Featured series 
Year: 2022
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Nation & World
Remote learning likely widened racial, economic achievement gap
A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.
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Health
Women can reduce risk of colon cancer
Researchers found a lower risk of colorectal cancer in women who started endoscopy screenings at age 45 compared to those who had not undergone screening at all.
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Campus & Community
Steven Edgar Ozment, 80
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Steven Edgar Ozment was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Albert Morton Craig, 93
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Albert Morton Craig was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Emmanuel Farhi, 41
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Emmanuel Farhi was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Health
Examining a lesser-known dementia driver
A fourth disorder that causes dementia has been added to the list. It’s called LATE and is estimated to cause about 15 to 20 percent of all dementias.
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Nation & World
Ukraine war testing Irish neutrality
Foreign minister expects more openness to defense pacts, military spending, cites brutality of invasion in Gunzburg Center event.
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Nation & World
Softer language post-leak? Maybe, says Tribe, but ruling will remain an ‘iron fist’
Scholar of constitutional law discusses immediate, future implications of breach revealing ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Science & Tech
Scientific discovery gets kind of government seal of approval
Harvard student Amir Siraj ’22 and Professor Avi Loeb have found the earliest known meteor from another solar system to hit Earth, with the results confirmed by U.S. Space Force.
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Campus & Community
‘Arts First has come back to life’
For the first time since 2020, Arts First returned to live performances on Harvard’s campus.
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Science & Tech
New approach may help clear hurdle to large-scale quantum computing
A team of physicists have created a new method for shuttling entangled atoms in a quantum processor at the forefront for building large-scale programmable quantum machines.
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Health
How to break a bad habit
Harvard experts say breaking an unhealthy habit can be done. It takes intent, a little white-knuckling, and some effective behavior modification techniques.
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Campus & Community
Rubén Blades (finally!) receives Harvard Arts Medal
Acclaimed salsa singer and composer Rubén Blades, LL.M. ’85, also known as the “Poet of Salsa,” was awarded the 2022 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.
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Health
Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s found well before diagnosis
A new study shows the impact of early amyloid-β and tau protein accumulation on disrupting brain connections important for memory. These disrupted connections were present even before signs of cognitive impairment were observed.
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Campus & Community
Packing four years into three
Swimming star Felicia Pasadyn graduates early with highest student-athlete GPA at NCAA Championships.
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Health
Skull channels shown to protect brain from infection
Researchers have found that “brain water” can exit through tiny channels to reach the skull’s bone marrow, which can detect infection or injury.
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Campus & Community
One lie leads to another until we tell the truth
Harvard Radcliffe Institute held a daylong conference, “Telling the Truth About All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond,” on Friday.
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Science & Tech
Representation making difference
Three physics Rhodes Scholars reflect on ways female mentorship helped them, importance of paying it forward.
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Campus & Community
16 elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Sixteen Harvard faculty are among the 261 American Academy of Arts & Sciences newly elected members, the academy announced Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Working to help homeless in less-welcoming land
Harvard Kennedy School grad Alena Vachnová has been using her passion and skills for ending homelessness to help the Ukrainian refugees who have sought safety in her home city of Kosice, Slovakia.
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Nation & World
Scrutinizing narratives behind nation’s monuments
History of Art and Architecture Professors Sarah Lewis and Joseph Koerner have joined forces for a new class called “Monuments,” which aims to prompt critical conversations about the public works of remembrance.
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Health
Subvariants cause for alarm, hybrid immunity hard to beat
Harvard scientists give their read on recent COVID data from the U.S. and South Africa.
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Campus & Community
Mayor Michelle Wu named Class Day speaker
Historic Boston leader selected for being “defender of equity, inclusion, opportunity.”
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Campus & Community
Drum roll: Arts First returns live
Annual festival of campus creativity to feature theater, dance, music, spoken word, interactive art over four days.
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Campus & Community
Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now University must act
University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.
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Campus & Community
Risk rewarded
Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.
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Campus & Community
Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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Campus & Community
Lewis, Ong named Carnegie Fellows
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Jonathan Corpus Ong were named Andrew Carnegie Fellows today.
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Campus & Community
Victory of perseverance, vision over more than decade of challenges
Being able to rebound when life throws up obstacles is nothing new for undergraduate Kimberly Woo, whose road to graduation has been filled with challenges.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to transition to voluntary COVID testing
Coronavirus Advisory Group cites low campus rates of severe illness, hospitalizations, and a shift in pandemic phase.
