Tag: Faculty
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Work & Economy
In touch with our emotions, finally
Insights at intersection of gender, anger, and risk are just one example of shift in science of decision making
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Arts & Culture
Carving a place in outer space for the humanities
The cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’
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Health
‘Hopeful message’ on brain disease
Researcher Sanjula Singh has looked at stroke, dementia, late-life depression for years, finds lifestyle changes make big difference
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Campus & Community
Funding cuts upend projects piecing together saga of human history
Ancient DNA expert Christina Warinner notes losses come just as innovations are driving major advances in field
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Campus & Community
A popular TV show, cathartic commute, and dance that requires teamwork
Education lecturer finds leadership lessons in unlikely places
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Campus & Community
‘Learning without a net’
Here are 5 students doing summer research with faculty in topics from heat mortality to epigenetics, Legionnaires’ disease to anorexia
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Campus & Community
‘To Pope Leo XIV’
Gates meets with ‘ecumenical’ pontiff to present copy of family tree produced from research the scholar did for Times magazine piece
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Health
‘It’s through research that we can live longer, healthier lives’
Harvard scientists discuss potential impacts of federal funding cuts — from U.S. brain drain to fewer medical breakthroughs
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Health
‘Miraculous’ treatments for more patients
David Mooney’s team develops immunotherapies that work across many cancer types
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Health
Improving cancer care
Nancy Keating’s team uses healthcare data to study access to treatment across populations
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Health
Attack of the cells
Duane Wesemann’s lab looks to body’s immune system to understand and treat disorders, allergies
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Nation & World
Public servant, trusted mentor, conduit to congressional campaign — and clam bake host
Former students, fellows at Harvard Kennedy School share stories about David Gergen
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Campus & Community
An outdoor museum, rooting for the away team, and an alt-rock anthem
Chan School professor recommends 3 ways to get your blood pumping
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Campus & Community
A walking elegy, tiny gallery, and gentle Brutalism
Photography professor recommends 3 local spots to find beauty, solace
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Arts & Culture
Did Jane Austen even care about romance?
Scholars contest novelist’s ‘rom-com’ rep as 250th anniversary ushers in new screen adaptations
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Science & Tech
Highly sensitive science
David Ginty probes pleasure and pain to shed light on autism and other conditions
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Health
What might cancer treatment teach us about dealing with retinal disease?
Joan Miller’s innovative thinking led to therapies for macular degeneration that have helped millions, made her better leader
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Campus & Community
Projects help students ‘build bridges’ across differences
Online games and small group discussions provide opportunities for people with contrasting points of view to engage
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Arts & Culture
From ‘joyous’ to ‘erotically engaged’ to ‘white-hot angry’
Stephanie Burt’s new anthology rounds up 51 works by queer and trans poets spanning generations
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Science & Tech
Still waiting
75 years after Fermi’s paradox, are we any closer to finding extraterrestrial life?
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Science & Tech
Numbers tell one story about climate change. People tell another.
Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities
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Health
Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure
Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete
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Science & Tech
Why are you cursing?
Steven Pinker breaks down the history of taboo words, different categories of swearing, and the meaning conveyed by a bleep
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Campus & Community
Entering ‘our problem world’
University honors — and challenges — newly elected members of Phi Beta Kappa at ceremony
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Campus & Community
Upholding the mission in a year of turmoil
Garber greets Commencement with high hopes for students and a strong affirmation of University’s contributions to U.S. growth, health
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
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Science & Tech
Chance to branch off in new directions
Seven novel research projects awarded grants by Star-Friedman Challenge
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Nation & World
Things money can’t buy — like happiness and better health
That’s according to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which over its 87-year run has generated data that benefits work on other issues
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Science & Tech
‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’
Panelists in University-wide symposium explore promise, peril of AI in academia