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Duncan urges experiments in education. Education secretary offers proposals to aid nation’s students. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer/ “It’s a stain on our nation that today one in four American students fails to finish high school on time or drops out … that is absolutely morally unacceptable and economically unsustainable,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan […]
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Whole-Genome Sequencing of 2011 E. Coli Outbreaks in Europe Provides New Insight Into Origins, Spread of Disease Boston, MA — Using whole-genome sequencing, a team led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Broad Institute has traced the path of the E. coli outbreak that sickened thousands and killed over 50 people in […]
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New initiative for better teaching. Scholars, experts explore creative approaches to instructing, learning. Harvard’s ambitious new initiative to spark innovative teaching and learning kicked off with a daylong conference on Friday that drew together authorities and scholars from the University and beyond to debate, discuss, and share ideas in the field. The inaugural conference was […]
The search for life’s stirrings. Nobel laureate Szostak says knotty problems sometimes have simple solutions. Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak’s research focuses on understanding primitive cells, how they might have been created, and how they might have behaved and divided. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer Scientists studying how life arose on Earth are stumped by several […]
For cutting-edge biomedical materials, try corn. Students explore plant-derived materials for wound closures, tissue engineering. Eliza Grinnell/ SEAS/ Students in the undergraduate teaching labs at SEAS are investigating plant-based materials that may help regrow damaged neurons. The team includes (from front to back) Godwin Abiola ’14, Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering Assistant Director Sujata Bhatia, […]
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Bunches of support. Daffodil Days returns to aid cancer patients. It’s that time of year again! Harvard’s 25th annual Daffodil Days campaign to help raise money for the American Cancer Society is under way through March 1, with gifts scheduled for delivery on March 19. This year’s gift options are a bouquet of 10 daffodils, […]
David Weinberger on Too Big To Know … David Weinberger on Too Big To Know … We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital […]
A conversation with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Rick McCallum – Institute of Politics … A conversation with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Rick McCallum – Institute of Politics Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. and producer Rick McCallum discuss the story of the Tuskegee Airmen with Harvard Law Professor Ronald Sullivan. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Rick McCallum […]
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Basketball, with perspective Lippert set to score 1,000th point, but focuses on volunteering too Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, who left sunny San Diego three years ago to take up residence in chilly Cambridge, “hasn’t looked back since.” Now she’s set to surpass the 1,000-point mark this spring./ Amanda Swinhart/Harvard Staff Photographer In a refreshing twist, […]
Making the worms turn Biophysicist and his lab pioneer ways to track, influence roundworm nervous systems Aravinthan Samuel and researchers in his lab set to work designing equipment that could measure nerve activity in living, wiggling worms. They first succeeded three or four years ago, becoming the first to record neural activity in freely moving […]
