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SlaveVoyages finds new home at Harvard — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

4 min read SlaveVoyages, a groundbreaking tool for data on history’s largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project’s upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
Slave trade database moving to Harvard — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

4 min read SlaveVoyages, a groundbreaking tool for data on history’s largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project’s upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
What we still need to learn from pandemic — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

6 min read Social distancing, school closures, and stay-at-home orders became hotly disputed during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. How should these protocols be viewed today? The new book “In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us” by a pair of Princeton University professors finds no evidence these “non-pharmaceutical interventions” actually reduced mortality rates.
‘Our Harvard’ brings students together to tackle tough issues — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Terry Murphy

5 min read First they met for coffee. This month they came together for a full meal. Spurred by the Gaza conflict, Nim Ravid ’25, an economics concentrator from Israel, wanted to find new ways to connect students across the College. Last summer, he co-founded “Our Harvard” with five of his peers, and one of their first efforts was pairing students for coffee chats meant to encourage conversations across differences.
When making positive change, sometimes you ‘break things’ — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Clea Simon

If you want to make things better, says Gina Raimondo, that means things are going to have to change — and sometimes that means you “break things.”For example, the former U.S. Commerce secretary and Rhode Island governor said that when she was leading the Ocean State, she cut taxes every year, raised the state minimum wage, and made community college tuition free. She also cut 30 percent of the state’s regulations.
Heartbreak Hill? These marathoners have seen worse. — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

9 min read For two years, grief left her body feeling like a pressure-cooker. “It wasn’t until my junior year that I discovered something that really helped with the release of my emotions,” said Brooke Stanford ’25, who lost her mother, Andrea, to pancreatic cancer two weeks before arriving on campus as a first-year in 2021.
Separated by a border, but with fates entwined — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

Nation & World 5 min read From afar, the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico appears as a hard economic, political, and cultural boundary. But mayors of cities that flank the divide have a different view. “We’re a binational community,” said Mayor Carlos Peña Ortiz, HKS ’20 of Reynosa, Mexico, which mirrors McAllen, Texas, across the Rio Grande.
Researchers ID genetic disorders that can be treated before birth — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Terry Murphy

A new study identifies nearly 300 genetic disorders that can be treated during pregnancy or in the first week of life, forming the basis for a “treatable fetal findings list” that could be offered to pregnant patients.
How to manage stress during an apocalypse — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Clea Simon

5 min read Cooperation, community, and a sense of adventure may be the keys to our survival, even in these violently divided times. That was the theme of Athena Aktipis’ address last week.
Richard P. Lifton to join Harvard Corporation — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Terry Murphy

Richard P. Lifton, a prominent leader in biomedical research and higher education, will join the Harvard Corporation this summer, the University announced Monday. A scientist and physician who is a pioneer in using genetics and genomics in understanding human disease, Lifton has served as the 11th president of The Rockefeller University since 2016 and also leads that institution’s Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics.