational Title IX.
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Health
Late-night eating and weight gain
A new study explains that when we eat significantly impacts our energy expenditure, appetite, and molecular pathways in body fat.
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Nation & World
Gift given, one left behind
Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher gave the talk “The Pope against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice” on Thursday at Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Healthier options for people, planet
The Harvard Food Systems Initiative connects Harvard research on food production and consumption with on-campus experiences and meals.
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Campus & Community
A look ’round the Square
The students and the shops may change in Harvard Square, but its spirit and streets carry on.
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Campus & Community
An archivist with an eye for neglected history
In her new role as Harvard Archivist, Virginia “Ginny” Hunt will take a deeper dive into “invisible” achievements, student engagement, and the Legacy of Slavery.
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Nation & World
How to save democracy
Events examine what can be done to address grinding problem of race, internet’s power to exploit political, cultural schisms to destructive ends.
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Science & Tech
Better predictions on rise of oceans on warming Earth
Harvard researchers take sea level fingerprints from theory to fact.
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Health
What makes us human? It’s all in the hips
Study shows how pelvis takes shape and what genes orchestrate the process.
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Health
Parents are so wrong about teenage sleep and health
Harvard-affiliated study upends common myths around melatonin, weekends, school start times.
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Campus & Community
Injecting sense of urgency on Pakistan relief
Harvard students mobilize to provide relief in Pakistan.
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Nation & World
‘Be unstoppable, be true to yourself, but be just’
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky talks Russia strategy, nuclear threat, Ukrainian unity, leadership lessons at Kennedy School talk.
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Campus & Community
Starting a conversation on college suicide
More than 1,000 backpacks dotted Harvard Yard, representing the lives of college students lost to suicide every year.
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Nation & World
Does the world need COVID novels?
Too soon or an artistic imperative? Fiction writers reflect on the history, power, challenges of stories in which real life is a dominant character.
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Health
Forget the sedatives, I’ll take some VR
Study of hand-surgery patients suggests “immersive experience” can curb need for drugs, cut hospital stay.
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Arts & Culture
Face to face with ancient Egyptians
Realistic mummy portraits, on view at Harvard Art Museums, shed light on life, death in multicultural Roman era 2,000 years ago
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Campus & Community
‘Do more and do better’
Lawrence Summers, president emeritus, reflects on his time leading the University at the unveiling of his presidential portrait at Widener Library.
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Campus & Community
Breaking barriers to get to breakthroughs
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, other luminaries share, and celebrate, vision for Kempner Institute.
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Nation & World
Was 6,000 B.C. a good vintage? Maybe in Georgia
Currently Italy, Spain, France, and the U.S. are the world’s biggest wine producers, but Georgia is the oldest and among the most storied.
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Campus & Community
New director plots fresh course for the CfA
As the first woman director of the Center for Astrophysics, Lisa Kewley talks about strategies for a new era in astronomy, growing up with a love for space, and challenges for women in the field.
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Nation & World
Surveying global damage rippling off Ukraine war
Croatian prime minister details spread of economic, political, humanitarian crises, continuing authoritarian threats.