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Alvin Powell

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Harvard science writer and author, The Race To Save the World's Rarest Bird.
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How loneliness became major public health issue

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By Alvin Powell
| Harvard Gazette
One of the first national efforts to combat loneliness as a societal health problem fizzled after the pandemic amid economic slowdown and political polarization. But the initiative also raised awareness sufficiently that is still recognized as a public health problem today. “It started well, but I think it’s fair to say that COVID put a bit of a spanner in the works,” said Tracey Crouch, former United Kingdom minister for loneliness, of her nation’s efforts.
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‘He took that explosion himself to save his men’

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By Alvin Powell
| Harvard Gazette
The Joint Commissioning Ceremony for the ROTC in Sanders Theatre. 6 min read A collection of features and graduate profiles covering Harvard’s 375th Commencement. In October 1952, a young Harvard alumnus named Sherrod Skinner was killed after rolling onto a live grenade to save his fellow Marines. Skinner, a second lieutenant, was a junior officer thrust into the Korean War just months after his commissioning in Harvard’s ROTC program.
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Confronting campus antisemitism — Harvard Gazette

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By Alvin Powell
| Harvard Gazette
James Loeffler. Nation & World 5 min read Scholars explored antisemitism through history and its intersection with universities in a wide-ranging conference May 14 at Harvard’s Enterprise Research Center. Universities reflect movements and biases in broader society, speakers noted — a reality that helps explain antisemitism on campus but doesn’t provide a clear roadmap for countering it. Even so, they said, it’s important that higher ed leaders confront the issue in the strongest terms.
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