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Survey examines sense of inclusion and belonging at Harvard

October 31, 2019

Harvard released the results of its recent Pilot Pulse Survey on Inclusion and Belonging today. The survey is a first-of-its-kind, community-wide initiative that asked all faculty, academic personnel, staff, and students to answer 10 questions aimed at assessing the culture and feeling of inclusion and belonging across the University.

More than 44 percent of the Harvard community, more than 20,000 individuals, responded to the pilot survey, which originated as one of several recommendations of the...

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Thermal Hall effect

Enhanced Thermal Hall Effect in the Square-Lattice Néel State

October 31, 2019

Common wisdom about conventional antiferromagnets is that their low-energy physics is governed by spin–wave excitations. However, new experiments on several cuprate compounds have challenged this concept. An enhanced thermal Hall response in the pseudogap phase was identified, which, remarkably, persists even in the insulating parent compounds without doping.  

In a recent paper by Rhine Samajdar, Mathias Scheurer, Haoyu Guo and Prof. Subir Sachdev at Harvard, together with collaborators...

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Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program Recognized by Harvard Medical School

October 31, 2019

PACEM Awards

The Harvard Ophthalmology Mentoring Program has been recognized with the 2019 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This award was established to recognize departments, divisions, offices or programs for their efforts to foster innovation and sustainability in mentoring while building a culture of excellence in mentoring.

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Angela Davis looks back on her life, her legacy

Angela Davis looks back on her life, her legacy

October 30, 2019

At Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, the life of scholar and political activist Angela Davis unfolds in an array of vivid ephemera. Items such as the letters she received from supporters while incarcerated, a manuscript of her autobiography marked with comments in the margins by her friend Toni Morrison, the FBI’s wanted poster of Davis, unpublished speeches, photographs, and much more shed light on her decadeslong commitment to activism.

“When I saved all the material I had no way in imagining that it would culminate in...

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Angela Davis looks back on her life, her legacy

Angela Davis looks back on her life, her legacy

October 30, 2019

At Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, the life of scholar and political activist Angela Davis unfolds in an array of vivid ephemera. Items such as the letters she received from supporters while incarcerated, a manuscript of her autobiography marked with comments in the margins by her friend Toni Morrison, the FBI’s wanted poster of Davis, unpublished speeches, photographs, and much more shed light on her decadeslong commitment to activism.

“When I saved all the material I had no way in imagining that it would culminate in...

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Reclaiming the Declaration of Independence through ‘Freedom Acts’

Reclaiming the Declaration of Independence through ‘Freedom Acts’

October 30, 2019

Six high school students from Greater Boston will take to American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T) Oberon stage this weekend to perform “Proclamation 7: Freedom Acts,” a play written by and starring them, with a little inspiration from the Declaration of Independence.

The students are the seventh cohort of the Proclamation Project, part of A.R.T.’s Education and Engagement arm, whose mission, Director Brenna Nicely said, is to “...

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3D printing revives skeletal study program at Countway

3D printing revives skeletal study program at Countway

October 30, 2019

Harvard Medical School (HMS) students used to be able to check out a set of human bones the way library users today would borrow a book. The so-called Bone Box program ran from the late 19th through the mid-20th century, and was intended to help students study anatomy at home.

Now, staff members at the Medical School’s Countway Library are reviving the initiative with a 21st-century twist. They’re planning to assemble new boxes of replica human bones and skulls rendered through 3D printing in a program they’re calling Beyond the Bone Box.

Dominic Hall, a curator for the Warren...

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