Featured series 
Tag: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Science & Tech
New approach may help clear hurdle to large-scale quantum computing
A team of physicists have created a new method for shuttling entangled atoms in a quantum processor at the forefront for building large-scale programmable quantum machines.
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Science & Tech
6 things to know about Earth
Andrew Knoll, Harvard’s Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and author of the recent popular science book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters,” shares six facts about the Earth.
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Science & Tech
Making 3D printing truly 3D
Harvard researchers present a new method of volumetric 3D printing.
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Campus & Community
Let us not suffer Psets alone
Part study hall, part help desk, part social space, it proves math needn’t be all about solitary scholars racking their brains on Pythagorean theorems.
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Campus & Community
Mastering move with high level of difficulty, prize-winning execution
Marissa Sumathipala was an Olympic hopeful, started a company at 17, and is now graduating Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Turning spotlight on Broadway’s representation problem
This class closely examines who is cast for what role in film and theater, as well as how cultural identity is portrayed.
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Campus & Community
Taeku Lee joins Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Taeku Lee is a leading scholar on racial and ethnic politics, identity formation, and inequality.
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Campus & Community
Finding ways to help Ukraine
Grad student, first-years gather humanitarian aid, create website to pair foreign hosts, fleeing war refugees.
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Arts & Culture
Reclaiming Indigenous languages, cultures
Latinx studies scholar says colonial legacies left them devalued, at risk of being forever lost.
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Campus & Community
For students with loved ones in war zone, frayed nerves and proud hearts
Inspired and informed by friends and family members, Harvard students with ties to Ukraine have rallied campus support for communities under attack.
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Science & Tech
Was Facebook the original social network? Not by a long shot
New research produces earliest DNA from Sub-Saharan Africa and a more complete look at ancient peoples.
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Campus & Community
Examining prison abolition — one volume at time
Cabot House book club wrestles with complex issue of prison abolition through discussions and “Reading Jam Sessions.”
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Science & Tech
When babies see people swap spit, they know what’s what
Infants deduce that people are in a close relationship if they witness interactions like kissing and taking bites of each other’s food.
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Science & Tech
The ‘platypus’ of crabs
A crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago was believed to be an active predator with sharp vision as opposed to today’s bottom-dwellers with limited vision.
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Nation & World
Is American democracy in peril?
Harvard political scientist and dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay discusses the future of democracy in the U.S.
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Science & Tech
Back in days of great floods
Harvard researcher explains how overflowing rivers billions of years ago helped shape what Mars looks like today.
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Science & Tech
A different kind of queen’s gambit
The n-queens challenge dates back to 1869. After working on the problem for about 5 years, mathematician Michael Simkin has an almost definitive solution.
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Health
Why do more men die of COVID? It’s likely not what you think
Sex differences in COVID death rates vary by state and across time, suggesting social factors play a role.
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Campus & Community
Raising awareness about disability amid pandemic
First-year Melissa Shang fears that the challenges of disabled people have yet to be brought fully into focus. To counter this, she helped form a campus group that raises their profile.
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Nation & World
Why disability bias is a particularly stubborn problem
Tessa Charlesworth, a Department of Psychology postdoc, says social reckoning is needed to deal with implicit disability bias.
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Campus & Community
Making the cosmos accessible
Harvard lab invests in accessibility resources, technology, aims to ensure all who wish to study astronomy have access.
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Campus & Community
A trailblazing biologist — and beloved mentor and friend
Friends and colleagues remember E.O. Wilson as shy but down to earth, passionate about his work but generous with his time.
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Campus & Community
Maggie Chen ’22, a budding scientist, named Marshall Scholar
Maggie Chen, a dual concentrator in human developmental and regenerative biology and history of science, will study bioengineering at Imperial College London.
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Campus & Community
We’re all almost home
Harvard Kuumba singers promote the Black spirit through song.
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Science & Tech
University seen as well-equipped to meet goals of ambitious institute
Scholars across University say Harvard is well-suited to the challenge owing to breadth, size of intellectual resources, experience.
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Science & Tech
New University-wide institute to integrate natural, artificial intelligence
University-wide initiative made possible by gift from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Campus & Community
Reimagining visual culture on campus
FAS Task Force suggests taking closer look at public art, signs to create more inclusive, welcoming environment.
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Campus & Community
A warrior then, a warrior now
After spinal-cord injury left him paralyzed, he returned to Harvard to finish what he started and battle to get back what he lost.
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Science & Tech
Step in quest for quantum computing
Harvard researchers observe a state of matter predicted and hunted for 50 years, but never previously observed.
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Campus & Community
Ideas captured in chalk on slate
They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.
