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Tag: University of Michigan
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Nation & World
Michigan, California speak from experience in briefs supporting Harvard
Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.
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Campus & Community
The new breakfast club
What started 13 years ago as a welcome gesture from a towering figure at the Law School to a new basketball coach has become a monthly balm, an oasis of multigenerational community and education.
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Health
Stigma of opioids a hurdle to solving crisis
“Can you think of all the tax dollars it’s cost for you to go to detox?” the doctor asked Raina McMahan when she arrived at the clinic in Revere seeking…
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Health
Specialists take on opioid crisis
A conference sponsored by Harvard and the University of Michigan will examine the role that stigma plays in the nation’s opioid crisis and ways it slows and alters responses.
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Health
Pharma-to-doc marketing a vulnerability in opioid fight
A University of Michigan-Harvard University summit brought experts from the two universities as well as outside organizations to consider ways to address the opioid epidemic.
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Work & Economy
Bacow returns to Michigan roots
During a visit to his home city, Detroit, Harvard President Larry Bacow made the case for college to high school students, and lauded the city’s recovery efforts.
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Work & Economy
Harvard, U. of Michigan to tackle social ills
Harvard and the University of Michigan have formed two partnerships designed to encourage economic opportunity in struggling Detroit and to fight the national scourge of opioid addiction.
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Arts & Culture
Age-old enchantments
During an afternoon demonstration and evening concert and reception, “Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives” students assembled, tuned, and played replicas of the world’s oldest known instruments, and sampled food based on 4,000-year-old recipes.
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Health
Bridging science and religion
Divinity School graduate Shelley Brown is combining her love for science and religion to help stitch together two fields that rarely seem to meet.
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Science & Tech
The building blocks of planets
Harvard’s Matt Holman, a lecturer on astrophysics, and his collaborators at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado are piggybacking their research onto a NASA spaceship that is racing to the farthest edges of the solar system to study objects in the far-flung Kuiper Belt.
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Arts & Culture
A passion for unloving art
Australian native Maria Gough, the Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard, studies the Russian and Soviet avant-garde periods because they portray “what the function of the artist is in a revolutionary climate.”
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Campus & Community
Rebound
The Harvard men’s basketball team is on the up and up, thanks to its newest coach Tommy Amaker.
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Campus & Community
No ceilings
In 2004, Harvard announced an initiative to make the University more accessible to low-income families by expanding recruitment and eliminating parental contributions for eligible students. Since then, 1,900 students have taken advantage of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Here’s how the program changed the lives of some of its first alumni.
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Health
Early action cuts claims, costs
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the University of Michigan analyzed a program of full disclosure and compensation for medical errors and found a decrease in new claims for compensation (including lawsuits) and liability costs.
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Health
Evolution and ailments
The pressures of human evolution could explain the apparent rise of disorders such as autoimmune diseases and autism, researchers say. Some adaptations may even help such ailments persist.
