Tag: FAS
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Arts & Culture
Reading as pleasure
Led by student convenors, Harvard’s LitLab brings literature to casual gatherings.
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Science & Tech
The Popovich of floral nectar spurs
Researchers discover gene controlling nectar spur development, opening door for insights into evolution.
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Campus & Community
Voting for the first time and in a historic contest. But no pressure
Harvard students discuss their hopes and fears for the nation on Election Day.
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Science & Tech
Touch and taste? It’s all in the suckers
Harvard researchers uncover novel family of sensors in octopuses.
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Science & Tech
Why do we get so picky about friendship late in life? Ask the chimps
Understanding why older chimps tend to favor small circles of meaningful, established friendships rather than seek new ones may help scientists gain a better picture of what healthy human aging should look like and what triggers this social change.
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Arts & Culture
Documentary photographer Chris Killip dies at 74
Chris Killip, 74, renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard, died on Oct. 13.
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Arts & Culture
Bucking assumptions about dance
Marc Brew, artistic director of AXIS Dance Company, spoke about how his company has adapted to the conditions set by the pandemic.
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Science & Tech
Frère Jacques, are you sleeping?
Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Isaiah Andrews awarded a MacArthur
Harvard Professor Isaiah Andrews is honored with a MacArthur for his work in econometrics.
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Arts & Culture
A classic play, a modern tragedy
On Oct. 2, the Theater of War will mount a digital performance of “Antigone in Ferguson,” sponsored by Harvard’s departments of Theater, Dance & Media and the Classics.
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Arts & Culture
Befriending ‘Clarissa’ during lockdown
With time flattened by quarantine, Professor Deidre Lynch proposed a reading group with her friend Yoon Sun Lee ’87, an English professor at Wellesley College. “Clarissa” was their choice — all 1,500 pages — and the readers soon followed.
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Work & Economy
Exploring Coke’s role in obesity strategy in China, elsewhere
Harvard researcher says Coke worked through a D.C. nonprofit to shape obesity science and policy solutions in China.
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Arts & Culture
Jameela Jamil is in a good place
Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.
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Science & Tech
Viewing flattened fossils in a new light
Harvard and Chinese scientists study Cambrian fossils using micro-CT and 3D models.
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Campus & Community
Harvard partners with national labs on quantum computing
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers across the country. Harvard researchers will play important roles in three of the centers.
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Nation & World
Crowd-sourcing the story of a people
Tiya Miles, a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the Gazette about the vital role of public history in shaping American cultural understanding.
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Campus & Community
Using data science for social good
In April, the Harvard College Data Analytics Group, a student-led nonprofit organization, created 17 COVID-19 response teams that partnered with 16 organizations and municipal governments to tackle elements of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Campus & Community
Sheree Ohen named first FAS associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
Sheree Ohen has been named the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of FAS, announced today. Ohen will begin her tenure Sept. 28.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences unveils anti-racism agenda
The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced an anti-racism agenda prioritizing six areas of action.
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Health
More than biology influences COVID risk
The GenderSci Lab at Harvard finds that more men than women are dying of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Creating community in the virtual classroom
As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.
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Arts & Culture
His hobby? Making award-winning documentaries
Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”
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Campus & Community
Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97
Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.
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Health
Treating children for worms yields long-term health, economic gains, study says
A 20-year study of Kenyan schoolchildren who receive sustained treatment against common parasitic infections grow up to achieve a higher standard of living, with long-lasting health and economic benefits that extend to their communities.
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Health
Childhood trauma can speed biological aging
Childhood violence and trauma has a direct effect on a person’s mental and physical health as they grow, with certain kinds of trauma also affecting the pace of aging.
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Campus & Community
Gearing up for a consequential fall
Harvard faculty shape online classes to engage with COVID, race reckoning, election, and beyond.