Featured series 
Year: 2018
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Arts & Culture
Watching ‘Scandal’ in a Faulkner state of mind
For “Faulkner, Interracialism and Popular Television,” Harvard’s Linda Chavers pairs the white Southern writer’s work with the TV series “Scandal” from African-American writer-producer Shonda Rhimes.
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Work & Economy
Racial and economic disparities intertwined, study finds
While African-Americans have moved to higher ranks on the income distribution scale in the decades since the Civil Rights Movement, those improvements have largely been blunted by rapid income growth for the richest members of society and income stagnation among lower- and middle-income families.
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Nation & World
‘Network Propaganda’ explored
“Network Propaganda,” which is based on a three-year study, examines American politics and the media ecosystem surrounding the 2016 presidential election.
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Campus & Community
Not just a humanities cat
Meet Remy, Harvard’s resident cat by day, whose campus rambles have inspired a Facebook page with more than 1,000 followers.
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Campus & Community
For Harvard, a look at the financials
Reflecting on the end of the fiscal year June 30, the Gazette sat down with Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance Thomas Hollister to talk about the last budget year and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
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Campus & Community
Summit celebrates Asian American ‘innovators, instigators, and inspirers’
Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance organizers envision the Oct. 26‒28 summit as something that will “inspire innovation and be a starting place for instigating local and global transformation.”
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Nation & World
Giving Du Bois his due
Dean Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, discusses the vast intellectual legacy of Du Bois and how the field of sociology has finally begun to reconsider his rightful place in the discipline’s history books.
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Campus & Community
Mostafavi to step down as GSD dean
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) since January 2008, announced Oct. 24 that he will step down from the position at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.
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Health
At Harvard Chan School, nano safety is no small concern
Philip Demokritou, director of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, sat down with the Gazette to talk about the aims of the center, its recent work on novel nanoparticles, and the potential benefits of a safer-by-design approach.
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Arts & Culture
The plot, and the fog, thicken
Fujiko Nakaya’s climate-responsive fog sculpture at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum set the stage for a special twilight performance of “Macbeth.”
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Nation & World
Finding their place in the world
To kick off Worldwide Week at Harvard, students share stories of trips abroad that changed their career choices and their lives.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Ellis Monk
Ellis Monk, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Sociology, focuses on social inequality through a comparative global lens, with particular attention to race in the United States and Brazil.
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Campus & Community
‘Pathway to public service’
Lexi Smith ’18, who is the latest Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow, wants to serve at the city level because that’s where she sees the tangible action for environmental change.
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Nation & World
Admissions lawsuit enters second week
Harvard officials continue to take the stand in the second week of a trial in U.S. Federal District Court. The case challenges the University’s admissions process and the right to consider race as one factor among many when considering applicants for admission as discriminatory to Asian American applicants.
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Science & Tech
Breaking down backbones
Harvard scientists are using the fossil record and a close examination of the vertebrae of thousands of modern animals to understand how and when specialized regions in the spines of mammals developed.
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Nation & World
Uncovering the economics of foot-binding
A recent study is suggesting that the real underpinnings of foot-binding may have been economic.
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Campus & Community
7 projects win Global Institute grants
Seven projects that feature interdisciplinary, cross-collaborative research and span five Harvard Schools will receive grants from the Harvard Global Institute.
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Arts & Culture
The beetles have landed
“The Rockefeller Beetles,” a new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, features hundreds of specimens from an exceptional collection that reflects the story of a man whose childhood pursuit grew into a lifelong passion.
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Nation & World
Judges and their toughest cases
At Harvard Law School Library, a panel drew lessons from a new book containing firsthand accounts of the some of the hardest cases in judges’ careers.
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Arts & Culture
Coetzee recalls a reading childhood
Accepting the Mahindra Award for Global Distinction in the Humanities, Nobelist author J.M. Coetzee treated the audience filling Sanders Theatre to thoughts about his earliest reading and the concept of a mother tongue.
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Nation & World
A minority turns on the light
In an interview, Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, professor of African and African American studies, and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, talks about his organization and the emerging Afro-Latin American social movement.
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Arts & Culture
The search for a California sphinx
At what other event would you hear, “This time there would be no Jell-O?” mused Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian last Wednesday at the Harvard Art Museums. It sounded like a…
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Nation & World
Pelosi sees Democrats retaking House
At the moment, the question isn’t whether Democrats are going to retake the U.S. House in the midterm elections, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said at Harvard Kennedy School. The question is how big the margin will be.
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Campus & Community
Worldwide Week at Harvard brings it home
Worldwide Week at Harvard Oct. 20‒27 will shine a bright light on the University’s international work.
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Campus & Community
Imaging leap rewarded with $3M
Harvard Professor Xiaowei Zhuang has been named the recipient of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in recognition of her pioneering work in the development of super-resolution microscopy techniques.
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Campus & Community
National Academy of Medicine honors 12 faculty
Twelve Harvard faculty are among the 85 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine, which is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
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Nation & World
Turn voting into a celebration, not a chore
A Harvard panel examined statistics to highlight how low voter turnout remains a stubborn challenge to American democracy, while also suggesting possible solutions.
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Campus & Community
Staying grounded
A profile highlights Eva Ballew, a first-year, a first-generation student, and a Native American from rural northern Wisconsin.
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Nation & World
Champions of the press
New Yorker investigative reporter Jane Mayer and former New York Times editor Jill Abramson will deliver the 29th Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday evening.
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Nation & World
Harvard supporters set to testify in admissions trial
Harvard students and alumni who will testify in support of Harvard in the admissions trial plan to highlight the wide-ranging benefits of the University’s efforts to create a diverse campus community.
