Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Arts & Culture
Sandra Boynton shares her story
Cartoonist, children’s book author, and songwriter Sandra Boynton will present a fast-paced audiovisual retrospective of her work on Feb. 23, part of the Askwith Forum series.
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Campus & Community
Candidates for overseer and elected director announced
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. Ballots will be mailed no later than April 1 and must be received in Cambridge by noon on May 20 to be counted.
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Campus & Community
Spring events preview: What to experience this season
Get out your calendars — here are the must-see events at Harvard this spring.
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Nation & World
A hearing for pleas to right wrongs
A new project to digitize petitions from Native Americans to the Massachusetts legislature seeks to illuminate the history of the region’s native peoples, for scholars, students, and the tribes themselves.
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Nation & World
A stronger sense of belonging
Harvard will host a conference for first-generation college students at Ivy League universities this weekend.
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Campus & Community
Michelle Williams to lead Harvard Chan School
Michelle A. Williams, a distinguished epidemiologist and educator, will become the next dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Nation & World
Apple bites back
With a showdown over privacy and national security issues underway between Apple and the FBI, the Gazette spoke with cyber security expert Michael Sulmeyer and Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about the pivotal yet competing issues raised by the case.
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Campus & Community
Books that pop
The possibilities of pop-ups far exceed peekaboo with paper. Take a look through the gallery to see where examples pop up across Harvard’s libraries.
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Arts & Culture
Field notes gathered by ear
Grammy-nominated saxophonist Yosvany Terry is bringing the music of his native Cuba to campus as a senior lecturer and leader of the Harvard Jazz Ensembles.
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Science & Tech
Veteran wants to improve the quality of life for amputees
Cameron Waites served in Iraq as an Army medic/health care specialist from 2004 to 2008. At 34, he is a student at Harvard Medical School where he hopes to discover solutions to problems that plague his fellow veterans.
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Arts & Culture
Spawn of Bosch
This year marks five centuries since the death of Hieronymus Bosch. Harvard Art Museums is paying tribute to the Dutch artist with the exhibit, “Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print.”
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Health
Politics biggest threat to malaria effort
America’s top malaria official said that everyday politics presents one of the biggest threats against progress to eliminate the worldwide killer.
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Health
Discovering predictor for fatal infection in preterm babies
Katherine Gregory, a nurse scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, searched for an answer to the mystery of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a sometimes fatal infectious disease of the newborn gut affecting preterm infants.
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Science & Tech
Long-ago freeze carries into the present
Harvard researchers contributed to a study identifying a 124-year freeze running from the sixth century into the seventh, with widely disruptive effects.
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Nation & World
Women, overshadowed
New research finds that female economists are not being fully credited for their contributions when they co-author papers with men, which may explain the significant tenure disparity between men and women in the field.
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Nation & World
Death of a judicial giant
Harvard reacts to the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: Education’s the one key that rules them all
When inequality is baked into public educational systems from kindergarten through the 12th grade, it usually extends through other aspects of life later, Harvard analysts say.
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Arts & Culture
Conan: Explore, learn, take risks
Conan O’Brien spoke with President Drew Faust about how his humanities education made him one of TV’s most successful comedians.
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Campus & Community
Lacking a loo no longer
Cambridge opens a stand-alone, year-round public toilet for Harvard Square
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Science & Tech
No rest for the graying
With the elderly beginning to outnumber the young around the world, workers, employers, and policymakers are rethinking retirement — what work we do, when to stop, and how to spend our later years.
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Nation & World
A religion course for the Internet age
A HarvardX MOOC explains world religions through their scripture.
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Science & Tech
Love in the crosshairs
A panel of marriage counselors and negotiators tells an audience of Harvard Law students how to use negotiation skills in their romantic relationships.
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Arts & Culture
Adventures of the heart
Visiting Professor Verena Andermatt Conley talks about her first venture into romance writing, “Cree.”
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Health
Watching sensory information translate into behavior
A state-of-the-art microscope built by Harvard researchers will allow scientists to capture 3-D images of all the neural activity in the brains of tiny, transparent C. elegans worms as they crawl.
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Campus & Community
The student perspective
During semester break, a Harvard freshman tells urban middle schoolers to dream big when applying to college.
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Nation & World
Keeping up the fight
An educator and award-winning author, Beekan Erena is on a mission to highlight the plight of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic majority in Ethiopia, who have struggled for years for political and economic equality.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 10
On Feb. 10 the members of the Faculty Council voted to approve proposed legislation regarding the General Education Program.
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Nation & World
His eye on I-teams
The movie “Spotlight” shows investigative reporting at the heart of journalism’s charge, says editor who led child abuse probe.
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Arts & Culture
Turns of narrative
An interview with novelist Claire Messud launches a new series in which Harvard writers discuss how their stories take shape.
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Campus & Community
House renewal benefits from Hutchins Family Challenge
In 2012, the Hutchins Family Foundation created a fundraising challenge for House renewal. The challenge has been completed with more than $50 million from 40 generous gifts.
