Year: 2015

Koen Hufkens and colleagues digitized the tables, but quickly realized the marks were simply too faint. “The notes are basically small pencil lines that overlay a grid on the paper, and the lack of contrast between the two makes it difficult to separate. It needs the human eye to tease them apart,” he said.

Study of African trees goes public

Researchers seek help digitizing decades-old observations

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DateDecember 24, 2015July 3, 2019

Allegra Libonati (from left) directs actors Ali Stoner and Kyle VanZandt in a scene for the American Repertory Theater Institute’s production of “The Pirate Princess."

Long hours for big dreams

A.R.T. Institute puts students through rigorous stage prep

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DateDecember 23, 2015April 22, 2019

Harvard professor John Johnson (pictured) is one of two recipients of the Fannie Cox Prize, which recognizes exceptional teaching in introductory science courses. The other winner is Jene Golovchenko, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics.

Professors recognized for exceptional teaching in science

Fannie Cox Prize awarded to Golovchenko and Johnson

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DateDecember 23, 2015March 8, 2019

Targeting fat-tissue hormone may lead to type 2 diabetes treatment

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DateDecember 23, 2015April 30, 2019

Where there’s a hospital monopoly, private health care costs more

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DateDecember 23, 2015

A call to regulate starvation of ‘Paris thin’ models

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DateDecember 23, 2015

Mothers holding low birth weight newborns skin-to-skin linked with lower mortality rates

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DateDecember 23, 2015

Top risk factors for child undernutrition in India identified

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DateDecember 23, 2015July 8, 2019

Soccer under siege

Though top FIFA officials have been barred on ethics charges, global game needs reform and accountability, Harvard analyst says

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DateDecember 22, 2015March 6, 2019

In the wake of the November Paris attacks, the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., and an incessant anti-Muslim drumbeat from some U.S. presidential contenders, members of the Harvard Islamic community described what it’s like to live under the current wave of “Islamophobia” in America.

State Copyright Resource Center launched by Office for Scholarly Communication

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DateDecember 22, 2015March 15, 2019

A multicomponent microfluidic small-airway-on-a-chip model provides new opportunities to study human lung inflammatory disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. This scanning electron microscope image shows the air-exposed surface of the differentiated pulmonary epithelium with its beating, mucus-transporting cilial processes.

COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body

Organ-on-a-chip technology creates microfluidic device for testing disease-specific drugs

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DateDecember 22, 2015

In a new study, Harvard Business School Associate Professor Benjamin Edelman, Assistant Professor Michael Luca, and doctoral student Daniel Svirsky found that Airbnb hosts were 16 percent less likely to approve profiles of people who appeared to be African-American than profiles with white-sounding names.

When the ‘sharing economy’ doesn’t

Some Airbnb hosts discriminate on the basis of race, rental study says

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DateDecember 21, 2015

Induced pluripotent stem cell colonies generated after researchers at Harvard Stem Cell Institute suppressed the CAF1 gene.

Researchers help cells forget who they are

Erasing a cell’s memory makes it easier to manipulate them into becoming another type of cell

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DateDecember 21, 2015June 13, 2019

Paris deal a step toward better health, experts say

HSPH forum explores wider potential of climate accord

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DateDecember 18, 2015

Decades after her father introduced her to the weekly ritual of The New York Times Sunday puzzle, crosswords remain a regular challenge and a bit of a mental refuge for Urdang-Brown, who has administered the Harvard English Department’s graduate program for 26 years. Joe Sherman/Harvard Staff

Happy to be puzzled

Family is clue to crossword player’s long devotion

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DateDecember 18, 2015February 13, 2018

Harvard professor brought first Christmas tree to New England

Charles Follen (1796-1840) remembered for bringing tradition from Germany

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DateDecember 18, 2015December 21, 2016

Through a glass, brightly

Harvard's Memorial Hall is a veritable museum of American stained glass

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DateDecember 17, 2015September 7, 2016

A veteran Massachusetts public policy adviser, consultant, and T gadfly, Charles Chieppo has issued a new analysis identifying key issues plaguing the system and recommending changes.

An Rx for the T

System needs to please its riders, scissor its credit cards, and open its pension system, Harvard fellow’s report says

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DateDecember 17, 2015March 8, 2019

As a boy growing up in West Virginia, Harvard's Brad Conner loved the animation of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," but it was Vince Guaraldi’s music that captivated him.

An enduring Christmas groove

‘Charlie Brown’ soundtrack, now 50, hasn’t lost the power to inspire

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DateDecember 17, 2015March 15, 2019

“Our body language, which is often based on prejudices, shapes the body language of the people we’re interacting with," says social psychologist and author Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School. "If we expect others to perform poorly, we adopt body language that is off-putting and discouraging. Naturally, people take the hint and respond as expected — poorly." Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

How to be your best in 5 minutes

Proper body language can quiet self-doubt and help ace life’s challenges, says Amy Cuddy

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DateDecember 17, 2015February 13, 2018

“This is the first time, in humans, that a neurotransmitter in the brain has been linked to autistic behavior — full stop,” said Caroline Robertson, a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.

A brain link to autism

Scientists find neurotransmitter that ties in with disorder’s behavior

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DateDecember 17, 2015March 8, 2019

Working with homeless women teaches student valuable lessons

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DateDecember 16, 2015March 6, 2019

Bianca Mulaney (left) and Rebecca Panovka were named Marshall Scholars.

England beckons for trio of scholars

Marshall, Rhodes projects range from economics to film

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DateDecember 16, 2015March 6, 2019

Cancer cells invading a blood vessel as seen on the left. In the image on the right, metastatic cancer cell form nanoscale bridges with endothelial cells lining blood vessels and inject miRNA through these nanobridges to control the endothelial cells.

Metastasis study illuminates how cancer will ‘hijack’ healthy cells

Researchers working to disrupt cancer’s communication channels and halt its spread

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DateDecember 16, 2015

Climate change altering migration of disease-carrying bugs

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DateDecember 16, 2015

Human intestinal epithelial cells cultured in the Wyss Institute’s human-gut-on-a-chip form differentiated intestinal villi when cultured in the presence of lifelike fluid flow and rhythmic, peristalsis-like motions. Here the villi are visible using a traditional microscope (left) and a confocal microscope (right). Fluorescent antibodies stain the nuclei blue and their specialized membranes, known as apical brush borders, green.

Human-gut-on-a-chip model offers hope for IBD sufferers

Wyss Institute replicates gut’s microenvironment in the lab, allowing researchers new access

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DateDecember 15, 2015

$A new study by Kate Konschnik (right), lecturer and director of Harvard Environmental Law Policy Initiative, and Archana Dayalu, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, claims that companies are less willing to disclose the chemicals they use while fracking.$

Disclosures on fracking lacking, study finds

Firms withholding chemical reports at higher rate

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DateDecember 15, 2015

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Researchers seek help digitizing decades-old observations

A.R.T. Institute puts students through rigorous stage prep

Fannie Cox Prize awarded to Golovchenko and Johnson

A look back at the year that was and why it mattered at Harvard

Acclaimed Harvard authors share highlights from year in reading

Though top FIFA officials have been barred on ethics charges, global game needs reform and accountability, Harvard analyst says

As rhetoric rises nationally, members of Harvard community ponder how to safeguard and support the rights of all

Organ-on-a-chip technology creates microfluidic device for testing disease-specific drugs

Some Airbnb hosts discriminate on the basis of race, rental study says

Erasing a cell’s memory makes it easier to manipulate them into becoming another type of cell

HSPH forum explores wider potential of climate accord

Family is clue to crossword player’s long devotion

Charles Follen (1796-1840) remembered for bringing tradition from Germany

Harvard's Memorial Hall is a veritable museum of American stained glass

System needs to please its riders, scissor its credit cards, and open its pension system, Harvard fellow’s report says

‘Charlie Brown’ soundtrack, now 50, hasn’t lost the power to inspire

Proper body language can quiet self-doubt and help ace life’s challenges, says Amy Cuddy

Scientists find neurotransmitter that ties in with disorder’s behavior

Marshall, Rhodes projects range from economics to film

Researchers working to disrupt cancer’s communication channels and halt its spread

Wyss Institute replicates gut’s microenvironment in the lab, allowing researchers new access

Firms withholding chemical reports at higher rate

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