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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Health
Checklists are boring, but death is worse
Systems aren’t sexy, but they save lives, says Harvard Medical School Professor and author Atul Gawande during HUBweek events in Boston.
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Science & Tech
History under the microscope
Researchers delivered lectures on recent findings to launch the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean.
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Science & Tech
When machines rule, should humans object?
Harvard scholars shared concerns and ideas in a HUBweek panel titled “Programming the Future of AI: Ethics, Governance, and Justice.”
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Science & Tech
Putting tomorrow’s doctors on opioid alert
Gov. Charlie Baker joined HMS faculty members in discussing the opioid crisis and the role physician education must play in fighting it.
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Health
A new era in the study of evolution
Harvard biologist Jonathan Losos talks about his new book, “Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution.”
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Health
Another climate change concern: Forced migration
Experts trace the fingerprints of climate change in the world’s mass migration crises, saying that the effects of shifting norma appear to play a role.
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Health
Feeling woozy? Time to check the tattoo
Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises.
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Science & Tech
New England is losing 65 acres of forest a day
A new Harvard Forest report, “Wildlands and Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities,” calls for tripling conservation efforts across the region.
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Science & Tech
Connecting the dots in data sciences
Harvard’s new Data Science Initiative hosted its inaugural event, the first in a series of planned seminars featuring talks by faculty members focusing on new methods of managing and analyzing data and on cutting-edge applications.
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Health
A long way from PBJ
One of the biggest challenges facing school cafeterias is making healthier food taste better, a task that can be aided by collaborating with professional chefs, a Harvard nutrition expert said.
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Science & Tech
A pragmatic model to conserve land
Martha’s Vineyard is best known as a summer playground for the rich, but it’s also setting an important conservation example, according to a new book by Harvard Forest Director David Foster.
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Science & Tech
Branching out from her own tree of knowledge
Seattle Times environmental reporter Lynda Mapes turned her fellowship year at Harvard Forest into a book titled “Witness Tree.”
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Health
Making the most of a dead lizard in the snow
The extreme winter of 2013–2014 created conditions for a Harvard grad student to expand his work on green anole lizards into study of natural selection in action.
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Health
Cancer alarm at the firehouse
Harvard researchers have teamed with local departments to examine cancer hazards contained in firehouse life.
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Health
Seeing promise, and limits, in embryo edit
The disease-targeting embryo edit at Oregon Health & Science University signals a path for “those rare situations where the genes really are life-threatening,” says Harvard bioethicist Robert Truog.
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Health
Digitization uncovers pre-WWII fossil loan
Digitization of Harvard’s fossil insect collection produced a surprising twist: The return to Germany of hundreds of Eocene insects frozen in amber.
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Nation & World
The mayors, who have to make government work
Forty mayors from the United States and overseas gathered in New York City for the inaugural session of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, whose aim is to promote urban innovation.
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Health
SEAL-tested, NASA-approved
Jonny Kim, a Harvard Medical School graduate and former Navy SEAL, has been selected to join NASA’s next astronaut class.
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Arts & Culture
For Harvard neurologist, words lead to ‘action!’
Harvard neurologist Howard Weiner is winning praise as a film director for his feature “The Last Poker Game.”
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Science & Tech
Wielding chainsaws for science
A collaboration between the Arnold Arboretum and the U.S. Forest Service has the two organizations, which typically fight tree pests, rearing wood-boring beetles for science.
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Health
On Thoreau’s 200th birthday, a gift for botany
Marking Thoreau’s 200th birthday, Harvard University Herbaria will post images of more than 800 plants the author and naturalist collected, part of a larger digitization effort.
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Science & Tech
Scholars greet Paris exit as multifaceted mistake
Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.
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Campus & Community
A nation shocked, haunted, changed
Harvard President Drew Faust explored the country’s history of mourning in a conversation at the September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.
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Science & Tech
Will business fill the Paris void?
Q&A with HBS Professor George Serafeim on the response among corporate leaders to the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement.
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Health
Nudging families away from fruit juice
Harvard-affiliated diabetes specialists are calling for fruit juice to be cut from the federal WIC supplemental nutrition program for low-income families.
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Science & Tech
Probing the Black Death for lead pollution insights
The natural level of lead in the air is essentially zero, according to research backed by data from the 14th-century Black Death, when mining and smelting ceased.
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Campus & Community
Departing as leaders
Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.
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Campus & Community
For graduate the numbers add up
Daniel Schlauch is looking to put his talents with numbers to work fighting cancer.
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Campus & Community
Grants back study-abroad initiatives in Italy, Canada
Plans for immersive student experiences in Canada’s far north and in Italy received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.
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Health
Probe of Alzheimer’s follows paths of infection
Starting with microbes, Harvard-MGH researchers outline a devastating chain of events
