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SEAS entrance: the new quarters in Allston
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Claudine Gay announces the advisory committee for successor to Frank Doyle.
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Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
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Long COVID Symptoms
Healthy lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of long COVID symptoms, including fatigue, attention disorders, memory loss, shortness of breath, digestive disorders, and anxiety and depression.Harvard researchers find that lifestyle factors like weight and sleep are associated with reduced risk.
Stephen Treaster
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A genetic analysis of long-lived species of rockfish has led to fresh insights into human longevity, and a previously unappreciated pathway governing lifespan.
ExxonMobil scientists' projections of global warming were at least as good as those of government and academic scientists in the period from 1977 to 2003.
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What fossil fuel interests knew about climate change, and when
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Noam Chomsky, LL.D. ’00, speaking at the Law School conference
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Harvard Law students, and others, critique legal practice.
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The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
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Landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom M.L.A. ’06
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Lessons from Bangkok presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Top row, left to right: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Jeffrey D. Dunn, Arturo Elizondo, Srishti Gupta Narasimhan
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The 2023 nominees detail their experiences and view of Harvard’s challenges and prospects.
Loeb House, where the University’s governing boards convene
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Candidates for the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors are announced.
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Luanda's Angolan-Cape Verdean-Portuguese food
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Exploring Cape Verdean and Caribbean cuisine
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Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
A rousing game of trampoline-dodgeball
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Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
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The author (center) celebrates after her recital performance in Holden Chapel with friends Kelsey Ichikawa ’20 (left) and Stephanie Tang ’20.
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A Harvard singing class that's about more than music
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The author (center) celebrates after her recital performance in Holden Chapel with friends Kelsey Ichikawa ’20 (left) and Stephanie Tang ’20.
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A Harvard singing class that's about more than music
Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge
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The honorees will visit Cambridge next week for a parade, a show, and a (loving) roast.
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Carrie Moore is in her first year as Delaney-Smith head coach of women's basketball.
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Carrie Moore’s first season coaching the women’s basketball team
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Edwin Bancroft Henderson and the history behind the Harvard-Howard game
A rousing game of trampoline-dodgeball
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Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
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Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge
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