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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Health
Seeking new momentum in malaria fight
Harvard Business School hosted a weeklong leadership workshop supporting global efforts to eradicate malaria.
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Science & Tech
Easing the way for students to ‘do’ science
Robert Lue, principal investigator for the development of an online learning platform called LabXchange, aims to provide a virtual laboratory experience and social community for biology students.
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Campus & Community
Raj Chetty returning to Harvard
Economist Raj Chetty, who left Harvard for Stanford in 2015, is returning to Harvard this summer to become the inaugural William A. Ackman Professor of Economics, and continue his work on American inequality.
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Health
Harvard program hears from Sirleaf on putting education first
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shared her experiences as president of Liberia in a session of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program.
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Health
Big data targets drug resistance
Harvard Medical School symposium examines the role of big data in fighting drug-resistant microbes.
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Health
Survey of oncologists finds knowledge gap on medical marijuana
Harvard psychiatrist Ilana Braun found a knowledge gap on medical marijuana in a survey of oncologists nationwide.
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Health
Fired-up McCarthy takes leadership role at Harvard Chan School
The Harvard Chan School relaunched its center for health and environment with a new name, a new director, and a new collaboration with Google.
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Campus & Community
Getting comfortable outside their comfort zones
The first installment in a new series on campus diversity as a cornerstone of a Harvard education.
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Campus & Community
Facing the future, Lewis and Faust see reason for hope
Harvard Commencement Speaker John Lewis exhorts graduates to get to work in the fight for justice.
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Campus & Community
Orators speak to inspire at Commencement
Three student orators — Pete Davis, Christopher Egi, and Phoebe Lakin — will deliver speeches in both English and Latin during Morning Exercises in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Health
Leveling the medical playing field
Harvard Medical School graduate Mary Tate wants to reduce the inequities that exist in Americans’ health by reaching out to disadvantaged communities and working to improve their patient care.
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Campus & Community
‘To be horrified by inequality and early death and not have any kind of plan for responding — that would not work for me’
In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, “Harvard-Haiti,” and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.
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Nation & World
Paramedic to Prague to Harvard
Oren Varnai, graduating from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s mid-career master of public health program, is a Foreign Service officer in Prague.
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Science & Tech
CRISPR’s breakthrough implications
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna discussed the gene-editing technology’s rapid spread and the need for a robust discussion about the ethics of its applications.
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Health
Checking the progress of self-driving cars
Panelists at the Harvard Chan School discussed the future of self-driving cars.
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Nation & World
From federal support, groundbreaking research
Latest federal budget allocations allow Harvard scientists to push toward fresh discoveries.
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Health
Uncertain chapter in dental student’s life
Lindsay D’Amato took a circuitous route from Missouri to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, via graduate school in California, a two-year Peace Corps stint in Panama — and a detour for brain surgery.
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Health
Progress and challenge on Alzheimer’s
Harvard epidemiologist Albert Hofman said most Alzheimer’s cases are likely related to non-genetic causes, particularly vascular health, which explains decreased incidence of the disease in recent years.
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Health
Harvard’s immersion in neuroscience
In a Q&A session, Harvard Provost Alan Garber talks about the recent “Faculty Symposium: Insights in Neuroscience,” hosted by his office and the Life Sciences Steering Group, about science broadly at Harvard, and the growing interdependence among all scientific disciplines.
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Science & Tech
How fast can we run?
Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman offers evolutionary perspective on Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile, today’s marathoners.
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Health
When science meets mindfulness
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School are examining how mindfulness meditation may change the brain in depressed patients.
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Nation & World
Getting to the why of British India’s bloody Partition
Harvard’s South Asia Institute is examining the history and ramifications of the violent Partition of British India in 1947 into what would eventually become India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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Science & Tech
A ‘moon shot’ to protect Earth’s species
Biologist E.O. Wilson suggests conserving half of the Earth to save species. He and former National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis discuss how to do that.
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Campus & Community
A Harvard to make Du Bois nod yes
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has issued its final report. The Gazette spoke with John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and new senior adviser and strategist to the president charged with implementing its recommendations.
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Health
The problems with LGBTQ health care
A significant number of LGBTQ patients experience stigma and discrimination not just in their everyday lives, but in the health care system, a problem that can be addressed by increased awareness by physicians and other providers who treat them.
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Health
We’re in the dark on dietary supplements. She’s working to change that.
A Harvard epidemiologist is working on two trials aimed at providing some clarity on the effects of dietary supplements.
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Health
Pulling our punches in opioid fight
Shelly F. Greenfield of McLean Hospital provides a recap of a Boston summit aimed at generating ideas for attacking the opioid epidemic.
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Health
Giving kids a running start
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers tested the impact of a before-school exercise program on kids’ emotional and physical health.
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Science & Tech
In plant tug-of-war, mom wins
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum researchers examining how the battle of the sexes is waged in plants have found a maternal path to victory.
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Science & Tech
Public lands ‘a priceless legacy’ for future
Public lands owned and managed by the federal government are not a land grab, as some activists claim, but rather the result of a practice that goes back to the nation’s founding, a former Interior Department official says.
