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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Science & Tech
Tackling carbon emissions in China
A Beijing symposium co-sponsored by the Harvard China Project and the Harvard Global Institute explored the possibility of China adopting a carbon tax as a way to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The Gazette spoke with economist Dale Jorgenson, the Samuel W. Morris University Professor, and Chris Nielsen, the executive director of the China Project,…
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Science & Tech
Defending breakthrough research
Harvard initiates patent infringement suits to protect inventors’ rights in computer-chip technology.
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Nation & World
Left to their demons
The Gazette spoke with psychologist Richard Mollica about a lesser known crisis zone for the displaced: mental health.
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Science & Tech
Fishing gaps called malnutrition threat
Declining fish catches around the world have set off concerns about malnutrition, especially among the poor.
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Science & Tech
Behind China’s viral curtain
A study by Professor Gary King and two former graduate students points to an effort by the Chinese government to use social media to discourage anti-government action.
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Campus & Community
Spielberg: Find a ‘villain to vanquish’
In his Commencement address, veteran filmmaker Steven Spielberg urged the members of Harvard’s Class of 2016 to stick to their morals and act when necessary.
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Campus & Community
A sunny day and even brighter futures
On a perfect sunny day in Harvard Yard, the University held its 365th Commencement in Tercentenary Theatre, with an emphasis on congratulations, rituals, and, most of all, celebrations.
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Campus & Community
From words to action
Stephen Greenblatt and Robyn Schiff were the featured speakers at the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.
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Campus & Community
The joys (and benefits) of movement
Erica Tukiainen used exercise to transform herself from a chubby kid to a collegiate basketball player. She wants to use lessons learned at the Harvard Chan School to help others add much-needed exercise to their lives.
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Campus & Community
Seed capital for summer learning
Three new potential summer-abroad programs have been given seed funds from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences, money intended to finance exploratory travel to meet potential partners, explore excursion destinations, and do the kind of on-the-ground investigation that underlies a successful summer course.
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Science & Tech
Putting the Glass Flowers in new light
The famed Glass Flowers gallery will reopen May 21 after the most extensive renovation in its history.
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Science & Tech
The high costs of imported pests
Scientists from Harvard Forest joined a group of experts calling for new regulations and stepped-up surveillance to stem a flood of invasive forest pests whose costs are borne by U.S. homeowners, cities, and towns.
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Campus & Community
‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’
Interview with geneticist George Church as part of the Experience series.
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Science & Tech
Targeting the ills of climate change
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped launch a new Harvard climate change and global health initiative Thursday, saying that climate change impacts almost always affect human health.
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Health
From fresh food to magic mushrooms
Author and journalist Michael Pollan has spent a fellowship year at Radcliffe changing directions and focusing on a fresh project, exploring a budding rebirth of psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses.
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Campus & Community
She followed her star
Moiya McTier ’16 blends her loves of space science and writing in a double concentration in astronomy and folklore and mythology, leading to a science fiction senior thesis.
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Nation & World
Checkup for finance ministers
Nine finance ministers from developing countries gathered at Loeb House to discuss the importance of health to a nation’s economic performance and explore ways for health and finance ministers to work together.
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Campus & Community
Air Force ROTC returns to Harvard
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Harvard President Drew Faust signed an agreement Friday to bring the Air Force ROTC program officially to campus.
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Health
Inequality runs deeper than health law
The Affordable Care Act has narrowed health disparities along class and race lines, but not nearly as much as needed.
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Health
Changing your body, from the top down
A Harvard Launch Lab startup headed by a Harvard Business School grad is focusing on the “battle between the ears” to transform people’s bodies, opening another front in the battle against obesity.
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Science & Tech
Guardians of the sky
After a flood threatened to destroy the Harvard College Observatory’s trove of glass plate negatives, staff members and students from around the University showed up to help move the plates to safety.
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Campus & Community
The workings of the Overseers
With an Overseer election underway, the Gazette talked with the incoming and outgoing presidents of the Board of Overseers about the board, its role at the University, and their experiences serving on it.
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Science & Tech
Destination: Nearest star
Harvard Astronomy Department chair Abraham Loeb played an important role in drafting initial plans announced Tuesday for a proposed trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. Loeb talked about the plan and its biggest challenges.
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Science & Tech
Gore sees progress on climate change
Former Vice President Al Gore brought a dose of optimism about climate change to Harvard on April 7, saying the problems are severe, but the solutions are emerging.
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Health
When picky eating is too great a luxury
Low-income parents face an extra challenge when trying to get their kids to eat healthy: the cost of food wasted if children refuse to eat it.
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Science & Tech
Hunting polluting gases around Boston
Students, faculty, and fellows are fanning out across the Boston area to take measurements aimed at determining where and how much natural gas is leaking and where the worst carbon dioxide emissions occur.
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Health
Deploying mosquitoes against Zika
Flaminia Catteruccia, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, speaks to the Gazette about using genetically modified mosquitoes to combat the Zika virus and other diseases.
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Health
Strength in love, hope in science
Husband and wife Eric Minikel and Sonia Vallabh have found a home at the Broad Institute to work toward a treatment for her fatal disease.
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Nation & World
To speak, and move others to act
Language, literature, and the liberal arts are key disciplines in forming leaders, Harvard President Drew Faust said during a speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Health
Real as a heart attack, almost
“Standardized patients” are trained actors who role-play the sort of diagnostic puzzles regularly faced by practicing physicians. They interact with students at the Tosteson Medical Education Center at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
