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Tag: University of California
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Nation & World
Fostering a dream
Kim Snodgrass’ childhood included 10 foster homes in six years. Today she walks away from the Graduate School of Education with a master’s, pointed toward a program that will help other foster children to thrive.
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Nation & World
Her own creation
Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.
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Nation & World
More ways of defining diversity
A study by a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education suggests that university staffs and students value having a diverse campus, but doubt that strict racial preferences are the right way to develop it.
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Nation & World
Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96
Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.
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Nation & World
It’s all in the cortex
Research suggests that the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument.
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Nation & World
Telomerase work wins Szostak Nobel Prize in medicine
Jack W. Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work on cellular structures called telomeres, which protect chromosomes from degradation.
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Nation & World
Harvard joins in support for open-access publication
Five of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning — Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley—announced their joint commitment to a compact for open-access publication.
