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Health
How to fight depression? Faster.
Hope flags when medications fail, isolating and endangering patients. Backed by a major grant, 2 Harvard scientists are focused on reducing the distance between diagnosis and recovery.
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Science & Tech
What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?
Giant impact had silver lining for life, according to new study
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Campus & Community
FAS creates new professorships in civil discourse and AI
Gift from business leader Alfred Lin ’94 and artist Rebecca Lin ’94, part of record 30th reunion giving, builds on critical new efforts on dialogue and generative AI
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Campus & Community
Significant decline in sexual misconduct at Harvard, survey finds
Most students are aware of reporting mechanisms and support services, but many do not use them
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Campus & Community
Ukraine’s first lady shares history with Harvard
Olena Zelenska presents Harvard Library with books, shows appreciation for its contribution to Ukrainian studies
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Work & Economy
Are rich different from you and me? Would we be better off without them?
Safra Center for Ethics debate weighs extreme wealth, philanthropy, income inequality, and redistribution
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Campus & Community
Seeing them as current events and not really new
Jill Lepore, Maya Jasanoff, Kirsten Weld launch course that views present as wholly connected to the past
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Campus & Community
University cites careful planning, stewardship for solid financial position, endowment performance
Finance leaders note investments in key academic, community priorities
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Arts & Culture
When to quit a book
Some give up without guilt while others insist going cover to cover. Harvard readers share their criteria.
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Science & Tech
When we say ‘smart,’ what do we mean?
Computer scientist says we should shift focus to ‘educability’
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Arts & Culture
Lace up gloves, enter ring, and write
Novelist and boxer Laura van den Berg says the two practices have a lot in common
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Science & Tech
How to apply cool-headed reason to red-hot topics
Michael J. Sandel brings back wildly popular ‘Justice’ course amid time of strained discourse on college campuses
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Science & Tech
Big discovery about microscopic ‘water bears’
Bit of happenstance, second look at ancient fossils leads to new insights into evolution of tardigrade, one of most indestructible life forms on planet
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Health
Threat of mosquito-borne diseases rises in U.S. with global temperature
Experts fear more cases of West Nile virus, EEE (and possibly Zika, Dengue fever) as warm seasons get longer, wetter
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Science & Tech
How whales and dolphins adapted for life on the water
Backbones of ocean-dwelling mammals evolved differently than those of species living closer to shore, study finds
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Nation & World
Is China headed toward instability?
Foreign policy experts discuss likely fraught succession at kickoff of two months of events marking 75th anniversary of People’s Republic
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Arts & Culture
Unearthed papyrus contains lost scenes from Euripides’ plays
Alums help identify, decipher ‘one of the most significant new finds in Greek literature in this century’
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Nation & World
Penslar, Feldman examine plight of Jewish Americans after 10/7 attack
Scholars trace history of group in U.S., discuss why many wrestling with what it means for Israel, their own place in nation’s culture
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Health
Seem like peanut allergies were once rare and now everyone has them?
Surgeon, professor Marty Makary examines damage wrought when medicine closes ranks around inaccurate dogma
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Work & Economy
Millions of workers are also juggling caregiving. Employers need to rethink.
Business School report finds rigid hiring policies, work rules, scheduling hurt employees but also productivity, retention, bottom line
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Health
3 million Americans have dental implants — but procedure wasn’t always ‘routine’
Surgeon recounts changes in field over 40-year career — from titanium screws to bone regeneration — as he accepts Goldhaber Award
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Health
Getting to the bottom of long COVID
A reservoir of virus in the body may explain why some people experience long COVID symptoms
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Nation & World
Can a 50-year-old philosophy help make democracy better today?
New book based on ideas of renowned Harvard scholar John Rawls argues it all comes down to fairness
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Nation & World
U.S. seems impossibly riven. What if we could start from scratch?
Key would be focusing on social, political, economic fairness, according to new book on ideas of political philosopher John Rawls
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Work & Economy
What skeptics get wrong about liberal arts
In podcast episode, an economist, an educator, and a philosopher make the case it’s as essential as ever in today’s job market
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Campus & Community
Diving into the myths and legends behind sea monsters
New exhibit lets visitors discover sea creatures often more astonishing than the fantastical beings we may have imagined
