Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Nation & World
Racism, coronavirus, and African Americans
Harvard panel discusses long-festering wounds of racial inequities and steps forward.
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Science & Tech
A promise to a friend
Wei Hsi “Ariel” Yeh dedicated her research in chemistry to solving some of the vast genetic mysteries behind hearing loss.
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Campus & Community
They will THUD you
Harvard’s THUD makes rhythmic music with trash cans, buckets, cups — you name it. If it makes a sound, they can probably play it.
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Campus & Community
Facing the denial of American racism
Radcliffe Institute panel explores the social roots of the denial of racism in America, and ways to raise awareness.
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Campus & Community
Student-athletes pleased with time on teams, but balancing commitments difficult
Results of first-ever study of Harvard Athletics to be used for strategic planning as program approaches centennial.
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Campus & Community
Blocking fear
When neuroscience concentrator Sope Adeleye ’20 suffered a severe concussion during volleyball practice her junior year, she knew better than most the risks she was facing.
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Nation & World
Why America can’t escape its racist roots
Interview with Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, about the killing of George Floyd and how it exposed the deep roots of racism in American society.
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Science & Tech
The origin of things
DNA-barcoded microbial spores can trace origin of objects, agricultural products.
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Campus & Community
Explain your thesis in 3 minutes
A contest has College seniors who spent months researching and writing their theses distill those hours of work and hundreds of pages of analysis into a 3-minute pitch.
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Arts & Culture
‘Gathering Historias’ at the Arboretum
Harvard Divinity School student Steven Salido Fisher’s project, “Gathering Historias,” is documenting Hispanic community’s experiences with nature including the historic green space of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
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Science & Tech
Sleep, death, and… the gut?
Fruit fly study finds death by sleep deprivation is preceded by the accumulation of unstable molecules known as reactive oxidative species in the gut.
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Campus & Community
Sibling on a mission
Harvard grad Nathan Grant ’20 helps advocate for people with disabilities, and the people who support them.
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Campus & Community
Six graduate and professional Schools to remain online for fall
Several Harvard Schools announce plans to continue offering classes online for the fall term.
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Arts & Culture
Though museums are closed, the work continues
Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.
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Arts & Culture
Picking at the seams of Western hand-me-downs in Africa
Joana Choumali, a Côte d’Ivoire-based artist noted for her work embroidering directly on photographs, has been named the Peabody’s 2020 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.
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Nation & World
When we can’t even agree on what is real
New research from Harvard economists finds partisan politics isn’t just shaping policy opinions, it’s distorting our understanding of reality.
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Science & Tech
A new threat to bees
Bee health experts Benjamin de Bivort and James Crall discuss the murder hornet threat and other dangers facing bees.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Library takes steps toward reopening
As Harvard begins a phased reopening, University Librarian Martha Whitehead outlines how the libraries will reestablishes core services.
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Campus & Community
Returning to fight for disabled workers rights
Kennedy School graduate Ariella Barker returns to her job as an attorney for the city of New York, where she’ll resume advocacy for disabled workers.
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Nation & World
The fire this time
As protests continue over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, discusses the underlying social and cognitive factors at work in police violence against Black people.
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Campus & Community
Amid darkening clouds, the best road forward
Chief financial officer offers updates on the University’s fiscal health and future plans amid the downturn triggered by the pandemic.
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Health
Adding up the cost of pandemic health care
A new report published by the Brookings Institution estimates national health care spending for COVID-19 care and discusses its policy implications.
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Science & Tech
Horizontal helper
Cassandra Extavour and Leo Blondel provide the strongest suggestive evidence yet that at least part of a specific gene came from bacterial genomes.
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Campus & Community
Helping African teens thrive
When Tom Osborn arrived at Harvard from Kenya, he was already an internationally recognized entrepreneur. Four years later, he’s launched a nonprofit that is boosting the grades and well-being of high-schoolers back home.
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Health
Loss of taste and smell is best indicator of COVID-19, study shows
Researchers deploying a smartphone app to 2.6 million users have determined that the loss of smell and taste are most predictive symptoms of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
A look at Radcliffe past and present
Radcliffe Day included a discussion between current dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Tomiko Brown-Nagin and former dean Drew Faust, who addressed the history and future of the institute.
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Campus & Community
Architects of their future
For the first time in its history, the Harvard Graduate School of Design has four Native American students enrolled.
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Work & Economy
A look at the future as Beijing seeks more influence over Hong Kong
With the National Party Congress, China’s annual legislative session, concluded, the Ash Center sat down with Director Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, to discuss a new security law that could define the future of Beijing’s relationship with Hong Kong.
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Health
Pod-based e-cigarettes efficiently addictive
A new Harvard Chan School study has found that pod-based e-cigarettes’ efficient delivery of nicotine may foster greater dependence than other types of e-cigarettes.
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Nation & World
Leap of faith
Hannah Stohler is executive director of Marguerite’s Place, a transitional living program for women & children in crisis in Nashua, New Hampshire. Previously, she held roles in leadership and programming at nonprofit organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
