Featured series 
Year: 2015
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Arts & Culture
A movie as a mirror
Three young Harvard alumni explain the genesis and the process of their making the hit film “Whiplash.”
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Campus & Community
Seal of approval
Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.
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Campus & Community
A new dean for SEAS
Francis J. Doyle III, a distinguished scholar in chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has been appointed the next dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will take the reins on Aug. 1.
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Health
Changing the way genomes work
In the Wyss Institute’s inaugural podcast “Disruptive,” host Terrence McNally spoke with Pamela Silver and George Church about today’s breakthroughs in technology and modifications to an organism’s genome that can be conducted more cheaply, efficiently, and effectively than ever before.
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Campus & Community
A Crimson kind of town
Amid a discussion probing inequality, the Your Harvard series celebrates the University’s ties to Chicago.
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Campus & Community
Life under the lights and in the lab
Talented actress and singer Elizabeth Leimkuhler divided her time at Harvard between her love for the stage and her love for all creatures, great and small.
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Science & Tech
A better sense of place
Alyssa Goodman, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, will give a talk titled “Lost Without Longitude” on Thursday at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
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Campus & Community
Not your average science fair
At the fourth annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair, hundreds of students representing 18 Harvard courses presented projects.
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Health
Leaving a beautiful scar
Feature on surgeon and violinist Terry Buchmiller as part of the Practice series.
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Health
At Medical School, a late bloomer
Afamefuna Nduaguba, a Nigerian immigrant, overcame early struggles at Roxbury Community College to gain a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and now an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
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Arts & Culture
Robert Darnton closes the book
A historian, digital library pioneer, and champion of books, Robert Darnton will depart Harvard early this summer, giving up his post as University Librarian to resume a life of full-time scholarship.
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Nation & World
Medal of Honor moment
Three recipients of the nation’s highest military award ― all Vietnam veterans ― toured Harvard’s Memorial Church during a visit on May 8.
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Nation & World
Europe’s calmer side
A Harvard Summer School course will take a novel approach to European history, examining centuries of violence through the lens of peace.
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Science & Tech
Finding problems, designing solutions
The controlled chaos of the fourth annual Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair on May 6 offered a taste of the wide range of projects SEAS developed during the school year.
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Health
Improved accuracy in genome editing
A team of scientists has engineered a form of the genome-editing protein Cas9 that can be controlled by a small molecule and offers improved DNA specificity.
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Campus & Community
Scholarship of things
Addressing an audience at the Harvard Ed Portal, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for history, said that many objects in Harvard’s collections defy easy categorization. Consider, she said, the tortilla.
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Science & Tech
Saving the digital record
Changing with the times as the world moves from paper to digital, the Harvard Library has adopted forensic techniques to save material stored on obsolete formats.
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Nation & World
Uncertain forecast for Social Security
A new study has found that the financial health of Social Security, the program millions of Americans have relied on for decades as a crucial part of their income, has been dramatically overstated.
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Nation & World
The modern Buddhist minister
The conference “Education and Buddhist Ministry: Whither — and Why?” was held at the Harvard Divinity School and marked a new undertaking for its Buddhist Ministry Initiative.
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Campus & Community
Great adventures
Students in “The Humanities Colloquium: Essential Works 2” received an education both in and out of the classroom.
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Science & Tech
The era of climate responsibility
At Harvard’s 10th annual Plant Biology Symposium, climate expert Chris Field talked about the need to evaluate environmental risks in the coming decades even as many people work to reduce climate-warming emissions.
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Health
Creatures of habit
The motor cortex is critical to learn new skills, but may not be needed to perform them, a new Harvard study says.
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Arts & Culture
Saving the elephants
Author chronicles how a system in which Myanmar’s elephants were made half-captive likely has ensured their survival.
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Arts & Culture
The roots of artistry
A clever exhibit at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, designed by Graduate School of Design Professor Rosetta Elkin, is bringing organic beauty out of the shadows. Her installation highlights the root system of a white poplar.
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Campus & Community
‘A completely new life was beckoning’
Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Two honored for teaching excellence
Ruth Bielfeldt, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, and Sarah Richardson, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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Science & Tech
Really, try the brisket
Sixteen Harvard engineering students spent the last few months researching, designing, and building a better barbecue smoker. They presented their findings — and some tasty brisket — to guests during the final class presentation.
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Arts & Culture
Walt Whitman’s war
A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.
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Arts & Culture
Making medieval German sing
Professor Racha Kirakosian is using performance to help her students grasp gender issues in medieval German literature.
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Health
‘New clarity’ against Alzheimer’s
Rudolph Tanzi of Harvard Medical School, recently named to Time’s list of the most influential people in the world, talks about the promising future of Alzheimer’s research.
