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Find Your Center: Helping Families to Flourish

Now in her third year as a fellow at the Student Center at Harvard Griffin GSAS, Maya Jackson strives to care for student parents by creating programming to which they can look forward every year. 

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Building Community, Spreading Joy

Even as Atte Kadoma and Isaias Ghezae are immersed in demanding PhD programs at Harvard, being  resident advisor brings balance to their lives and enriches both their student experience and their scholarly pursuits.

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Atte (left) and Isaias (right) organized, “A Taste of Africa,” a food and music sampling event for Perkins residents. Featured dishes, from left to right, are Congolese poulet mayo, sweet fried plantains, and Congolese beignets.
Atte (left) and Isaias (right) organized, “A Taste of Africa,” a food and music sampling event for Perkins residents. Featured dishes, from left to right, are Congolese poulet mayo, sweet fried plantains, and Congolese beignets.
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The Sounds of Healing

PhD student Samora Pinderhughes works with music and art to create healing rooms, showcase the work of individuals healing from structural violence, and establish spaces where people can come to grips with it.

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Samora Pinderhughes on stage
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Be Well: New Year’s Resolutions for Lasting Change

Dr. Aisha Usmani of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School discusses how cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches can provide a powerful framework for creating resolutions that last throughout the year.

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These Plants Can Heat Themselves Up—Scientists Finally Know Why

Study led by PhD student Wendy Valencia-Montoya reports for the first time in the journal Science that the infrared light from heating of plants called cyads attracts pollinating beetles, pollination signals among the most ancient.

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When male cycad plants (Zamia furfuracea) are ready to release their pollen, they heat their cones up, as shown in this thermal image.
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