Tag: MIT
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Campus & Community
Broadening access and deepening impact, starting with listening
Axim Collaborative CEO Stephanie Khurana is focused on listening to others in the education industry, and focusing on underrepresented students.
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Campus & Community
Axim Collaborative names Stephanie Khurana CEO
Previously known as the Center for Reimaging Learning, Axim Collaborative is the nonprofit started by Harvard and MIT.
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Science & Tech
Mystery of dark matter — and search for WIMP
MIT’s Peter Fisher details his new book, “What Is Dark Matter?,” at Harvard science event.
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Work & Economy
Regulators put cryptocurrency in crosshairs
HBS economist Scott Duke Kominers explains the explosive growth of cryptocurrency and why U.S. regulators now appear poised to swoop in.
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Work & Economy
Should we be worried about Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google?
Economist Nancy Rose, a 2021-2022 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow, wants to refine and empower antitrust enforcement.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and MIT-led nonprofit to tackle longstanding inequities in education
Harvard, MIT, and edX announced a joint effort with education technology company 2U to extend online learning’s reach and impact across the world.
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Campus & Community
Harvard president reflects on past year, and looks ahead
Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on how the Harvard community has met the challenges posed by COVID-19, and to look ahead how the University is tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems.
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Campus & Community
Looking back on Harvard’s COVID response one year later
Health experts, leaders, and staff offered input, helped devise Harvard’s coronavirus policy and procedures.
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Health
A diet that’s healthy for people and the environment
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, takes a closer look at a diet that is as healthy for you as it is the planet,
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Science & Tech
New technology to investigate autism spectrum disorder
Scientists applied the “Perturb-Seq” method to study dozens of genes that are associated with autism spectrum disorder, identifying how specific cell types in the developing mouse brain are impacted by mutations.
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Arts & Culture
In translation, he found his raison d’être
Thomas Piketty translator Arthur Goldhammer talks about his circuitous route to success in a field he never studied.
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Campus & Community
National Science Foundation awards $20M to launch artificial-intelligence institute
Harvard partners with MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts to launch NSF artificial intelligence institute.
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Health
Single-shot COVID-19 vaccine proves successful with primates
A single-shot COVID-19 vaccine is being developed by scientists led by a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center immunologist.
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Nation & World
U.S. abruptly drops new visa rules for international students
Facing widespread opposition led by Harvard and MIT, the government abandoned a policy requiring international students to take classes in person during the pandemic.
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Nation & World
Higher ed leaders back Harvard-MIT fight against ICE rules
Harvard and MIT file suit against a federal order requiring international students to attend classes in person this fall or risk deportation, visa denial.
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Campus & Community
Oliver Hart named University Professor
Nobel-laureate economics Professor Oliver Hart is awarded Harvard’s highest faculty honor.
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Campus & Community
Phi Beta Kappa ceremony honors 168 students
Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and poet Dan Chiasson, poetry critic for The New Yorker and a professor at Wellesley College, spoke before honored students and faculty at the 229th Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises at Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning.
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Campus & Community
$9 million donation earmarked for cannabis research
Alumnus gives $9 million in largest donation to date to support independent research on the science of cannabinoids at Harvard and MIT. “Our desire is to fill the research void that currently exists in the science of cannabis,” said donor Charles R. “Bob” Broderick.
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Campus & Community
Coding for a cause
Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.
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Health
Microneedle pill takes the sting out of insulin
A team of investigators from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, and Novo Nordisk has developed a microneedle pill that can deliver an oral formulation of insulin that can be swallowed rather than injected.
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Science & Tech
Science at the speed of ‘light-sheet’
Combining two recently developed technologies — expansion microscopy and lattice light-sheet microscopy — researchers have developed a method that yields high-resolution visualizations of large volumes of brain tissue, at speeds roughly 1,000 times faster than other methods.
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Science & Tech
The scope of TESS
Harvard astronomer David Latham explains his role as science program director for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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Health
Progress in treating hearing loss
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have developed a drug cocktail that unlocks the potential to regrow inner-ear hair cells, which could help combat hearing loss.
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Health
A hydrogel that helps stop uncontrolled bleeding
Harvard researchers have developed a hydrogel that can be easily injected into blood vessels, helping to stop uncontrolled bleeding even in patients on blood-thinners or with bleeding disorders.
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Nation & World
Faith still strong in Iran nuclear deal
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, a key architect of the historic Iran nuclear deal, talks about the essential role science can play in diplomatic efforts to solve major global challenges.
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Nation & World
Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs
Researchers from MIT and Harvard have identified a new cheating method in MOOCs, and they suggest how to protect course certification.