Featured series 
Year: 2017
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Nation & World
Sunstein on impeachment
In a new book, Harvard’s Cass R. Sunstein discusses the vital role that the impeachment process plays in American democracy and dispels some misconceptions about the scope of presidential powers.
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Arts & Culture
Feejee Mermaid is unattractive attraction
Feejee Mermaid offers haunting image at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Nation & World
For politics, a ray of hope
At a time when American politics are beset by deep divisions and regular paralysis, five U.S. senators told a Harvard Law School audience that there is real reason for concern and yet some hope for their institution and the country.
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Arts & Culture
Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.
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Nation & World
Racial discrimination still rules, poll says
A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.
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Campus & Community
Harvard committed record $414 million to financial aid in 2016-17
This past academic year, Harvard distributed a record $414 million in financial aid to students across the University.
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Nation & World
A supremely jolly affair
Six Supreme Court justices, five current and one retired, took part in an amiable public conversation at Sanders Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
Experts hope cities rise to the occasion
A Harvard panel on the future of cities examined challenges in planning and sustainability.
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Nation & World
‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health
The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.
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Arts & Culture
Honoring Mexican discovery
A Harvard delegation traveled to Mexico to take part in the inaugural talk of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series.
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Health
Invisible world comes to light
Harvard Museum of Natural History brings art and science together as two Harvard scientists capture the “invisible,” and stunningly beautiful, life force that is everywhere: microbes.
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Health
Bees, social and solitary
Harvard study reveals underlying genetic basis for halictid bee communication and social behavior.
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Nation & World
Improving education globally
Fernando Reimers’ new book, “One Student at a Time,” follows graduates from the Graduate School of Education’s International Policy Program and analyzes the impact they make, the challenges they face, and the lessons they learn and teach as they try to improve educational opportunity around the world.
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Arts & Culture
The queen of Halloween
Harvard Music Department administrator Lesley Bannatyne’s other life is as a Halloween expert. She has written five books on the topic, including a children’s work.
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Science & Tech
The selfie’s gone, but the damage is done
New HBS research examines whether we are less inhibited when posting on temporary social media and how others perceive the posts.
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Campus & Community
Looking back, but thinking ahead
Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Hollister take a look at the 2017 fiscal year.
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Nation & World
Detours, some fraught, on path to global citizenship
Harvard scholars participated in a Tom Ashbrook-moderated panel on global citizenship as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard.
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Health
A step forward in DNA base editing
Scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute have developed a new class of DNA base editor that can repair the type of mutations that account for half of human disease-associated point mutations. These single-letter mutations are associated with disorders ranging from genetic blindness to sickle-cell anemia to metabolic disorders to cystic fibrosis.
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Campus & Community
From the islands to the bayous
A Harvard grad student’s research on Canary Island descendants in the U.S. grows into a photo exhibit and book.
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Work & Economy
Try hard, find God, get rich
The prosperity gospel, a strain of Christian belief that that links faith, positive thinking, and material wealth, is finding a foothold in American politics with the rise of President Trump, according to panelists at a Kennedy School forum.
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Campus & Community
How the mom-and-pop can compete in a changed marketplace
HBS teachers draw on 30 years of industry data at a Harvard Ed portal talk aimed at helping small business owners develop strategies to compete in a changed marketplace.
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Arts & Culture
Festive start to Worldwide Week
The Harvard Graduate Council kicked off Worldwide Week with the inaugural International Festival, featuring music and dance by multicultural student groups.
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Arts & Culture
Eden as a storyteller’s paradise
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.”
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Campus & Community
And the award goes to Elton
Elton John, AIDS activist and award-winning musician, has been named the Harvard Foundation’s humanitarian of the year, and will speak at a Nov. 6 ceremony.
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Nation & World
Bob Schieffer sees information overload
Veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer returns to Harvard to discuss the Trump administration and how the technological changes reshaping the news business are also reshaping our ability to process information.
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Campus & Community
Students helping students
Harvard Library’s Peer Research Fellow program assists students with research questions, taking them way beyond the basics.
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Work & Economy
Golden age for team players
Workers with strong social skills are increasingly valuable to employers, according to a new analysis by Harvard education economist.
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Campus & Community
Where urban needs, Harvard solutions meet
The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston helps build a bridge between the area and the academy.
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Arts & Culture
Life stories keep him turning (and sniffing) the page
A profile of Luke Kelly ’19, a history concentrator whose work at Houghton Library has nurtured his award-winning passion for books.
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Work & Economy
Scholars home in on U.S. inequality
A new Harvard initiative focused on inequality in the U.S. includes a postdoctoral fellowship to begin in the 2018-19 academic year.
