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Tag: Central America
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Nation & World
Applying public health solutions to acute migration dilemma at border
Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.
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Nation & World
Beyond mourning
Former Radcliffe fellow and Mexican-born journalist Alma Guillermoprieto founded an online altar to honor 72 Central Americans massacred in Mexico in summer 2010.
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Nation & World
Climbing out of hiding
For decades, scientists have been stymied in their attempts to better understand proboscis anole, a small lizard whose defining feature is a horn on its nose, because it appeared to be all but extinct — until now.
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Nation & World
Identity issues
In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.
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Nation & World
The lizard king
Researcher Jonathan Losos devotedly studies the anole lizard, and has compiled decades of research into a new book.
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Nation & World
Mesoamerican health plan
Jaime Sepulveda, former Mexican health official and a current director at the Gates Foundation, outlined plans to improve health for the poorest residents of Mesoamerica.
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Nation & World
Mexico: Expedition to Yaxchilan
Harvard scholars travel to Central America in their mission to preserve ancient Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions and iconography.
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Nation & World
Harvard researchers head south to preserve ancient inscriptions
Researchers from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are preparing to head into the Central American rain forest to begin an ambitious, multiyear project to scan and digitize fading Maya inscriptions and carvings.