Gazette Features

GSAS Dean Allan Brandt to step down

By Peter Reuell / February 16

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt, who pioneered a new approach to curricular development with the launch of the Graduate Seminars in General Education, announced Feb. 15 that he will step down as GSAS dean this spring owing to health considerations. He plans to return to the faculty when his treatment is concluded.

The Last Supper as Passover

By Colleen Walsh / February 16

A leading cultural and intellectual historian of Renaissance Europe, Princeton Professor Anthony Grafton suggests that the diligent work of 16th-century scholar Joseph Scaliger, in particular, led to the theory that the Last Supper may well have been in fact a Passover Seder.

Fears of bioterrorism or an accidental release

By Stephanie Schorow / February 16

In a preview of what is likely now playing out in a closed-door meeting of the World Health Organization, a cadre of experts on infectious disease gathered Feb. 15 at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to debate whether efforts to combat a deadly form of flu have actually increased the risk to public health.

India to retain economic ties to Iran

By Alvin Powell / February 21

Though India shares global concerns about the possible development of nuclear weapons by Iran and is working to reduce its reliance on Iranian oil, India needs to continue fuel imports that are critical to the welfare of millions of people, said India’s ambassador to the United States.

The magic of beanbags

By Sarah Sweeney / February 16

Two high school friends brought an old-fashioned backyard tossing game with them when they entered Harvard, and now it’s an official club sport.

Harvard Innovation Lab Opens in Allston

Video - 1:54 run time / November 21, 2011

The lab includes academic space, such as classrooms and meeting areas for both undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides public areas and meeting rooms designed to foster project work, as well as business development resources for Allston-Brighton and greater Boston — a population full of entrepreneurs that Harvard seeks to both help and tap into.