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8 awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals in joyful ceremony

Singer Mavis Staples, actress Angela Bassett, and soccer star Didier Drogba were among the honorees presented with W.E.B. Du ...
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Hoekstra, Petrofsky outline new FAS administrative model at first faculty meeting of academic year

We will keep working at it until we get it right,” the FAS dean said. The effort is estimated to save $20 million per year ...
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Evidence of board games building bedrock social skills

A recent study from the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies describes how games aimed at improving social skills, ...
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Elevating a character at the heart of Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’

When Hoon Lee ’94 received the script for the role of Lee in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” he was ...
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12 Nobels, two rhinos, and continued legacy of scientific discovery

The Biological Laboratories at 16 Divinity Avenue first opened in 1931. In the 95 years of its existence, the storied ...
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Analyzing ‘time capsules’ from the early solar system, delivered by meteorites

Harvard geoscientists reported that organic matter harvested from certain meteorites bears chemical traces of “primitive ...
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Caribbean art takes campus spotlight

A first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Hutchins Center’s Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art brings together works of contemporary artists from Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, ...