Featured series 
Year: 2021
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Health
Doctors share views on patients with disability
A national survey finds that four-fifths of physicians believe that significant disabilities are associated with worse quality of life, which may have dangerous implications for the quality of health care patients with disability receive.
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Science & Tech
Tracking an invasive ant species to its native land
Waring Trible’s research took him to Southeast Asia to unravel the origin story of the clonal raider ant, an invasive species found in various parts of the world.
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Science & Tech
The star chemist
Junior Fellow Mireille Kamariza is an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur, who was recognized for inventing a portable, low-cost diagnostic tool to detect tuberculosis.
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Science & Tech
What prompted Capitol rioters to violence?
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol over Donald Trump’s election loss stunned the country and forced many to ask what prompts people to political violence.
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Health
The movies may have been right
When things are looking bad or worse, try some perspective, advises Professor Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Optimism makes things better.
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Science & Tech
High schoolers discover four exoplanets through Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program
At the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program, two students discovered four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth.
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Health
Pandemic pushes mental health to the breaking point
The coronavirus has had an unexpected mental health impact, striking hardest where its physical impacts are lowest: among youths and young adults.
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Campus & Community
Gates recognized for his scholarship in the humanities
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named Henry Louis Gates Jr. the recipient of the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies.
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Campus & Community
Working for change that’s both aspirational and real
As president of the Undergraduate Council, Noah Harris ’22 has set his agenda.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Sarah Dimick
Harvard Assistant Professor Sarah Dimick wants to expand the understanding of connections between literature and the environment.
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Science & Tech
Innovative tool offers hope for children with rapid-aging disease
Several hundred children worldwide live with progeria, a deadly premature aging disease.
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Science & Tech
The neurons that hold our hidden thoughts
For the first time, neuroscientists were able to observe how individual neurons paint a rich and detailed representation of others’ beliefs, including whether they were true or not.
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Campus & Community
So how to make the best of ‘senior spring’ in COVID times?
Returning members of Harvard College’s Class of 2021 detail their hopes and expectations for their final semester.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard Opportunes win national competition
Harvard Opportunes win UpStaged National Collegiate Performing Arts A Cappella Championship.
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Health
Immunologist says technology can keep up with COVID variants
Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.
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Campus & Community
Advice to students: Enact your agency, build resilience
Sociology lecturer Manja Klemenčič offers advice to students as part of the “Focal Point” series: Take leadership roles and get out of your comfort zone.
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Work & Economy
An entrepreneurial approach to ‘possibility government’
Business School professor Mitchell Weiss looks at ways to encourage creativity, innovation.
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Science & Tech
‘The most charismatic and strange of all flowering plants’
Sapria genome shows astonishing gene loss and gene theft.
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Science & Tech
Cloudless, Jupiter-like planet discovered
The first Jupiter-like planet without clouds has been detected by astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Unlike our Jupiter, which takes nearly 12 years to orbit the sun, WASP-62b completes a rotation in just four-and-a-half days.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Housing establishes new rents for 2021-22
Harvard University Housing (HUH) manages approximately 3,000 apartments, offering a broad choice of locations, unit types, sizes, and amenities to meet the individual budgets and housing needs of eligible Harvard…
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Health
A safer return to campuses? There’s an app for that
Harvard researchers launched new disease-modeling app for colleges and universities.
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Health
Assessing the latest U.S. dietary guidelines
Harvard Chan School professor Eric Rimm looks at the updated U.S. dietary guidelines — what’s changed and what should change.
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Health
Does aspirin lower colorectal cancer risk?
A new study finds that while regular aspirin use has clear benefits in reducing colorectal cancer incidence among middle-aged adults, the benefits stop after age 70.
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Nation & World
Stepping up to the front line
Harvard undergrads learned how culture, society, and systems of power shape the exchange of care between individuals and communities, and they put their lessons into practice through semester-long “community care projects.”
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Nation & World
And now, the way forward
Harvard faculty members reflect on the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the challenges that await them in the months ahead.
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Nation & World
‘History has its eyes on us’
Harvard alumna Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem during the ceremony on Wednesday.
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Nation & World
Recognizing pain but seizing hope
Harvard faculty and students reflect on a solemn, powerful presidential inaugural for troubled times.
