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Tag: FAS
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Science & Tech
Leave those calluses alone
A running-studies pioneer takes a look at walking, with and without shoes, and gives calluses a thumbs-up.
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Nation & World
How workplace harassment programs fail
Corporate America began embracing workplace initiatives to end harassment nearly a half century ago. So why is it still a big problem?
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Health
Gut microbes eat our medication
Study published in Science shows that gut microbes can chew up medications, with serious side effects.
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Campus & Community
Cooking up a TV career
Nick DiGiovanni competes on “MasterChef” — while earning his undergraduate degree in food and climate at Harvard at the same time.
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Arts & Culture
‘There they are, on our dinner plates’
Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.
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Health
‘An era where it has never not been about drugs’
The Gazette spoke with History of Science Professor Anne Harrington about her new book, “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness,” which traces the treatment of mental disorders from its early years to the Prozac Nation of today.
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Campus & Community
FAS announces ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration positions
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will hire a cluster of faculty in the area of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration during the upcoming academic year, Dean Claudine Gay announced.
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Science & Tech
Beyond the cloud
Every day, more and more information is filed in less and less space. Even the cloud will eventually run out of space, can’t thwart all hackers, and gobbles up energy. Now, a new way to store information could stably house data for millions of years.
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Campus & Community
Future M.D.’s passion to help comes in many forms
Cynthia Luo, who’s concentrating in both molecular and cellular biology and English, was inspired by her time in Uganda to become a physician and improve global health.
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Campus & Community
‘Adventuring with purpose’
Harvard’s Liz Roux could look back on sorrow and tragedy, but she runs looking ahead, at adventures and opportunities and people to encourage her.
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Science & Tech
A new vision for neuroscience
For decades scientists have been searching for a way to watch a live broadcast of neurons firing in real time. Now, a Harvard researcher has done it with mice.
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Campus & Community
Life in the fast lane
Aurora Straus, a race-car driver and Harvard first-year, is a role model for girls but still encounters sexism around the track.
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Campus & Community
A justice reformer
Dominique Erney witnessed criminal justice too close to her family, and graduates prepared to fight for reform in the system.
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Campus & Community
Peabody’s incoming director shares strategies for new era in museum work
Jane Pickering, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, will become the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s director on July 1.
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Science & Tech
Researcher connects the dots in fin-to-limb evolution
With an innovative technique called anatomical network analysis, clear patterns emerge that help solve the puzzle of how fins became limbs 420 million years ago.
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Campus & Community
Pickering named director of Peabody Museum
Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. She will begin her five-year term July 1.
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Nation & World
Unpacking the power of poverty
Social scientists have long understood that a child’s environment can have long-lasting effects on their success later in life. Exactly how is less well understood. A new Harvard study points to a handful of key indicators, including exposure to high lead levels, violence, and incarceration, as key predictors of children’s later success.
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Campus & Community
Mistaken identities
Both graduating this May, the two Cat Zhangs weigh in on four years of being confused with each other and the respective legacies they leave behind.
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Campus & Community
Student employees honored
Eleanor Lieberman ’19 won this year’s Harvard Student Employee of the Year award, but all 24 nominees were honored at an event on April 18.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing art to the people it depicts
The rapper and record producer Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz, and his wife, Alicia Keys, own the largest private collection of Gordon Parks’ photographs in the world. They’re sharing it at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, and that’s just the beginning.
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Work & Economy
Cities’ wealth gap is growing, too
Harvard research has found that separation between rich and poor communities has increased during the past 40 years.
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Campus & Community
Family fellows
Sonia Gomez and Marla Ramírez were a few weeks into their fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center when they discovered a surprising family connection.
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Nation & World
Negative ‘Impact’ on learning
New research from Assistant Professor in Sociology Joscha Legewie links the aggressive policing of New York City’s Operation Impact with lower test scores for African American boys.
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Arts & Culture
Celebrating creativity
A new fellowship program brings practicing artists to Harvard’s campus.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First, last, and in between
This weekend’s Arts First festival showcases performances, exhibitions, and art-making opportunities for and by Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, including international dance, many music genres, stand-up and improv comedy, theater, public art, poetry, experimental performances, and much more.
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Science & Tech
Before the Big Bang
Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Jesse McCarthy
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
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Science & Tech
Identifying exotic properties
Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.
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Arts & Culture
Behind the ‘Thrones’
A course at Harvard teaches students about the real-world Game of Thrones.
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Science & Tech
‘Seeing the unseeable’
A years-long effort by dozens of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.
