Featured series 
Month: September 2019
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Health
Omega-3 fish oil rises to top in analysis of studies
Harvard study finds that greater cardiovascular benefits may be achieved at higher doses of omega-3 fish oil supplementation.
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Campus & Community
From Mass. Ave. to ‘Sesame Street’
An interview with Joe Blatt, senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, on the long and lasting partnership between Harvard and Sesame Street, the acclaimed children’s television program, on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
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Arts & Culture
Love stinks
In an excerpt from the essay “Museum of Broken Hearts,” Leslie Jamison, a 2004 Harvard grad, explores love, loss, and renewal through the relics of her relationships past.
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Arts & Culture
Thinking like a magician
In his 2019–2020 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities, Joshua Jay offers listeners a look at techniques involving perception, attention, and surprise that he insists have practical applications well beyond the realm of magic.
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Science & Tech
Innovating an innovation
HubWeek fall festival takes place Oct. 1‒3 in Boston’s Seaport District.
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Nation & World
A Platonic ideal of a news website
Adam Moss, now a fall fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, launches an eight-week workshop for students to consider the current business realities of political journalism and develop an ideal of a financially viable news site that delivers what readers want and need.
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Arts & Culture
Creative research at heart of ArtLab
The ArtLab, Harvard’s newest Allston lab, open its doors for some creative research.
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Campus & Community
Good cop, nice cop
Depending on whom you ask, the most photographed Harvard institution is either the John Harvard Statue, Massachusetts Hall, or Harvard University Police Department Officer Charles Marren. “I might be more…
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Nation & World
To free every child
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi will visit the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to take part in panel discussion and a screening of “The Price of Free,” a documentary about his life and his mission to fight against child labor and trafficking.
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Work & Economy
New interactive website helps chart paths for economic growth
Harvard Kennedy School researchers launch interactive online tool to aid planners in identifying economic growth strategies.
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Nation & World
On the road to impeachment?
Harvard faculty react to the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump by the House of Representatives and discuss what it may mean for the country.
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Arts & Culture
Using art to inspire action
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Climate Creatives are using art and design to create an event to help people see the urgent need to act on climate change.
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Campus & Community
Dean of continuing education set to retire
Huntington D. Lambert, dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, to retire at the end of this year.
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Nation & World
Change is collective
Sarah Lockridge-Steckel is co-founder and CEO of The Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides pathways to opportunities for young adults through partnerships with education institutions and employers in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Arts & Culture
Judging a book
Clint Smith is a writer and teacher whose collection of poetry, “Counting Descent,” was published in 2016. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation exploring how people sentenced as juveniles to life without parole make meaning of education while incarcerated.
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Science & Tech
Ending ‘dead zones’
Harvard scientists are teaming up with sustainability officers and landscaping experts to test a new fertilizer that won’t wash into water supplies.
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Science & Tech
Up close and personal with neuronal networks
Researchers from Harvard University have developed an electronic chip that can perform high-sensitivity intracellular recording from thousands of connected neurons simultaneously, allowing them to identify hundreds of synaptic connections.
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Campus & Community
Why Harvard football still matters
Continuity, heritage, and ritual are central to the enduring magnetism and mystique of Harvard football.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions
Harvard signs Cool Food Pledge, vows to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.
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Campus & Community
When Gore was Widener
Before Widener, there was Gore Hall, an imposing Gothic Revival-style building once “regarded with pride as the chief distinction of the College and of the city.”
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Campus & Community
Rural schools, researchers tackle nagging problems
A look at the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks, six months after it launched with a $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Nation & World
National parks’ economic benefits put at over $100B annually
A new economic analysis of the U.S. National Park system puts its value to Americans at more than $100 billion, a figure that dwarfs the financially strapped agency’s $2.5 billion budget and underpins a call to change how what has been called “America’s Best Idea” is financed.
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Nation & World
An ounce of prevention
Jim Langford is the president of the Georgia Prevention Project, the MillionMile Greenway, and the Coosawattee Foundation. For the past decade he has been raising awareness about the rising drug epidemic in his state.
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Campus & Community
Seeking solid return on philanthropy
The Gazette spoke with John Palfrey, former Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and vice dean for Library and Information Resources at HLS, and former executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society about how his Harvard time prepared him for his new role to lead one of the country’s largest…
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Nation & World
Emerald city
Alexis Wheeler founded the Harvard Club of Seattle Crimson Achievement Program (CAP) to help illuminate the path to college for high-potential high school students from Western Washington school districts that serve predominantly low-income populations.
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Nation & World
Mail priorities
Madelyn Petersen explored her passions for business and human rights and community lawyering at Harvard Law School. She is currently interning with the Corporate Accountability Lab in Chicago before starting a clerkship with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Campus & Community
Global strike comes to Harvard
Harvard students and those from Cambridge public schools joined their voices in a rally calling for climate change action Friday on Harvard’s Science Center Plaza.
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Nation & World
Improving the odds
Erica Mosca founded Leaders in Training (LIT) in 2012, an organization that helps prospective first-generation college students from East Las Vegas high schools finish their degrees and work toward becoming leaders in their home state. She is herself a first-generation college graduate and a social justice advocate.
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Science & Tech
The future of mind control
A new paper explores why neuron-like implants could offer a better way to treat brain disorders, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities.
