Tag: Liz Mineo
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Campus & Community
Taking aim at global solutions
Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy.
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Arts & Culture
Everyone calls it a classic. But who’s everyone, and why am I so bored?
Scholarly wisdom for readers beating their heads against a great work of literature: Stop doing that
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Nation
Way forward after Supreme Court ruling
Experts outline what Supreme Court ruling could mean for colleges, universities — and nation itself.
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Nation
The rats are gonna hate this one too …
Alum explains why being NYC sanitation commissioner is a dream job — if you care about delivering essential services.
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Nation & World
The art of self-healing
“There is this culture that doctors are supposed to be perfect … and that culture makes it harder for us to ask for help.”
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Science & Tech
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is
You’ll never experience a black hole, but Avi Loeb can help you imagine one
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Nation & World
Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.
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Nation & World
The oddities of Inauguration Day
An interview with constitutional scholar Sandy Levinson about the history behind Inauguration Day and the reasons why he thinks it should be moved to an earlier date.
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Nation & World
Dust is starting to settle after election, yet the way forward is unclear
The Gazette turns once again to scholars and analysts across in the University to get their views of what happened and what comes next.
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Nation & World
After a hard election, the real work begins
Harvard University scholars, analysts, and affiliates take a look at what the election tells us about the prospects for greater unity and progress, and offer suggestions and predictions about where the new administration will, and should, go.
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Campus & Community
Gathering of the Crimson clan
Commencement at Harvard is a day of formal ceremonies and poignant moments. Included are snippets of the latter, along with some context from celebrations past.
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Campus & Community
Bacow to seniors: Live to the fullest
Harvard President Larry Bacow addressed the Class of 2019 during the Baccalaureate Service, an annual tradition leading to Thursday’s Commencement. He suggests they live their lives to the fullest.
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Campus & Community
Choctaw Nation’s Burrage thrives at Harvard
Truman Burrage is a stellar graduating senior, an Oklahoma native, and a member of the Choctaw Nation who has been admitted to Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
Bacow stresses educational, civic partnerships
Harvard President Larry Bacow met with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego ’04 and city manager Ed Zuercher during a trip to Phoenix to discuss the partnership between Harvard and the city that began in 2017, as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. He also visited Houston.
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Campus & Community
Demystifying the workplace
Harvard welcomes Boston Public School students to speak to staff about their goals and gain perspective about college and career.
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Campus & Community
For Native Americans, a duo represents
Connor Veneski and Chance Fletcher are Native American students at Harvard Law School. Veneski is the first student from a tribal university ever admitted to the Law School and Fletcher is the first recipient of the first American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship.
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Nation & World
A prophet of peace
An interview with Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and 2016 Peace Prize winner for his efforts to negotiate an agreement that ended a 50-year-long internal conflict and brought peace to Colombia.
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Nation & World
Brazil at the crossroads
Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, sat down with the Gazette to talk about the election of far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, and its impact in Latin America.
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Nation & World
The global glory of soccer
With the World Cup underway, the Gazette interviewed Mariano Siskind, professor of Romance languages and literatures and comparative literature, about the world’s biggest sports event, the humanity of the biggest soccer stars, and the meaning of soccer.
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Campus & Community
Working with low-income children rewrites her story
After an internship with the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools changed her life, Nicole Powell changed her trajectory and headed for Harvard Divinity School.
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Nation & World
Beyond the Nobel Peace Prize
Two Harvard Law clinicians and four students took part in negotiating the treaty banning nuclear weapons as partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Nation & World
First interned, then left behind
A paper co-authored by Harvard economist Daniel Shoag found that Japanese-Americans who were sent to internment camps in poorer regions fared worse than those who were sent to richer areas, and the economic disadvantage persisted for generations.
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Campus & Community
The gift of the art of noticing
Graduating seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service, a tradition as old as Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Stepping down and speaking up
In an interview with the Gazette, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow reflects on her eight years leading the School.
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Health
To age better, eat better
Much of life is beyond our control, but dining smartly can help us live healthier, longer
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Health
Good genes are nice, but joy is better
Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier
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Campus & Community
Stuck between two lives
Alfredo Garcia, an undocumented student at Harvard Divinity School, is pursuing a master’s in theological studies. He also works to help undocumented youths pursue higher education, and advocates for immigration reform.