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Work & Economy
Tying COVID information to worker — and employer — well-being
With COVID-19 cases going back up just as workplaces and schools prepare to reopen, a Harvard Chan School talk digs into the challenges of maintaining worker well-being on the job.
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Campus & Community
A summer of service for first-years
Eight first-year Harvard students talk about their work with the SPARK program and the unique challenges created by the pandemic.
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Health
Toward better medicine
A catalyzing gift will establish The Ivan and Francesca Berkowitz Family Living Laboratory Collaboration at Harvard Medical School and Clalit Research Institute, supporting precision medicine efforts through data science, clinical research, and training.
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Health
Parental smoking during childhood linked to RA
A new study found a potential direct link between exposure to parental smoking during childhood and increased risk of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis later in life.
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Nation & World
For her, Afghanistan is personal
The Belfer Center’s Lauren Zabierek reflects on her service in Afghanistan — and her brother’s — amid the humanitarian chaos unleashed by the Taliban’s rout of U.S.-backed forces.
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Health
Shining new light on vitamin D and cancer
Consuming higher amounts of vitamin D — mainly from dietary sources — may help protect against developing young-onset colorectal cancer or precancerous colon polyps, according to the first study to show such an association.
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Health
Prognosis: Grim
A surge in COVID-19–related deaths in the U.S. could exceed the peak seen in early 2021, according to experts.
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Nation & World
How food donations can help fight hunger and climate change
Every year, nearly 700 million people suffer from hunger around the world, while 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away.
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Health
Link between wildfires and COVID cases established
Researchers have found strong evidence of an association between exposure to fine particulate air pollution from 2020 wildfires in the U.S. and increased risk of COVID-19 cases and deaths in three western states, for up to four weeks after the exposure.
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Science & Tech
Climate scientist on UN report: Just as bad as we expected
Peter Huybers, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences, explains the recently released UN report on climate change and the harrowing details contained within it.
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Nation & World
The woman who kept running
Remembering Harvard Medical School grad Joan Ullyot, the long-distance runner who normalized running for women around the world.
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Health
COVID’s future: From pandemic to endemic?
Immunologist Yonatan Grad explains what has been learned from COVID-19 and how to apply the lessons moving forward.
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Health
3 ways to strengthen a child’s mental resilience
New study suggests practical strategies to help children through a pandemic.
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Nation & World
How the government can support a free press and cut disinformation
Harvard Law’s Martha Minow says there are plenty of steps the federal government could take to clean up the flood of disinformation and misinformation.
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Health
COVID messages from doctors change behaviors across racial lines
A new study found that COVID-19 messages tailored to Black audiences and presented by physicians of color did not enhance the effectiveness for minority participants.
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Arts & Culture
Remembrance of cicada seasons past
Cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy ignited a childhood memory in Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture .
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Health
Citing COVID threat, researchers urge policy changes to ease prison crowding
Researchers say policymakers should weigh decarceration for inmates at low risk of reoffending to combat COVID inside prisons.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Extension is good fit for CEO of Native American nonprofit
Chris James, president and CEO of The National Center for Native American Enterprise Development in Mesa, Arizona, shares his Extension School experience.
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Campus & Community
Who wants ice cream? At this point, pretty much everyone
Despite downpour, the Department of Astronomy ice cream social event draws a crowd.
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Health
New test detects COVID-19 variants in your spit
Researchers have now created a simple, inexpensive diagnostic test that allows users to test themselves for multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, using just a sample of their saliva.
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Science & Tech
Dan Barouch and the birth of the J&J COVID vaccine
Dan Barouch, Harvard Medical School professor and head of Beth Israel Deaconess’ Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for work that culminated in one of three vaccines against COVID-19 approved for use in the U.S.
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Health
COVID prevention tips as delta variant surges
Harvard Associate Professor of Epidemiology William Hanage provides tips on how to deal with the delta variant of COVID-19.
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Health
Diet, exercise, and sleep affect heart health, but why?
Researchers are looking more closely at the impact of stress on the body, taking it down to the cellular and molecular level.
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Nation & World
Learning the hard way
Harvard’s Allan M. Brandt, history of science scholar and “Cigarette Century” author, says opioid negotiators should heed lessons from tobacco settlement.
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Health
The present and future of COVID variants
Conversations with Harvard experts shed light on the rise of delta, an unwelcome twist in transmission, the power of vaccination, and more.
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Arts & Culture
How plants have influenced human societies
Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks’ Plants Humanities Lab hope to shed light on the historical relationships between humans and their environments — and improve our current and future relationships with nature.
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Health
Give her some space
The Gazette spoke with Harvard psychologist Michael Hollander about the toll anxiety can take on performance and what must change to ensure athletes get the help they need.
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Campus & Community
New 24/7 mental-health hotline for Harvard students opens
Counseling and Mental Health Services has launched a new 24/7 hotline for students who have mental health concerns or questions of any kind, whether they are in immediate distress or not, on campus or elsewhere.
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Nation & World
How far can Biden go?
Harvard Law School’s W. Neil Eggleston says President Biden is on solid legal ground to mandate that federal workers get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Health
Preventing childhood obesity in the first 1,000 days of life
A new study demonstrates how changing parents’ health behavior and how clinicians deliver care to mothers and infants decreases excess weight gain in infants.
