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Battling climate change on all fronts
The next time the Arctic’s mud season rolls around, Harvard scientists will be there, testing the air to record what the ground is releasing, searching for evidence of a climate change wild card that...
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While you were away
School’s back in session, and summer’s sultry days are numbered. Here’s a roundup of new books by Harvard faculty members that you may have missed while soaking up umbrella drinks and saucy paperbacks...
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The Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota Chapter of Massachusetts announced three recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Excellence in Teaching for this academic year. The recipients are David Mooney, Robert...
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Sharp messages
Harvard celebrated its top-ranked seniors Tuesday at the 222nd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. The first lesson of the day for the 167 near-graduates came early: When it rains, mortarboards aren’t...
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The psychology of poverty
To Johannes Haushofer, studying Western college students to understand economic decision-making more clearly will only take economists so far. Sooner or later, those who want to grasp one of the...
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What history gives the present
Eight Harvard historians gathered at Emerson Hall Wednesday night with an ambitious goal in mind: to explain — in eight minutes or less apiece — that “everything is history and history is...
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