Sustainable commuting

Many Harvard faculty, staff, and students commute each day in sustainable ways

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A better candidate for chemo delivery

A new technique may increase the efficacy and decrease the toxicity of existing cancer chemotherapies

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Haben Girma

A new memoir by Haben Girma recounts her life as a deafblind woman, including her time at Harvard Law School

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Family Weekend

On a beautiful fall weekend, thousands of family members visited Harvard for First-Year Family Weekend

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An open office An open office

Open offices

Ethan Bernstein follows up on his original research to look at why open offices hurt collaboration and what can be done about it

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To Serve Better: Harvard across the country

Clint Smith Clint Smith

Serving Washington D.C.

Clint Smith, whose dissertation focuses on juveniles facing life sentences, leads a prison reading program in Washington, D.C.

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Marnie Gelbart Marnie Gelbart

Serving South Dakota

Marnie Gelbart works to increase public understanding of genetics, and the ethical, legal, and social implications

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Sarah Lockridge-Steckel Sarah Lockridge-Steckel

Serving Tennessee

Sarah Lockridge-Steckel founded The Collective, which works to help young people in Memphis, Tennessee

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Events

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Building Sustainable Conservation Economies with Keith Vincent (CEO, Wilderness Holdings)

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 12:15pm - 2:00pm

Cui Bono? Business Elites, Regime-Support Coalitions, and Interstate Conflict

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

The Intellectual Legacy of Primo Levi

Friday, November 15, 2019, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

What Future for Europe’s Foreign Policy with Pierre Vimont

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New drug-detecting tool could help save lives

New drug-detecting tool could help save lives

The landscape of the illegal drug trade changes constantly, particularly amid the current opioid crisis. …
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Mark Cuban and Jeff Flake discuss the economy

Mark Cuban and Jeff Flake discuss the economy

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban on real-world education, Trump, Warren, and sexual harassment in the front office of his NBA team.
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Perfect weather greets families of Harvard first-years

Perfect weather greets families of Harvard first-years

A perfect fall weekend, and a welcome from Harvard President Larry Bacow, greeted first-years’ family and friends.
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Better delivery system for sending chemo to cancerous lung tissue

Better delivery system for sending chemo to cancerous lung tissue

A new technique called ELeCt (erythrocyte-leveraged chemotherapy) can transport drug-loaded nanoparticles into cancerous lung tissue by mounting them on the body’s own red blood cells.
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News from Around Harvard

Chronic fatigue syndrome: Gradually figuring out what’s wrong

Chronic fatigue syndrome: Gradually figuring out what’s wrong

In the 1980s, there was no official definition of what is now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). …
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Everyday Environmentalism

Thu, 11/14/2019 - 6:00pmInstitute of Politics, 79 JFK St. …
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Why Withholding Information at Work Won’t Give You an Advantage

Research reveals that it may even backfire.
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Multimaterial 3D printing manufactures complex objects, fast

Multinozzle printer can switch between multiple inks up to 50 times per second
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“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

t takes many held-breath pages and held-breath sentences and held-breath thoughts to reach Page 407 of “The Testaments” where, in something of an epilogue to the main story, you come …
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Clinic, HRW Release Report Urging Russia to Support Action on Incendiary Weapons

(Geneva) – Russia should support, not block, diplomatic talks about possible action to address the civilian harm caused by the use of incendiary weapons, the International Human
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Brown-Nagin on Her Own Path and Radcliffe’s

Dean discusses her priorities for Harvard’s institute devoted to interdisciplinary study and researchDean Tomiko Brown-Nagin discusses her priorities for Harvard’s institute devoted to …
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Harvard EdCast: The Actual Cost of College

1000x500-college-cost.jpg When many people see the college price tag, they believe it's financially out of reach. …
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