Featured series 
Year: 2012
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Health
Protecting the heart with optimism
Work by HSPH researchers suggests a connection between psychological well-being and a reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular events.
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Science & Tech
Elegant entanglement
Harvard scientists have taken a critical step toward building a quantum computer — a device that could someday harness subatomic particles such as electrons to perform calculations far faster than the most powerful supercomputers.
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Nation & World
47 proposals win Hauser grants
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) is supporting 47 proposals from the Harvard community. The efforts will receive a total of nearly $2 million in inaugural Hauser Fund grants.
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Campus & Community
Harvard staffers, faculty raise $11,700
Red Sox-themed fundraiser nets $11,700 for the Jimmy Fund.
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Science & Tech
Self-assembly as a guide
Vinothan Manoharan, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and physics at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, wants to make self-assembly — when particles interact with one another and spontaneously arrange themselves into organized structures — happen in the laboratory to treat life-threatening diseases or manufacture useful objects.
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Campus & Community
Raphael Bostic named chief marshal
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Raphael W. Bostic ’87 has been chosen by his classmates to serve as chief marshal for Commencement 2012 as the University concludes its yearlong 375th anniversary celebration.
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Campus & Community
Stephen Greenblatt wins Pulitzer Prize
Stephen Greenblatt, the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.”
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Campus & Community
Guthrie in the outdoors
Harvard will host a live outdoor simulcast of the American Repertory Theater’s production of “Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” on May 17. Tickets are available May 3.
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Campus & Community
AACR honors Alan D’Andrea
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented Alan D. D’Andrea with the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his work in understanding cancer survival and progression.
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Health
Survival of the selfless
In a talk sponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, biologist E.O. Wilson said that competition among groups of humans is a likely explanation for the rise of altruistic behavior in individuals.
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Campus & Community
Green stars
On April 12, hundreds of staff, students, and faculty gathered to recognize more than 60 individual and team winners at the third annual Green Carpet Awards hosted by the Office for Sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Tuned to emotions
Student Mental Health Liaisons promote emotional well-being among their classmates through outreach, events, and activities.
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Nation & World
10 finalists in President’s Challenge
Harvard University has chosen 10 teams as finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship. President Drew Faust created the challenge to encourage student teams from across the University to develop entrepreneurial solutions to five of the world’s most important social issues.
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Nation & World
Kissinger looks back
Henry Kissinger has spent more than half a century thinking about and shaping foreign policy. At Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, the former Secretary of State reflected on the “hobby that became my profession.”
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Campus & Community
They pledge allegiance
Harvard University students and staff on Monday helped to celebrate the new U.S. citizenship of 23 staff members, all of whom achieved their goal with the aid of the Harvard Citizenship Program.
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Science & Tech
Making drinking water clean
Free water purification is needed to head off more than a million childhood deaths from diarrhea each year, says Gates Professor of Developing Societies Michael Kremer.
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Health
Size matters in drug delivery
A new study led by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Massachusetts General Hospital has found that normalizing blood vessels within tumors, which improves the delivery of standard chemotherapy drugs, can actually block the delivery of larger nanotherapy molecules.
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Campus & Community
Institute renamed after Kelman
The Vienna-based Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peace building was officially renamed the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation on Dec. 29, 2011.
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Campus & Community
President of Brazil comes to Harvard
Harvard University today signed a five-year agreement with the government of Brazil to eliminate financial barriers for talented Brazilian science students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
On the page, life after prison
Author Tayari Jones, a Radcliffe fellow, is at work on her fourth novel, set in the American South. “Dear History” explores how a family comes to terms with a wrongful conviction.
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Science & Tech
Dangerous heat
New research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests that seemingly small changes in summer temperature swings may shorten life expectancy for elderly people with chronic medical conditions, and could result in thousands of additional deaths each year.
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Campus & Community
100 years and counting
Harvard’s baseball team took batting practice at Fenway Park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first game played there, which Harvard lost to the forbears of the Red Sox, 2-0.
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Arts & Culture
Linking libraries, museums, archives
The archivist of the United States joins an interdisciplinary conversation at Harvard about the whys and hows of integrating libraries, archives, and museums.
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Nation & World
Women fighting for change
During the Radcliffe Institute’s annual gender conference, scholars gathered to explore the role of women in forging democracies across the Arab world.
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Health
Detecting autism in matter of minutes
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have significantly reduced from hours to minutes the time it takes to accurately detect autism in young children.
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Campus & Community
Take a seat, and listen
A festive seasonal staple, the entertainment series known as “The Chairs Revue,” which offers musical and theatrical performances by students and faculty and occasional appearances from members of the American Repertory Theater, is back for daily performances through April 26.
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Campus & Community
Fairy tales for all
Professor Maria Tatar offered her insight into the enduring cultural appeal of fairy tales in an installment of the John Harvard Book Celebration series.
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Health
Chill therapy
MGH’s Herbert Benson, author of “The Relaxation Response,” says that the methods outlined in his book can create genetic changes in irritable bowel syndrome sufferers, and with further study might be used to treat other ailments.
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Arts & Culture
Winslow Homer’s Civil War
Two Harvard experts moderate a gallery talk about Winslow Homer’s beginnings as a Civil War artist.
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Campus & Community
Building endurance, step by step
Harvard Stadium is an iconic structure, and not just for the sports that happen on the field. To a community dedicated to running “the stadium steps,” the real athletes are in the stands.
