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Outside filmmaking, Jacob Roberts ’19 (formerly Hasty Pudding Theatricals), who co-produced and starred in the movie "Rent Free" about the Gen Z experience which premiered at Tribeca 2024, used to work as a veterinary assistant—scooping poop for Marty Scorsese’s terriers and Drew Barrymore’s labrador. #Harvard

Tens of billions of dollars have been poured into the search for a cure to Alzheimer's in the past decade and a half. Yet, until recently, caregivers—often described as the “invisible second patient”—have remained largely absent from the conversation, overlooked and understudied. Professor of medicine Christine Ritchie, who directs the Dementia Care Collaborative (DCC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), sees attention to caregivers as a moral and practical imperative. #Harvard

On December 18, the Ivy League announced that it would start participating in the NCAA FCS Football Championship playoffs. This dramatic change in Ivy policy comes three years after students gained the ability to earn money off their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL). #Harvard

In this piece, Edward Tabor ’69 follows Harvard University's Class of 1937 through the upheavals and changes brought about by the Second World War—a group who experienced battles, wartime on campus, and a changing world. #Harvard

Haitian-American writer Nadine Pinede, PhD, MFA ’86 once created an independent concentration at Harvard University in literature and social criticism. Her new book, “When the Mapou Sings,” is a coming-of-age novel blending politics and magical realism in 1930s Haiti, in the years after the American occupation. #Harvard

Harvard University student pro-Palestine protests have been much quieter this semester: they’ve happened in the library. Though administrators, students, and faculty are fighting over whether these “study-ins” are protests, Harvard’s administration has still been able to refocus on academics. #Harvard

What can you do with a Harvard University Graduate School of Design education? For Frederick C. Gevalt ’72, M.Arch. ’76, in your spare time, build a complex diorama depicting an imaginary city and neighboring rural town, measuring 26 feet long and two to three feet across. Gevalt's magnificent city, with a model railroad connects sections of the landscape, is christened “Port Charles.” Read the full story: 🏙️➡️ https://lnkd.in/ekgYDcHf #Harvard #Harvarduniversity

Still hitting the books at Harvard Club of Boston. #harvard #harvarduniversity

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In ‘21 I left Harvard University at a time when my lab was growing very quickly, I was an NIH Director DP5 Recipient, millions in grant funding and papers in top journals. But the pandemic put grants and publishing and much of Academia (and it’s often self serving goals at the expense of true advancement) into new perspective Here’s a new interview covering *some* of why I left Harvard, and interviews colleagues who I deeply admire and who experienced similar shifts including Arena BioWorks Stuart Schreiber and Doug Melton. I’m grateful to the many who supported my decision to leave - very few of whom were from Harvard. Maybe it was confusing to them. Who knows. Further, It may well be temporary, there is much more to why I left, including burn out from responding to the pandemic, and more. And there’s much more I’d like to do to support academia and build new initiatives - one of which is to create a discipline of Public Health Engineering (more on that to come too!) https://lnkd.in/ge3qHzc2