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Core objectives

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan raised some hackles when he told a gathering of state education superintendents on Nov. 15 that fresh complaints about the Common Core State Standards were mostly from “white suburban moms” upset that their children...

Paul Andrew

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Paul Andrew is Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications at Harvard University, overseeing the University’s core external communications functions and The Harvard Gazette, as well as regulatory and community engagement efforts in Boston and...

Alzheimer’s insights in single cells

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Building on research reported last year, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have succeeded in identifying the neurons that secrete the substance responsible for the plaques that build up in the brains of...

4D-printed structure changes shape when placed in water

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A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth...

Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel

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Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, have co-created a system that uses solar energy...

Ludwig Cancer Research awards HMS $90M

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Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder, Daniel K. Ludwig, has given Harvard Medical School (HMS) $90 million to spur innovative scientific inquiry and discovery. This grant reflects a portion of a $540 million gift divided equally among Ludwig...

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Welcome to Harvard University’s Federal Relations website. As part of Harvard Public Affairs & Communications, Harvard’s Federal Relations teams in Cambridge and Washington, D.C. work to maintain a positive and ongoing relationship between Harvard and the...

Fighting disease on a global scale

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The idea that the wave of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer breaking over the world is largely the result of wealth and inactivity is not only wrong, it’s counterproductive, says a Harvard research fellow who recently founded a nonprofit organization to...

Can iPads help students learn science? Yes

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The scale of the universe can be difficult to comprehend. Pretend you are going to make a scale model with a basketball representing the Earth and a tennis ball as the moon. How far would you put the tennis-ball moon from the basketball Earth? Most people...

Probing how the past behaved

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You have to love a conference that includes a lecture on sex and silkworms, as well as scholarly presentations on shark tagging, lunar geology, Soviet reflexology, cotton-wool hearing aides, wave pools for surfers, 19th-century studies of monsters, the...