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Nation & World
Principled yet just, pragmatic yet idealistic — and nice
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, recipient of the 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, talks about leadership challenges and how she’s dealt with crises from the outside, like the coronavirus pandemic, and from the inside, like self-doubt and sexism in politics.
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Campus & Community
Bowling for values
Harvard Undergraduate Ethics Bowl, a new student club devoted to analyzing and debating ethical issues, involves a back-and-forth between teams and with their judges.
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Health
Will there be a serious post-Thanksgiving COVID surge?
Evidence of a post-Thanksgiving surge should be emerging this week, a Harvard epidemiologist said, advising people who gathered together to get tested or assume they’re infected.
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Science & Tech
New technology to investigate autism spectrum disorder
Scientists applied the “Perturb-Seq” method to study dozens of genes that are associated with autism spectrum disorder, identifying how specific cell types in the developing mouse brain are impacted by mutations.
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Campus & Community
Stanley Louis Cavell, 91
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 1, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Stanley Louis Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Cavell wrote philosophy that was both scholarly and accessible…
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Campus & Community
Gordon Randolph Willey, 89
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 1, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Gordon Randolph Willey, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Willey made enormous contributions to the archaeology of North, Central and…
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Health
Seeing clearly again
Harvard Medical School scientists reverse age-related vision loss, eye damage from glaucoma in mice.
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Science & Tech
Zooming to the ocean floor
OEB 119 students are patched in via livestream and a satellite call to a team of researchers leading an exploration on the seafloor.
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Campus & Community
College expands undergraduate cohorts invited to campus for spring
After a successful fall, Harvard College administration had decided that this spring seniors and juniors, students from far time zones, and those who must be on campus to progress academically will be invited back to campus.
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Arts & Culture
A family’s secret language, a reckoning with a Nazi past
Martin Puchner shares his knowledge of Rotwelsch in his new book, “The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate.”
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Campus & Community
Goodbye to ‘Mr. Cambridge’
Frank H. Duehay ’55, M.A.T. ’58, C.A.S. ’65, Ed.D. ’68, I.O.P. ’82, who was assistant dean and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, died on Nov. 20. He served 36 years as an elected official in Cambridge and was elected three times as mayor.
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Arts & Culture
A beloved holiday theater tradition, remote but not forgotten
A.R.T.’s annual holiday show, “Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure,” is a joyful respite. The 55-minute streamed event is available through Jan. 4.
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Campus & Community
Guido Goldman dies at age 83
Guido Goldman, who spent his life working for trans-Atlantic cooperation, died Nov. 30 at 83.
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Arts & Culture
Hitting the right note
The four-day Student Composers Festival begins this week, featuring work by 30 Harvard students and recent alumni. The festival is the creation of Veronica Leahy ’23.
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Arts & Culture
‘Garden’ party
“The Garden” is a new arts course that lets students explore tools and ideas across the disciplines of visual art, film, dance, and music.
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Science & Tech
From fins to limbs and water to land
Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.
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Science & Tech
An ionic forcefield for nanoparticles
For the first time in mice, researchers have coated nanoparticles with an ionic liquid that allows the nanoparticles to survive the immune system and deliver drugs to their targeted spot.
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Science & Tech
Evidence of the interconnectedness of global climate
Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.
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Nation & World
Giving thanks for what, exactly?
Natives at Harvard College held the Indigenous Inspirers Panel two days before Thanksgiving to discuss how Indigenous people celebrate Thanksgiving. Among the panelists were North Dakota State Rep. Ruth Buffalo, Sadada Jackson, Autumn Peltier, Chenae Bullock, Pua Case, and Tara Houska.
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Campus & Community
Four recognized for service and leadership
The Harvard Extension Alumni Association recognized Frederica Williams, C.S.S. ’91, with the 2020 Dean Michael Shinagel Award for Service to Others; and three other alumni with its Emerging Leaders award.
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Nation & World
What will the new post-pandemic normal look like?
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing changes big and small to the economy, to society, even to the trajectory of young lives. Harvard experts weigh in on some key areas.
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Science & Tech
Live tracker notes COVID cases, deaths by congressional districts
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Center for Geographic Analysis worked with Microsoft to create a live tracker that monitors the status of COVID cases, broken down by congressional district, to help officials develop testing and vaccine deployment strategies in their areas.
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Campus & Community
Easing children’s COVID-19 anxieties
Recent Harvard grads created an educational website featuring a South Asian protagonist for children to assuage worries and answer questions.
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Campus & Community
Physics Department loses a center of gravity
Dedicated and beloved Harvard Physics Department staffer Carol Davis retires after five decades.
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Campus & Community
2020 Rhodes, Mitchell Scholars named
Six Harvard College seniors have been awarded 2020 Rhodes Scholarships and a senior and recent alum were named George J. Mitchell Scholars.
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Nation & World
So how much change can Biden bring on climate change?
Harvard environmental experts discuss what’s next in climate-change policy.
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Health
U.S. failed to control pandemic, but vaccination provides ‘chance to get next phase right’
Experts said the complex rollout of a coronavirus vaccine gives the U.S. a chance for a win after the virus gained the upper hand in its initial phase.
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Campus & Community
Harvard comes together to support next-gen students
With more than 15 percent of Harvard College students being the first in their families to pursue a college degree, the University has established the Next Gen Initiative to help first-generation, lower-income students overcome institutional barriers, address shared challenges, and find ways to integrate opportunities.
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Nation & World
Upgrading the State Department
Report by Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project says revamped U.S. diplomatic service should be less politicized, more professional, more diverse.
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Campus & Community
The election in the classroom
Data-driven course on election analytics lets students take a deeper dive into elections past and present.
