Tag: Q&A
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Health
How halt in funding hurts efforts to ensure safety of patients in medical research
Stop-work order disrupts system that facilitates oversight of studies happening at multiple sites

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Arts & Culture
Discoveries on a musical path
From Benin to Cuba to the Americas, Yosvany Terry sees how tradition safeguards culture and identity

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Health
U.S. pregnancy-related deaths continuing to rise
Study researcher says nation, which leads high-income peers in maternal mortality, needs better prenatal, extended postpartum care

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Arts & Culture
What really scares Katie Kitamura
Ahead of Harvard visit, author talks performance, privacy, and horror inspiration for latest novel

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Campus & Community
Endowment offers Harvard flexibility but also risks
Economist speaks of balancing act between immediate needs and long-term planning

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Nation & World
‘If you’re boring, you’re not going to educate.’
Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker

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Health
Immune-system strategy used to treat cancer may help with Alzheimer’s
Turning off checkpoint molecules freed microglia to attack plaques in brain, improved memory in mice

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Arts & Culture
‘Everybody feels like two people’
Alum who co-produces ‘Severance’ says show speaks to real-life mysteries

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Nation & World
Lesson No. 1: It pays to be nice to your allies
Nicholas Burns on being U.S. envoy to China, returning to Harvard, lessons from long career in diplomacy

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Health
Mortality rates between Black, white Americans narrow — except in case of infants
70-year study finds widening gap despite longer life expectancy for both racial groups

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Science & Tech
When a stove’s virtues amount to more than just hot air
Science historian examines how Benjamin Franklin’s invention sparked new thinking on weather, technology

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Campus & Community
Rakesh Khurana shares lessons learned at helm — and as an influencer, off- and online
Danoff Dean of Harvard College to step down at end of academic year after 11-year tenure of advances, innovation, and challenges (including pandemic)

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Nation & World
What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?
Health law policy expert says biotech firm’s uncertain future shows need for protections of personal, genetic information

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Nation & World
Can Europe defend itself against a nuclear-armed Russia?
National security expert details what’s being done, what can be done as U.S. appears to rethink decadeslong support

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Work & Economy
Where next for U.S. economy?
Kennedy School analyst includes trade war fallout among 5 recession threats

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Health
U.S. innovation ecosystem is envy of world. Here’s how it got started.
Economist who studies technological change looks at public-private research partnership amid rising questions on federal funding

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Arts & Culture
Art as omen in turbulent times
In new book, Joseph Koerner dissects reaction to 3 works created during political unrest

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Science & Tech
Why new qubit may give ultrafast quantum computing a boost
Microsoft discovery appears to be more stable, robust option

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Arts & Culture
Decoding David Lynch’s ‘familiar yet strange’ cinematic language
Film Archive pays tribute with 3 films that ‘need to be seen on the big screen’

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Health
Eating citrus may lower depression risk
Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding

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Health
Primary care has money problems. This might help.
Physician-researcher sees promise in five-year ‘prospective payment’ experiment

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Nation & World
How progress happens
Vice provost for research details crucial role of NIH support in science and medicine

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Nation & World
U.S. students need to start showing up
Detailing latest recovery scorecard, Ed School researcher urges broader action to reduce absenteeism, sharper focus on targeted catch-up efforts

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Health
It’s inoperable cancer. Should AI make call about what happens next?
Arrival of large-language models sparking discussion of how use of technology may be broadened in patient care, and what it means to be human

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Health
The lie that taints perfectionism
‘How to Be Enough’ author on the difference between admiration and acceptance, the power of ‘2 percent kinder,’ and why values should come before rules

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Nation & World
Danger ahead
Former national security official surveys hot spots in Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe — and how new president’s ideas are being received

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Nation & World
Turns out pandemic wasn’t only cause for student setbacks
Education policy expert cites chronic absenteeism, softening of test accountability by states, other issues for poor marks in ‘Nation’s Report Card’

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Nation & World
‘We cannot let our past become our children’s future’
Larry Bacow, whose mother survived Auschwitz, represents University at ceremony marking 80th anniversary of death camp’s liberation

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Health
Different day, different diagnosis?
Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine

