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400 to participate in First-Year Day of Service
On Saturday, Sept. 8, more than 400 members of Harvard’s Class of 2022, along with faculty, staff, and upper-level student team leaders, will paint and spruce up local classrooms, clean…
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Chef Martin Breslin wins Eating on the Wild Side Challenge
Congratulations to Chef Martin Breslin, director of culinary operations at Harvard University, who created the overall winning dish at the 2018 Eating on the Wild Side Chef Challenge which took place…
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Boxers or briefs? Prospective dads have an easy choice
Men who most frequently wore boxers had significantly higher sperm concentrations and total sperm counts when compared with men who did not usually wear boxers, according to new research led…
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Massachusetts HHS secretary visits Harvard’s Family Van
The Family Van, a mobile health clinic affiliated with Harvard Medical School, recently welcomed Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders during its weekly visit to Codman Square…
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Driving mega profit return through data entrepreneurship
After Chunlei Tang published “The Data Industry: The Business and Economics of Information and Big Data” in 2016, she focused her time on a problem surrounding data innovation within the…
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Inspiring a new generation of coders
A three-hour session on coding during summer break might not initially sound appealing to an elementary school crowd, but throw some robots into the mix and these local students could…
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MetaLAB unveils Curricle
About three years ago, metaLAB at Harvard took up the challenge to develop a digital tool that would revolutionize how students, faculty, and administrators engage with the Harvard curriculum. On…
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Disaster planning means saving lives
There are a lot of scary threats in the world — extreme weather, terrorist attacks, deadly infectious diseases, mass shootings — but if health care organizations plan ahead for such…
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Applications open for 2019 Australia-Harvard Fellowships
Australia-Harvard Fellowships are offered by the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation supporting learned exchange between Harvard University and Australia. These Fellowships are aimed at creative scientists normally based at Harvard…
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Ash Center introduces Technology and Democracy Fellows
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce its newest cohort of Technology and Democracy Fellows — six technology and digital leaders from around…
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From the Ed Portal to Dana-Farber
When he arrived in Allston from Honduras a decade ago, Allston resident Jose Mendoza’s parents wasted no time in signing him up to take part in the mentoring program at…
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Few Americans aware of President Trump’s prescription drug plan
Only 27 percent of Americans are aware of President Donald Trump’s plan to lower prescription drug prices and few believe that it will actually achieve its aim, according to a…
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Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative names second class of mayors
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative today announced the second class of 40 mayors from around the world who will participate in the yearlong education and professional development program designed…
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Ash Center’s Innovations in American Government finalists
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the finalists for the 2018 Innovations in American Government Award. The following seven programs will compete for a $50,000…
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Join Harvard cyclists and Ride for Food
For the past two years, members of the Harvard community have participated in the Ride for Food, fundraising on behalf of Food for Free. Collectively, the Harvard team raised more…
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Could a nanofiber help fight the obesity epidemic?
You won’t smell it. You won’t taste it. And you certainly won’t see it. But a nanocellulose material derived from all-natural substances could potentially become a food additive that reduces…
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Applications open for Climate Change Solutions Fund
As of July 16, applications are being accepted for the Climate Change Solutions Fund. The deadline for applications is Oct. 15. The Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund supports research…
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Harvard hosts Collegiate Bus Roadeo
On June 23, the stormy weather held off just long enough so transit drivers from schools across New England could compete in the inaugural Harvard University Collegiate Bus Roadeo. Modeled…
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It’s harder for students to think straight during a heat wave, study finds
Students who lived in dormitories without air conditioning during a heat wave performed worse on a series of cognitive tests compared with students who lived in air-conditioned dorms, according to…
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Greenwald joins Kennedy School as Belfer Center fellow
Michael Blake Greenwald has been named a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. While at the Kennedy School, Greenwald, who has served the U.S.…
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Intermediate Excel offered to Harvard employees
The Center for Workplace Development delivers programs and services to attract and develop employees at all levels. Intermediate Excel is a one-day course that builds on the skills and concepts…
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It’s child care scholarship application time, through Aug. 8
Available to faculty, administrative/professional staff, support staff, and postdoctoral fellows, the Child Care Scholarship application process is now open in PeopleSoft. All applications must be made online through PeopleSoft. This…
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Nutrition education lacking at most medical schools, experts say
Few U.S. medical schools emphasize nutrition in their curricula, which is potentially undermining doctors’ abilities to effectively address chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer, according to nutrition experts. A…
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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture fetes 300,000th visitor
For the first time, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) topped 300,000 visitors in a single year since its formation in 2012. Dayu Huang of Boston, a Research Fellow…
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Can online doctor reviews be trusted?
In today’s culture of crowdsourcing, there are numerous websites devoted to grading doctors — and these rating systems have both limitations and advantages. According to a July 5, 2018 Prevention.com…
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Cruising campus in a whole new way
Many of Harvard’s parking monitors are now using pedal power to patrol campus. A new cycling program implemented by Transportation Services allows the monitors to ride bikes during their shifts…
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Curbing opioid-use disorder by treating it in the doctor’s office
If primary care physicians (PCPs) offered medication treatment for opioid use disorder more frequently, overdose deaths could be reduced, according to a Perspective article in the New England Journal of…
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Some common chemical reactions linked to faster aging
High daily exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — chemicals that are generated by forms of combustion such as cooking, smoking, and vehicle exhausts — may cause molecular changes that…
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Poor sleep as kids may help lead to cardiovascular disease as adults
Adolescents who get insufficient and poor quality sleep are more likely than well-rested kids to have higher blood pressure, bigger waistlines, and lower levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol —…
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Putting plants at the center of the plate
Nearly three-and-a-half years after they created Forward Food plant-based culinary training at Harvard, Chef Wanda White and Ken Botts of the Humane Society of the United States returned to campus…