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Boston Headshot – Professional Photoshot

September 27, 2018

The Boston Headshot crew would like to introduce ourselves to all the attendees of HESA’s Convocation Happy Hour and Convocation Resource Fair. During both events, we will be providing professional headshot services to the first attendees that sign up at the beginning of each event. It is first come first serve so if you’re interested please try to arrive early. We will provide two free unedited non-intrusively watermarked images to individuals we photograph. For anyone who loves their image and would like to purchase a retouched non-watermarked image, we are offering a 20% off discount...

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The Albanian Miracle

September 27, 2018

Ricardo Hausmann - Project Syndicate

Five years ago, Albania faced a truly ominous situation. With Greece and Italy reeling from the euro crisis, remittances and capital inflows were falling and the economy suffered a severe slowdown. The fiscal deficit ballooned to over 7% of GDP, financed to a large extent by arrears, as access to external financial markets had collapsed and domestic interest rates were sky high.

In addition, the...

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How Plants Use Color to Tell Animals Their Fruit Is Good To Eat

September 26, 2018

Fruits come in a glorious rainbow of colors. Raspberries, kumquats, lemons, avocados, blueberries, figs; the colorful array rivals a 96-pack of Crayola crayons. But scientists have long debated whether fruits evolved their vibrant pigments to entice animals to eat them and spread their seeds. After all, some fruit eating — or frugivorous — seed-dispersers are color blind. Now, researchers show fruit color evolved in response to the visual abilities of local fruit-feasting animals. Animal Vi

Harvard undergrads spend summer studying environmental issues in China

Harvard undergrads spend summer studying environmental issues in China

September 26, 2018

A group of Harvard undergraduates spent the summer in China, working on solutions to an array of environmental problems ranging from examining ozone pollution’s effects on crops to analyzing household electricity demand to studying ways to remediate arsenic contamination of groundwater.

The summer internships extended from late June until mid-August and brought eight students to Beijing and Hong Kong, where they lived and worked at Beijing’s Tsinghua University and the...

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PPIUD Presentation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

September 26, 2018
Mahesh Karra presented results from Sri Lanka to a large audience of students, faculty, and researchers. The title of his talk was "The Effect of Postpartum IUD intervention on Counselling and Choice: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Stepped-Wedge Trial in Sri Lanka".