Featured series 
Month: March 2020
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Health
From the lab to COVID front lines
Aldatu Biosciences, a company born in Harvard’s labs and nurtured in its entrepreneurial ecosystem, helps the region ramp up COVID-19 testing.
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Campus & Community
Harvard board elections moved to summer in response to virus disruptions
Harvard’s governing boards have announced the delay of the 2020 Overseer and HAA Elected Director elections until July to allow voters time to respond and adapt to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Health
New blood test can detect wide range of cancers
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy.
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Health
A multipronged attack against a shared enemy
As the pandemic intensifies, Harvard scientists work to find a treatment.
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Campus & Community
For professors who have taught at Extension School, Zoom is an old friend
The Division of Continuing Education, which offers nearly 900 online courses each year, is helping the College move to online learning.
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Science & Tech
Facing a pandemic, Broad does a quick pivot
Facing a pandemic, scientific and administrative teams across the Broad Institute raced to enable coronavirus testing in a matter of days.
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Campus & Community
College adopts grading policy changes for spring term
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard College will adopt an Emergency Satisfactory/Emergency Unsatisfactory (SEM/UEM) grading policy for the spring semester.
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Nation & World
Wither the handshake?
Long-held habits have disappeared overnight as social distancing has become the new normal in the age of the novel coronavirus. What about the handshake?
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Campus & Community
An option to serve in COVID-19 fight
Harvard Medical School is offering this year’s graduating students the option to receive their diplomas early so that, if they choose, they can be deployed into hospitals to help with COVID-19 patients.
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Health
‘If you remain mostly upright, you are doing it well enough’
Office of Work/Life Director Nancy Costikyan gives tips and resources for staying sane and productive while working from home.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to guarantee workers’ pay, benefits amid coronavirus disruptions
Harvard announces it will guarantee workers’ pay and benefits through May 28, despite disruptions from the coronavirus.
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Health
On-again, off-again looks to be best social-distancing option
Social distancing could allow a level of infection that can be handled by the health care system, but would build enough immunity to strangle the epidemic.
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Campus & Community
1,980 accepted to the Class of 2024
Harvard College announced that 1,981 have been accepted to the Class of 2024 in regular-action decisions.
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Campus & Community
Early responses indicate shift to online classes going well overall
Harvard professors offer early responses to teaching online, with some finding hitches tempered by surprising benefits.
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Health
Online forum aims to teach how to deal with pandemic stress
Chan School online forum aims to teach how to deal with pandemic stress.
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Science & Tech
Capabilities of CRISPR gene editing expanded
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital have modified the gene editing system, making it possible to potentially target any location across the entire human genome.
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Health
Harvard Medical School students mobilize
To help in that effort, within days of the escalation of infections in Massachusetts, hundreds of Harvard Medical School students began mobilizing to provide voluntary support to clinicians.
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Nation & World
Economists cheered by relief package but see long, tough slog ahead
Economists Karen Dynan and Kenneth Rogoff discuss the $2 trillion relief package and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nation & World
Restricting civil liberties amid COVID-19 pandemic
Harvard Law School faculty Charles Fried and Nancy Gertner discuss new restrictions on individual freedoms during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
From envelopes to emails
For the first time, the annual Harvard Medical School Match Day celebration went virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shifted Quad classes online and caused clinical clerkships to be suspended until March 31.
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Science & Tech
Learning from recovery
Using the tool VirScan, researchers are able to detect antibodies in people’s blood that indicate active and past infections by viruses and bacteria. The goal is to learn how the virus affects the immune system.
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Health
Labs donate protective equipment to health care workers
As University facilities close, faculty and staff gather gear to pass along amid a nationwide shortage.
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Campus & Community
Suzannah Clark named director of Mahindra Humanities Center
Suzannah Clark, the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, effective July 1.
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Nation & World
Will inequality worsen the toll of the pandemic in the U.S.?
America’s ragged social safety net and large inequity between rich and poor may set it up for a rough road ahead as it deals with the coronavirus epidemic, a Harvard Chan School professor said Tuesday.
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Campus & Community
How the Socratic method translates online
Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen shares her experience using Zoom to teach her class of 115 students in “Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment.“
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Health
Harvard coronavirus survey: How’re we doing? Not bad so far
An ongoing survey by researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is examining public attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Bringing (virtual) normalcy to the community
A roundup of efforts by the Harvard community to use the web to maintain connection and a sense of kinship.
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Campus & Community
A recession playbook
Thomas Hollister details the planning the University had already done for the eventuality of a downturn and what the future may bring amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Health
Could a new test identify immunity?
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch outlined several scenarios — most of them bad — for getting America back to work
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Campus & Community
At graduate Schools, reinvention on the fly
Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
