The Harvard Gazette

Year: 2014

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“Looking at participants in the Framingham Heart Study, we found that the correlation between the best known obesity-associated gene variant and body mass index increased significantly as the year of birth of participants increased,” says Harvard Medical School instructor James Niels Rosenquist of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, lead author of the report.

Year born may determine obesity risk

Lack of impact in those born before 1942 suggests effect of broad environmental changes

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DateDecember 29, 2014

In a recent study, Wyss Institute researchers genetically modified E. coli bacteria to produce up to 30-fold more quantities of chemicals at a thousand-fold faster rate than previously possible.

Bacteria ‘factories’ churn out valuable chemicals

It’s ‘survival of the fittest’ as bacteria colonies pump out chemicals faster than ever

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DateDecember 24, 2014

Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library exhibition "What They Wrote, What They Saved: The Personal Civil War" kicked off its opening in November with remarks from Harvard President Drew Faust, the Lincoln Professor of History.

The personal Civil War

Schlesinger Library exhibit explores the conflict’s intimate, individual narratives

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DateDecember 24, 2014June 18, 2018

“Generally speaking, most people agree that the presence of nature supports health and well-being,” said Julia Africa, who was co-leader, with John D. Spengler, the Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, of the 2013 Natural Environments Initiative Workshop at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

A key urban intersection

HSPH report pushes for more study of links between green space and health

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DateDecember 24, 2014

A study shows that the key benefit to dietary restriction is increased production of endogenous hydrogen sulfide, which plays a major role in delivering the benefits of longevity and stress resistance.

Growing support for dietary restriction

Researchers identify health benefits beyond longer lifespans

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DateDecember 23, 2014

Reader favorites for 2014

Looking back at our most-read articles in a year of discovery

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DateDecember 23, 2014

Fine particulate air pollution linked with increased autism risk

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DateDecember 23, 2014

A Harvard study found that men who did 20 minutes of daily weight training showed less of an increase in age-related abdominal fat than men who spent 20 minutes doing aerobic activities.

Using weights to target belly fat

Study shows aerobics fights pounds, but weight training trims the waist

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DateDecember 22, 2014March 6, 2019

Junior Harvard faculty members Giuseppe Intini (from left), Yanmei Tie, and Mary Beth Son are among a number of recipients of a unique fellowship that aims to help budding scientists, already wrestling with knotty scientific problems, also navigate life’s complexities.

Help with ‘the best things in life’

Shore Fellowships give junior faculty a hand juggling busy lives

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DateDecember 22, 2014March 15, 2019

Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow William F. Lee speaks with the Harvard Gazette in Loeb House at Harvard University. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Taking the Harvard Corporation’s temperature

After six months as senior fellow, Bill Lee outlines what’s been achieved and what lies ahead

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DateDecember 22, 2014

Radhika Nagpal, expert on swarm robotics, celebrated among ‘Nature’s 10’

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DateDecember 22, 2014

Swapping veggies for meat a healthier choice

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DateDecember 22, 2014March 15, 2019

Pforzheimer Fellowships program renewed

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DateDecember 22, 2014March 15, 2019

A cross-disciplinary approach to eradicating malaria

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DateDecember 22, 2014

New standards for sustainable building systems

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DateDecember 22, 2014

Winter Faculty Academy offers bootcamp for online learning

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DateDecember 22, 2014March 15, 2019

An American soldier on helicopter patrol over South Vietnam from the film “Hearts and Minds” (1974).

Vietnam, the ongoing memory

Though the war ended almost 40 years ago, it feels curiously current, and still draws scholars and interested students alike

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DateDecember 19, 2014July 8, 2019

During the ceremony for midyear graduates, Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana shared with the students and audience his own experience as a midyear graduate. “It was not something I had planned when I started college, but I think it was one of the best things that ever happened to me,” he said.

Getting to the finish

Ceremony held for 91 midyear graduates

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DateDecember 19, 2014

Author and syndicated columnist Naomi Klein (right) signs a copy of her latest book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate," after a matinee performance of "O.P.C.," Eve Ensler's new play at the American Repertory Theater.

Confronting despair with hope

Naomi Klein suggests collective action can prove boon to improving environment

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DateDecember 19, 2014

This artist's conception portrays the first planet discovered by the Kepler spacecraft during its K2 mission. A transit of the planet was teased out of K2's noisier data using computer algorithms developed by a CfA researcher. The newfound planet, HIP 116454b, has a diameter of 20,000 miles (2½ times the size of Earth) and weighs 12 times as much as Earth. It orbits its star once every 9.1 days.

Kepler ‘rising from the ashes’

Spacecraft gains second life, finds planets

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DateDecember 18, 2014July 30, 2019

Political theorist Danielle S. Allen has been appointed both to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a professor in the Government Department and to Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics as its director.

Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts

Will direct Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, join FAS in government

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DateDecember 18, 2014

Detail from an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple relief (photo 1) at the Harvard Semitic Museum. Harvard Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian (photo 2) outlines the life of museum founder David Gordon Lyon, pictured far right. Manuelian’s co-lecturers Adam Aja (left, photo 3) and Joseph A. Greene.

The old, made new

Refurbished Semitic Museum celebrates the past while reorienting for the future

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DateDecember 18, 2014September 11, 2019

Shareholder report available Dec. 18

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DateDecember 18, 2014

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the United States and Cuba will re-establish diplomatic and economic relations, ending a political stalemate that began more than half a century ago.

U.S.-Cuba ties: In from the cold

Relaxing decades of sanctions while encouraging trade will benefit both sides, analysts say

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DateDecember 17, 2014May 15, 2019

Vivek Murthy of Harvard Medical School has been confirmed as U.S. surgeon general. Murthy’s areas of focus will include smoking, obesity, mental illness, and infectious disease. President Obama’s nomination of Murthy had been held up more than a year. In February Murthy testified at a hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Leading role for Murthy

With Harvard doctor confirmed as surgeon general, health experts discuss national priorities

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DateDecember 17, 2014March 6, 2019

Anthony Saich, who serves as faculty chair of Harvard Kennedy School’s China program, said the positive assessment the Chinese have of Xi’s performance — both at home and abroad — is explained by a multitude of factors. “One is that they don’t hear much negative news about their national government; it’s all positive,” he explained.

Grading 10 top world leaders

China’s Xi and Germany’s Merkel best-rated in rare international survey

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DateDecember 17, 2014March 15, 2019

“Paltering is when a communicator says truthful things and in the process knowingly leads the listener to a false conclusion. It has the same effect as lying, but it allows the communicator to say truthful things and, some of our studies suggest, feel like they’re not being as deceptive as liars,” said Todd Rogers, a behavioral scientist at Harvard Kennedy School who co-authored a paper with researchers from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School.

Deceiving with the truth

People often withhold key facts to win negotiations, and don’t think they’ve done wrong

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DateDecember 17, 2014March 6, 2019

Susan Johnson (right, photo 1), manager of teaching and curriculum at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, helps Mubeen Elamin with a microscope during a showcase of the mentoring partnership between Harvard undergraduates and Allston-Brighton residents. Mom Priscilla Anderson (from right, photo 2) watches daughter Dora Capobianco get input from Abigail Orlando '17, while Kennedy O'Neil looks on. Kawn Ang '15 (from left, photo 3) and Stella Tu '16 work with Brighton resident Mandy Lin.

A spark for young minds

Ed Portal event showcases mentoring program

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DateDecember 17, 2014March 15, 2019

“If we knew what we were going to find, we’d all just go home,” said Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin, one of the Harvard scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland.

Back into the dark

With collider set to reboot, physicists look beyond the Higgs

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DateDecember 16, 2014

"We’ve actually increased our total spending on public education in the last 30 years by 100 percent in real dollars, and what we noticed is that there’s some but very little correlation between high performance and more money,” said Allen Grossman, a senior fellow and retired M.B.A. Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice at HBS, who led the project’s education research.

Getting schooled

HBS research identifies how business can and should help reform K-12 education

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DateDecember 16, 2014April 12, 2019

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