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GSD names winners of Richard Rogers Fellowship
The Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce the six winners of the 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship, a residency program at the Wimbledon House, the landmarked residence designed by…
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Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship accepting applications
The Center on the Developing Child’s Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship supports the research of Harvard advanced doctoral students whose work is related to early childhood health, learning, and behavior.…
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Use of ‘telehealth’ rising, slowly
Telehealth — accessing health care via a smart phone, tablet, or computer — is on the rise in the U.S., but it’s still relatively uncommon, even though 32 states have…
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Before circuit boards, female ‘computers’ set the standard
At the turn of the 19th century, the idea of women working was a foreign one, but at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO), it was the norm. From 1877 to…
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Malala Yousafzai to receive Gleitsman Award
The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has named Malala Yousafzai — the 2014 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and an inspiration across the world — as this year’s…
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Pioneering AIDS researcher celebrated
On Nov. 9, 2018, doctors, veterinarians, scientists, and politicians arrived at Boston’s Colonnade Hotel to celebrate trailblazing AIDS researcher Max Essex. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health along with the Harvard…
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Faculty Council meeting — Nov. 28, 2018
On Nov. 28 the members of the Faculty Council approved the Harvard Summer School course list for 2019. They also heard a proposal on the Population Health Sciences transcript and…
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A lifesaving therapy and the researcher who helped launch it
Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) — a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases — is credited with saving…
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Podcast examines President Trump and religion
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election thanks in large part to overwhelming support from one particular group of folks: white evangelicals. In fact, a whopping 81 percent of self-identified…
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Revitalizing Mount Auburn Cemetery chapel
In 1802, Jacob Bigelow, the son of a farmer, entered Harvard at the age of 15 to study medicine. By 1818 he was appointed professor of materia medica at Harvard Medical…
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Law School student wins Bracken Bower Prize
Andrew Leon Hanna ’19, a Harvard Law School student and c0-founder of a Harvard Innovation Labs’ VIP startup, has won the 2018 Bracken Bower Prize for best business book proposal…
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Harvard Chan students showcase work in the field
Master of public health students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gathered to display and discuss their field work at a poster session on Nov. 13, 2018 in…
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Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship open to applicants
The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard and the Novak Djokovic Foundation launched the Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship in 2016 in an effort to contribute science-based innovation in…
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Incarcerated youth visit campus
On Nov. 1, a group of incarcerated youth and staff from the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) visited different Harvard University centers and Schools. “We wanted DYS youth and…
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The 25th annual holiday gift drive launches
For the past 25 years, Harvard departments have worked with Phillips Brooks House to collect gifts during the holiday season for nearly two dozen community-based youth service programs in Boston,…
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Public health embraces messy world of big data
The promises of big data in health care are seemingly endless, but so are the challenges — poor data quality, byzantine medical codes, and the complexity of human genetics, to…
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Innovation Labs revamps President’s Innovation Challenge
New initiatives, such as additional funding for winners, a new venue for finalists, and increased support for participants, are at the heart of efforts to continue to grow participation and…
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Harvard wins gold for bicycling
Harvard is being recognized for its commitment to the biking community. The University just received a Gold level, Bicycle Friendly University award, from the League of American Bicyclists. The awards…
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Extending lives by changing lifestyles
In the early 1970s, the Finnish province of North Karelia had one of the world’s highest death rates from heart disease. Responding to an appeal from the community, local authorities…
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Sangeeta Bhatia joins Wyss Institute
Sangeeta Bhatia knew in her teens that she wanted to work on improving human health and, after studying biomedical engineering at Brown University, took her first job at a pharmaceutical…
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Pure EPA in omega-3 drug cuts risk of cardiovascular events
Results from a major clinical trial may have direct implications for patients who remain at increased cardiovascular risk despite taking statin therapy, it was announced Nov. 10. The trial, led…
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Divinity School professor in PBS series ‘Native America’
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), will appear in the third and fourth episodes of the PBS series “Native…
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Sanjeev Daga named COO of Harvard Management Company
Harvard Management Company (HMC) today (Nov. 13) announced that Sanjeev Daga will become its next chief operating officer in February 2019. Daga, who most recently served as COO of Columbia…
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King of Spain gives Asturias Award to Sandel
In a ceremony last month in Oviedo, Spain, King Felipe VI presented Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel with the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences. The Asturias Awards,…
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Computer model better at finding sources of foodborne illnesses
A new computer model that uses machine learning and de-identified and aggregated search and location data from logged-in Google users was significantly more accurate in identifying potentially unsafe restaurants when…
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Rosenthal to chair Advanced Leadership Initiative
Meredith B. Rosenthal, the C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next faculty chair of the…
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An Indian dance performance at Ed Portal
“A Hundred Moons,” an Indian classical dance performance by Neha Bansal, was presented to a sold-out audience at the Harvard Ed Portal on Oct. 30. Bansal, a graduate student at…
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New book explores future of Russia’s economy, markets
“Exploring the Future of Russia’s Economy and Markets: Towards Sustainable Economic Development,” a unique book on Russia’s economy, is being released by Emerald Publishing on Nov. 6. The book was…
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Smallwood on ‘Music, Activism, and Well-being’
The Rev. Richard Smallwood will participate in conversation with Professor Braxton Shelley and in song with the Kuumba Singers (Harvard), Inner Strength Gospel Choir (Boston University), and Third Day Gospel Choir (Tufts). The evening culminates…
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Lemann Brazil Research Fund accepting proposals
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research announces the opening of applications to the Lemann Brazil Research Fund as of Nov. 1. Applications are due by Jan. 22, 2019…