Year: 2015

  • Nation & World

    Blood clot breakthrough uses drug-device combo

    Harvard-affiliated researchers are working on a procedure that will allow fully obstructed blood clots in the brain to be cleared using a device that opens a small channel through the blockage, which combines with a clot-busting drug to target the obstructed site.

    4 minutes
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    Returning to Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy

    Students in a new Graduate School of Design course use what they’ve learned to help restore the urban legacy of slain Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

    6 minutes
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    Pinpointing punishment

    It’s a question most attorneys wish they could answer: How and why do judges and juries arrive at their decisions? The answer, according to Joshua Buckholtz, may lie in the…

    6 minutes
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    Age-old enchantments

    During an afternoon demonstration and evening concert and reception, “Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives” students assembled, tuned, and played replicas of the world’s oldest known instruments, and sampled food based on 4,000-year-old recipes.

    3 minutes
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    Fresh angle on Parents Weekend

    Sophomore Matthew DeShaw’s memories don’t overshadow this year’s Freshman Parents Weekend. Families share their stories as DeShaw remembers his.

    4 minutes
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    Environmental awareness grows from peer-to-peer

    Students stay involved with sustainability on campus through REP — the Undergraduate Resource Efficiency Program — and its affiliates. REP helps students “educate their peers on issues such as energy, waste, water, food, and more through fun, personal, community-building events, competitions, and campaigns.”

    5 minutes
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    ‘The Trouble with Jellyfish’

    A video showcases “The Trouble with Jellyfish,” a new exhibition at Le Laboratoire Cambridge that spotlights a growing crisis beneath the sea.

    1 minute
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    Dramatic chain of events

    Harvard physicist Lisa Randall discusses the research behind her new book, “Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs.”

    5 minutes
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    Medication errors found in 1 out of 2 surgeries

    The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period has found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in every second operation and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations, according to information gathered from 275 operations at Massachusetts General Hospital.

    5 minutes
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    Drug story

    Americans often have no idea whether they’re getting value for their prescription drug dollars, something that has to change if costs are to be reigned in in this country, according to a panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

    5 minutes
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    Torture through a viewfinder

    A new photo exhibit at Harvard Law School depicts the Syrian government’s brutality toward civilians, organizers say, and raises calls for legal and political remedies.

    5 minutes
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    Independent mind

    A former justice in Guatemala, now a Scholar at Risk, says that a lack of judicial independence creates fertile ground for corruption.

    5 minutes
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    Wanted: Climate change solutions

    Harvard will again fund grants of up to $150,000 for promising ideas to combat climate change.

    2 minutes
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    Kennedy assails prison shortcomings

    During an appearance at Harvard Law School, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy criticized the shortcomings of the American prison system, citing its “ongoing injustice.”

    4 minutes
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    Taking the stairs

    Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.

    3 minutes
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    George Ledlie Prize awarded to Joanna Aizenberg

    Professor Joanna Aizenberg has won the George Ledlie Prize, which is awarded once every two years.

    3 minutes
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    Red blood cell production increases, but cost goes down

    New research suggests a way to cost-effectively manufacture red blood cells from stem cells; the patients who could potentially benefit include those who cannot use blood currently available in blood banks.

    4 minutes
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    Cosmic ‘Death Star’ destroys a planet

    Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. “We’re watching a solar system get destroyed,” noted a Harvard researcher.

    3 minutes
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    The tiny flying submarine

    Harvard lab develops first insect-size robots capable of flight and swimming.

    4 minutes
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    Faust: Step up on climate change

    At a State Department forum, Harvard President Drew Faust says that universities have a responsibility to play a key role in developing solutions to climate-change issues.

    3 minutes
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    Nobel laureate honored with Humanitarian of the Year award

    Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Harvard Foundation’s 2015 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year on Oct. 16.

    4 minutes
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    For gallery visitors, a chance to be one with the art

    A new installation at Radcliffe by a collaborative of engineers and artists transforms viewers into virtual artists.

    4 minutes
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    Karisma dances for charity

    A midmonth charity arts showcase called Karisma has raised $20,000, which will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Nepali hurricane relief efforts according to Karisma president and founding director Meenakshi Krishna ’17.

    1 minute
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    Converting skin cells to stem cells creates ‘kidney structures’

    Researchers create complex kidney structures from human stem cells derived from the skin of adult patients.

    3 minutes
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    Behind the show, pages (and pages) of pain

    New show explores the meeting of art and illness with help from the work of author Ayn Rand and composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

    4 minutes
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    Pop art on spaghetti

    In homage to the pop artist Corita Kent — who regularly featured food in her work — and the Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop,” Harvard University Dining Services hosted “Corita Night” in the University’s dining halls, with meatballs as the focus.

    3 minutes
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    What it means when ‘The Doctor Is Out’

    What happens when homophobia hits the hospital? “The Doctor Is Out: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Schuster on Being a Gay Physician at Harvard” was part of Harvard Medical School’s Diversity Dialogue series.

    4 minutes
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    Harvard creates Global Institute

    A multidisciplinary project to investigate climate change, energy security, and sustainable development in China has received the first $3.75 million grant from the new Harvard Global Institute.

    5 minutes
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    Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 14

    On Oct. 14 the Faculty Council met with Provost Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty and heard an update on the library.

    1 minute
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    Facing ‘the challenge of our generation’

    Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the array of foreign policy challenges facing the United States, speaking with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Graham Allison.

    4 minutes