The Harvard Gazette

Year: 2016

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Top stories of 2016

Looking back at some of our most-read articles of the year

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DateDecember 22, 2016November 20, 2018

Denis Black is the general manager emeritus of J. Press Store in Harvard Square. He has been with the store since 1977 and in the clothing business for over 50 years. He is pictured by the shop entrance on Mt. Auburn Street. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Style with staying power

Local shops help give the Ivy League a certain flair

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DateDecember 22, 2016March 1, 2018

Cumrun Vafa, the Donner Professor of Science, and Andrew Strominger, the Gwill E. York Professor of Physics, have been named winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their groundbreaking work in some of the most dizzying fields of theoretical physics.

Recognition for their discoveries

Harvard researchers receive Breakthrough Prizes

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DateDecember 21, 2016November 13, 2018

Annabel O’Hagan and Ashley LaLonde share a laugh over O’Hagan’s Little Red Riding Hood’s Granny costume.

Backstage at Harvard’s Oberon Theater

What happens behind the scenes in a Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club production

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DateDecember 21, 2016December 22, 2016

Facebook Vice President of Engineering Regina Dugan speaks during a visit to Harvard’s Office of Technology Development on Nov. 7. Harvard is among 17 academic institutions that have signed on to Facebook’s Sponsored Academic Research Agreement.

A platform for rapid innovation

New agreement streamlines Harvard research collaborations with Facebook

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DateDecember 21, 2016December 21, 2016

The Creative Writing Program has seen a huge influx of students in recent years, with more senior English concentrators writing creative theses than critical theses.

Making magic out of 26 letters

Harvard’s creative writing program is thriving, growing in breadth, size

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DateDecember 21, 2016March 4, 2019

Laura Lewis, junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, is the author of a recent paper on new ways to use functional MRI scans to investigate the brain's activity as it enters unconsciousness.

Spotting speedy brain activity

Study reveals way that scans can track rapid oscillations previously unseen

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DateDecember 20, 2016

Capgras syndrome is a rare disorder in which patients recognize a family member but experience that person as unfamiliar, leading to the conclusion that an impostor is impersonating their loved one.

Love interrupted

Researchers probe what's behind delusional misidentification syndromes

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DateDecember 20, 2016March 4, 2019

Actinic keratosis lesions (top image), the yellowish patches, were treated with a combination of calcipotriol plus fluorouracil. Within eight weeks they had largely disappeared (below).

Topical treatment clears precancerous skin lesions

Calcipotriol and fluorouracil found to activate immune system and suppress skin cancer development

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DateDecember 20, 2016December 20, 2016

Jen Schriever, lighting designer for the A.R.T. production "Fingersmith," explained that with only one main set to work with, she and the design team had to get creative. “This is one prime example of why lighting is so important,” said Schriever.

In ‘Fingersmith,’ lead role for lighting

Designer talks about her vision for A.R.T. adaptation of Waters novel

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DateDecember 20, 2016March 4, 2019

The Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has completed its preliminary organizational activities and has appointed several subcommittees that will focus on specific areas in need of improvement.

Delving into ‘belonging’ at Harvard

Presidential task force on inclusion expands its work across University

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DateDecember 19, 2016July 19, 2019

PH.D. candidates Jenny Schloss (left) and Matthew Turner are co-authors of a recent paper on using nitrogen vacancy centers — atomic-scale impurities in diamond — to track neural activity. “We want to understand the brain from the single-neuron level all the way up, so we envision that this could become a tool useful both in biophysics labs and in medical studies,” said Schloss.

Diamonds are a lab’s best friend

Harvard researchers trace neural activity by using quantum sensors

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DateDecember 19, 2016March 4, 2019

Coach Tommy Amaker's 179th victory at Harvard places him as having the most wins by a Crimson men’s basketball coach, surpassing Frank Sullivan's record (1991-2007).

‘I’m very lucky to represent’ Harvard

Tommy Amaker reflects on becoming the Crimson’s winningest men’s basketball coach

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DateDecember 19, 2016January 8, 2018

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has found new life in the digital age, the subject of a work in progress by Alex Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, which examines the deeper analyses and unique reinterpretations enabled by modern technology.

Forever bringing joy

Book project on Beethoven’s Ninth has been an ear opener for professor

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DateDecember 19, 2016December 15, 2017

Rhodes Scholar Dhruva Bhat '17 and Marshall Scholar Julius Ross '17 (not pictured) will spend the next two years at Oxford University studying toward graduate degrees in development and zoology, respectively.

Rhodes and Marshall scholars

Two Harvard seniors plan to study in the U.K.

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DateDecember 16, 2016December 15, 2017

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a tiny radio — built with atom-sized imperfections in diamonds — that can operate in a number of environments, from the harsh conditions of space to an organ in a living body.

The world’s tiniest radio

Harvard researchers create receiver with building blocks the size of two atoms

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DateDecember 16, 2016April 8, 2019

Crimson Catering Collects for Cambridge Residents

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DateDecember 16, 2016

Jackie Lender '16 is the first recipient of a new Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship, which places a recent Harvard College graduate at Boston City Hall to work with Mayor Martin J. Walsh and his team for one year.

Harvard Yard to Boston City Hall

Jackie Lender is the first Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow

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DateDecember 16, 2016December 16, 2016

Author Michael Lewis (left) speaks about his new book "The Undoing Project" with Michael Norton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, which traces the 40-year relationship between Israeli-American psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who pioneered the social psychology study of decision making.

The duo who upended intuition

In his new book, Michael Lewis profiles the pioneers behind behavioral economics

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DateDecember 15, 2016March 22, 2019

2016–17 Tazuko Ajiro Monane and Noma-Reischauer Prizes awarded

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DateDecember 15, 2016March 4, 2019

Kennedy School supports bipartisan statement from freshman Representatives

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DateDecember 15, 2016March 15, 2019

Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative announces 2017 Fellows

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DateDecember 15, 2016December 15, 2016

Kathryn Taylor, visiting scientist at Harvard Chan School, is the senior author of a study examining Boston's bicycling safety that found the city's infrastructure and education initiatives have significantly reduced cyclist injuries since 2009.

Better days for Boston cyclists

Rate of injuries dropped over several years, study says

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DateDecember 15, 2016December 15, 2016

Russia’s alleged involvement in the U.S. election, the brewing friction between the incoming president and intelligence community, and the implications that those contentious issues have for U.S.-Russia relations, was the focus of a discussion with Kevin Ryan, a retired Army brigadier general and director of the Belfer Center’s Defense and Intelligence Projects at Harvard Kennedy School.

Inside the hacked U.S. election

An analyst on Russian security issues explains how the U.S. probe likely played out, and where it may yet lead

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DateDecember 14, 2016December 15, 2016

Harvard Professor Calestous Juma (from left), Margaret Walsh, senior ecologist, Climate Change Program Office, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Harvard Chan School's Gary Adamkiewicz, discuss the effects climate change will have on food security in the U.S. and Africa.

The climate change threat to food

Shifts can affect agriculture, farming in many ways globally, panel says

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DateDecember 14, 2016February 22, 2017

Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling, who was a major figure in shaping the modern Harvard Kennedy School, died at the age of 95.

Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95

Was co-founder of Harvard Kennedy School, Weatherhead Center

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DateDecember 14, 2016February 9, 2023

A team at Brigham and Women's Hospital examining data from more than 54,000 women between the ages of 48 and 73 has found a link between the use of over-the-counter pain relievers and hearing loss in women.

Longer use of pain relievers tied to hearing loss in women

Study points to six or more years of use as the key marker

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DateDecember 14, 2016December 21, 2016

Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.

Harvard students, meet the Stone Age

They learn to respect Neanderthals’ skills by making stone tools from scratch

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DateDecember 14, 2016

6 a.m. — A member of the 5:30 a.m. November Project group is illuminated by a fellow runner’s headlamp as he scales the stone steps of Harvard Stadium. He is one of hundreds of people who gather in the stadium every Wednesday morning, regardless of the month. Photo by Sarah Silbiger

Seeing Harvard at dawn

How does Harvard University wake up in the morning?

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DateDecember 14, 2016December 21, 2016

More than 900 students have been admitted to the Harvard College Class of 2021 through early action, a greater number than last year despite a more selective admissions process.

938 admitted early to College Class of 2021

Early action is ‘new normal’ for undergraduate admissions, Fitzsimmons says

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DateDecember 13, 2016February 28, 2019

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