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Hvalsey Church

Hvalsey Church

Photograph in the public domain

Research

Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise

4.17.23

Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh is on the top left of the slide.

Alia Crum presents about mindfulness in allergy oral immunotherapy. Thich Nhat Hanh, the center's namesake, is featured on the top left of the slide. 

Photograph by Max J. Krupnick/Harvard Magazine

Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.

4.27.23

Hvalsey Church

Hvalsey Church

Photograph in the public domain

Sea-level rise that inundated coastal farmland may have led to their demise

4.17.23

Harvard Magazine’s staff pets, from left: Chloe, Norman, Tildy, Puka, Ollie, Bee Gee

Montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; Photographs courtesy of: Max Krupnick, Lydialyle Gibson, Jonathan Shaw, Abby Shepard, Niko Yaitanes, Lindsay Mitchell 

Animal companions help their owners live longer, happier lives.

4.11.23

Photograph of giant tube worms living near a hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California

Giant tubeworms take up chemicals from a hydrothermal vent 6,200 feet deep in the Gulf of California (the Girguis lab is world-renowned for research on these worms).

Photograph courtesy of the Schmidt Ocean Institute

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

May-June 2023

James Stock

James Stock

Photograph by Sarah Bastille

Teams of Harvard researchers have developed concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.

May-June 2023

Roger Fu sits in front of a display case of rock samples

Roger Fu

Photograph by Stu Rosner

A paleomagnetics scholar who uses ancient rocks to peer into the early lives of Earth and Mars

May-June 2023

Illustration of a translucent human head showing the brain within, with an exploded view of a cancer cell killing another cancer cell within the brain.

Illustration by Stephanie Cowan Dalton

A novel immunotherapy turns cancer against itself.

May-June 2023

Illustration of a dollar bill with a head on one side and a heart on the other, exchanging hands

Illustration by Paul Garland

How psychological insight can make altruism more rewarding and effective

May-June 2023