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Health
‘Writing to push conversations forward’
Simar Singh Bajaj ’24 has had papers published in prestigious journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.
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Health
Fed up with baby steps amid ‘tsunami of overdose death’
Sarah Wakeman says that CDC report highlights need for U.S. to radically rethink response to opioid epidemic.
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Health
Keeping an eye on Omicron
Mary Bushman, a research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, co-authored a recent paper that modeled variant threats.
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Campus & Community
A chance to focus on an academic passion at Oxford
Seven Rhodes Scholars from Harvard represent sciences, education, and social science fields.
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Campus & Community
A growing partnership for 150 years
Clones of a 73-year-old dawn redwood tree were planted at the residence of Harvard’s president to help celebrate the Arnold Arboretum’s 150th anniversary and honor its relationship with Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Back to play
After Ivy League COVID shutdown, players return to field with new perspective.
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Nation & World
How climate change will impact national security
The assistant director of research at the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Project, Calder Walton talks about the recent U.S. intelligence report on the national security implications of
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Campus & Community
Already here: mango tofu. Coming soon: Mother Juice.
With offerings both familiar and new, several local food retailers are expanding dining options for the Harvard Community.
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Nation & World
Student of history makes history
Inspired by family and tribe, Samantha Maltais plans a future focused on Indigenous rights, environmental justice.
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Health
Breaking down boosters
A Harvard expert shares insight on the science and history of vaccine boosters and why we need them, speculating on a future that includes periodic COVID boosters.
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Nation & World
Legal historian traces ‘racism on the road’
Columbia Law Professor Sarah Seo traces the long history of sometimes violent bias cops have shown against Black drivers.
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Health
Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong.
Study says that physical activity later in life shifts energy away from processes that compromise health and toward mechanisms in the body that extend it.
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Campus & Community
Doors reopen at Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
After having its doors closed for 20 months, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture has announced its in-person reopening Nov. 26.
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Campus & Community
4 Harvard seniors awarded U.S. Rhodes Scholarships
Students will pursue degrees in physics, linguistics, social science, public policy at University of Oxford.
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Health
Long COVID sufferers face physical pain, physician skepticism
Long COVID’s laundry list of ills include skepticism and doubt often conveyed in the doctors’ office.
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Science & Tech
Elizabeth Kolbert sees a world depleted, and possibly defeated, by climate change
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and Planetary Health Alliance Director Samuel Myers discussed whether humans can save the Earth during a “Weather Reports” panel hosted by the Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Ideas captured in chalk on slate
They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.
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Arts & Culture
Competing visions
Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.
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Nation & World
How an authoritarian wields social media
Filipino journalist and 2021 Nobel laureate Maria Ressa issues a warning about information warfare on social media, and what it may mean for democratic institutions such as free press and free elections.
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Work & Economy
What should Biden do about inflation? Mostly sit tight
Harvard economist says economy is on right track, and there are few things he can try, but higher prices will eventually resolve themselves.
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Nation & World
Growing gap in STEM supply and demand
Education and industry experts say a large subset of students are not being fully prepared for STEM careers, listing ways to close the gap.
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Campus & Community
Harvard walks its talk on diversity, inclusion
Fourteen campus proposals have been awarded President’s Office grants between $2,000 and $20,000 to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Separating signal from noise at COP26
COP26, while a mixed bag, maintained progress toward global climate goals, says Rob Stavins.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing monuments to life
On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.
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Health
Repurposing a familiar drug for COVID-19
New research points to a well-known and widely available drug called disulfiram (marketed as Antabuse) as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
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Nation & World
Confronting racism to renew America’s promise
In Theodore R. Johnson’s new book, “When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America,” he delves into the America’s racist history in search of solutions to the “existential threat” that continues to shadow the land.
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Science & Tech
Meat and muscles, sure. But the human eye is a stretch, for now.
The author and MIT professor Ritu Raman discussed the promise and ethical challenges of a lab-shaped future.
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Arts & Culture
‘The steam and chatter of typewriters’
A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.
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Health
Scientists identify HIV patient whose body rids itself of virus
A second untreated person living with HIV shows no evidence of intact HIV genomes, indicating that her immune system may have eliminated the HIV reservoir.
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Science & Tech
When will a robot write a novel?
In considering whether a robot could write a work of fiction, the computer science Krzysztof Gajos says it depends—trashy novel or a good one?
