Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Science & Tech
Mitigating the risk of geoengineering
To halt the rise of global temperatures, Harvard researchers are looking at solar geoengineering, which would inject light-reflecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to cool the planet.
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Arts & Culture
Urgent message on ghetto life
Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby talks about his new book, “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.”
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Arts & Culture
The everyday response to racism
When someone makes a racially charged comment or joke, how would you respond? Research led by Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont says your answer may very well depend on the group to which you belong.
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Campus & Community
Putting their faith into action
Two comparative study of religion concentrators tell what drew them to their field, and how they plan to use their lessons to make a difference.
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Campus & Community
10 Named Schwarzman Fellows
Ten Harvard students and alumni have been selected to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing as Schwarzman Scholars.
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Campus & Community
Islamic studies scholar addresses myths and mores behind the veil
Islamic studies scholar Celene Ibrahim discussed the myths and realities of Muslim Feminism at the year’s second Diversity Dialogue.
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Nation & World
The budding U.S.-Russia ‘bromance’
The incoming Trump administration could lead the United States to a fresh relationship with Russia, said analysts at a Belfer Center panel discussion.
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Campus & Community
Charting a different course
The journey to graduation can take many twists and turns, and for some, it doesn’t fit neatly into the standard four years.
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Science & Tech
Curbing carbon on campus
Harvard University achieves ambitious climate goal set in 2008.
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Campus & Community
Richard John O’Connell, 73
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 6, 2016, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Professor Richard O’Connell, who arrived at Harvard as Assistant…
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Health
How power of positive thinking works
A Harvard study shows that although an optimistic outlook may help women live longer, one other possibility is that higher optimism directly impacts our biological systems.
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Nation & World
When journalism meets religion
Harvard Divinity School is hosting a symposium for journalists, designed to give them a more nuanced view of religions to prevent bigotry and prejudice.
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Nation & World
The story of Edwin Land
The Baker Library has mounted a show chronicling the history of the Polaroid Corp. and the career of its avant-garde founder, Edwin H. Land.
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Health
Fresh ways to fight cancer
Cancer patients have new weapons on their side, provided by targeted drug therapy and, more recently, immune therapy. Now, the recent discovery of large numbers of noncoding RNA that are active in disease provides a new opportunity to both understand and fight cancer, according to Pier Paolo Pandolfi, professor at Harvard Medical School and director…
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Campus & Community
What it takes to make the Harvard choir
“The Chorus Line” documents the process of auditioning for the Harvard University Choir. Those chosen will perform two concerts in December.
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Nation & World
Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’
Cuban writer and journalist Jorge Olivera is a dissident who was sentenced to prison and eventually released on humanitarian grounds. He’s now a Scholar at Risk hosted by Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature.
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Campus & Community
Opening doors, defining dreams
Last year’s Presidential Public Service Fellows spent a summer answering Drew Faust’s questions “What is your responsibility to others? What values guide your work?”
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Campus & Community
Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge wins Breakthrough Prize
Harvard Medical School geneticist Stephen Elledge won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize for unraveling the mechanism by which cells sense DNA damage and initiate self-repair.
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Campus & Community
Planting the seeds of STEM
Harvard students from the Digital Literacy Project (DLP) are providing computer science curricula to seven local middle schools this year. The DLP outreach model is unusual because lessons are presented during the school day.
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Health
Can happiness lead toward health?
A new Harvard center on health and happiness had its academic coming-out party Friday, hosting a daylong symposium that highlighted what science does and doesn’t say about the interaction of health and happiness, and identifying pathways where investigators should probe next.
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Health
Hunger for change
A panel sponsored by the Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Union of Concerned Scientists brought food luminaries to talk about the need for a national food policy.
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Nation & World
Cuba under Fidel’s long shadow
The Gazette interviewed Jorge Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and a prominent expert on Cuba, about Fidel Castro’s mixed legacy, and the Cuban Revolution.
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Nation & World
The election’s over, the ire isn’t
Three weeks after a remarkably nasty presidential election, emotions remain raw, as was evidenced when the Trump and Clinton camps met for the first time at Harvard Kennedy School for a debriefing conference this week.
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Campus & Community
Two Harvard scholars headed across the pond
Two Harvard students were among those selected to receive prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which support up to two years of study in the United Kingdom.
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Nation & World
ClassACT casts a mold for leadership
The classmates of Benazir Bhutto ’73 have established an international leadership program in her name.
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Arts & Culture
Stewarding arts philanthropy
New Dumbarton Oaks humanities fellowship mixes study and career preparation.
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Work & Economy
Giving women the edge
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day brought powerful business minds to campus.
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Arts & Culture
Blackest black
A sample of Vantablack, as dark as dark can get according to its maker, is now part of the pigments collection at Harvard Art Museums.
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Campus & Community
The archaeology of Harvard Yard
Year after year, the annual archaeological dig in Harvard Yard unearths treasures and insights.
