Service starts with summer

As part of Harvard’s new Service Starts with Summer Program, incoming first-year Ezra Feder is working at Artists For Humanity

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How the moon came to be

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Yaray Ku is studying how the moon was formed

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Summer explorers

Local students participating in the Summer Explorations program at the Harvard Ed Portal learned everything from cooking to bike repair this summer

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Tweeting live from the forest

Outfitted with sensors and cameras, a century-old red oak in the Harvard Forest is tweeting about environmental life

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Astronomy Lab sees the light

Accessibility devices at the Harvard Astronomy Lab use sound to allow the visually impaired to envision the cosmos

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Thursday, August 22, 2019, 10:00am - 5:00pm

Mary Roettger

Thursday, August 22, 2019, 8:00am - 9:00pm

Ashcharya: An Exhibition

Friday, August 23, 2019, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Cosmic Origins

Friday, August 23, 2019, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

SIX

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Harvard astronomer shows exoplanet has no atmosphere

Harvard astronomer shows exoplanet has no atmosphere

Led by Laura Kreidberg, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a new study shows that LHS 3844b, a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a small sun 48. …
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Stephanie Paulsell named interim minister at Harvard’s Memorial Church

Stephanie Paulsell named interim minister at Harvard’s Memorial Church

Harvard President Larry Bacow announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School Professor Stephanie Paulsell as interim Pusey Minister at the Memorial Church.
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Graduate student lands lunar samples to learn how moon was formed

Graduate student lands lunar samples to learn how moon was formed

A fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Professor of Geochemistry Stein Jacobsen, Yaray Ku is working on a project aimed at understanding how the moon formed, and to do it, she’s working with …
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Incoming first-year given opportunity to sample public service

Incoming first-year given opportunity to sample public service

Harvard College first-year Ezra Feder spends his summer doing public service through Artists for Humanity, a nonprofit that provides employment in art and design to lower-income teens in the city.
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News from Around Harvard

Defending and promoting freedom of expression in Myanmar

As a Satter Human Rights Fellow, Jenny Domino LL.M. ’18 spent her fellowship year focused on how social media policy limits one's right to speak in the midst of democratic transition.
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Self-folding “Rollbot” paves the way for fully untethered soft robots

The majority of soft robots today rely on external power and control, keeping them tethered to off-board systems or rigged with hard components. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. …
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New Teachers Thriving

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Domestic Violence in Kenya: Stop Blaming Women

Five years ago, I was nearly killed by a man I shared a home and two small children with. …
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Domestic Violence in China: Educating the Public

Translated by Anne Henochowicz On February 19, 2013, when lawyer Guo Jianmei was on a business trip, her phone rang. The moment had arrived for the review of Li Yan’s death sentence. …
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Domestic Violence Is Not a ‘Crime of Passion’

When Melissa Jeltsen Googled Lorena Bobbitt’s name a few years ago, she was surprised to learn that the woman known for cutting off her husband’s penis in 1993 had started a charity to help …
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Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

A young boy named Charlie pauses on his tricycle beside his backyard pool, mouth agape in a wail as his father grabs his half-naked mother. …
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Talking to your doctor about your LGBTQ+ sex life

Talking to your doctor about your LGBTQ+ sex life

Talking about sexuality with a doctor can be uncomfortable. If you identify as LGBTQ+, it's important to find a doctor who is attuned to the specific needs of the LGBTQ+ community. …
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