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Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music teaches African and African American Studies 97a: R&B, Soul, Funk in the Music Building, Paine Hall at Harvard University. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

Shopping around

At the start of each semester, students sample classes to see what’s right for them

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DateSeptember 13, 2013September 7, 2016

Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 11

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DateSeptember 12, 2013

Religion and conflict in Syria

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DateSeptember 10, 2013June 14, 2019

In August, HMS Assistant Professor Jessica Meir attended a press conference at the Johnson Space Center's Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility, where she was among her fellow 2013 astronaut candidates (photo 1). Space is just one frontier for Meir, who in 2003 was in the Antarctic researching penguins' oxygen usage (photo 2). In 2009, she continued her research in Canada with a role that included being a "goose mother" (photo 3).

Destination space

After several stops along the way, Harvard professor begins her training as NASA astronaut

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DateSeptember 6, 2013

This image of a human glioblastoma brain tumor in the brain of a mouse was made with stimulated Raman scattering, or SRS, microscopy. The technique allows the tumor (blue) to be easily distinguished from normal tissue (green) based on faint signals emitted by tissue with different cellular structures.

Lasering in on tumors

New tool, which ‘sees’ diseased cells, may greatly boost accurate brain surgery

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DateSeptember 4, 2013July 26, 2019

“Our results suggest that when you’re poor, money is not the only thing in short supply; cognitive capacity is also stretched thin,” says Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan.

Pinched minds

Research ties poverty to ‘cognitive deficit’

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DateSeptember 2, 2013July 25, 2019

Deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Harvard Professor Scot Martin studies air pollution from atop a 177-foot aluminum tower. Though scientists have long understood the impact of carbon dioxide and methane gas on global warming, they know relatively little about the particles that Martin studies, or their possible influence on climate shifts and global warming trends.

Atop the Amazon rainforest

Harvard scientist, others study how pristine air becomes polluted, and how that may change climate 

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DateAugust 28, 2013May 16, 2019

Words of wisdom for the incoming Class of '17? “Experiment, take intellectual risks, break the mold by doing things you haven’t done before,” said Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture. “Also, seek advice, but don’t feel obliged to take it.”

Eat, play, sleep

Those who already know Harvard offer advice to freshmen as they settle in

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DateAugust 23, 2013June 6, 2019

Jill Lepore, whose latest book is “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,” will speak at the Radcliffe Institute on Sept. 10.

Lepore to deliver Radcliffe lecture Sept. 10

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DateAugust 16, 2013

Incoming HGSE dean on his passion for education

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DateJune 10, 2013February 13, 2018

Joseph L. Henry

Memorial Minute — Harvard Medical School

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DateJune 4, 2013

Fritz Heinz Bach

Memorial Minute — Harvard Medical School

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DateJune 4, 2013

Roger William Jeanloz

Memorial Minute — Harvard Medical School

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DateJune 4, 2013

William Lipscomb was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Physical Society, and a recipient of prizes in both physical chemistry and inorganic chemistry from the American Chemical Society; he held numerous honorary degrees. He was proud of the accomplishments of his many scientific progeny, three of whom have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

William Nunn Lipscomb Jr.

Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateJune 4, 2013

Mary Ellen Avery M.D.

Memorial Minute — Harvard Medical School

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DateJune 4, 2013

Rolla Milton Tryon Jr.

Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateJune 3, 2013

Mary Ellen Wohl was a pioneer in the development of the discipline known today as pediatric pulmonary medicine. A Harvard trained physiologist who began her career at Children’s Hospital Boston in the early 60's, she experimented with lung volume measuring devices that followed her “hunch” that pulmonary medicine as it was then defined for adults, might well be something that could be applied to children.

Mary Ellen Wohl

Memorial Minute — Harvard Medical School

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DateJune 3, 2013April 15, 2019

At Morning Exercises, chairs in Tercentenary Theatre filled quickly as the graduates readied for Harvard's 362nd Commencement.

Joy by the Yard

Scenes from a sun-splashed Commencement, filled with rituals, reflections, memories, and laughter

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DateMay 30, 2013February 13, 2018

Jane Alexander (pictured) will be recognized by Radcliffe on May 31. Her "work as an actor and as an advocate provides a model for how one individual can raise national consciousness about the critical role the arts play in shaping ideas and advancing creative thinking," said Radcliffe Dean Lizabeth Cohen.

Jane Alexander honored by Radcliffe

Actor and arts advocate will be awarded Radcliffe Medal

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DateMay 29, 2013April 17, 2019

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Breaking Boundaries, Creating Solutions | One Harvard

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DateMay 28, 2013February 13, 2018

Leadership in Education: Re-Imagining Learning | One Harvard

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DateMay 28, 2013February 13, 2018

Changing the Foundations of Science: Harvard Stem Cell Institute | One Harvard

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DateMay 28, 2013February 13, 2018

Hopi and Niroshi | From My House to Our Harvard

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DateMay 24, 2013February 13, 2018

Michael Shinagel was recognized as the longest-serving dean in Harvard history during his retirement celebration at the Faculty Club. Shinagel will leave his post as dean of continuing education and University Extension at the end of the academic year.

Shinagel’s legacy honored

Sets record as longest-serving dean

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DateMay 20, 2013April 23, 2019

“Even years after the loss, people with complicated grief maintain an identity that’s very closely entwined with the deceased,” said clinical psychology graduate student Don Robinaugh (right), pictured with Professor of Psychology Richard McNally. The two have co-authored a paper on complicated grief — a syndrome marked by intense, debilitating emotional distress and yearning for a lost loved one.

Mourning that vexes the future

People who suffer from complicated grief have trouble looking ahead, researchers say

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DateMay 10, 2013April 12, 2019

Students in Matthew Liebmann’s class not only learned how an atlatl worked, they actually got to throw one.

Projectile learning

Target practice with ‘atlatl’ transports students to ancient times

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DateMay 2, 2013February 13, 2018

Nobel laureate Roy Glauber, who had entered Harvard in the fall of 1941 at the age of 16, reflected on his two years in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. “I decided I had come into another world entirely,” Glauber said. “God only knows what they were doing up there.”

Reflections on a nuclear mission

Nobel laureate Glauber recalls days at Los Alamos

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DateMay 2, 2013April 22, 2019

Sorensen named trustee of National Humanities Center

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DateMay 1, 2013June 19, 2019

Raj Chetty has been awarded the prestigious 2013 John Bates Clark Medal. “The driving motivation behind my research is to try to answer real-world social and economic policy questions using rigorous methods,” said Chetty.

Raj Chetty awarded Clark Medal

Prestigious economics honor considered second only to Nobel Prize

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DateApril 18, 2013March 20, 2019

Tamar Herzog has been appointed the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and named Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Engaging in a new community

Stanford historian Herzog accepts FAS and Radcliffe professorships

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DateApril 18, 2013

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