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Analysis of cross-state cancer care signals need for improved telehealth
A new paper, published in JAMA Network Open, finds a surprising number of Americans traveling out-of-state for cancer care. The study, co-authored by Center for Geographic Analysis research associate Lingbo Liu, focuses on older…
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Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship hosts 2nd annual Demo Day
The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative recently hosted the second annual Demo Day, a showcase event for early-stage investors. Highlighting a wide variety of student ventures…
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Faculty Council meeting — March 12, 2025
On March 12 the Faculty Council heard presentations on generative AI and on FAS fundraising. They also heard reviews of the Ph.D. program in Population Health Sciences and of the…
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West End hit musical comedy to conclude A.R.T.’s 2024/25 season
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced on Thursday that it will produce the North American premiere of the West End hit “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” to conclude…
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Paula Hammond delivers inaugural Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the launch of the Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture on March 3, with an address by the inaugural lecturer Paula Hammond,…
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Paola Arlotta receives 2025 ISSCR Momentum Award
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Paola Arlotta, with this year’s Momentum Award. Arlotta is the Golub Family Professor of the Department of Stem Cell and…
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Escobari joins HMC Board of Directors
Harvard Management Company (HMC) announced today that Martín Escobari ’94, MBA ’98, has been elected to join its board of directors.
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Victor Seow honored for early-career excellence in history of science
Victor Seow, Ph.D. ’14, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has received the Sarton Prize for the History of Science. The award, established by the American Academy of…
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Harvard Business School announces spring cohort of Executive Fellows
“HBS launched the Executive Fellows program in 2020 to provide an avenue by which experienced business leaders and practitioners can contribute to the School’s mission in a variety of meaningful ways,” said Professor Len Schlesinger, chair of the program.
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Unveiling the mystical: How scholars are advancing psychedelics study
The term “psychedelics” can conjure surreal images of mind-altering journeys through a mystical realm that connects the body to the soul and the soul to divinity. Dreamlike visions can pave…
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Call for proposals: Harvard Global Health Institute Scholarly Working Groups
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced it is now accepting new proposals for forming Scholarly Working Groups (SWG) in Global Health from faculty across Harvard and its affiliated hospitals. The program aims to create a collaborative environment to promote inter-faculty gatherings where faculty can explore or accelerate research areas in topics critical to the advancement of…
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Harvard Choruses to perform new opera ‘American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson’
The Harvard Choruses will perform a world premiere of “American Jezebel: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson” Saturday, an opera that tells the story of Puritan midwife and theologian Anne Hutchinson.…
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‘Seeing Each Other’ exhibition on display at Cabot House
In celebration of Women’s Week, a new exhibition will feature eight portraits from alumni Stephen Coit ’71 and Robert Shetterly ’69. “Seeing Each Other: A Conversation Between the Harvard Foundation…
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Roxane Gay speaks at annual Peggy Schmertzler Leadership Seminar
Roxane Gay doesn’t get tired of engaging with readers on a variety of topics, but she’s ready to stop defining feminism. The author and social commentator opened up about her…
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Faculty Council meeting — Feb. 26, 2025
On Feb. 26 the Faculty Council approved the preliminary “Courses of Instruction” for 2025–26 and a proposal regarding the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration. They also heard presentations…
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Davóne Tines ’09 to receive Harvard Arts Medal
Davóne Tines ’09, acclaimed operatic bass-baritone, will be the recipient of the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded by Harvard University President Alan Garber at a spring ceremony in…
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Ph.D. students awarded more than $130,000 in Social Equity and Health Equity stipend funding
Professor Marcella Alsan and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy have awarded 28 students up to $5,000 each.
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ChemFORWARD wins Harvard’s Roy Award for Environmental Partnership
The Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs announced on Monday that ChemFORWARD is the 2024 winner of the Roy Family…
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Kempner Institute welcomes spring undergrad student researchers
The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the spring 2025 recipients of the Kempner Undergraduate Research Experience (KURE). KURE awards…
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Annual symposium addresses pressing global health issues
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University April 10-11. Centered on the theme “Delivering on the Promise of Health Equity,” the symposium…
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Exploring art and scholarship through a new lens at Center for the Study of World Religions
On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by…
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Heather Boushey and Todd Tucker join Malcolm Wiener Center and the Reimagining the Economy Project as senior research fellows
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center and Reimagining the Economy Project welcome Dr. Heather Boushey and Dr. Todd Tucker.
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A neuroscientist in search of an answer
With bold brush strokes and vivid blues set against bright whites, Arturo Deza’s paintings, now on display at the Kempner Institute, are a testament to the idea that meaning, both…
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Salata Institute launches external advisory board
The Salata Institute, founded in 2022, is driving Harvard research to develop and promote solutions to the toughest climate challenges. Today, the institute announces a new advisory board with the experience, networks,…
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Faculty Council meeting — Feb. 12, 2025
On Feb. 12 the Faculty Council approved a proposal regarding pass/fail grading in Quantitative Reasoning with Data (QRD) courses. They also discussed a proposal regarding the name of the Human Evolutionary…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. awarded Vilcek Prize for Excellence
The Vilcek Foundation announced the 2025 recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship on Feb. 3. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was named as…
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Alexis Tsipras will serve as Policy Fellow at Harvard
Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister (2015-2019), who rose to power on an anti-austerity platform during an acute stage of the Eurocrisis, has been appointed as a short-term, resident Policy Fellow…
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Inaugural recipients of the Mittal Institute Faculty Climate Research Grants
The Mittal Institute is pleased to announce its first recipients of the Faculty Climate Research Grants. These grants are designed to foster deeper scholarly engagement on climate change in South Asia, catalyze…
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Professor Na Li recognized for work in control, learning, optimization
Professor Na “Lina” Li has received the 2024 IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. The Winkour Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the Harvard John A. Paulson School…
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Ice Bumper Cars arrive at Harvard
Harvard is cranking up the fun this winter as Ice Bumper Cars whiz onto the Science Center Plaza. Join us for zigzagging, bumping, and spinning alongside your friends, fellow students,…