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Campus & Community
Expanding student access to mental health care through telehealth
Giang Nguyen and Barbara Lewis discuss a telehealth mental health offering now available to students.
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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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Nation
Donald Trump, meme leader in chief
New book traces insurgent use of text, photos, media on internet to take down crucial U.S. establishments, institutions.
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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
The quote machine
Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.
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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.
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Campus & Community
Student committee for presidential search named
Christopher Cleveland to serve as chair.
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Nation & World
Is war in Ukraine at turning point?
Putin expert Philip Short discusses escalations of the war by Putin, and says negotiations will be tricky and fraught
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Science & Tech
Want to know how cold it was in 1490? Ask a tree
Tree rings could hold clues to climate change and forest change.
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Campus & Community
Braking for badges
Political scientist Theda Skocpol has traveled U.S. collecting “little works of art” that reflect nation’s history — badges of fraternal groups.
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Nation & World
No, Jason Bourne is not the real CIA
Former officials, scholars say nation’s image comes from popular media, offer insights into actual mission, history as the CIA turns 75.
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Arts & Culture
Buffeted by unending tides of grief
Namwali Serpell’s novel explores reality, memory, and race, class of broken family after the death of a child.
