Midweek Mindfulness Reset
Reduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset.
Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of your week!
We will meet virtually via Zoom every Wednesday from 11:00 –11:30 a.m. ET (and you’re welcome to stay for an optional 15 additional minutes for sharing and community building). Open to all; no experience needed.
Please note that these sessions are for relaxation and general wellness only and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. By participating, you agree to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional well‑being, and to consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.
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Midweek Mindfulness Reset (virtual)
Reduce your stress, calm your nervous system, and reset.
Sit with a rotating group of some of the most influential instructors in the mindfulness space, including monastics from the Plum Village tradition. Each session offers a variety of mindfulness practices and insights to support your well-being. It’s the perfect reset to mark the middle of your week!
We will meet virtually via Zoom every Wednesday from 11:00 –11:30 a.m. ET (and you’re welcome to stay for an optional 15 additional minutes for sharing and community building). Open to all; no experience needed.
Please note that these sessions are for relaxation and general wellness only and are not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. By participating, you agree to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional well‑being, and to consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns.
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New Exhibition – Measurement on the Color Line: Scientific Instruments and the Making of Human Categories
Curated by Evelynn M. Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard, the exhibition draws directly from her co-authored book, with Bates College Professor Rebecca Herzing, The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics. Her research highlights how early scientific disciplines, including anthropology and medicine, sought physical justifications for social hierarchies.
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CultureFest 2026
Join the Office for Student Affairs for our annual CultureFest on Wednesday, October 14, from 5:30–7:00 p.m. in the Kresge Cafeteria.
Hosted by Harvard Chan student organizations, CultureFest celebrates the cultures and experiences that make up our community. Stop by to enjoy cultural snacks, try interactive activities, and connect with students and colleagues. Everyone is welcome—we hope to see you there!
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Poster Design Essentials and Presentation Delivery – Countway @ Kresge Brown Bag Series
Join Countway and HSPH for a new lunchtime brown bag series focused on common topics that come up in research and scholarly communication!
Posters are a great, concise method to present your research as it forces you to focus on the highlights and share the most captivating bits. And just like your poster, your presentation needs to be brief and to-the-point.
In this one-hour session, we will explore guidelines and considerations for creating physical and digital research posters and maintaining an impactful professional presentation. Along with poster essentials we will review some of the important techniques that will help you prepare for, and execute, a public speech for any occasion.
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Publish Your Research: Journal Selection, Manuscript Preparation, and Author Rights – Countway @ Kresge Brown Bag Series
Join Countway and HSPH for a new lunchtime brown bag series focused on common topics that come up in research and scholarly communication!
We’ll provide guidance in selecting the best scholarly journal to reach your intended audience and ensure that your published research generates high impact. Learn how to ensure you retain important rights to your scholarship, and how this may impact your ability to share your article more broadly in the future. Most importantly, we will look at ways to avoid falling victim to predatory publishers and be able to identify trusted publishers/journals.
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Zotero: Reference Management – Countway @ Kresge Brown Bag Series
If you’ve been wondering how to manage your citations, but want a tool that is free, open source, and can travel with you, check out Zotero! We’ll demo how easy it is to download, organize, and collect citations (and articles) from PubMed and other common sources. We will explore the many features and citation styles that Zotero integrates within Microsoft Word, allowing us to quickly produce well-formatted bibliographies and in-text citations.
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Longwood Block Party
Join the Longwood Block Party and connect with students, faculty, and staff from across the Longwood schools! Claim Your Ticket on Eventbrite Here.
Come celebrate fall with your Longwood Community! All students, faculty, staff, academic appointees, and guests are welcomed on Thursday, October 8th, 3:30–6:30 p.m., HMS Quad. Food, games, good vibes, and your whole Longwood community in one place. Free and open to the Longwood community. See you there!
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Hiring in the Age of the Algorithm: What Employers Want Grads to Know About AI
Join this panel conversation to hear from Harvard Chan alumni and employers about expectations for AI knowledge and the role of AI in the recruiting and hiring process, featuring both public and private sector companies and organizations.
Hosted by the Office of Career and Professional Development.
This panel will be held virtually on Zoom. Please RSVP to receive the event link.
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Search, Explore, Connect: AI Tools for Scholarly Literature Research
The Office of Educational Programs, Office for Student Services, and Countway Library are partnering to present a four-part series on using AI tools.
The second workshop in this series, Search, Explore, Connect: AI Tools for Scholarly Literature Research, led by Countway Library, will focus on using AI tools to power up your research and citation management.
Please bring a laptop or personal device to the workshop. Food and light refreshments will be provided. Students, staff, and faculty are all invited to join.