Featured series 
Year: 2019
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Science & Tech
Researchers ID molecules that rein in CRISPR systems
Scientists have identified the first chemical compounds able to inhibit and regulate CRISPR systems, which could ultimately make CRISPR gene-editing technologies more precise, efficient, and safe.
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Science & Tech
AI model predicts TB resistance
A Harvard undergrad, working with Harvard Medical School scientists, has designed an artificial intelligence model that predicts tuberculosis resistance to 10 most commonly used drugs. The new model outperforms previous machine-learning tools, and incorporating it into clinical tests could dramatically enhance early detection and prompt treatment of drug-resistant TB.
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Nation & World
A lifeline to India’s farmers on the edge of despair
Harvard Kennedy School student’s nonprofit to help poor farmers in India wins Mittal South Asia Institute innovation prize.
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Campus & Community
Martin Kilson, College’s first tenured African American professor, dies at 88
Martin Kilson, who in 1969 became the first African American to be named a full professor at Harvard College, died on April 24.
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Nation & World
Negative ‘Impact’ on learning
New research from Assistant Professor in Sociology Joscha Legewie links the aggressive policing of New York City’s Operation Impact with lower test scores for African American boys.
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Campus & Community
Al Gore named Class Day speaker
Al Gore has been chosen to speak on Class Day, the day before Harvard’s 368th Commencement. The former vice president, a Nobel Prize laureate and Harvard alumnus, has had a long career in public service and since leaving office has devoted his life to raising awareness of the threat of climate change.
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Campus & Community
For more than just laughs
Harvard College’s Immediate Gratification Players discuss how improv skills can translate to social and professional skills.
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Campus & Community
Adjusting the flight plan
Jake Moore will add a degree from the Kennedy School to the medals and commendations he has earned over 15 years in the Navy. His post-military target is human rights work with refugees and asylum seekers.
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Campus & Community
Playing like they mean it
Chess players from around the region gathered at the Smith Campus Center last weekend for a chess tournament that saw players of all skill level and ages meet on the chessboard.
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Science & Tech
Embedded EthiCS wins $150,000 grant
A joint program of the computer science and philosophy departments, Embedded EthiCS has won a $150,000 grant as part of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge sponsored by Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
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Arts & Culture
Doctoral work embraces new media
The new exhibit “Into Place,” represents many of the capstone projects of recent graduates or current Harvard Ph.D. students pursuing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice, a 10-year-old program that expands the way students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences engage with their scholarship.
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Arts & Culture
Celebrating creativity
A new fellowship program brings practicing artists to Harvard’s campus.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First, last, and in between
This weekend’s Arts First festival showcases performances, exhibitions, and art-making opportunities for and by Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, including international dance, many music genres, stand-up and improv comedy, theater, public art, poetry, experimental performances, and much more.
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Campus & Community
Increasing digital accessibility
As part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the accessibility of its digital systems and communications to persons with disabilities, Harvard University today announced the adoption of a new, University-wide Digital Accessibility Policy. This policy is intended to increase the accessibility of Harvard’s public-facing websites and web-based applications, as well as the digital content that…
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Campus & Community
$9 million donation earmarked for cannabis research
Alumnus gives $9 million in largest donation to date to support independent research on the science of cannabinoids at Harvard and MIT. “Our desire is to fill the research void that currently exists in the science of cannabis,” said donor Charles R. “Bob” Broderick.
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Campus & Community
‘Stunning progress’
The public arena has made great strides toward diversity — as Harvard’s evolution has shown — but neighborhoods and schools need to catch up, according to sociologist Orlando Patterson, who said he arrived on an overwhelmingly white campus in 1970.
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Campus & Community
‘The work of culture alters our perceptions’
The two-day “Vision & Justice” conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study brought together a wide range of scholars and artists for performances and discussions considering the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.
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Campus & Community
Walton named dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity
The Rev. Jonathan Walton will step down from his role as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church in order to become dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walton, who assumed leadership of the church in 2012, will leave this summer.
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Campus & Community
Service time, and the living is easy
Harvard College’s incoming class will have a chance to participate in the inaugural Service Starts with Summer Program (3SP), an initiative meant to encourage students to engage in public service in their hometowns.
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Arts & Culture
Framing the Caspian Sea
Backed by the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, documentary photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews visited the region around the Caspian Sea, capturing on film the culture, customs, and inhabitants of the area whose reserves of oil, gas, and other natural resources are inextricably tied to life in the region. Her work produced a book…
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Arts & Culture
All the world’s a stage
The American Repertory Theater’s upcoming season lineup will include three world premieres.
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Campus & Community
Diversity and dialogue in an age of division
Harvard faculty and administrators discussed racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, politics, and poverty at the FAS Diversity Conference “A Decade of Dialogue.”
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Nation & World
A ringing defense of Trump on trade
President Trump’s trade czar, Peter Navarro, said during a speech at Harvard that the administration’s efforts to remake American trade policies, pressure China to reform its practices, and revamp the tariff system are boosting the American economy.
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Nation & World
‘The same in private as they are in public’
Shorenstein Center Fellow Miguel Head, who served for a decade as chief of staff and press secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry, talks about the royals and the changing role of the British press
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Campus & Community
The flourishing of Genesis
Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.
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Science & Tech
Ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi breakthrough
In a breakthrough on the road toward ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi, Harvard researchers have demonstrated for the first time a laser that can emit microwaves wirelessly, modulate them, and receive external radio frequency signals.
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Science & Tech
Day of the golden jackal
The surprising success story of the golden jackal in Europe holds lessons about nature’s resilience and about how nature might respond to the evolutionary pressure exerted by humans as we change the natural landscape. The Gazette spoke with doctoral student Nathan Ranc for insight.
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Health
Bugged by vaping
New research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has examined 75 popular e-cigarette brands and found that 27 percent contained traces of bacterial and fungal toxins associated with myriad health problems.
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Campus & Community
They’re alive!
The living walls at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center — eight organic interior designs made of climbing, creeping arms of trees and blocks of ferns and other tropical plants —are a welcome addition to Harvard’s newly configured social hub year-round.
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Science & Tech
Arboretum gets a solar boost
The Weld Hill Solar Project, currently underway, is the Arnold Arboretum’s third and largest solar project and Harvard’s most ambitious sustainability initiative to date, with nearly 1,300 solar panels powering a 45,000-square-foot science laboratory and teaching facility in Roslindale.
