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Postdoctoral training is challenging for a lot of reasons. Fortunately, the roughly 800 postdoctoral fellows on the Harvard Medical School campus and 4,000 postdocs at HMS-affiliated hospitals have access to resources through the HMS/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Office for Postdoctoral Fellows. As part of that, fellows can get help from the person who literally wrote the book on how postdocs can make the most of this time in their careers: Jim Gould , director for postdoctoral affairs at HMS since 2011. Get more HMS news here In a conversation with Harvard Medicine News , Gould discussed...

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently hosted its first schoolwide Demo Day, a showcase event for early-stage investors. Highlighting a wide variety of student ventures emerging from the School, the inaugural event was led by Faculty Chair Julia Austin and faculty advisors Lindsay Hyde, Allison Mnookin, and Christina Wallace.

Last fall, Dean Srikant Datar announced the formation of four working groups to address current issues on campus: Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism, Classroom Culture and Norms, and Free Expression and Community Values. Below is our conversation with the faculty co-chairs of the Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism Working Group, Hakeem (Keem) Belo-Osagie and Kristin Mugford, about their priorities, discoveries, and plans for making HBS feel supportive and inclusive for Arab and Muslim members of the School's community.

Every year, the HBS MBA Admissions team hosts a fully virtual, open-enrollment program intended for undergraduates to get a peek at the MBA experience. Over three days, participants engage with different offices and community members to get an understanding of how an MBA can support their future career goals. This year’s programming included eight case discussions and various panel discussions and sessions with students, faculty, and alumni on topics such as diverse perspectives, making a difference in the world through business, how to increase your personal brand, and authentic leadership.

The Executive Fellows program seeks to leverage the expertise of outstanding practitioners—many of whom are alumni—to enhance teaching and learning at the School. Fellows partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring their business experience to the HBS community.

At a glance: Study finds people with schizophrenia and older adults have strikingly similar sets of changes in gene activity in two types of brain cells. Findings suggest a shared biological basis for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and aging and point to new strategies for treating it. The work also implicates a cell type not previously known to affect genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia. Brain tissue samples from people with schizophrenia and from older adults have strikingly similar sets of changes in gene activity in two types of brain cells, suggesting a common biological basis...