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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Campus & Community
The magic of the unexpected
William G. Kaelin Jr., the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is one of three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how cells sense and adapt to changes in oxygen availability, a process critical for survival.
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Science & Tech
Red flags rise on global warming and the seas
The world’s oceans, glaciers, and ice caps are under assault by climate change. The Gazette spoke with former Obama science adviser John Holdren about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report examining the threat.
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Nation & World
National parks’ economic benefits put at over $100B annually
A new economic analysis of the U.S. National Park system puts its value to Americans at more than $100 billion, a figure that dwarfs the financially strapped agency’s $2.5 billion budget and underpins a call to change how what has been called “America’s Best Idea” is financed.
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Campus & Community
Global strike comes to Harvard
Harvard students and those from Cambridge public schools joined their voices in a rally calling for climate change action Friday on Harvard’s Science Center Plaza.
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Health
Trust, belonging, keys to mental health of students of color
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School said despite progress at making college student bodies more diverse, work still needs to be done to make students of all backgrounds feel welcome, a key step in heading off increased rates of mental illness such students experience on campus.
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Science & Tech
Solve ocean’s troubles and climate change too?
Experts from Harvard and beyond gathered Monday to discuss the oceans’ plight in a warming world, offering hopeful solutions despite the often bleak assessment prompted by warming, pollution, acidification, and coral bleaching.
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Nation & World
On climate, the young take the lead
Impacts of climate change and fossil fuel burning can be particularly dire for the vulnerable, like the planet’s youth, who are watching out for their interests by staging a global climate strike, according to C-Change’s Aaron Bernstein.
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Health
Protein, fat, or carbs?
Researchers applied new techniques to old samples from a 2005 dietary study to show that a focus on eating healthy rather than obsessing over a single nutrient can improve heart health.
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Health
CBD rollout shines light on Wild West of supplements
A marijuana derivative called cannabidiol, or CBD, has begun making its way into supplements and even into foods, a use that runs afoul of an FDA designation of the compound as a prescription drug. A Harvard Medical School associate professor says CBD’s tangled legal status may provide an opportunity not only to clear up its…
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Campus & Community
Perfection in miniature
Time and knowledge may be the most powerful fertilizers for the Arnold Arboretum’s Bonsai and Penjing Collection, which houses 43 miniature — and ancient — trees.
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Science & Tech
Harvard reflects on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s moon walk
A trio of Harvard astronomers reflect on the impact of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, then and now.
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Health
Study: Doctor burnout costs health care system $4.6 billion a year
Physician burnout is costing the U.S. health care system an estimated $4.6 billion annually, according to new research from an international team led by a Harvard Business School researcher.
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Science & Tech
Plague genomes show extent, diversity of massive Roman-era pandemic
New research from an interdisciplinary team of researchers shows an early plague pandemic reached post-Roman Britain and had unexpected genetic diversity.
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Health
Reeling in rising distracted driving deaths
Crashes caused by distracted drivers are believed to have been the biggest cause of a 14 percent rise in traffic fatalities since 2014. The Harvard Chan School’s Center for Health Communication is mounting an anti-distracted driving campaign this fall to make headway against a problem that has proven resistant to change despite efforts by government,…
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Health
Fears arise that new federal fetal-tissue restrictions will hobble a ‘workhorse’ of research
With the Trump administration halting fetal tissue research at two prominent scientific institutions and new plans to review such research elsewhere, Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley discussed the importance of research using these tissues, which would otherwise be discarded, in creating vaccines and treatments and enhancing our understanding of human biology.
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Health
As measles cases crack 1,000, a look at what to do
Harvard public health and public safety experts recommended public education, elimination of nonmedical vaccination exemptions for schoolkids, and potentially more severe penalties as a way to get parents to comply with measles vaccination guidelines.
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Health
Aging population increases energy use
Two global trends — the aging of the world’s population and the warming of its atmosphere — are set to collide in the decades to come, new work by an MGH and HMS researcher shows.
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Campus & Community
Gathering of the Crimson clan
Commencement at Harvard is a day of formal ceremonies and poignant moments. Included are snippets of the latter, along with some context from celebrations past.
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Campus & Community
After a helping hand up, reaching back to help others
Christine Santiago couples her background in an economically struggling household with her medical and public health training to plot a course that aims to help others.
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Campus & Community
Gore decries attacks on facts, science, reason
Former Vice President Al Gore warned about threats to American democracy and issued a call to arms to Harvard’s graduating seniors during a pre-graduation Class Day speech.
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Campus & Community
Three students tell it like it was (and will be)
Students will share their memories of Harvard, lessons learned, and hopes for the future in three traditional addresses on Commencement Day.
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Campus & Community
Fighting for humane mental health treatment
Faraaz Mahomed, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is working to protect the rights of those using mental health systems throughout the world.
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Campus & Community
Searching for answers in what lemurs leave behind
Harvard College senior Camille DeSisto’s love of the environment took her around the world to Madagascar’s tropical forests.
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Health
Broccoli and Brussels sprouts: Cancer foes
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables have long been thought to be good for you, new research finds a mechanism for its cancer-fighting abilities and points the way to a new anti-cancer drug.
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Arts & Culture
Armchair travels with a purpose
Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D.
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Nation & World
Amid India elections, Harvard study aligns data with constituencies
A team at the Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis has remapped a trove of health and wellness data to align it with political districts in India, to help voters in the world’s largest democracy better decide how to vote in the six-week election.
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Health
Pharma-to-doc marketing a vulnerability in opioid fight
A University of Michigan-Harvard University summit brought experts from the two universities as well as outside organizations to consider ways to address the opioid epidemic.
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Health
Dietary link found to drug-resistant breast cancer
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have linked a common dietary element to breast cancer drug resistance, raising the prospect of a new way to attack a major cause of breast cancer death.
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Health
In the cold and rain, a sprawling lesson on caring
About 250 faculty, students, and volunteers descended on Massachusetts’ Harold Parker State Forest last weekend for a disaster simulation aimed to prepare students studying humanitarian disaster response for the real thing.
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Nation & World
A lifeline to India’s farmers on the edge of despair
Harvard Kennedy School student’s nonprofit to help poor farmers in India wins Mittal South Asia Institute innovation prize.
