Featured series 
Year: 2016
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Arts & Culture
Theater from the inside
Oberon’s presentation of “The Garden” is an intimate, inside-out theater experience for tiny audiences.
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Nation & World
Voting rights, unsettled
As the presidential election nears, Kennedy School Professor Alex Keyssar provides historical context on the efforts by some states to place new restrictions on voting rights.
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Health
The first fully 3-D-printed heart-on-a-chip
A new approach to manufacturing organs-on-chips developed by Harvard researchers could cut the length and cost of clinical trials significantly.
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Campus & Community
Steven Hyman awarded 2016 Sarnat Prize
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded Professor Steven Hyman ’80 the 2016 Sarnat Prize for his work on treating and understanding psychiatric disorders as biological diseases.
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Arts & Culture
Rose petals for the lost
Recently the Harvard Art Museums acquired the evocative “A Flor de Piel,” a room-sized tapestry by contemporary Colombian artist Doris Salcedo made of thousands of dyed rose petals stitched together to form a giant burial shroud. For the director of Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, this was a first.
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Nation & World
A tension as old as the country
The Gazette interviewed Kristen Carpenter ’98, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, about the current relations between Native Americans and state and federal government.
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Nation & World
Youth justice study finds prison counterproductive
A study by the Harvard Kennedy School cites high recidivism, bloating costs, and widespread abuses in U.S. juvenile detention centers and calls for support- and education-focused rehabilitation alternatives.
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Nation & World
The stressed-out electorate
Harvard analysts discuss findings of a new study that shows more than half of Americans say the presidential election is stressing them out.
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Arts & Culture
Visual synesthesia
The words “Folding, Refraction, Touch” provided a useful framework for the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s exhibition of works by Wolfgang Tillmans and other modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with the German photographer.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard’s religious past
A Harvard Divinity School lecturer says that to understand where the University is, it’s important to see where it’s been.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 19
On October 19 the Faculty Council heard a review of the Biomedical Engineering concentration and a proposal on course scheduling. They also met with Provost Garber to ask and answer…
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Nation & World
The unchanging election
Veteran pollster Peter D. Hart analyzes the 2016 election and sees far less volatility than headlines would suggest.
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Arts & Culture
A family history of wartime heroism
Artemis Joukowsky worked with Ken Burns on a documentary about his grandparents, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, who helped hundreds escape Nazi death squads in from 1939 to 1940.
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Campus & Community
At Carpenter Center, an explosion of creativity
The Carpenter Center, designed by renowned architect Le Corbusier, is intended for creative activity within its spaces.
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Arts & Culture
A monstrous passion
As part of our humanities series, Charles Hyman ’19 talks about finding intellectual life in the study of dead languages.
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Nation & World
Poll shows gap between parent views and expert assessments of quality of U.S. child care
A recent poll suggests a major gap between parents’ views and research experts’ assessments of the quality of child care in the U.S.
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Nation & World
Confronting the refugee crisis
A Harvard student follows her passion for the welfare of refugees back home to Germany after graduation, and Harvard researchers seek solutions to the European crisis.
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Health
Cervical cancer screening could be less frequent, start later
A Harvard Chan School study suggests that relaxing current U.S. guidelines could provide greater health benefits with less harm and for less money in women who are vaccinated against human papillomavirus.
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Nation & World
The fog of peace
Political anthropologist Jennifer Schirmer reacts to the rejection in a recent referendum of the Colombian peace she worked on for 14 years.
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Nation & World
Impact of the nation’s first black president
Scholars, practitioners, and activists at Harvard Kennedy School consider race and justice in the Obama era.
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Nation & World
Waiting for the storm to pass
Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, talked politics with Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf in a visit to the Kennedy School following a day of lab tours and meeting with students.
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Health
The knotty problem of bringing regenerative medicine to market
Leaders from the scientific and business world gathered at Harvard Business School on Oct. 6 to examine regenerative medicine’s scientific and commercial promise.
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Campus & Community
Community Football Day perfect, Crimson too
More than 1,000 residents of Allston-Brighton and Cambridge enjoyed a tailgate before watching the Crimson football team continue their perfect streak, all compliments of Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Some advice for freshmen
A Harvard College sophomore tells freshmen what he knows, and ponders what he’s learned in the last year.
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Arts & Culture
Don’t think twice, it’s all right
Harvard scholars weigh in on Bob Dylan’s Nobel for literature
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Nation & World
Don’t trust that algorithm
Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D. ’99, talks about her new book “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” and the quiet dangers of big data.
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Nation & World
For GOP, days of chaos
New York Times op-ed writer Ross Douthat spoke with the Gazette about the state of the GOP ahead of a Harvard visit.
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Campus & Community
A student-driven performance space
Two undergraduates turned their idea for a new musical and performance space into reality at the Penthouse Café in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.
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Arts & Culture
Art of the self, but not just
Work by MacArthur genius Carrie Mae Weems is showcased in a new exhibit at the Cooper Gallery.
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Science & Tech
They ponder the universe
A Harvard research summer at CERN in Switzerland can lead to hard work, sightseeing, and, for some, a lifetime in physics.
