Featured series 
Year: 2020
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Science & Tech
Beyond Pavlov
Artificial intelligence researchers and neurobiologists share data on how options are sorted in decision-making.
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Nation & World
Feel that clean air and voting are human rights? It’s partly on you
Harvard Kennedy School professor Kathryn Sikkink discusses a new ethics of responsibilities to deal with climate change, voting, digital privacy, and other pressing issues.
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Campus & Community
Advice to students: Take risks and build courage
Jacob Barandes encourages students to follow interests, ask questions, and do it their way to get the most out of their education.
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Health
In soda tax fight, echoes of tobacco battles
Taxes on sugary drinks are potentially effective tools to fight the obesity epidemic and advocates are drawing lessons from the long battle against tobacco as they plot what they know will be a tough road ahead.
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Arts & Culture
Unraveling a fine arts mystery
Harvard Art Museums’ restoration and research on a portrait of King Philip has both shed light and raised questions about the copy versus an original.
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Campus & Community
Getting his teeth into the community
Harvard School of Dental Medicine student Ryan Lisann’s three-month externship at Charles River Community Health Center in Brighton left him determined to enter pediatric dentistry and education.
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Campus & Community
Advice to students: Learn to think scientifically
Mona Weissmark says the scientific method contains within itself a system of logic and standards of evidence that can be used for improving society.
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Campus & Community
Candidates for Harvard board positions announced
A list of candidates for the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The election will begin on April 1.
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Nation & World
‘Just Mercy’ in the criminal justice system
At a talk following a recent screening of “Just Mercy,” Harvard professors discussed the death penalty as “a point of meditation.”
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Campus & Community
Rubén Blades to receive Arts Medal
Rubén Blades, the actor and politician best known as a musician at the forefront of the ’70s salsa movement, will receive the 2020 Harvard Arts Medal. on April 30.
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Campus & Community
Harvard readies for 369th Commencement
Harvard University will hold its 369th Commencement on May 28.
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Campus & Community
Martin ‘Marty’ Baron to speak at Commencement
Martin “Marty” Baron, widely regarded as one of the leading newspaper editors of his era, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 369th Commencement on May 28.
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Science & Tech
The ‘right’ diet
Professor Emily Balskus and her team have identified an entirely new class of enzymes that degrade chemicals essential for neurological health, but also help digest foods like nuts, berries, and tea, releasing nutrients that may impact human health.
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Work & Economy
Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn
New research from HBS faculty on the state of U.S. competitiveness finds that the business community may hold the key to dismantling a dysfunctional political system that threatens the nation’s economic outlook.
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Arts & Culture
Good things come in ancient packages
Project to make complete visual digital records of three 3,000-year-old coffins turns up a painting of a deity.
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Science & Tech
A crisper CRISPR
Fewer off-target edits and greater targeting scope bring gene editing technology closer to treating human diseases.
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Health
‘Game Changers’ puts muscle behind plant-based diet
“The Game Changers” brought a panel of athletes and experts to tout the benefits of a plant-based diet to Harvard.
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Health
Coronavirus likely to infect the global economy
A Harvard Business School expert says effects will strengthen as manufacturers everywhere feel the pinch of slowing one of the world’s largest economies.
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Campus & Community
Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95 elected chief marshal
Koma Gandy Fischbein ’95 will serve as chief marshal at Harvard’s 369th Commencement on May 28.
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Campus & Community
Matchmaker, matchmaker put me in your algorithm
After 25 Valentine’s Days, Datamatch, a student-run online matchmaking service that pairs Harvard students for a date, is going nationwide.
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Health
Targeted drug shows promise in advanced kidney cancer
Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a novel targeted drug that shows promise in advanced kidney cancer by interfering with the abnormal blood vessel formation that fuels tumor growth.
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Campus & Community
Before entrepreneurial culture became a thing
Harvard Student Agencies provides students the opportunity to learn how to start and run a business.
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Science & Tech
Going where the diversity is
Two graduate students from Arnold Arboretum have created the Mamoní Valley Preserve Natural History Project, an ongoing series of student-led field expeditions designed to increase our understanding of how biodiversity can persevere in the face of climate change, deforestation, and human disturbance.
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Health
Coronavirus likely now ‘gathering steam’
Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that the relative handful of global cases reported so far are undercounted. If true, that will lead to widespread illness internationally, including in the U.S.
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Science & Tech
New details about mumps outbreaks of 2016‒17
Studying the mumps virus genomes in 2016 and 2017 filled in gaps about how the disease was spreading in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the U.S.
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Health
Heatwave = heat stroke = ER visit
Bringing climate change into the examining room by discussing links between a warming environment and the everyday health of patients.
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Campus & Community
New Corporation member named
Diana L. Nelson ’84 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
A pitch perfect welcome
Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year, Ben Platt, gets a musical tour of Farkas Hall and a performance by the Radcliffe Pitches a cappella group.
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Arts & Culture
Now that she has the floor
Tap dancer Ayodele Casel swings into the spotlight — and brings her predecessors with her.
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Work & Economy
Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job
Harvard Business School’s Christine Exley talks about her recent research that indicates women’s reluctance to self-promote, compared to men’s, may be more persistent than previously understood.
