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    Project offers holistic view on environmental issues

    In reaction to the growing challenges posed by global environmental change, author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and Sam Myers, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…

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    Promoting health equity may be good for business

    Efforts by the private sector have potential to close the gap in health equity in the United States. That was the message at the recent Culture of Health (COH) Conference,…

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    Faculty Council meeting — Oct. 24, 2018

    On Oct. 24 the Faculty Council approved an amendment to the legislation on course scheduling. They also heard a presentation on graduate student mental health. The Council next meets on…

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    Kennedy School hits 90% in Harvard Votes Challenge

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation announced today that over 90 percent of all eligible Harvard Kennedy School students have committed to registering to vote as part of the…

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    Wyss Institute receives grant from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

    A new grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) to the Wyss Institute at Harvard University aims to improve the survival of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) by funding the…

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    Human Research Protection Programs get high marks

    Research is at the heart of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s mission and perhaps nothing better reflects the School’s commitment to safeguarding research subjects than recent news that…

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    Data Privacy Lab announces visualization contest

    The Data Privacy Lab at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science is pleased to announce the theDataMap Visualization Contest. The contest challenges participants to use data from the Lab’s…

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    GSD’s Kara wins Stirling Prize for building

    The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded its 2018 Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners’ “monumental,” “once-in-a-generation” European headquarters for Bloomberg LP, a project engineered by the Harvard…

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    Arboretum recognized for nationally accredited collections

    “The Plant Collections Network (PCN) of the American Public Gardens Association recently bestowed national accreditation status to two genera in the Arnold Arboretum’s collections: Forsythia and Ginkgo. Along with six…

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    Faculty Council meeting — Oct. 10, 2018

    On Oct. 10 the Faculty Council heard a proposal for an amendment to the legislation on course scheduling and a presentation regarding a pending lawsuit. The Council next meets on…

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    GSD’s Forysth named editor of journal

    The American Planning Association (APA), a membership and education organization with more than 40,000 members, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD), are very pleased to announce the selection of…

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    The culprit of superconductivity in cuprates

    When it comes to high-temperature superconductors, “high” is a relative term. In the field of superconductivity, “high temperature” means anything that can still be superconductive over 30 degrees Kelvin (K),…

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    ‘Fog × Macbeth’ brings Shakespeare to Arboretum

    Witches, murder, intrigue — all will be revealed in the fog. Or will it? On Oct. 21 at 5 p.m., Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP) conjures Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” amid the shifting…

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    Graduate School of Design launches ‘Talking Practice’ podcast

    The Practice Platform at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (HGSD) presents “Talking Practice,” the first podcast series to feature in-depth interviews with leading design practitioners from around the world on…

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    Aramont Fund supports early-career science scholars

    The Office of the Vice Provost for Research is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research awardees who, together, establish a cross-University community of…

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    Dumbarton Oaks, JSTOR to launch Plant Humanities Initiative

    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming Harvard research institute Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR, the digital library for research and teaching that is…

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    First-year students warm up at ‘ice-breaker’

    With the feel of autumn in the air, hundreds of first-year students filled Tercentenary Theatre on Aug. 31 for the College’s second annual Community Night. The goal: to provide a…

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    Rock Center names entrepreneurs-in-residence

    As usual, M.B.A. students attending Harvard Business School (HBS) this year who are interested in entrepreneurship or looking to create and even launch a startup of their own will be…

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    Innovation Labs announce startup accelerator ventures

    The Harvard Innovation Labs, an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni in exploring innovation and entrepreneurship, today announced that it has selected 13 ventures to participate in the…

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    Tara Pacific Expedition wraps up in Boston

    Schooner finishes its research mission, offers onboard visits, and partners with Radcliffe Institute for science lecture After more than two years at sea, the research schooner Tara docked in Boston…

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    Enduring Harvard tradition adjusts to new class schedule

    Morning Prayers will start 15 minutes early on Oct. 1, marking the beginning of a new schedule for a piece of enduring Harvard tradition that takes place in Memorial Church’s…

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    Faculty Council meeting — Sept. 26, 2018

    On Sept. 26 the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian for the 2018–19 academic year and approved proposed changes to the language requirement. They also approved the convening of a committee…

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    Applications open for Climate Solutions Living Lab

    Applications are now being accepted for the Spring 2019 the Climate Solutions Living Lab course and are due no later than Oct. 15. The highly interactive, multi-disciplinary course brings together graduate…

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    Small modulator for big data

    Conventional lithium niobite modulators, the longtime workhorse of the optoelectronic industry, may soon go the way of the vacuum tube and floppy disc. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School…

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    Strengthening public health connections between Thailand, U.S.

    A range of issues relevant to health in both Thailand and the U.S. — including medical education, maternal health, hypertension and stroke risk, and the role of policy and persuasion…

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    Hotamışlıgil wins diabetes research award

    The 2018 EASD–Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence has been awarded to Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and…

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    2018 HAA Award recipients announced

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. This year’s awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, Sept.…

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    Agarwal named Yidan Prize laureate

    Anant Agarwal, founder and CEO of edX, the massive open online course (MOOC) provider supported by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been granted the Yidan Prize…

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    Faculty Council meeting — Sept. 12, 2018

    On Sept. 12 the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, and chose subcommittees for 2018–19.  They also discussed a proposal for early registration and proposed changes to…

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    ‘RESILIENT’ showcases Bostonians’ opioid recovery

    The opioid crisis is being felt acutely in Massachusetts, with nearly 40 individuals dying every week from an opioid overdose. Amidst the epidemic, a new project led by two Harvard…