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Advice: Dream big, listen to the market, ask for help
Ever wondered how university innovations start the journey toward becoming products that the world can use? Very often, at Harvard, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers have a hand in it.…
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Nieman Foundation announces 2020 fellows
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 27 Nieman Fellows for the class of 2020. The group includes local reporters, foreign correspondents, editors, a photographer, a bureau chief,…
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Kicking out the jams at the coffeehouse
The William James Hall Coffeehouse is a semiannual event, sponsored by WJH Building Operations, and the departments of Psychology, Sociology, and Social Studies. Now in its 12th year, it provides an…
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Innovation award seeks programs creating economic opportunity
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School today announced its call for nominations for the 2019 Innovations in American Government Award. This year the Innovations in…
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Advanced Leadership Initiative explores the future of cities
Through its 2019 Future of Cities Deep Dive, the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) used cities as a laboratory to explore complicated, cross-sector problems and potential solutions to address those…
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Gratitude, excitement surround Graduate Commons Program leadership transition
The Graduate Commons Program (GCP) will soon bid farewell to faculty directors Jim and Doreen Hogle, after seven years of service and mentorship to the Peabody Terrace community. They will…
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Harvard-Yenching Institute names new visiting scholars, fellows
The Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) is pleased to welcome more than 50 visiting scholars and fellows from major universities in Asia. Affiliates will spend the 2019-20 academic year in residence at…
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Seeking volunteers for Arts First Festival
Do you want experience working at Harvard’s longest-running arts festival and get behind the scenes with the arts? The Office for the Arts invites you to be a part of…
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Deming named director of Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School has named David Deming as the faculty director of the School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. Deming serves as a professor of public policy at the…
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In Congress, lawmakers narrow in on big tech policy
Technology has reached a critical juncture in American society. The unfettered optimism of recent decades is now tempered by rising concerns over privacy and security, the impact of disinformation campaigns,…
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Students awarded Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowships
The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and the Novak Djokovic Foundation announced today that four Harvard doctoral students have been awarded the Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship…
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Business owners explore employee, community wellness
When Lindsey Gaudet and her husband Ed Thill decided to open a gourmet bagel shop in Medford, they recognized that taking care of their employees’ mental and physical well-being would…
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Faculty Council meeting — April 24, 2019
On April 24 the members of the Faculty Council approved a proposal to change the name of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Systems Biology to the Standing Committee…
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Paper probes legacy health effects of occupational secondhand smoke
A new paper on the effects of secondhand smoke on never-smokers has been published recently by SHINE Harvard researchers working on a Flight Attendant Health Study. The study reports associations…
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Meselson honored for work against biological weapons
According to Matthew Meselson, professor in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, biological warfare could erase the distinction between war and peace, with no clear line between its beginning…
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Earth Day is every day
While many believe that every day should be treated as Earth Day, April 22 feels just a little more special: It is a time of true celebration and appreciation for…
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Wyss named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Hansjörg Wyss has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of business, corporate, and philanthropic…
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Secure and sustainable electronics recycling event returns
Ten thousand pounds — that’s hundreds of computers, keyboards, printers, mobile phones, cameras, stereos, power cords, and other electronic items that would otherwise have taken up space in filing cabinets,…
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Environmental justice starts at home
The future of the environment, and, with that, the future of the world, is an issue of growing urgency. How can we work to combat the present reality of climate…
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Hopkins receives grant to study speciation
Plants fuel the Earth’s biodiversity, connecting humans to all parts of the biological world around them. Giving scientists and non-scientists access to accurate knowledge about the evolutionary forces that generate…
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Art Museums receive significant gift of Otto Piene sketchbooks
The Harvard Art Museums are pleased to announce an extraordinary gift of 70 sketchbooks by internationally renowned artist Otto Piene (1928–2014); the gift was made by poet and author Elizabeth…
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Awardees announced for Lemann Brazil Research Fund
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs are pleased to announce the 2019 awardees of the Lemann Brazil Research…
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Faculty Council meeting — April 10, 2019
On April 10 the members of the Faculty Council met with President Bacow for discussion and questions. They also heard a proposal regarding the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in…
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Uncovering the toxic effects of saturated fatty acids on cells
New research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has identified numerous genes that influence how cells respond to saturated fatty acids. Some of these genes have promise…
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Gender-diverse companies thrive only in areas that embrace diversity
Do gender-diverse companies make more money than businesses run primarily by men? If research says they perform better, that could bolster the argument that women should have more access to…
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FAS professor awarded France’s Légion d’honneur
Susan Rubin Suleiman, Ph.D., A.M., A.B., has won many awards over her storied career as an educator and writer, but was recently awarded Légion d’honneur, France’s highest decoration, a particularly poignant…
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Women pay higher career price in today’s work culture
Top leaders of a global consulting firm longed to add more women to its partner ranks, if women would just put in the hours necessary to compete. But mothers would…
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A.R.T. gala raises $1.4M for artistic, community programs
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger, raised a record $1.4 million in support of the theater’s artistic,…
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Research conference celebrates socially engaged scholarship
On April 4 and 5, Harvard students, faculty, and staff, along with nearly 40 undergraduate students from across the country, will meet for the 2019 Engaged Scholarship & Social Justice…
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Vision & Justice: A creative convening on art, race, and equity
Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will host Vision & Justice, a landmark two-day creative convening that will explore the role of the arts in the construction of citizenship,…