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The Fix in Fossil Fuels

December 31, 2013

[Harvard Magazine ] The United States is wasting more than $4 billion a year by giving oil and gas companies tax breaks that do not benefit consumers or the economy, says Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a former special assistant to the president for energy and environment. This special treatment for the fossil-fuel industry, he points out, adds to the national debt and maintains the country’s dependence on a finite natural resource that produces greenhouse...

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Harvard-led researchers offer potential new treatments for subtype of acute myeloid leukemia

December 23, 2013

An international team of researchers working in the Boston and Singapore labs of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Blood Program leader Daniel Tenen, MD, recently identified new candidates for the treatment of an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) subtype caused by mutations of CEBPA, a tumor suppressor. The findings were published in two separate studies:... Read more about Harvard-led researchers offer potential new treatments for subtype of acute myeloid leukemia

Happy Holidays!

December 21, 2013

As the fall semester ends, the SEAS Racing team is already looking forward to the winter break. With the launch of our website, a busy January wintersession spent building the SEASShell, and our first competition in the Shell Ecomarathon, we are excited for what 2014 has to bring!

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New research implicates immune system cells in muscle healing

December 20, 2013

Harvard stem cell scientists have found that cells known primarily for tempering immune response also exist in injured muscle tissue, an unexpected role for regulatory T cells.

Regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, accumulate in the skeletal muscles of mice after injury or after the animals developed muscular dystrophy, the researchers found. Their...

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Students awarded for Japanese studies

December 20, 2013

The Noma-Reischauer Prize in Japanese Studies traces a distinguished history to 1995, the year the award was established by Kodansha, Ltd. Publishers in honor of Professor Edwin O. Reischauer. Each year the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies grants Noma-Reischauer prizes to the best essays authored by Harvard students on Japan-related topics. The 2013-2014 awards were presented to Jakobina Arch, a fifth-year GSAS PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, for an excerpt from her dissertation entitled, “Whale Graves and Whale Spirits: The Place of Whales in Early Modern...

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Edith Law helping lead the way in Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing at CRCS

December 20, 2013

As featured in Harvard Magazine ("Popular Science", Jan-Feb 2014), CRCS fellow Edith Law is helping lead the way in CRCS's efforts to develop crowdsourcing technologies that could enable large-scale citizen science initiatives. In particular, Edith is "developing an online citizen-science platform called Curio (www.crowdcurio.com) to crowdsource research tasks. (She plans to launch it this spring...

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