Featured series 
Year: 2018
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Nation & World
The new rules of covering sex assault
Journalists covering sexual misconduct charges and the #MeToo movement stop to reflect on the seismic impact the Harvey Weinstein scandal has had on the wider culture and on the profession, and consider what more needs to be done.
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Science & Tech
How fast can we run?
Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman offers evolutionary perspective on Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile, today’s marathoners.
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Nation & World
A message from the pope in the life of a saint
The canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was killed by a death squad while celebrating Mass in 1980, reflects Pope Francis’ focus on “those who are in need.”
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Campus & Community
Progress on faculty diversity
Harvard’s faculty is more diverse than ever, with women making up 30 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty and minorities making up 23 percent.
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Nation & World
Harvard student project to aid refugees
A Harvard student project won an award in Paris for its design of a mobile hygiene unit to aid refugees.
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Nation & World
The women’s view
“Who Belongs: Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century,” Radcliffe’s annual gender conference, touched on topics as varied as the hijab and the history of citizenship in America.
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Science & Tech
Ph.D. with ADHD brings can-do focus to science, life
Diagnosed with ADHD, Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Kotler uses clinical and genetic studies to reinterpret how humans think.
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Science & Tech
Two atoms combined in dipolar molecule
Harvard Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kang-Kuen Ni and colleagues have combined two atoms for the first time into what researchers call a dipolar molecule.
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Arts & Culture
The artist and her evolution
Photographer Rosamond Purcell will be at the MCZ on Thursday to talk about the museum’s role in her evolution as an artist.
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Campus & Community
Heart of mettle seeks more than medals
Divinity School student and former Navy SEAL Daniel Cnossen won six medals as part of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 2018 Paralympics.
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Campus & Community
House renewal comes to Adams
Adams House is the next Harvard residence complex slated for renewal. It includes a building that predates the Revolution, an antique printing press, and a theater crafted from a swimming pool. The renewal will retain such gems, while improving accessibility and providing modern amenities.
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Nation & World
Among young, trust in social media is low, poll says
New IOP poll finds that young adults don’t trust much, not even the big tech companies. Perhaps that’s why the findings also say they’re promising to turn out for the midterm elections in November in larger numbers.
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Arts & Culture
A detailed narrative of Rome
Harvard’s Joseph Connors took listeners on a virtual tour of two of Rome’s most iconic spaces, the Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, also known as St. Peter’s Square.
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Nation & World
Making ‘a case for the small’
Making “a case for the small,” Harvard’s Danielle Allen tells symposium that progress in Civil Rights isn’t just about breakthroughs.
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Health
When science meets mindfulness
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School are examining how mindfulness meditation may change the brain in depressed patients.
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Arts & Culture
Unearthing the secrets of the Aztecs
Prominent Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on April 10 will deliver the first lecture on campus in the series that bears his name and honors his contributions to archaeology.
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Nation & World
Nassar accuser opts for justice, forgiveness
Faith helped former gymnast surmount abuse by sports physician Larry Nassar, she tells Harvard audience.
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Nation & World
Getting to the why of British India’s bloody Partition
Harvard’s South Asia Institute is examining the history and ramifications of the violent Partition of British India in 1947 into what would eventually become India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s hand across the bridge to citizenship
At the annual Citizenship Celebration Dinner, Harvard welcomed its newest Americans.
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Campus & Community
FAS stars honored with Dean’s Distinction Awards
Four teams and 61 employees from across FAS were honored at the annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony.
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Nation & World
The shadowy dealings of global finance
A Nieman Fellow recounts how he and his reporting partner broke the Panama Papers international finance scandal two years ago.
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Science & Tech
Before cancer kills, it cheats
Evolutionary biologist Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University delivered a lecture titled “Why Cancer is Everywhere” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Science & Tech
The ruse of ‘fake news’
In a recently published study, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Matthew Baum and Northeastern University Professor David Lazer, an associate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, argue that a multidisciplinary effort is needed to understand better how the Internet spreads content and how citizens process the news and information they consume.
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Nation & World
Justice for the slain in Bolivia
A federal jury found the former president of Bolivia and his defense minister responsible for extrajudicial killings carried out by Bolivian military forces in 2003. Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic was part of the legal team representing eight victims’ relatives.
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Campus & Community
Students provide tax help
Harvard Law School students are volunteering their time to provide tax help to the community at the Cambridge Public Library.
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Arts & Culture
A boozy writer who crossed out the adjective
Harvard grad Leslie Jamison on her new book, “The Recovering.”
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Campus & Community
Making a difference 101
A gift from Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 will support the creation of new curricular offerings and expanding current courses that focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Health
Treating inflammatory arthritis with hydrogel
To better manage inflammatory arthritis, bioengineers and physicians have developed a delivery system for getting anti-inflammatory therapies to the sites where they are needed most.
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Campus & Community
Jurij Striedter, 80
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jurij Striedter, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, was placed upon the records. Professor Striedter was a leading scholar of Russian literature.
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Campus & Community
I. Bernard Cohen, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cohen led the professionalization of the history of science and established the flagship department at Harvard.