Tag: University of Maryland
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Nation & World
New database tracks data on slaves, slavers, and allies
A new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), offers a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped emancipate enslaved people.
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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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Nation & World
Of art and the Civil War
Harvard joins with three other universities and five theaters in the National Civil War Project, a multiyear collaboration that will use the arts to re-imagine America’s transformative conflict of 150 years ago.
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Hunt wins Women of Distinction Award
Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Swanee Hunt will receive a Women of Distinction Award at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.
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‘Made of fire’
Harvard wrestlers work toward a turnaround after an early-season losing streak.
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Learning in the labs
This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.