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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Campus & Community
A call to halt endowment tax
Harvard President Drew Faust was among 49 college and university presidents who called on Congress to repeal the endowment tax enacted in December.
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Health
What’s another hour of lost sleep? For some, a hazard
An interview with Jeanne Duffy, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on links between sleep and health.
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Science & Tech
Transforming the ‘coastal squeeze’ from climate change
One certainty about America’s coasts is that they will change in the coming decades as sea levels rise. Visiting Professor Steven Handel said landscape design, married with knowledge of native plants, can ensure that both human and natural needs are met.
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Health
When disease strikes, gender matters
Experts in Harvard Chan School discussion call for more sensitivity to differences between men and women in study and treatment of disease.
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Health
Hip replacement needed a ‘light bulb moment.’ Getting there was painful.
In his new book, “Vanishing Bone,” Harvard surgeon William Harris described setbacks on the path to breakthrough collaboration that corrected a major problem in hip replacement surgery.
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Health
Fighting the flu at less than full strength
Panelists focused on gaps in vaccination in a Harvard Chan School discussion on the flu.
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Health
When love and science double date
They suggest that couples share goals and aspirations, stay curious about each other, and, for pity’s sake, go out once in a while.
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Campus & Community
Trusted voice among leaders in higher education
Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.
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Health
Ahead for health care, a likely mixed bag
The repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate will likely mean that some healthier and higher-income people leave the rolls of the insured, but it won’t mean the law’s doom, says Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Associate Professor Benjamin Sommers. Still, the dilution and unenthusiastic administration of the law likely means the…
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Science & Tech
Expanding the reach of the bionic leaf
With eye on population growth, postdoc Kelsey Sakimoto teamed up with “bionic leaf” developers on a project to aid agriculture in developing world.
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Campus & Community
Hurtling back through time
A Wintersession course introduced students to the ancient atlatl, a hunting and fighting tool that improved the range and velocity of spears.
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Health
Opioid epidemic top priority for surgeon general
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the opioid crisis is his top priority, but that showing the effects of the nation’s poor health on economic growth and national security are also key.
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Health
Everywhere you look, flu
Answers from Yonatan Grad, an assistant professor of immunology and infectious disease, on why this year’s flu season has been so severe.
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Health
Researchers probe stomach surgery’s ‘miracle’ secrets
Harvard researchers are bringing an engineer’s perspective to a medical mystery — how does gastric bypass surgery do so much more than reduce weight?
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Nation & World
Tax on university endowments passes
Harvard President Drew Faust said that the tax bill represents an unprecedented attack on the tax-exempt status of nonprofits and charities because it taxes, for the first time, income for such an institution’s core mission — in this case, education.
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Health
Researchers work to fill gaps in Chinese health care
Harvard researchers are collaborating with government officials in China on an experiment aimed at improving quality of care at hospitals in some of the country’s poorer regions.
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Health
For family, doctors, life and death were inseparable
Surgeons at MassGeneral Hospital for Children faced a wrenching decision in a procedure to separate twins conjoined at the abdomen and pelvis.
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Science & Tech
Climate made scary
Journalist David Wallace-Wells and others debated the most effective way to communicate climate urgency in a Harvard discussion.
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Health
New clues to Alzheimer’s disease
McLean Hospital researchers have found energy dysfunction in the cells of late-onset Alzheimer’s patients, which may be a piece of the disease’s complex puzzle.
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Health
A passion for nature, in beetles
A collection of 150,000 beetle specimens, donated by businessman and longtime Harvard benefactor David Rockefeller, arrives at the Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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Health
Hitting diabetes where we eat
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School to discuss recent developments in the fight against the country’s diabetes epidemic.
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Campus & Community
Looking for a person, and perspective
Bill Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, shared his views on the progress so far in the search for Harvard’s 29th leader and how the consultative process can help set the agenda ahead.
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Health
Launching a space mission from the deepest ocean
Scientists from Harvard and Woods Hole are collaborating on deep-sea technologies that could be a model for exploring oceans on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
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Campus & Community
Rock ’n’ roll recovery mission
The Big 6, a cover band formed at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is planning a concert to aid communities recovering from Hurricanes Harvey, Irene, and Maria.
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Health
‘Best diet in America,’ but who knew?
The Harvard Chan School welcomed Lawrence Appel of Johns Hopkins to discuss his work testing the DASH diet.
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Science & Tech
The selfie’s gone, but the damage is done
New HBS research examines whether we are less inhibited when posting on temporary social media and how others perceive the posts.
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Campus & Community
Looking back, but thinking ahead
Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Hollister take a look at the 2017 fiscal year.
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Work & Economy
Golden age for team players
Workers with strong social skills are increasingly valuable to employers, according to a new analysis by Harvard education economist.
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Health
Heading off the post-antibiotic age
Antibiotic resistance has the potential to take millions of lives by 2050 if nothing is done to address the problem, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Harvard Business School.
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Health
Joanne Chang breaks down sugar
Flour Bakery owner Joanne Chang ’91 explained for 500 listeners the uses of sugar in a “Science and Cooking” lecture.
