Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Arts & Culture
Arts First and all over
The 11-day Arts First festival kicks off April 19, with programming featuring some of Harvard’s best visual arts, music, dance, and performance.
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Campus & Community
Kevin Young to speak at 151st meeting of Alumni Association
Celebrated poet Kevin Young ’92 will give the address at the 151st Harvard Alumni Association Annual Meeting. Young is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Campus & Community
A taste of the old normal
Since the start of April, about 200 students, faculty, and staff have been taking part in a monthlong, in-person-and-virtual hybrid learning pilot for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
A year of ‘never off’
As director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Joseph G. Allen offers special insight on how the pandemic affected him, his work, and his family.
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Arts & Culture
How to get away with a Pudding Pot
Hasty Pudding Theatricals announces Viola Davis as 2021 Woman of the Year.
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Science & Tech
Dissecting the ‘undruggable’
Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.
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Work & Economy
Local small business roundtable sees reasons for hope
At a Harvard-hosted panel, local small business owners and political leaders talked about lessons learned from the pandemic, and how to apply them to the days ahead.
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Health
Untangling a young patient’s autoimmune mystery
The Complex Care Service was created for patients like Emily Hedspeth who are, as Thompson described, “the sickest 1 percent of the sickest 1 percent.”
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Arts & Culture
A poem for Venus
In her poem “The Story of Venus,” Suzannah Omonuk imagines what life may have been like for the young enslaved woman living on campus in the 18th century.
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Campus & Community
New, improved, and almost open
With renovations complete, accessibility enhanced, and new collections to show off, staff at the Houghton Library look forward to welcoming visitors again.
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Campus & Community
Smile for the birdie
Harvard Professor Gonzalo Giribet takes on bird photography as pandemic hobby.
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Campus & Community
A teacher for 40 years and a neighborhood ‘den mother’
Ronald Chandler remembers his mother, Carol Marie Chandler.
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Campus & Community
Three alumni to receive 2021 Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Walter K. Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr ’71, and Preston N. Williams, Ph.D. ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. The awards will be presented virtually to the 2021 and 2020 recipients at the association’s annual meeting on June 4.
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Campus & Community
Preservation in a pandemic — and beyond
Preservation Services Director Brenda Bernier discusses preservation during a pandemic — and what comes next.
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Health
A pandemic that endures for COVID long-haulers
The health care system is seeing more “long COVID” patients, those whose often mild initial illness is followed up by months of severe, sometimes debilitating symptoms.
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Campus & Community
Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Brenda Tindal, an award-winning educator and scholar from the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Tindal will begin her new position May 17.
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Nation & World
A viral video spurs Biden’s denunciation of anti-Asian violence
A video posted by Amanda Nguyen ’13 was the starting point for Friday’s virtual JFK Jr. Forum discussion, “Protecting the Civil Rights of Asian Americans,” between Nguyen and CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang.
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Arts & Culture
Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects
Gregg Hecimovich, a Furman University English professor, is working to recover the stories of the Zealy daguerreotypes, which depict enslaved Africans in 19th-century America.
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Health
High standards
A study of metabolites in the urine of patients taking medical cannabis products shows that the actual THC or CBD content is often different from what they expect.
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Nation & World
Curbing gun violence in the United States
Stopping gun violence will take myriad approaches, according to David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.”
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Arts & Culture
A.R.T.’s Diane Borger to step down
American Repertory Theater’s executive producer Diane Borger to step down in June, returning to London where she spent the first 30 years of her career.
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Campus & Community
The best from the brightest
Twenty-five venture initiatives will compete for more than half a million dollars in prizes in the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge.
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Health
How spanking may affect brain development in children
Spanking may affect a child’s brain development in ways similar to more severe forms of violence, according to a new study led by Harvard researchers.
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Nation & World
Biden’s reversal of Trump’s environmental legacy swift, far-reaching
The Biden administration’s actions on the environment have been fast and broad, reversing many anti-environmental policies of the prior administration, despite being limited in many cases to executive action and targeted spending due to Congressional Republican opposition.
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Health
Telehealth works, but upgrade is still needed, say experts
Telehealth is experiencing a pandemic-induced boom that experts say has helped patients maintain contact with their doctors and lowered barriers to access for many. It’s important, should the change become permanent, to ensure equal access to all communities.
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Nation & World
Clinton reflects on foreign policy triumphs and challenges
Former President Bill Clinton gave the inaugural Stephen W. Bosworth Memorial Lecture in Diplomacy in honor of the late U.S. ambassador, looking back on his international actions that still reverberate in U.S. foreign relations today.
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Campus & Community
‘The full COVID-19 experience’
Gazette senior science writer Alvin Powell shares his view on the complexities of dealing with death amid pandemic, coupled with a profile of his colorful, fiercely independent, oft-married, world traveler mom who succumbed to COVID-19 last spring.
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Arts & Culture
Is an artist obliged to stand up for injustice and inequity?
The A.R.T. presents Company One’s production, “Hype Man: a break beat play,” which follows three hip-hop artists as they wrestle with these questions from their rehearsal space to the stage and the streets and back again, against a backdrop of racist violence and inequality. It streams at select times through May 6.
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Arts & Culture
Animal encounters on the battlefield
At Radcliffe, Navy veteran Mackin is at work on his next series, “Animals,” featuring a selection of stories left out of his first collection, many inspired by the animals he came across while on duty with a SEAL team in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Arts & Culture
Black identities ‘In the City’
Black photographers highlight the past and present of the city of St. Louis.
