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Arts & Culture
Writing today for a distant tomorrow
Visiting Professor Valeria Luiselli will contribute to the Future Library
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Nation & World
Now, what’s all this nonsense about age?
Experts say both Biden, Trump operate at high level of competence, nation needs to drop stereotypes, embrace ‘longevity dividend’
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Health
Do high-stress jobs put pregnancy at risk?
Study compared outcomes for expecting doctors, lawyers. One group fared worse.
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Campus & Community
12 win Harvard Culture Lab awards to advance inclusion and belonging
Community-based projects will benefit University Schools and units
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Nation & World
Black America as canary in coal mine of democracy
Panel sees peril ahead, points to rise in white supremacy, birtherism, erosion of voting rights, attacks on teaching about race, gender
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Science & Tech
Herbaria’s use and importance grows with climate change
In race against extinction, new agreement supports Harvard’s work to analyze and digitize its medicinal plant collections
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Campus & Community
University names task force members in efforts to combat antisemitism, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias
‘We must do much more to bridge the fissures that have weakened our sense of community’
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Health
What if the hospital was at your house?
Study finds ‘acute’ care at home effective, improves patient experience — could slow rising healthcare costs
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Health
Was racism a factor in mother’s leukemia?
Dale Blackstock grew up low-income, became a physician. Her death left daughter Uché, also a doctor, with a lesson on color, class, healthcare
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Nation & World
What is Putin’s next move?
Russian policy expert says death of opposition leader, Ukraine victories, political turmoil in U.S. bolstering leader’s confidence
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Campus & Community
‘Human dignity front and center’
Dialogues event offers tools for engaging in respectful debate
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Arts & Culture
Taylor Swift, the Wordsworth of our time?
New English course studies pop star’s lyrics alongside classic literature
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Science & Tech
Harvard physicists create a new phase of matter
First demonstration of non-Abelian anyons in a quantum processor
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Science & Tech
Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
Study puts fermentation, not fire, as pivot point behind our ancestors’ increasing cranial capacity
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Nation & World
‘What we really need is just to sit together and face each other’
Israeli, Palestinian philosophers exchange tales of personal loss, find points of contention, agreement over war
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Nation & World
Jared Kushner speaks from Middle East experience in Kennedy School forum
Ex-Trump adviser criticizes Biden’s pre-Oct. 7 engagement in the region, defends Israel’s actions in Gaza
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Nation & World
Reading tea leaves with Steve Kornacki
NBC, MSNBC analyst sees Democratic potential, but lots of slack, uncertainty ahead for both parties
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Health
Looking to rewind the aging clock
Harvard researchers create model that better measures biological age, distinguishes between harmful and adaptive changes during life
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Campus & Community
Overseer, HAA elected director elections ballot set
Candidates as they will appear on the ballot
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Nation & World
Looking at causes, measuring effects of Israel-Hamas war
Experts examine shifts in geopolitics, global economy resulting from conflict
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Health
Potential new weapon in battle against superbugs
Harvard team’s synthetic molecule highly effective against drug-resistant bacteria
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Arts & Culture
Can you embrace deep joy amid deep loss?
Leslie Jamison traces how first-time motherhood, crumbling of marriage left her with new, different life
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Nation & World
Pushing back against China — without igniting war
GOP, Democratic leaders of House panel detail hot issues with ascendant superpower: Taiwan independence, intellectual property theft, oppression of Uyghurs
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Campus & Community
Class of 1999 elects Baratunde Thurston as chief marshal of alumni
Writer, TV host, comedian, commentator to join in 125-year-old tradition
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Health
What do we do with our loneliness?
‘Harvard Thinking’ looks at health crisis with experts Jeremy Nobel and Milena Batanova
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Health
A win for science, and patients, against brain injury ‘nihilism’
Hope for progress even after a 450-foot fall, trial shows, defying pessimism that hurts research and families
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Nation & World
Are top-ranked colleges really the best? Depends. At what?
Sociologist urges ratings focused on real-life outcomes, particularly in those from underrepresented groups
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Arts & Culture
Many splendored? Sometimes, but it’s always intriguing
Staff, faculty offer Valentine’s tips for books that cover what we talk about when we talk about love
