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Hale credits her “Harriet the Spy” antics for the skills that ultimately helped her win the 2009 Louis Begley Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Harvard Advocate, for her short story about a young child who, because of her mother’s cancer diagnosis, develops an obsession with terrifying animals...
William G. Kaelin, a Harvard Medical School professor who is affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discovered the role of the von Hippel-Lindau gene in human kidney cancer. His findings were applied to create drugs, now in clinical trials, that counteracts the effects of the VHL gene mutation associated with kidney cancer to slow the cancer’s progression...
...curated, with titles like “Pervert,” “Trash,” and “Gender, fucked” appropriate and subvert the language used to marginalize lesbians and other groups. “The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation” is challenging in both form and content. A collection of images, e-mails, and journal entries, it is a breed of memoir about Lord’s experiences with breast cancer, but also a treatise on gender, language, and the culture of serious illness...
...says she has always had a passion for art, in her first year and a half at Harvard she focused on Molecular and Chemical Biology, taking only one VES class each semester. Her interest in medicine came from spending time with her father when he was hospitalized with cancer. She was accepted to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute internship program, which she participated in for three years before focusing wholly on her art in her senior year. Though she now has a secondary in Neurobiology, her engagement with her art has increased in intensity over the past two years, culminating...
Relay for Life is a national program held at sites around the world. Participants in the Relay held at Harvard this weekend raised about $88,000 for the American Cancer Society through donations prior to the event and fundraisers held during the night...