Featured series 
Tag: Profiles
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Health
Research to lose sleep over
Will Clerx ’14 studied how going without sleep for long periods affects undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Hearkening to herbs
At the Harvard Herbaria, Steph Zabel is a curatorial assistant who digitizes collections of dried plant specimens. After working hours, she tends living and local plants, running her own herbalism businesses.
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Campus & Community
Daring to be a doer
Clara Long, who has worked many jobs in many lands, plans to use her new Harvard Law Degree to help ensure the rights of others.
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Campus & Community
On the go
Freshmen Morgan Powell and Mariah Pewarski balance schoolwork with playing two sports — and wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Health
Nabokov’s blues
Ten years before his novel “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov published a detailed hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the Polyommatus blues butterflies. A team, led by a Harvard professor, is proving him right.
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Campus & Community
History in the making
When the Berlin Wall fell, student Mary Lewis knew she should study the past. Now a professor, she is an authority on how France evolved.
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Nation & World
Trading places
Economist Marc Melitz improves models of international trade by viewing broad trends in tandem with the behavior of individual corporations.
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Arts & Culture
Brazil’s public intellectual
Nicolau Sevcenko, now a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard, reflects on the long journey that brought him here.
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Campus & Community
25 years of service
Viva Fisher and Clif Colby are two of dozens of Harvard staff and faculty being honored at the 56th annual recognition ceremony.
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Health
Figuring out suicidal behavior
Matthew Nock is a new professor of psychology at Harvard who uses scientific research to try to determine which medical treatments help to prevent suicide.
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Campus & Community
Crossing that bridge
On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
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Campus & Community
Hard science, soft verse
Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.
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Nation & World
Tracing the roots of political thought
Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.
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Campus & Community
The gym unlocker
Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.
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Campus & Community
Coming and going at Harvard
Kris Locke: The woman who works to keep Harvard’s commuters out of traffic jams and in the green zone.
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Campus & Community
Food for thought, and testing
Health and safety ninja Valerie Nelson makes sure campus meals are safe.
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Campus & Community
The piano man
Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.
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Campus & Community
Bringing plants, technology together
Donna Tremonte of the Harvard Herbaria loves plants so much that she travels to far-flung locales like Africa and Venezuela to study them. But that’s just part of her job.
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Campus & Community
Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Science & Tech
‘Water guy’ John Briscoe stays in motion
For someone who deep-sixed his BlackBerry (instant e-mail was taking over his life) and traded the local newspaper for a good book (“What do I need to know about Celtics’ scores?”), John Briscoe ’76 is as worldly a person as you are ever likely to meet.
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Campus & Community
Mohan Sundararaj of HSPH harnesses the power of music to heal
It was 1998 and Mohan Sundararaj was frustrated. A medical student at India’s Sri Ramachandra Medical College and the child of two physicians, Sundararaj was committed to his medical education but frustrated by the demands that kept him from his other passion: the piano.
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Campus & Community
Athlete, scholar, humanitarian
The jersey, the helmet, the pads, the cleats — at a glance it’s easy for Andrew Berry to blend in with the rest of his teammates. But take a look at the Bel Air, Md., native after he’s left the stadium and you’ll realize that it isn’t just football that makes him special.
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Campus & Community
Calla Videt explores ‘the space between’
During a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, film director Mike Nichols told students that professional training begins in youth when a person does what he or she loves 10,000 times before even thinking about the arc of a career.
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Campus & Community
‘My ministry is in the birthing rooms’
To Cemelli de Aztlan, the U.S.-Mexico border region is not just a line on a map dividing two nations and two cultures, it’s a place of its own, different from the countries whose edges define it; and it has its own culture of transition, of blending, and sometimes of violence.
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Campus & Community
GSE dancer Stewart tangos with art, academics
Robert Stewart knows he doesn’t exactly measure up in his chosen line of work. He is small by the standards used to judge a man in his profession.
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Campus & Community
Jane Cheng ’09: Preserving art, making it public, passing it on
Talk about a grand entrance — on her first day of work at the Herzog August Bibliothek, the famed medieval studies library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Jane Cheng ’09 powered up her laptop and promptly shorted out the entire reading room.
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Nation & World
Kip Kitur ’09 plans to head home to help
While growing up in the Rift Valley Province in western Kenya, Kipyegon A. “Kip” Kitur milked goats and fed cattle before running to school. It was two miles away, uphill, past steep maize farms.
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Campus & Community
Hometown girl makes (and does) good
Marianna Tu didn’t intend to go to college in her hometown. That town just happened to be Cambridge, Mass., and the college was Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Nick Rizzo ’09: Have compassion, will travel
Nick Rizzo ’09 has been certain since the second grade that crimson is his color. The young sports fan from Kingston, Mass., used to travel to Boston with his father to cheer for Harvard in the annual Beanpot hockey tournament. When it came time for college applications, there was no question: early action to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Take two: Brother’s keepers Bill and Dan Jones ’09, ’09
Complete strangers recognize Dan Jones on campus all the time. It’s the same for his brother, Bill. “I just play along,” said Dan. “I don’t know their names, I’ve never seen them before. I just assume Bill knows them and I try to be friendly so they don’t start hating him.”