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Campus & Community
A change of mind, heart, and soul
Choosing Harvard took LyLena Estabine down an uncertain path. The former student co-president has no regrets.
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Campus & Community
So how do you track spread of disease? By the numbers
Ivan Specht decided to employ his love of math during pandemic, which led to contact-tracing app, papers, future path
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Science & Tech
What is ‘original scholarship’ in the age of AI?
Symposium considers how technology is changing academia
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Campus & Community
Pop star on one continent, college student on another
Model and musician Kazuma Mitchell managed to (mostly) avoid the spotlight while at Harvard
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Campus & Community
Renaming of a neighborhood
For Maya Counter ’24, honoring a notable Black educator, and setting right a historical wrong
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Health
Cancer risk, wine preference, and your genes
Biologist separates reality of science from the claims of profiling firms
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Nation & World
It’s on Facebook, and it’s complicated
‘Spermworld’ documentary examines motivations of prospective parents, volunteer donors who connect through private group page
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Nation & World
How far has COVID set back students?
An economist, a policy expert, and a teacher explain why learning losses are worse than many parents realize
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Nation & World
What do anti-Jewish hate, anti-Muslim hate have in common?
Researchers scrutinize various facets of these types of bias, and note sometimes they both reside within the same person.
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Campus & Community
Five faculty named Harvard College Professors
Scholars recognized for sharing with students ‘particular joy of academic inquiry’
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Campus & Community
When your meet-cute happens at T.H. Chan
She worked for Pfizer in Turkey; he was neurosurgery resident in Canada. And graduation and wedding are not far off.
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Health
Excited about new diet drug? This procedure seems better choice.
Study finds minimally invasive treatment more cost-effective over time, brings greater weight loss
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Health
How friends helped fuel the rise of a relentless enemy
Economists imagine an alternate universe where the opioid crisis peaked in ’06, and then explain why it didn’t
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Campus & Community
No business like show business — except the law
Nicholas Gonzalez was a child star who felt curiously at home in front of a jury box
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Campus & Community
Turning ideas into impact
Startup founders inspire global audience at 2024 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Awards ceremony
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Campus & Community
Did student or ChatGPT write that paper? Does it matter?
Sam Altman, CEO of firm that developed app, says ethics do matter, but they need to be rethought (and AI isn’t going away)
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Health
Getting ahead of liver cancer
Researchers hope identifying blood proteins may lead to earlier prediction of risk, increase treatment options
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Nation & World
Cease-fire will fail as long as Hamas exists, journalist says
Times opinion writer Bret Stephens also weighs in on campus unrest in final Middle East Dialogues event
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Campus & Community
Colleagues, students remember Helen Vendler, a ‘titan’ of poetry criticism
Beyond her passion for her work, they say, she was creative and engaged teacher, thoughtful adviser and mentor, trusted friend
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Arts & Culture
Everything, everywhere, all at once (kind of)
There’s never a shortage of creativity on campus. But during Arts First, it all comes out to play.
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Health
Alcohol is dangerous. So is ‘alcoholic.’
Researcher explains the human toll of language that makes addiction feel worse
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Campus & Community
Jeff Lichtman named dean of science
Neuroscientist inspired by ‘great challenge’ of leading life, physical sciences division in era of rapidly growing knowledge
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Nation & World
Imagining a different Russia
Former ambassador sees two tragedies: Ukraine war and the damage Putin has inflicted on his own country
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Campus & Community
Bringing personal perspective to homeless care
Soon-to-be Med School grad’s family struggled in U.S. after fleeing war-torn Central America. He hasn’t forgotten.
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Campus & Community
Nikole Hannah-Jones on history, rage — and hope
Pulitzer Prize winner delivers keynote at Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative’s 2024 Symposium
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Campus & Community
Jeremy M. Weinstein named dean of Harvard Kennedy School
Political scientist, who also served as academic leader and in various roles in Obama administration, to assume post July 1
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Arts & Culture
Acclaimed poet receives Arts Medal
Kevin Young ’92 reflects on what took root at Harvard and how it’s grown
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Health
How old is too old to run?
No such thing, specialist says — but when your body is trying to tell you something, listen
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Science & Tech
Complex questions, innovative approaches
Seven projects awarded Star-Friedman Challenge grants