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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Health
Preoccupied with life
Harvard-affiliated surgeon and writer Atul Gawande explores big questions around end-of-life care in “Being Mortal.”
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Health
Birds everywhere
“Birds of the World” opened in September as a permanent exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Nation & World
From bad to worse?
A Russian analyst talks about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and the Kremlin.
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Science & Tech
New evidence on Neanderthal mixing
New research illuminates the mixing with Neanderthals in early human prehistory, narrowing the window of time when they crossbred to between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.
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Science & Tech
A walk on the wild side
Scientist Peter Del Tredici collaborated with artist Teri Rueb on a mobile sound tour of Bussey Brook Meadow.
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Health
Behold the mammoth (maybe)
Harvard geneticist George Church discussed the future of genetic engineering, including possible technological applications allowing new treatment techniques. He saw the potential to improve human health, revolutionize pest management, and perhaps even bring back the mammoth and other extinct species.
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Science & Tech
Six decades of science as diplomacy
This month, the Harvard Physics Department and swissnex Boston, a cultural and technological exchange effort by the Swiss consulate, are sponsoring a photo exhibit that focuses on the people of CERN — laughing, napping, and thinking — and the sometimes ordinary-looking places where they unearth the extraordinary.
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Science & Tech
Plan to toughen emissions rules faces tough fight
Professors Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus came together to discuss the legal future of the nation’s most ambitious action on climate change to date.
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Health
Java in the genes
Research led by Harvard investigators has found six new genes underlying coffee-drinking behavior.
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Health
A wake-up call on Ebola
The Dallas Ebola case was a black eye for emergency room workers who sent a Liberian man home even though they were told he had just arrived from the epidemic zone. But the case could act as a wake-up call for emergency workers around the country, panelists say.
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Health
Confronting Ebola
Three nonprofits with strong Harvard ties have joined forces at the front lines of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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Campus & Community
Where creativity rules
Harvard’s i-lab is a safe place for students to take risks and explore potentially commercial ideas, like cricket chips, aerial drone service and repair, or a public service-oriented website to connect voters and officials.
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Science & Tech
Where heat is deadliest
A new study of heat waves found a strong correlation between excess deaths and poverty, poor housing quality, hypertension, and impervious land cover.
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Health
Weapons for battling viruses
Bangladesh has used stepped-up surveillance, an understanding of transmission routes, and expert advice on cultural and traditional practices to devise interventions against Nipah, an Ebola-like virus with a high mortality rate.
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Science & Tech
A mark on modern Europe
New research from the lab of David Reich challenges the prevailing view among archaeologists that there were no major influxes of new peoples into Europe after the advent of agriculture.
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Campus & Community
A sense of direction
President Drew Faust discussed challenges facing Harvard at the start of a new academic year in a conversation with journalist Nicholas Kristof at Sanders Theatre.
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Health
Diabetes’ genetic variety
Harvard researchers working at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have uncovered nine rare genetic mutations that dramatically increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The discovery of the mutations highlights the dizzying genetic diversity of a disease rapidly spreading around the world.
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Nation & World
Voice of the brutalized
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative researchers polled residents of a war-torn part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, finding that though many think the security situation has improved, trust in government is at a low ebb.
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Health
Ebola’s ripple effects
The fight to end the Ebola epidemic is not just about saving lives, it’s also about heading off a potentially broader humanitarian crisis, according to a Harvard Kennedy School panel.
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Campus & Community
The mail and more
Rain or shine, slush or mush, the mail gets through, only it’s not the U.S. Postal Service that goes the last mile to your door, it’s Harvard Mail Services.
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Campus & Community
The biologist in charge
Beetle biologist Brian Farrell is taking the reins of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, with an eye toward increasing collaboration between Harvard scientists and those at institutions in the region. The center will also get a new executive director, Ned Strong, former director of the Chilean office.
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Campus & Community
$350M gift to tackle public health challenges
The Harvard School of Public Health announced its — and Harvard University’s — largest-ever gift, $350 million from The Morningside Foundation, which will rename the School and foster programs to improve health in several key areas.
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Health
Three decades of treating trauma
For 30 years, the Victims of Violence program at Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance has been a force in trauma care.
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Health
Of books, trees, and knowledge
In the Hunnewell Building is the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library, whose books, papers, and photographs ― stored near living collections of many of the same plants they describe ― draw scholars from around the world.
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Health
Fewer clinics, less care
The protective gear needed to get Sierra Leone’s health clinics reopened, coupled with public education about the Ebola epidemic, are the greatest areas of need, according to a Harvard Fulbright Fellow and physician from Sierra Leone.
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Health
Enemy of ash
The Gazette spoke with Arboretum officials about the recent arrival of the emerald ash borer.
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Campus & Community
Dan Shore to step down
Dan Shore, who has been Harvard’s chief financial officer and vice president for finance, will leave the University this fall.
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Science & Tech
Cheap and compact medical testing
Harvard researchers have devised an inexpensive medical detector that costs a fraction of the price of existing devices, and can be used in poor settings around the world.
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Health
Viral load as an anti-AIDS hammer
Harvard researchers have joined with counterparts in the U.S. and Botswana governments to conduct a major evaluation of AIDS treatment targeted specifically to reduce infectivity.
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Science & Tech
Destination: Doom
A novella co-authored by Professor Naomi Oreskes imagines the long-term consequences of inaction on climate change.
