Penny Pritzker ’81, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, reflected on a year of transition and challenge for the campus community and outlined her plans for the year ahead in a recent conversation with the Gazette. Pritzker touched on engagement efforts underway at the Corporation, including a new approach to inform the next presidential search, […]
‘I never once thought that I didn’t want to believe in something’ Dara Omoloja ’26 Dara Omoloja Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer I’ve had a lot of conversations with my peers at dinner and in class about religion. I grew up very Christian, but when I came to Harvard, I started questioning a lot of the
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Every week, Harvard Medical School neuro-oncologist Annie Hsieh treats patients with gliomas — the most common type of brain cancer, including the deadliest, glioblastoma. After Hsieh’s neurosurgeon colleagues remove a glioma surgically, it often looks like none of the cancer is left behind, she says. Radiation and other treatments may follow. Yet gliomas tend to come back,
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For Jo Keefe, the trembling hands and trouble walking were bad, but it was the nausea that was truly debilitating. “For two or three years, I was having nausea for several hours every day,” said Keefe, a retired lawyer living in New Hampshire who suffers from Parkinson’s disease. “I’d wake up in the morning feeling
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Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye-to-eye on much. And they often don’t agree on various aspects of renewable energy. But a recent report finds there is one area in which they’re pretty much in sync: how certain national proceeds should be divvied up. Results of a recent national poll shows most rank-and-file members of both
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Technically, when doing something nice for another person you’re not supposed to think about what’s in it for you. Yet it turns out putting others first is one of the kindest things you can do for yourself. In “The Biology of Kindness: Six Daily Choices for Health, Well-Being, and Longevity,” Harvard’s Immaculata De Vivo and
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At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2024, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Helen Vendler was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, was born Helen Hennessy into a devout Boston Irish Catholic family in
Climate experts expect a second Trump administration to feature multipronged attacks on recent years’ climate change progress, with battles in the courts, in Congress, and involving the enormous administrative power vested in the presidency. Supporters of efforts to reduce planet-warming fossil-fuel emissions should begin to focus on working to keep gains already made and prepare
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Many Americans feel like the spin and outright lying in politics has gotten worse in recent decades. And that it’s not a good thing. Bill Adair agrees. The founder of PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, fact-checking website, looks at the problem in new book, “Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It
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Many Americans feel like the spin and outright lying in politics has gotten worse in recent decades. And that it’s not a good thing. Bill Adair agrees. The founder of PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, fact-checking website, looks at the problem in new book, “Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It
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