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How Harvard Campus Services is managing the coronavirus exodus
Think of the hustle of moving-out day, combined with the hugs and hurried good-byes of the start of spring break, with a poignancy that feels more like a school year ending — all of it unanticipated and squeezed into just a few days. This was the scene...

Harvard offers coronavirus resources and help guides
Harvard has gathered resources and help guides for students, faculty, and the University community after its Tuesday announcement that students should not plan to return to campus after spring break ends March 23, and that classes will move online for the...

Doctors try to safeguard nursing home patients from COVID-19
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest developments in the COVID-19 outbreak may bring. As the number...

Scholar at Risk details Hamas attempt to intimidate him
The explosion delayed Mosab Abu Toha’s college graduation. In the summer of 2014 a bomb tore through the Islamic University of Gaza, his alma mater, reducing its English department to shattered concrete and dust. Abu Toha, an English major and Anglophile...
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NIH-funded i3 Center formed to advance cancer immunotherapy
A new NIH-funded center, which will bring together cancer immunologists and biological engineers to develop new approaches for therapy-resistant cancers, was announced today. Harvard University’s Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering and its...
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Reducing the spread of coronavirus starts with basic hygiene
This is the latest story in our Coronavirus Update series, in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest developments in the COVID-19 outbreak may bring...

Harvard’s keeper of historic and antique clocks
The clock is older than the nation itself but still keeps time down to the minute — those in meetings at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) offices, in fact, often rely on its chime to mark the beginning or end of the gathering. At least...
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Moderate egg consumption gets the green light … again
Consuming up to one egg per day does not appear to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, according to a new study and meta-analysis led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Recent studies reignited the debate on...