‘So I made it to Harvard!’: High school dropout Rihanna is overwhelmed as Ivy League school honors her with Humanitarian of the Year Award On Monday, the pop star made an appearance at the Ivy League school to accept a plaque given to her by Allen Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation. The 29-year-old, who never graduated high school, earned the prestigious award thanks to her various charitable efforts, including her role in creating an oncology center in her birthplace of Barbados.
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Rihanna Named Harvard University’s Humanitarian of the Year
… Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Javier Prez de Cullar. Tennis player and activist Arthur Ashe, former Health and Human Services Director Louis W. Sullivan, actress Ruby Dee, and singer Lionel Richie.
Rihanna to receive Harvard Humanitarian of the Year award
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Rihanna Is Harvard’s Humanitarian Of The Year, Because She’s Better Than All Of Us
A week after singlehandedly saving the Grammys with her flask-flaunting shenanigans , Rihanna is being recognized for her much more pivotal humanitarian efforts. The singer/actress/designer/philanthropist has been named Harvard University’s 2017 Humanitarian of the Year.
Researchers Build Multi-Regional Brain Chip to Study PCP’s Effects on Brain
Researchers at Harvard University have been looking to study how neurons from different regions of the brain interact and are affected by a variety of chemical stimuli. They have built a “brain-on-chip” device that links together neuronal cells harvested from three different brain regions .
Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat
Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions weakened by heart failure.
Flabby heart keeps pumping with squeeze from robotic sleeve
In this photo provided by Harvard University, a pig’s heart encased in a robotic sleeve designed to gently squeeze a diseased heart so it better pumps blood. Researchers at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital developed the experimental device in hopes of improving treatment of heart failure, when the heart becomes too weak to pump.
Changing public dialogue on periods
Portland teenager creates organization that delivers care packages of menstrual hygiene materials to homeless shelters and directly to homeless people. Almost half the world’s 7 billion people are female, and at any given moment, millions are on their period.
Exercise: An antidote for behavioral issues in students?
… to be taken out of the classroom for unacceptable behavior,” said Bowling, who is now an assistant professor of health sciences at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. “That’s important for their learning, and for their relationships with their …
The biggest challenge for libraries in an era of fake news
Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther Terry, surgeon general of the United States, released “Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States .”
The persuasion equation: Balancing reason and coercion
Companies have been nudging prospects for years, subtly and not-so-subtly, with their marketing efforts. But in recent years governments, armed with the latest insights of behavioural sciences, have also set up so-called “nudge units” to promote worthwhile ends.