Featured series 
Year: 2015
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Campus & Community
The music never dies
Rob Reider, an administrative coordinator with Harvard’s Campus Services, is also a longtime rocker.
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Science & Tech
A focus on food
The Harvard Food Law Society and the Food Literacy Project hosted the “Just Food? Forum on Justice in the Food System” at Harvard Law School (HLS).
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Arts & Culture
‘Confronting Violence’ through arts and activism
“Confronting Violence,” an April 9-10 conference at the Radcliffe Institute, will explore how activism and cultural change can affect public policy and reduce violence. It includes an exhibit, “Confronting Violence: Critical Approaches to American Comics and Video Games,” which can be viewed through April 17.
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Arts & Culture
Walking in Cuba
A historian’s photographs expose the sedimentary layers of Cuba, a country in flux.
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Campus & Community
‘It seemed to me miraculous that you could actually hear Shakespeare or Keats speaking from the page’
Interview with Professor Helen Vendler as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
A decade of student impact
Now in its 10th year, the Cordeiro Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Global Health and Health Policy has funded undergraduate research projects for more than 100 students. A celebratory program highlighted some of their accomplishments.
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Science & Tech
Reunion and reassessment
Generations of concentrators in Environmental Science and Public Policy returned to Harvard for the first reunion involving the more than 20-year-old concentration.
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Campus & Community
Three faculty members receive NAS awards
Catherine Dulac, Hopi Hoekstra, and Xiaowei Zhuang have received National Academy of Sciences awards.
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Nation & World
‘Voices of Syria’
Starting in May 2013, in two of Syria’s war-torn cities, specially trained operatives moved from door to door with a singular purpose: to ask questions. Vera Mironova, a graduate research fellow at Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, was one of the lead authors of the “Voices of Syria” project. She will discuss it today at noon…
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Campus & Community
Theater, Dance, and Media
A new arts concentration will offer classes this fall, and students will be able to declare the concentration officially in December.
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Arts & Culture
The unheard melodies of speech
During a talk at the Graduate School of Design, composer Steve Reich’s haunting “WTC 9/11” demonstrated the unique ability of sound to recall not only the defining moment of loss, but the trauma that continually threatens to erase it from memory.
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Campus & Community
Upward, onward, underwater
Harvard runners training for the Boston Marathon found ways to train throughout this season’s record snowfall.
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Nation & World
A new office, a global audience
In a question-and-answer session, HarvardX head Peter Bol outlines the challenges ahead for the online platform and for teaching and learning.
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Health
Hand-held disasters
Harvard’s Center for Health Communication last week arranged a media briefing at the Massachusetts State House on distracted driving, a problem that takes some 3,000 lives a year in the United States. The Gazette spoke to center director Jay Winsten about the problem.
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Campus & Community
Reconnecting academic support services
After five years of gathering input from students, faculty, and staff, after lengthy planning, and after careful thinking about the best way to support undergraduates, the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) will return to Harvard College oversight starting July 1.
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Campus & Community
Richard John O’Connell dies
Harvard’s Professor of Geophysics Richard “Rick” John O’Connell died on April 2 after a valiant, three-year battle with prostate cancer during which he never sacrificed his humor or his positive outlook.
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Health
Wine watcher
Harvard biologist Elizabeth Wolkovich is studying wine grape phenology and changes that might be needed in a warming world.
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Nation & World
Three strong women
IOP Fellows Martha Coakley, Kay Hagan, and Christine Quinn talk candidly about their battle-scarred campaign days and advise students on what it really takes to make it in politics.
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Nation & World
Albright, on negotiating
The value of a clear understanding of your country’s objectives and the power of personal relationships were among the insights former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shared with a Harvard audience.
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Campus & Community
The road trip of a lifetime
Scholars from Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., were thrust in the spotlight when photographer Brandon Stanton, the founder of the popular blog “Humans of New York,” featured eighth-grader Vidal Chastanet describing his admiration for principal Nadia Lopez.
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Science & Tech
Let’s talk climate change
The Harvard University Center for the Environment is sponsoring Climate Week, featuring breakfasts with scientists working on the problems along with a variety of climate-centered activities, from talks by prominent scientists to poetry readings to informal gatherings.
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Campus & Community
A college vision, made real
About 200 middle school students from Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., visited Harvard to sample what a university can offer.
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Arts & Culture
They build, but modestly
Speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, two French architects advocate building and rebuilding based on modesty, generosity, and economy, with an eye to comfort and beauty.
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Science & Tech
When flames attack
Harvard researchers were able to predict when test flames in the lab were likely to switch from slow- to fast-moving fires, which could open the way to making similar predictions for forest fires.
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Nation & World
Whither Iran
As negotiators worked beyond a deadline, experts at Harvard Kennedy School considered the possible outcomes of a deal, or no deal, with Iran over nuclear materials.
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Science & Tech
Seeking public openness
Four teams that took part in a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab last weekend will go on to present their practical solutions for reducing institutional corruption to a conference at Harvard Law School in May.
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Nation & World
Breaking down the Middle East
Harvard experts assess the rolling waves of violence and political upheaval across much of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Campus & Community
An inspiration to students
Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman was named the Harvard Foundation’s 2015 Scientist of the Year.
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Nation & World
Massive study on MOOCs
A Harvard and MIT study’s findings suggest that teachers often constitute a significant portion of the participants in MOOCs; that learner intentions matter; and that those with financial stakes have higher completion rates.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College admits 1,990
On March 31, admission notifications were sent to 1,990 of the record 37,307 who applied for admission to the Harvard College Class of 2019.
