Featured series 
Month: June 2020
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Science & Tech
East Africa facing massive swarms of locusts
Researcher looks to sequence the pest’s genome as part of push to find a safer alternative to dangerous pesticides
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Campus & Community
The changing ecosystem of philanthropy
Provost Alan Garber and Brian Lee, vice president of Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development, discuss the critical role of philanthropic support at Harvard and the principles behind Harvard’s gift policy.
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Nation & World
‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’
A 4th of July community reading to explore the resonance of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, reflect on the past, and what comes next.
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Campus & Community
Serving up a new social order
The curator of “Resetting the Table” at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography walks us through the exhibit, providing a narration that begins with “Once upon a time, Harvard students and faculty ate together, like a family.”
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Science & Tech
Is air conditioning helping spread COVID in the South?
Harvard researchers, drawing on insights from tuberculosis research, say air conditioners may be a factor in COVID-19’s spread down South, and relatively inexpensive germicidal ultraviolet lights a weapon.
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Science & Tech
An expedition at the Arboretum
The Arnold Arboretum’s new Expeditions Mobile App gives visitors an interactive experience with audio, text, and imagery — all in the palms of their hands.
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Science & Tech
Nanofiber protects against extreme temperatures and projectiles
Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center and West Point, have developed a lightweight, multifunctional nanofiber material that can protect wearers from both extreme temperatures and ballistic threats.
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Health
Pandemic threatens to veer out of control in U.S., public health experts say
Harvard public health experts said the U.S. coronavirus epidemic is getting “quite out of hand” and that lower death rates and younger populations testing positive should give no comfort.
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Campus & Community
At the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club, ingenuity first
Instead of painting a mural together, this year students in the Harvard Ed Portal’s Mural Club produced individual works of art with virtual guidance from their instructors, local artist Chanel Thervil and Harvard undergraduate Gabi Maduro Salvarrey.
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Nation & World
Fatal encounters with police
The metaLAB(at)Harvard project gathers the names and stories of 28,000 people who died during police encounters, highlighting racial disparities.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2024 yield drops marginally
With COVID-19 leading some to defer enrollment, the yield among students accepted to the Class of 2024 has dropped from 84 percent to 81 percent.
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Campus & Community
In search of future Overseers
A former Overseer and the executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association discuss the work of the HAA nominating committees.
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Health
Healthy buildings expert outlines recommendations for school reopenings
As school officials worry about whether they can safely reopen their districts in the fall, Joseph Allen, a Harvard healthy buildings expert has an answer: yes.
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Health
Primary care sector projected to lose $15 billion
As a result of COVID-19 shutdowns, a $15 billion loss in the primary care sector is expected to threaten practice viability, reducing further an already insufficient number of primary care providers in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Preserving the future
Collaborative problem-solving has been key to the success of Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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Campus & Community
Walsh details thinking behind redeployment of police funds
Boston mayor discusses $12 million antiracism public health initiative at Harvard Chan School series.
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Campus & Community
Making connections, building community
John West, M.B.A. ’95, says teamwork, bridging differences, and consensus-building have shaped his approach to life — and will remain guiding principles when he begins his term as president of…
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Campus & Community
‘I developed a sense of the enormous, great luck in managing to survive, giving me a strong feeling that I had an obligation to pay it forward’
As he prepares to retire after 52 years, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe retraces his journey from awkward immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor.
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Campus & Community
From hands-on to virtual
A group of local high school students worked on original astrophysics research projects through the Harvard-MIT Science Research Mentoring Program.
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Campus & Community
Breaking barriers
Deborah Washington Brown, the first Black woman to earn an applied math Ph.D. from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away June 5.
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Science & Tech
Lockdown? What lockdown?
Cellphone mobility data shows that most Americans have put the coronavirus lockdown in the rearview mirror and are moving about at nearly the same rate as they were before the pandemic began, according to a Harvard epidemiologist who studies such data.
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Campus & Community
Culture Lab Innovation Fund award winners announced
This year’s winners of grants from the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund range from an online race research and policy portal to mentoring technology called SySTEMatic.
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Science & Tech
Microbes might manage your cholesterol
Researchers discover mysterious bacteria that break it down in the gut.
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Science & Tech
Finding COVID clues in movement
Tracking mobility of individuals offers hints of whether a problem is rising or falling.
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Work & Economy
How COVID turned a spotlight on weak worker rights
An interview with Harvard Law Professor Benjamin Sachs and HLS Lecturer Sharon Block about the legal workplace issues in the time of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Three new professors named in math
Harvard now has three tenured female professors in its Math Department
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Nation & World
Examining COVID’s impact on Asians and Pacific Islanders
Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.
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Health
A new test method
A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists.
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Campus & Community
Art for justice’s sake
Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.
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Campus & Community
A symphony of seasons
Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the four seasons at Harvard, paying tribute to Vivaldi.
