Tag: FAS
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Arts & Culture
So who is included in King’s ‘beloved community’?
Black queer poet, scholar Cheryl Clarke discusses achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.
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Campus & Community
Strengthening ties between Harvard, nation’s Native communities
HUNAP Director Kelli Mosteller looks to strengthen ties between Harvard and nation’s Native communities.
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Arts & Culture
If loving you is wrong – let’s explore the ethics
Assistant Professor Quinn White studies the ethics of love and relationships.
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Campus & Community
Suited to students’ needs
Now open in the Smith Campus Center, the Crimson Career Closet is there to provide students with professional attire at no cost.
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Campus & Community
As U.S. reacts to another police killing, MLK III laments strides we haven’t made
Civil rights activist honors his father’s legacy with a call to action against poverty, racism, and violence.
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Arts & Culture
Plea from 1980s New York: ‘Please Stay Home’
Darrel Ellis exhibition at Carpenter Center looks back yet feels of the moment with its themes of family history, identity, loss.
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Campus & Community
An exhibit with legs
Harvard’s Pacific octopus specimen has lived on campus since about 1883. Now, fully restored, the model hangs in the Northwest Labs building.
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Campus & Community
Listening to air, water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses how she blends work and climate change activism.
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Nation & World
How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk
A new study finds high rates of serious complications among Salvadoran patients who were forced to carry severely malformed fetuses to term.
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Nation & World
Nudging donors toward more effective giving
A study by Harvard psychologists finds that preserving personal charity preferences and offering targeted matching funds help.
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Science & Tech
Fresh insights into inflammation, aging brains
Harvard scientists’ research on mice suggests chain reaction may be involved in the brain’s aging process.
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Science & Tech
Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better.
In the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.
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Arts & Culture
Seeing ourselves in different light
Giuliana Bruno’s new book, “Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media,” reclaims concepts of “projection” as positive force connecting us to one another, affirming possibility of change.
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Arts & Culture
Taking fresh shot, once again, to debunk myth of Jewish conspiracy plot
Dasha Bough ’23 created an animated documentary challenging one of the world’s oldest and most dangerous and persistent conspiracy theories.
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Arts & Culture
Finding herself in chapter, verse
Far from her native Indianapolis, Alyssa Gaines steeps herself in life on Harvard’s campus.
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Science & Tech
Looking to retain most potent regenerative stem cells
Early on human bodies are full of pluripotent stem cells, capable of generating any other type of cell. The problem is we lose them at birth.
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Campus & Community
Headed for Oxford
Part of the new cohort of U.S. Rhodes Scholars, they are pursuing different paths, looking to make difference.
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Work & Economy
Can tech save us from worst of climate change effects? Doesn’t look good
Study by two Prize Fellows focuses on economic impact on agriculture.
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Campus & Community
Henry Rosovsky, former acting University president, FAS dean, dead at 95
Beloved economist recalled as innovative administrator, renowned scholar, invaluable counselor, dear friend.
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Science & Tech
New generation of quantum realm explorers
This semester, 11 students have been settling in as the first-ever cohort in the Harvard quantum science and engineering program.
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Nation & World
Saying their names
Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”
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Campus & Community
Six from Harvard named Rhodes Scholars
Students plan research in fields ranging from computer science to international health as part of class of 32 Americans.
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Campus & Community
Vets re-up, this time for rugby
Often older, with more, different life experience, former service members find close, familiar connections on different field of battle.
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Science & Tech
What’s the dog doing now?
Students in the class examine a range of dog behaviors, how they evolved, and how they relate to human behavior.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Christina Maranci
Christina Maranci is the first person of Armenian descent to hold the position of Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies.
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Campus & Community
‘Believe it’
This may be Carrie Moore’s first time in the top job of a program, but the new and inaugural Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Basketball has a long resume.
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Science & Tech
How to spot a gerrymandered district? Compare it to fair ones.
Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.