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Health
‘Broken genes’ for a broken system
To David Altshuler, the recent discovery of a genetic mutation that protects against type 2 diabetes offers hope in fighting more than just diabetes. It also illustrates how using the…
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Campus & Community
Undersea life, clear as glass
The Harvard Museum of Natural History has opened a permanent exhibition of the glass sea creatures created by famed artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka more than a century ago.
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Health
The goal: New arms
Will Lautzenheiser, a former Boston University film professor who lost his arms and legs from an infection, has been cleared by the Institutional Review Board at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a double arm transplant, a complex procedure requiring 12 to 16 hours of work by a team of surgeons.
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Science & Tech
Now available on the Web? Smells
Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former engineering student, Rachel Field, added another sense to digital communications, sending a smell across the Atlantic, where a scent generator called an oPhone reproduced it.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Management Company turns 40
University and Harvard Management Company officials gathered Thursday to mark the anniversary of the latter’s founding, which made Harvard one of the first universities with a specialized organization to oversee its institutional investments.
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Campus & Community
Mendillo to step down
After six years as the helm of Harvard Management Company, which oversees Harvard University’s endowment, President and Chief Executive Officer Jane Mendillo says she will step down at the end of the year.
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Science & Tech
Taking stock of sustainability efforts
A conference co-hosted by Harvard looked at the future of sustainability efforts at universities and other large institutions.
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Science & Tech
Breathing easier over electricity
The Environmental Protection Agency’s release of draft regulations that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 will have a significant impact on human health, Harvard analysts say.
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Nation & World
Rewarding restlessness
Five seniors will soon head to foreign shores as part of a fellowship program that emphasizes experience over work and independence over comfort.
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Campus & Community
A lifelong Harvard perspective
The Gazette sat down with Robert Reischauer, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, to talk about his time on the governing boards and challenges facing Harvard. He completes his board service on June 30.
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Campus & Community
‘There’s no easy time to say hard things’
Delivering Harvard’s Commencement address, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on the Class of 2014 to safeguard free speech and inquiry, rights that he said are under attack both in Washington, D.C., and on college campuses across the country.
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Campus & Community
Snapshots of a sun-splashed day
A roundup of capsule stories and photos surrounding Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.
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Health
House calls, without visits
With a master’s from the School of Public Health, physician Darrell Gray hopes to use telecommunications to extend care to endangered groups in underserved neighborhoods.
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Campus & Community
A hand up to a better future
Graduating senior Jesse Sanchez has come a long way from the poor streets of San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood, and now wants to help those struggling toward college.
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Campus & Community
Partners, from grade school to Medical School
Fraternal twins Rosh and Roshan Sethi have shared much of their lives, including at Yale as undergraduates and sharing an apartment while enrolled at Harvard Medical School. Now preparing to graduate, they’re anticipating diverging careers, with Roshan exploring radiation oncology and Rosh head and neck surgery.
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Campus & Community
The import of ‘Breaking Good’
Harvard President Drew Faust bid farewell to the graduating seniors of the Class of 2014 on Tuesday during the annual Baccalaureate Service in Harvard’s Memorial Church.
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Science & Tech
Impact of pesticide residue hard to track, experts say
Researchers face steep challenges in trying to pinpoint the long-term effects of pesticides in the food supply, said panelists at HSPH.
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Campus & Community
Beyond the horizon
Harvard is immersed in understanding the world and improving it. Here’s how the University is making a difference now, and likely will do so in the next decade, in five key fields.
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Health
Putting off baby
Panelists at HSPH examined the trend toward delayed parenting identified in a recent government report.
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Nation & World
The groundwork for learning abroad
The President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences is supporting development by faculty members of courses in Sweden, Mexico, Turkey, Shanghai, and other locations abroad to enhance the international experiences offered to Harvard students.
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Science & Tech
Studying energy, environment
Beginning this fall, Harvard undergraduates will be able to select a secondary field of study in energy and environment, which will allow students in an array of concentrations to gain exposure to issues such as climate change.
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Campus & Community
Leadership under stress
Leadership under fire and decision-making under stress were invoked, praised, and perhaps slightly demystified on Wednesday during an event that brought 600 Harvard alumni a taste of the campus today even as it urged them to consider the Harvard of tomorrow.
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Campus & Community
‘I spend a fair amount of time thinking about what might go wrong’
Interview with Professor Walter Willett as part of the Experience series.
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Campus & Community
Progress report: The Harvard Campaign
The Harvard Gazette spoke with five members of Harvard’s governing boards, who also serve as co-chairs of the Harvard Campaign, to discuss Harvard’s fundraising effort, the environment in which it is occurring, its priorities, and its meaning to the co-chairs who give their time to execute it.
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Science & Tech
Another step in the wrong direction
Climate specialists came together at the Geological Lecture Hall to consider a dangerous milestone in carbon dioxide levels.
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Health
You call this spring?
Despite this year’s long winter and slow-warming spring, Harvard experts say that climate change hasn’t gone on hiatus. Long-term evidence indicates that spring in Boston has begun coming weeks earlier over the last century. The Gazette spoke with Elizabeth Wolkovich, a recently appointed assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, about spring’s arrival, climate change,…
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Science & Tech
Managing an aging populace
Aging, health care, and the challenges facing the globe’s women were the focus of a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
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Health
A taste of danger
Students in humanitarian relief got a taste of crisis during a three-day simulation at Harold Parker State Forest.
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Nation & World
Relief and research
Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was at Harvard recently to explore possible collaborations with the School of Public Health and the Kennedy School.
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Health
New frontier of risk
A recent study by a group of Harvard-affiliated researchers found a sharp increase in the use of opioid painkillers among a large group of pregnant women between 2000 and 2007. Its lead author discussed the findings with the Gazette.
