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Life | Work
A series focused on the personal side of Harvard research and teaching.
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HealthHer friends’ parents were dying of cancer. Then her mom got sick.
Childhood tragedy sparks Harvard researcher Jen Cruz’s quest to root out public health inequities
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Nation & WorldSomeone stole Karestan Koenen’s future. She took it back.
Trauma expert speaks from brutal experience
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Nation & World‘What is compelling to do right now?’
Marshall Ganz started at Harvard but took some time off — about three decades — to become Civil Rights, labor, political organizer, and finally scholar, mentor.
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Nation & WorldCar bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers
Mashail Malik was always interested in the human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics.
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Work & EconomyJames Riley’s indelible past
Graffiti of his Los Angeles youth colors the work of Business School sociologist.
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Science & TechDesire to battle climate change rooted in childhood
Environmental science and engineering doctoral student grew up next door to family’s palm-oil refinery outside Bangkok.
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The art of self-healing
“There is this culture that doctors are supposed to be perfect … and that culture makes it harder for us to ask for help.”
