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Campus & Community
Finishing his mother’s verse
Darius Atefat-Peckham ’23 honors his mother’s legacy through his own work and bringing her unfinished poetry to light.
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Campus & Community
Love of grandmother’s garden blossoms into climate justice activism
Aliyah Collins’ nonprofit aims to help students of historically Black colleges and universities to make spiritual connections with nature, launch conversations about environmental equity.
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Campus & Community
Road less traveled by
LaNell Williams is building a career as a researcher and leader by going her own way, helping prospective grad students of color find theirs.
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Campus & Community
From halls of Montezuma to those of Knafel
Former Marine David Miller surprised himself by his college success and was, in turn, surprised by his experience at College.
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Health
Estrogen a more powerful breast cancer culprit than we realized
A Harvard Medical School study shows the sex hormone estrogen — thus far thought to be only a fuel for breast cancer growth — can directly cause tumor-driving genomic rearrangements.
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Science & Tech
EPA’s new rules on forever chemicals don’t go far enough, study suggests
Harvard-led team finds standards don’t account for major source of drinking water contamination.
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Campus & Community
Saving Mom a seat in class
Life circumstances put sophomore Elio Kennedy-Yoon and grad student mother in “Queer Nation” course at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
How 14th Amendment can help Biden avoid default
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe says in requiring the president to pay U.S. debts it supersedes debt-limit law, breaks impasse over GOP demands.
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Health
Newly identified genetic variant protects against Alzheimer’s
Researchers identified a first-of-its-kind patient with a genetic predisposition for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease who remained cognitively intact more than two decades beyond the expected age of memory impairment.
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Campus & Community
Seeing obstacles, remaining undeterred
“I do have worries and fears,” says Oren Rimon Or ’23. “But I have developed the confidence that when you want something, you find a way to do it.”
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Nation & World
How birth year predicts exposure to gun violence
Long-term study examines risk of getting shot or witnessing a shooting by race, sex, and birth year.
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Health
When to get first mammogram? Doctor explains latest advice.
Guidance shifts amid troubling breast cancer trends in young and Black women.
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Work & Economy
James Riley’s indelible past
Graffiti of his Los Angeles youth colors the work of Business School sociologist.
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Science & Tech
Getting to root of possible carbon storage changes due to climate change
New study looks at the dynamics of how warming may affect carbon capture in soil near trees and plants.
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Campus & Community
Outgoing, incoming Overseers heads reflect on progress made, challenges ahead
The Gazette spoke with Paul Choi and Meredith Hodges about their experiences on the Board of Overseers and their views of the challenges and opportunities facing the University.
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Campus & Community
Keeping the plan sustainable
First adopted in 2014, the plan is intended to be a living document that provides flexibility over time as new technologies, strategies, advancements, and challenges emerge.
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Science & Tech
World ‘way off track’ from climate goal, Kerry says
Despite increasing momentum toward a green energy shift, the world remains far off track from emissions reductions that will limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Biden’s climate ambassador said.
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Nation & World
From Kyiv to Harvard and back
Harvard Scholars at Risk program allows physicians to continue their education during wartime.
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Technology
Struggling to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
GSD Associate Professor Holly Samuelson explains how climate change is catalyzing dramatic new city and state regulations as architects, designers, and developers are struggling to stay current.
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Campus & Community
After four generations, an emergency focus on climate change
Julia Malits will be the fourth generation of women in her family to go into medicine. She will be the first, though, to focus on emergency medicine and climate change.
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Science & Tech
Think incubator for fresh ideas, innovation, new leaders to fight warming
Inaugural Harvard Climate Leadership Summit brings together students from across disciplines, Schools with established figures to pitch, consider, inspire.
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Science & Tech
2 very different microbes immune to the same viruses? Scientists were puzzled.
Genomic analysis suggests host diversity is far greater than previously thought.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First sets the stage for spring
Arts First took over stages, museums, and other venues across Harvard’s campus during the four-day festival.
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Campus & Community
Escaping hurdles in conservative Eastern European homeland
As a middle schooler, Ilinca Mazureac knew two things for certain — she was going to be a scientist, and she was gay.
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Arts & Culture
Changing face of Shehuo festival
Photographer Zhang Xiao documented the Shehuo festival over a decade of modernization, creating a portrait of how traditional practices sustain themselves amid rapid change. The new bilingual photographic exhibition “Shehuo: Community Fire” is at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.
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Campus & Community
Larry Wilmore named Class Day speaker
Celebrated TV producer, actor, comedian, and writer selected by Class of 2023 for “challenging traditional ideas of race and politics.”
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Nation & World
A doctor’s lessons from Haiti, Turkey, Ukraine border
Rushing to war and disaster zones to provide urgent care has convinced Morgan Broccoli there’s a smarter way to help.
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Science & Tech
Bringing Stone Age genomic material back to life
Scientific breakthroughs will enable exploration of Earth’s biochemical past, with hopes of discovering new therapeutic molecules.
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Campus & Community
Wonders never cease
Henry Cerbone spent his time at Harvard drawing on many intellectual threads in his effort to explore and understand the world.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating cross-University innovation
The Challenge is open to students and alumni from all Harvard Schools, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.
