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Sophie Gao
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Hi Professor, This Desperate Student Needs Your Help
I’ve taken a break from writing emails laced with thinly-veiled flattery about how “fascinating” a researcher’s work is and how “meaningful” a professor’s lectures are. Instead, I’ve turned toward a much more unhinged format that has flooded my inbox in recent months: the election fundraising email.
Ash Center Event Examines Rightward Shift of Black and Latino Voters
Two professors argued that Black and Latino voters in the 2024 presidential election shifted rightward because of their broader dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party during an Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation webinar Thursday evening.
Decades-Long NHS Research Jeopardized by Funding Cuts
The Nurses’ Health Study – a 48-year long medical study run jointly by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School – is at risk of shutting down due to a lack of funding, according to researchers involved with the project.
Big-City Blues
When I see New York again, we’ll reacquaint ourselves. I’ll tell the corners that used to know my secrets a few new ones. And then we’ll say goodbye, and I’ll be on a train north — missing home, but glad, for now, that I left.
Brigham and Women’s Research Examines Potential Causes of Long Covid-19
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that the Covid-19 antigen is twice as likely to be present in patients suffering from long Covid-19 compared to their asymptomatic counterparts.
Generative AI Adopted Faster Than the Internet or Personal Computers, HKS Study Finds
A National Bureau of Economics Research study found that American adults have embraced generative artificial intelligence faster than they did the internet or personal computers.
Harvard Square Welcomes Egyptian-Influenced Luxor Cafe
Visitors to Harvard Square are in luck with the opening of Luxor Cafe, an Egyptian coffee shop and deli that launched in May.
