Year: 2017
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Campus & CommunityShareholder report availableThe 2016 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a subcommittee of the President and Fellows has been released. 
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Campus & CommunityEnsuring high standardsThe Gazette sat down with Professor Scott Edwards, who chairs Harvard’s reaccreditation steering committee, to discuss the process ahead for the University.  
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Arts & CultureEven in ‘Hamilton,’ a glimpse of mediocrityNew research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, highlights the starring role of “decidedly average” in the history of art.  
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Campus & CommunityReynolds is Hasty’s Man of the YearVersatile actor Ryan Reynolds is chosen as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year.  
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Campus & CommunityEspañol para abogados (Spanish for lawyers)Harvard Law School offers a Spanish course for student attorneys who want to polish their skills to deal with clients who speak that language.  
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HealthSugar stands accusedScience journalist Gary Taubes brought his “Case Against Sugar” to Harvard Law School.  
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Science & TechSeeking a breakthrough on catalystsA group of Harvard researchers is taking a new approach to the challenge of developing new catalysts.  
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Campus & CommunityDirector to retire from Harvard University PressWilliam Sisler, director of the Harvard University Press, will retire at the end of the academic year. He led the publisher through an era of major transitions in the field.  
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Campus & CommunityGetting their hands on scienceWith Harvard help, Gardner Pilot Academy celebrates its new, interactive science lab.  
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HealthNo easy answer for health void in SyriaProfessor Jennifer Leaning, co-chair of a new committee set up to examine the health consequences of Syria’s civil war, talks about the country’s prospects for stability and recovery. 
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Nation & WorldThe borders between usIn a new book, Harvard historian Charles Maier explores the boundaries that both separate and bind modern societies.  
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Campus & CommunityCandidates announced for Overseers, Alumni Association elected directorsHarvard alumni will receive ballots to vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors this spring.  
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Science & TechWhy city blocks workShorter city blocks stimulate urban life, but if they’re too short, people spend too much time crossing roads, and the streetscape suffers, study says.  
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Nation & WorldOur crumbling infrastructureWith President-elect Donald Trump pushing for a federal infrastructure improvement plan, Harvard faculty consider the needs and challenges that may dog the ambitious proposal.  
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Arts & CultureBuilding characterMolly Antopol, a Radcliffe Fellow and author of “The UnAmericans,” talks about the creative process behind her fiction.  
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Campus & CommunityMinow to step down as Law School deanHarvard Law School Dean Martha Minow announced she will step down at the end of this academic year. With a focus on access to justice, public service, and entrepreneurship, Minow guided the School in new directions to prepare lawyers for challenges and opportunities brought by globalization and a changing legal profession.  
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Science & TechThe false choice of basic vs. applied researchVenkatesh Narayanamurti, he former dean of Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is suggesting doing away with the traditional applied/basic research divide in favor of one that encourages greater collaboration and a two-way path between discovery and invention.  
 
							 
							 
							