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Tag: Uganda
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Nation & World
Future M.D.’s passion to help comes in many forms
Cynthia Luo, who’s concentrating in both molecular and cellular biology and English, was inspired by her time in Uganda to become a physician and improve global health.
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Nation & World
Following conflict, a turn to the divine
Working with a team of international researchers, Harvard scientists gathered survey data in several locations around the globe and found that, following the trauma of seeing a friend or loved one killed or injured during conflict, many became more religious.
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Nation & World
Harvard student finds his place in rural Uganda
Austin Valido ’18 shares his transition from Harvard student to living in rural Uganda and the lessons he learned.
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A Ugandan border official, redefined
Agnes Igoye brought her fight to end human trafficking from Uganda to Harvard’s Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
A focus on fairness
Using a simple game in which candy is distributed between two players, researchers found that children in various countries were quick to reject unfair deals, but in three countries they were also willing to reject deals unfair to others.
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Nation & World
Coffee with a cause
Kennedy School student Andy Agaba has created a startup that he hopes will translate coffee’s popularity into support for African farmers.
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Nation & World
A musical is born, slowly
An experience in Uganda helping orphans get schooling is at the heart of “Witness Uganda,” a new production directed by Diane Paulus at the American Repertory Theater.
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Nation & World
Engineering a better life
When Kathy Ku ’13 proposed to build a water-filter factory in Uganda for $15,000 last year, her contacts advised her to double her budget. If all goes to plan, by next August Ku and her classmates will have created a fully functional and self-sustaining water-filter factory, supplying clean water at half the cost of imported…
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Looking at chimp’s future, seeing man’s
The fate of chimpanzees in Africa is largely in the hands of increasing numbers of poor, rural dwellers crowding the primates’ forest homes. That is why an educational project begun near Uganda’s Kibale National Forest focuses on 14 schools teaching almost 10,000 children, researchers say.
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Nation & World
Pain relief for patients in Uganda
A collaboration between anesthesiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital and overworked doctors at an African hospital provides training in a technique that can soothe patients during surgical recoveries.
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Nation & World
Sick to death
Harvard School of Public Health researchers are mounting a major study of chronic disease in four African nations, which organizers hope will provide a foundation for understanding and treating chronic ailments like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
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Nation & World
Faust emphasizes public service
Concluding a year of expanded volunteer efforts at Harvard, president announces new fellowships that will allow students to do well by doing good.
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Nation & World
Out of Africa
Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.
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Nation & World
Break, but no vacation
Harvard students volunteer for service projects overseas — targeting malnutrition and aiding literacy and athletics — during winter break.
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Looking at cooking
Harvard biology professor Richard Wrangham talks about the importance of cooking in human origins.
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Nation & World
Training the talent in trouble spots
The Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) has begun a fellowship program with the aim of identifying and helping train bright young developing-world health professionals in remote regions of the world with the greatest global health challenges.
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Nation & World
Seeing the forest, from the trees
Alain Houle thinks higher-status chimpanzees likely feed on more, higher-quality fruit — found higher up in the tree — than lower-status chimpanzees, which leads to the chimps being in better physical shape and greater breeding success. “I thought I’d be killed,” Houle said later. “They climbed up, looked at me, barked at me, and then…