Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Science & Tech
Gut microbiome influences ALS outcomes
The researchers found that in mice with a common ALS genetic mutation, changing the gut microbiome could prevent or improve disease symptoms.
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Campus & Community
Once on this island
Marvin Merritt IV ’20 was born and raised on the small island of Deer Isle, Maine, the centerpiece for his senior thesis and a single destination in this artist’s journey.
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Campus & Community
$16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID
MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.
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Nation & World
The aftermath of wars
The battlefronts of World War II and COVID-19 may look very different, but long term consequences remain the constant
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Health
A COVID-19 battle with many fronts
The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.
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Campus & Community
Birth of a sleuth
As a first-year, Jordan Villegas ’20 took his passion for archival research to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and spent his next four years becoming a Radcliffe triple threat.
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Health
Volunteers juice COVID testing at Beth Israel
An outpouring of volunteers and equipment from the Harvard medical community have helped a Harvard hospital testing lab meet COVID’s challenge.
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Nation & World
Gateway City: Viewed as an intersection of slavery, capitalism, imperialism
A new book by historian Walter Johnson sees the history of St. Louis as emblematic of the racial, economic, and legal schisms in America.
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Health
Mapping the cancer connection
A new study takes the most comprehensive look to date at the connection between the ancestry and the molecular makeup of cancer.
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Health
Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’
Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.
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Nation & World
For Native Americans, COVID-19 is ‘the worst of both worlds at the same time’
Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.
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Campus & Community
Elevating people of color and women in the workplace
Deeneaus ‘D’ Polk, M.P.P. ’20, found his way from Mississippi to Harvard Kennedy School via Germany — but his plan is to return to the South and bring opportunity to jobseekers.
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Health
How far are we from a vaccine? Depends on who ‘we’ is
Rising nationalism and global inequity will be hurdles to the distribution of COVID vaccines, despite the comparatively “lightning” fast scientific response to the pandemic so far, a Harvard infectious disease expert said Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Breaking ground with new degree
Juan Reynoso will be the second Harvard student to have completed a new joint Master in Public Health/Master in Urban Planning degree program.
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Campus & Community
Erin McDermott named athletic director
Erin McDermott has been named the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard announced today.
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Work & Economy
Real-time data to address real-time problems
A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.
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Health
Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle
Wilderness medicine fellows were among those whose attention has been turned homeward, where they’re pitching in to fight COVID-19 in the ER.
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Health
Intel from an outpatient COVID-19 clinic
A new report by researchers examines the mostly overlooked, yet important, category of patients — those with symptoms concerning enough to seek care, yet not serious enough to need hospital treatment.
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Health
Healthy dose of religion
New research from the Harvard Chan School found that people who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning.
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Campus & Community
Adding it all up
Akshaya Annapragada, who will graduate with an A.B. in applied mathematics and an S.M. in engineering sciences-bioengineering, with a secondary in global health and health policy at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, arrived at Harvard eager to develop better medical tools.
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Campus & Community
Colson Whitehead ’91 wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Novelist Colson Whitehead joins William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the fourth to garner the Pulitzer Prize for fiction award twice.
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Campus & Community
Helping to feed the community
Harvard University Dining Services has emptied its freezers and storerooms to provide food to area nonprofit grocery programs.
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Campus & Community
Five faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.
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Arts & Culture
Why so many of us are watching films like ‘Outbreak’
A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.
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Health
At the center of the outbreak
Researcher Katharine Robb details how housing policies affect social and health crises, like the current pandemic.
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Arts & Culture
WHRB keeps classical connections
In the time of COVID-19, Harvard student radio station pays tribute to canceled concerts.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: David Joselit
David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.
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Health
Social distance makes the heart grow lonelier
Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.
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Nation & World
Is rural America solidly red? Not exactly, Harvard scholars say
Harvard political scientists traveled to four swing states in the past three years to take the political temperature in conservative counties.
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Campus & Community
A time of need and a desire to help
COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss
