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Tag: Stanford University
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2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to ‘big data paradox,’ analysts say
As governments and health officials navigate pandemic, researchers stress the danger that comes with bad information.
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Visionary, criminal, or both?
Eugene Soltes, a Harvard Business School expert on white-collar criminals, evaluates the case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.
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The star chemist
Junior Fellow Mireille Kamariza is an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur, who was recognized for inventing a portable, low-cost diagnostic tool to detect tuberculosis.
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Making a place for herself
Harvard College 2020 graduate Mahlet Shiferaw talks about briefly feeling lost and then regaining her confidence as a woman of color studying astrophysics.
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Prospects clouded for finding life on the largest class of planets
Led by Laura Kreidberg, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a new study shows that LHS 3844b, a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a small sun 48.6 light-years away, has no detectable atmosphere
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Spare the medical resident and spoil nothing
Hours of medical residents were capped at 80 per week in 2003 after a string of patient injuries and deaths, spurring fears that doctors-in-training would be less prepared for independent practice than before. A new study suggests their warnings were largely unjustified.
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The challenges facing higher ed
Excellence, access, and affordability are top concerns for higher education, Faust and other presidents say in Washington discussion.
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Siyani Chambers: Back on point
Siyani Chambers was looking forward to finishing his senior year as starting point guard for the men’s basketball team until an injury took him off the court and off campus for a year. Now he’s back.
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Appetite for change
Tommy Tobin, set to graduate with degrees from the Law School and the Kennedy School, hopes to work on food policy.
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The art of political persuasion
New political science research says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, political attitudes are a consequence of political actions, rather than their cause.
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Plotting her return
Author ZZ Packer is spending her Radcliffe year working on her newest effort, a novel titled “The Thousands” that tracks the lives of several families following the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.
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When talking with God
Social anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann’s most recent book, “When God Talks Back,” examines the evangelical experience through an anthropological and psychological lens.
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Ludwig Cancer Research awards HMS $90M
Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder, Daniel K. Ludwig, has given Harvard Medical School $90 million to spur innovative scientific inquiry and discovery. According to the Ludwig announcement, this new financial support is among the largest private gifts ever for cancer research.
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How to build a nation
While the structures of state can be created by outsiders, national identities can only be created from within, and they commonly arise through shared language, culture, history, and ideals, political theorist Francis Fukuyama says.
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Roth shares economics Nobel
Alvin E. Roth, an economist whose research as a member of Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences improved the design and functioning of markets, has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He shares the prize with Lloyd S. Shapley, A.B. ’44, of the University…
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The early days of discovery
A recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry investigated the workings of cell receptors, the basis of his groundbreaking research involving the complex process of how the body’s cells communicate and interact, while a young medical resident at Harvard.
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GSAS honors its leading alumni
The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually during Commencement week to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.
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Meserve, Fisher to lead Overseers
Richard A. Meserve, J.D. ’75, has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for 2012-13 and Lucy Fisher ’71 will become vice chair of the board’s executive committee.
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Piping up, to good effect
After years of planning, an effort once spearheaded by the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to install a new organ in the Memorial Church will fill its halls with music.
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2,032 admitted to Class of ’16
Letters and email notifications of admission to Harvard College have been sent to 2,032 students. More than 60 percent of families of students admitted to the Class of 2016 will benefit from an unprecedented $172 million in undergraduate financial aid.
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Nurturing the seeds of innovation
The bond between Harvard and Silicon Valley is a close one. The region is home to a powerful network of alumni willing to offer mentorship to students and recent graduates who are dreaming big. Taking advantage of that network, SEAS and HBS recently came together to organize the trip to Palo Alto.
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Creating the digital humanities
Jeffrey Schnapp, professor of Romance languages and literatures, is using his academic passions to explore and experiment with the emerging field of digital scholarship.
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Looking ahead
He’s an economist, a researcher, and a physician, and he’s about to become provost. On the day (April 15) that President Drew Faust announced that he would be Harvard’s next provost, Alan M. Garber ’76 sat down with the Gazette to talk about his career, his new role, and facilitating connections across traditional academic boundaries…
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Garber welcomed as provost
At a welcoming reception, Harvard President Drew Faust relayed the praise she received for incoming Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 throughout her search for a replacement for Steven E. Hyman.
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Alan Garber named provost
President Drew Faust announced that Alan M. Garber ’76, the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor, and professor of medicine and economics at Stanford University, will become the next provost of Harvard University.
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The outlook for Africa
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that the United States’ continued involvement in African affairs is good for international stability and for the American idea in “The National Interest, Africa, and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?” — the first of three W.E.B. Du Bois lectures on the black experience…
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Ambitious undertaking
U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Kristina Johnson said the United States plans to have 80 percent of its energy come from alternative and unconventional fossil fuels by 2050. She spoke as part of the “Future of Energy” discussion series sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
