Tag: Boston Marathon

  • Nation & World

    Outrunning the past

    As a runner and a researcher, Alia Qatarneh seeks “to change things with intention.”

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    Erin Wallace, Angel Babbitt Harris, Abeo Powder, Elaine Kordis, Alia Qatarneh run the 2022 Boston 10K for Women. (Courtesy of PUMA / PUMA Running)
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    ‘Governor, I don’t know what’s going on, but there are body parts all over the street’

    Ten years after the Boston Marathon bombing, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem talk about what we learned from that tragedy.

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    Boston Marathon finish line, following explosions, April 15, 2013.
  • Nation & World

    Scars remain a decade later

    Harvard runners and families vividly recall the chaos, shock, and horror of that day, and express gratitude for the response.

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    Michael Szonyi on Boylston Street at marathon finish line.
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    The woman who kept running

    Remembering Harvard Medical School grad Joan Ullyot, the long-distance runner who normalized running for women around the world.

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    Joan Ullyot.
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    Hitting full stride in emergency medicine

    Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.

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    Kirstin Woody Scott on dirt road.
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    Study finds performance-enhancing bacteria in human microbiome

    A single microbe accumulating in the microbiome of elite athletes can enhance exercise performance in mice, paving the way to highly validated performance-enhancing probiotics.

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    Marathon runners
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    Running for a purpose

    Harvard runners run the Boston Marathon to overcome challenges, be part of a community, and give back

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    Jenn Greiner (from left), Alison Steinbach, Bjarni Atlason, and Bob Surette are part of the Harvard College Marathon Challenge.
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    A call to walk in the light

    In recognition of the Boston Marathon bombings and as part of One Boston Day, Harvard police officer and affiliated minister Kevin Bryant offered hope to the community during the University’s Morning Prayers service at Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel.

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    Running as tradition

    In advance of the Boston Marathon, a Harvard conference focuses on the achievements of Native Americans, long dominant in the sport.

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    Upward, onward, underwater

    Harvard runners training for the Boston Marathon found ways to train throughout this season’s record snowfall.

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    In shared run, a sort of stand

    As Massachusetts and the nation remember the tragic events at last year’s Boston Marathon, Harvard runners are getting ready to move ahead the best way they know: together.

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    Remembering the marathon

    At the Memorial Church on Tuesday, runners, students, and others paid their respects on the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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    Putting Twitter to the test

    The timely and effective use of social media in the hours and days following the Boston Marathon bombings may serve as a model for other law enforcement agencies in the United States, according to a report published as part of the New Perspectives in Policing Series by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management…

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    Measuring the marathon

    A new report by Harvard crisis-management and criminal-justice experts, and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, considers the factors that led to the successes and failures of last year’s emergency response to the Boston Marathon bombings and manhunt.

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    Joy by the Yard

    Snapshots of Harvard’s 2013 Commencement, a day marked by sunshine and warmth as well as rituals, honors, and good wishes.

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    A year of change, month by month

    2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.

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    Harvard yield hits 82 percent

    Eighty-two percent of students admitted to the Class of 2017 plan to enroll at Harvard this August. This is the highest yield since the Class of 1973 entered approximately two generations ago. The yield for the Class of 2016 was 80.2 percent.

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    In plaza, ‘remembrance walls’ rise

    In the wake of tragedy, people gather to support each other, and to give thanks for family, friends, and community. After the Boston Marathon bombings and the area shutdown during the search for suspects, the Harvard community has been doing just that.

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  • Nation & World

    Reflections on week of terror

    A panel at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum examined the interplay of law enforcement coordination, leadership, and social and traditional media during the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.

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    Resources in the aftermath of tragedy

    The following events are being held to help the Harvard community cope with Monday’s tragedy during the Boston Marathon.

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    To protect, serve, mourn

    The Harvard University Police Department joined thousands of colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday to pay tribute to Sean Collier, the officer slain in aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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    Your own news platform

    The information revolution seemed to hit another high gear last week in Boston, leaving authorities on information technology pondering the ramifications.

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    With Visitas canceled, Harvard improvises

    As a region-wide lockdown closed Harvard, University officials struggled with the difficult decision to cancel Visitas, Harvard College’s program for newly admitted students. Members of the Harvard community used social media to reach out to those who had planned to attend the event.

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    Emerging to a renewed normal

    After a tense Friday that saw the campus and the Greater Boston area on lockdown, Harvard came to life again Saturday as students and visitors flooded into Harvard Square.

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    Strength in numbers

    For Harvard’s unusually tight-knit group of faculty, student, and staff runners, the Boston Marathon was meant to be the culmination of months of teamwork and training. After Monday’s bombings, the running community pulled together for a different reason.

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  • Nation & World

    A loss close to home

    The Harvard community mourned the loss of Krystle Campbell, daughter of longtime HBS dining staffer Patty Campbell and sister of Cabot House dining services worker Billy Campbell, in the marathon bombings.

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  • Nation & World

    Marathon vigils

    When reports swept the Harvard campus Monday afternoon that two bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon had killed and wounded people at the finish line, a wave of sadness and concern swept the campus.

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    How the attack affects our lives

    Harvard analysts in a range of fields discuss the many ways that the Boston Marathon bombings are likely to affect daily life in this area and beyond.

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    Widespread trauma

    Members of the Harvard community responded to the Boston Marathon attacks and offered thoughts about both the physical and mental injuries they caused.

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    Chasing down a better way to run

    From pondering prehistoric man to employing high-tech 3-D imaging, Harvard researchers are leaving no shoe unturned to discover why we run, and how we can do it better.

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