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Colloquy Podcast: How the Problems of Home Pierce the College Bubble

Boston University sociologist Anthony Abraham Jack, PhD ’16, says colleges and universities often fail to acknowledge the inequities of class and race that follow students from home to campus. The solution? Pop the campus bubble and begin looking at the ways that place impacts the challenges low-income and first-generation students face.

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Colloquy Podcast: A Step Closer to Personalized Medicine

To realize a future of personalized medicine, we need to understand and investigate how genetic variations contribute to illness and respond to doctors' attempts to address it. But how can scientists do so efficiently with a human genome that spans about three billion base pairs of DNA? That's where PhD student Dawn Chen’s work comes in.

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Colloquy Podcast: A Cheaper Way to Make Drugs?

PhD student Brandon Campbell's breakthrough in chemistry could make the production of many pharmaceuticals less expensive through a new method of fluorination.

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Colloquy Podcast: How Elite Universities Grapple with the Legacy of Slavery—and Why It Matters

The history of slavery in the United States, including at the country's colleges and universities, is deeply disturbing and painful. But Professor Sara Bleich, PhD ’07, says our society must continue to do so—and that universities have a responsibility to lead the way.

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Colloquy Podcast: Is AI Coming for Your Job?

Harvard's Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy David Deming, PhD ’10, says artificial intelligence is here to make us more productive, not take our jobs—at least not yet.

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Colloquy Podcast: Bob Dylan—From A Complete Unknown to A Prophet Without God

With filmgoers buzzing about the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, University of Pennsylvania Professor Jeffrey Edward Green, PhD ’07, says that the legendary singer and songwriter is more than a musician; he’s the conflicted prophet of a fallen world.

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Colloquy Podcast: Beyond 2024—Feminism and the Future of US Politics

Will women voters reclaim their lost rights and the promise of decades past? Harvard Kennedy School Professor Jane Mansfield, PhD ’71, looks ahead.

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