Tag: Cambridge

  • Nation & World

    A people’s history of Cambridge

    In “The Streets of Newtowne: A Story of Cambridge, MA.” professor tells the story of city from Indigenous origins to present in children’s book illustrated by alum.

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    Professor Suzanne Preston Blier stands in front of the Harriet Jacobs house in Cambridge.
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    Becoming Julia Child

    A culinary expert at Schlesinger Library, which holds the celebrity chef’s archival collection, examines her enduring legacy.

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    Julia Child on set of "The French Chef."
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    When will hot housing market finally start to cool?

    A real estate investment expert at Harvard Business School explains what’s happening and why.

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    new home construction site in Northbrook, Ill.,
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    Reopening research operations

    The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.

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    Harvard's Longwood Medical area.
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    Harvard and MIT donate $500,000 to Cambridge

    Harvard University has donated $250,000 to support a temporary emergency shelter in Cambridge.

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    Harvard University
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    Faster testing for illicit drugs

    The landscape of the illegal drug trade changes constantly, particularly amid the current opioid crisis. Law-enforcement officers regularly find or confiscate pills, powders, and other substances and need to know…

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    Christoffer Abrahamsson holding a small device
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    ‘Principal for a Day’ offers lessons of a different grade

    Being “Principal for a Day” teaches a Harvard executive lessons in partnership’s positive impact on local schools.

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    Area teens and Harvard ready to get to work

    Plans for Harvard’s 2017 Summer Youth Employment Program, which employs student workers to assist the University with summer staffing needs, is taking applications.

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    My 21 years in Cambridge

    A Harvard undergrad reflects on leaving home, but staying put.

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    Community Football Day perfect, Crimson too

    More than 1,000 residents of Allston-Brighton and Cambridge enjoyed a tailgate before watching the Crimson football team continue their perfect streak, all compliments of Harvard University.

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    A chance to soar, through science

    At a pair of events, Cambridge eighth-graders presented projects they researched while at Harvard.

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    Storied Irving Street paves way to history

    Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.

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    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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    Amid the Old Burying Ground

    Cambridge’s Old Burying Ground is the final resting place of Harvard presidents and paupers alike, and has centuries of tales to tell.

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    Peter J. Gomes

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 7, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, was spread upon the records. In his four decades on campus, Reverend Gomes presided as teacher, preacher, and spiritual guide.…

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    Harvard’s ‘haunted’ Houses

    A tour of Harvard’s “haunted” Houses, in advance of Halloween.

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    Classrooms without walls

    Summer camps run by the Phillips Brooks House Association are making a difference for youths across Boston and Cambridge.

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    Renewing urban renewal

    Edward Glaeser, an economics, government, and public policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School, and Jerold Kayden, an urban planning and design professor at the Graduate School of Design, discuss findings from a new Brookings Institution study on the rise of innovation districts across the nation.

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    Middle schoolers embrace health

    Nearly 400 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders from 15 schools across Boston and Cambridge visited Harvard Medical School as part of the annual program Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities. The program works to expand students’ knowledge of health and public health issues.

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    Listen for the bells

    In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university, a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 363rd Commencement Exercises, for the 26th consecutive year.

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    Virtues of doom

    Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt addressed the comforts of tragedy at the Cambridge Public Library.

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    Into the deep

    Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students talked with Harvard researchers using the deep-sea submarine Alvin to explore the Gulf of Mexico.

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    A sampling of college

    Created 25 years ago as a way to connect Harvard with the Cambridge public schools, Project Teach now involves sharing a research-based approach with educators in the local schools.

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    A successful community experiment

    A Harvard program that welcomes high school interns to learn science in the lab often sets them on new academic and career paths.

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    A museum as school lab

    Hundreds of Cambridge sixth-graders swarmed the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a look at prehistoric New England.

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    Keeping the faith, outdoors

    The Outdoor Church, a group founded by Harvard Divinity School graduates, and supported by current HDS students, ministers to the homeless every week during an open-air service.

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    The games off the field

    Harvard welcomed 700 of its neighbors from Allston, Brighton, and Cambridge to the annual community football program on Saturday.

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    Commencement by the numbers

    Curious about Commencement planning? Here’s a breakdown of numbers that all add up to Harvard Commencement.

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    Bell ringing marks Commencement

    In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university, a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 362nd Commencement Exercises, for the 25th consecutive year.

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    Putting local youth to work

    Harvard’s Summer Youth Employment Program puts local high school students from Boston and Cambridge to work on campus during the summer months. For many young people, it’s their first job.

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