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Campus & Community
Chu, Clair to lead Overseers
Morgan Chu, J.D. ’76, has been named president of the Board of Overseers for 2014-15. Walter Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, will serve as vice chair of the board’s executive committee.
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Health
A healthy replacement for dieting
Three specialists spoke to students about the benefits of intuitive eating in an event at Sever Hall.
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Science & Tech
Less energy, more creativity
Two teams of students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design provided a close look — part celebration, part cerebration — at two house designs that won international competitions.
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Science & Tech
Making labs greener
Changes in design and behavior are key to making labs more energy-efficient, said experts at a Harvard symposium.
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Nation & World
Paychecks for college athletes?
Peter Carfagna, a sports law expert at Harvard Law School, talks about growing legal pressure on the NCAA to reconsider the way it treats student-athletes.
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Nation & World
A range of voices on environmental justice
A two-day conference organized by Harvard Law School students will bring together key players in the environmental justice movement. “Environmental Justice: Where Are You Now?” will be held March 28-29.
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Nation & World
Autism as a facet of experience, not a limit
Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State, brought her experience as an advocate for autistics to a talk at the Ed School.
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Arts & Culture
Emancipation’s long foreshadowing
Emancipation, said scholar of African America Ira Berlin in a Harvard lecture series, was not a moment in history, but a century-long movement that preceded the Civil War.
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Campus & Community
College admits Class of ’18
Harvard College has sent admission notifications to 2,023 students, 5.9 percent of the applicant pool of 34,295. Included are record numbers of African-American and Latino students, who constitute 11.9 and 13 percent of the admitted class, respectively.
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Nation & World
Economic growth no cure for child undernutrition
A large study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries finds that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world’s poorest children.
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Nation & World
Defending Snowden
Ben Wizner of the ACLU talked about his work on the Edward Snowden case in a visit to HLS.
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Arts & Culture
Seizing power from below
At an early age, Linda Gordon traded her passion for dance to study history. Today, the accomplished author and historian is spending the year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study working on a book about social movements in the 20h century.
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Health
A face is not a fish
A new study from Dartmouth and Harvard researchers looks at the mechanisms behind facial recognition.
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Arts & Culture
Before the baton, a red pencil
A new online exhibit sheds light on the creative process of Sir Georg Solti, a giant in 20th-century classical music.
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Nation & World
A fresh bite of the Apple
A classic Harvard Business School case about the Apple creation myth gets a Japanese manga-style comic-book reboot.
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Health
New childhood TB cases double earlier estimates
Harvard researchers have estimated that around 1 million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have the disease and three times the number of cases diagnosed every year.
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Campus & Community
Briscoe wins ‘Nobel Prize of water’
Harvard Professsor John Briscoe, who has made a career of tackling water insecurity challenges around the world, will receive the Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of water.”
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Campus & Community
Business School expands online
Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX, the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings.
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Nation & World
A change for the better
William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard, lauds the recently announced reform of the SATs. He explains why the changes should help level the playing field for students.
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Health
Fair-minded birds
New research conducted at Harvard demonstrates sharing behavior in African grey parrots.
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Health
Genetic link between fried foods and obesity?
Harvard researchers have released the first study to show that the adverse effects of fried foods may vary depending on the genetic makeup of the individual.
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Health
Too sweet for our own good
Even the “healthy” fruit drinks that Americans sip are packed with the amount of sugar contained in six cookies. That love affair is making us sick.
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Health
Secrets of the narwhal tusk
The narwhal tusk has now been mapped, showing a pathway between the spiral tooth and the narwhal brain. The study reflects how the mysterious animal may use its tusk to suss out its environment.
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Nation & World
The bright side of Pakistan
A January conference in Pakistan on urbanization was the first of five in the region and a result of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s growing work there.
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Science & Tech
Roomy cages built from DNA
Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a way to build self-assembling cages made of DNA. The cages are the largest stand-alone DNA structures made to date, and one day may be able to deliver drugs or house tiny bioreactors or photonic devices inside the human body.
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Science & Tech
Wearing technology
MIT Professor Rosalind Picard and a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a wristband that can gauge a person’s emotional response to stimuli or situations by tapping skin conductance, an indicator of the state of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s flight-or-fight response by ramping up responses like heart…
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Arts & Culture
Memories of Mandela
Scholars, others gathered Tuesday to reflect on the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela.
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Nation & World
Our nuclear insecurity
Harvard Kennedy School experts talk about recent efforts to keep nuclear materials out of terrorists’ hands in preparation for the biannual Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands.
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Health
Imbalance in microbial population found in Crohn’s patients
A multi-institutional study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT reports that newly diagnosed Crohn’s disease patients show increased levels of harmful bacteria and reduced levels of the beneficial bacteria usually found in a healthy gastrointestinal tract.
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Science & Tech
Happy birthday, Web
The World Wide Web turns 25 this week, so the Gazette sat down with Scott Bradner, a senior technology consultant with the University who has been involved with the Internet since the early days. Bradner says government regulation is the greatest threat looming over the Net, and its spread around the world via smartphones its…
