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Air Pollution: Trans-disciplinary research by Department SoHP-CCI postdoc Alex More featured by Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and other news media

September 28, 2017

Have humans had a effect on air quality? For how long? It may be for longer than you could imagine. Current research, a collaboration between the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past (SoHP) and the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at UMaine and based on work done by SoHP-CCI post-doc Alex More, ...

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Freshman shares his first few weeks at Harvard

Freshman shares his first few weeks at Harvard

September 25, 2017

I must confess, I’m not quite sure where to begin.

It started as a blur, packing the van with my family, the agonizingly long drive from Alexandria, Va., and the terribly, terribly unhealthy fast food along the way. But then we got to Cambridge, and while it was so tangible, it was also so surreal.

When we reached Thayer Hall (where I will live this year) the first two faces I saw were my proctor and peer advising fellow, whose smiles have yet to fade. While they helped my parents unload, Thomas Dingman, the dean of freshman, and President Drew Faust casually walked over and...

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Chance to connect for new Harvard faculty

Chance to connect for new Harvard faculty

September 25, 2017

One will teach on the history of science and can’t wait to take her students to see 15th- and 16th-century books in Houghton Library. Another, who will teach religion, is thrilled to call scholars whose work she admires her colleagues. A third, at the Business School, feels happily overwhelmed by teaching, advising students, and taking on administrative responsibilities.

Each year, Harvard welcomes a new class of ladder faculty. Theirs are the other new faces on campus, and their excitement is somewhat similar to that of freshmen. They start their academic careers with a mix of...

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Larry Katz

Interview with Lawrence Katz

September 25, 2017
The Region—Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Harvard's Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, on the gender pay gap, fissuring workplaces, decling labor share and superstar firms, and the importance of moving to a good neighborhood early in a child's life. 

By Douglas Clement—Lawrence Katz is an institution in labor economics—indeed, in economics as a whole. As editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991, principal investigator of the decades-long Moving to Opportunity Program, co-founder and co-scientific director of J-PAL North America and collaborator with Claudia Goldin in pathbreaking research on the causes and consequences of rising education levels, he has been a singular force in shaping the field. Continue reading ▶️