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Life | Work
A series focused on the personal side of Harvard research and teaching.
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Nation & WorldPursuit of justice borne of personal experience with injustice
Rosalie Abella, the first Jewish woman on Canada’s Supreme Court, was shaped by her parents’ resilience after Holocaust
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Science & TechNumbers tell one story about climate change. People tell another.
Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities
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HealthAha moment in psych class clarifies childhood mystery
Inspires Susan Kuo’s research probing role of genetics in schizophrenia, autism
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Campus & CommunitySeeing is believing
Personal and global history made Jeremy Weinstein want to change the world. As dean of the Kennedy School, he’s found the perfect place to do it.
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Health‘Heartbreaking’ encounter inspired long view on alcohol
One encounter changed everything for researcher who hopes to help mothers and families detect and treat the effects of dangerous drinking
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Nation & WorldHow to help urban young people progress? Nurture hope.
Youth development specialist promotes holistic approach to healing, growth of individuals, communities amid poverty, drugs, trauma
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Her friends’ parents were dying of cancer. Then her mom got sick.
Childhood tragedy sparks Harvard researcher Jen Cruz’s quest to root out public health inequities
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Someone stole Karestan Koenen’s future. She took it back.
Trauma expert speaks from brutal experience
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‘What is compelling to do right now?’
Marshall Ganz started at Harvard but took some time off — about three decades — to become Civil Rights, labor, political organizer, and finally scholar, mentor.
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Car bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers
Mashail Malik was always interested in the human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics.
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James Riley’s indelible past
Graffiti of his Los Angeles youth colors the work of Business School sociologist.
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Desire to battle climate change rooted in childhood
Environmental science and engineering doctoral student grew up next door to family’s palm-oil refinery outside Bangkok.
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The art of self-healing
“There is this culture that doctors are supposed to be perfect … and that culture makes it harder for us to ask for help.”
