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Campus & Community
Where religion and public life meet
A new degree program, Master in Religion and Public Life, will welcome its first class in the fall of 2021. The Religion and Public Life initiative kicked off this fall.
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Arts & Culture
‘Jagged Little Pill’ snags record 15 Tony nominations
“Jagged Little Pill,” which premiered at the American Repertory Theater, was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, the most of any show from the 2019-20 Broadway season.
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Campus & Community
Initiative on legacy of slavery at Harvard picks up steam
Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery is a new research effort that will drive scholarship and dialogue around the history and enduring legacy of slavery at the University.
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Arts & Culture
Backing art for justice
The Harvard University Committee on the Arts has awarded 12 activist artists with one-time, no-strings-attached honorariums of $2,000 and an open invitation to present at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Do justices really set aside personal beliefs? Nope, legal scholar says
Michael Klarman, an expert in constitutional law and constitutional history at Harvard Law School, discusses President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
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Campus & Community
Setting measurable goals
The Gazette spoke with new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Charleston to learn more about her first two months on the job.
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Nation & World
Will young voters decide the election?
Young voters, those 18 to 29, will line up for next month’s presidential election in record numbers, further advancing the generational shift of political power taking place in America, according to pollsters, academics, and on-the-ground organizers.
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Health
Breakthrough blood test developed for brain tumors
Researchers have developed a liquid biopsy that can more accurately detect the most common type of adult brain tumors.
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Campus & Community
Need advice on civil discourse? Ask someone who argues for a living
Harvard Law School Professor Joseph William Singer discusses his new book on persuasion and its key role in civil discourse and the rule of law.
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Health
Is go-slow schools’ reopening failing kids?
Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather we could use to boost in-person learning.
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Nation & World
Bending technology toward the light
The Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project, which recognizes responsible technology, will honor Google, Thorn, and the International Society for Stem Cell Research for representing TAPP’s goal.
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Work & Economy
Unemployed faced major barriers to financial support
New research finds workers laid off during the lockdown faced major barriers when accessing financial support. The survey also notes stark differences between states, and hunger and other major hardships suffered by service sector workers unable to secure assistance.
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Science & Tech
Pandemic academics
A new Harvard course challenges students to use science to evaluate COVID-19 policies.
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Health
Heart attack uptick attached to 2016 presidential election
Two days after the 2016 presidential election, hospitalization rates for heart attacks and strokes were 1.62 times higher than the same two days the week prior, based on information supplied by a large southern California health system.
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Nation & World
Exploring the North’s long history of slavery, scientific racism
“The Enduring Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the North” examined the role of slavery in the North through the 19th century and the influence of Agassiz and scientific racism.
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Arts & Culture
A.R.T. opens up with virtual programming
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announces it 2020 fall season of virtual programming.
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Campus & Community
Going head to head
Brigid Kennedy ’21 knows she’s lucky to be rowing on the Charles River for this year’s virtual Head of the Charles Regatta, Oct. 9-17, and her gratitude shows.
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Campus & Community
Srikant Datar named dean of Business School
Srikant Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University affairs at Harvard Business School, will become the School’s next dean, President Larry Bacow announced.
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Nation & World
Battle for LGBTQ rights amid the pandemic
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.
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Work & Economy
Surveying a landscape of economic uncertainty in COVID era
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff assesses the state of the U.S. economy and what’s on the horizon.
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Nation & World
A day of reckoning
We ask members of the Harvard community: “Is this the end of Columbus Day and how can America best replace it?”
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Campus & Community
High-Risk, High-Reward grants for nine Harvard researchers
Harvard scientists receive prestigious grant funding through NIH program.
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Campus & Community
From one Nobel laureate to another
Via a tweet, Harvard professor and Nobel laureate Jack Szostak congratulated former student Jennifer Doudna, who won the Nobel in chemistry on Wednesday.
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Nation & World
Reimagining rights
A report released by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights offers 80 recommendations for reimagining Americans’ rights and responsibilities.
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Health
Protection against reinfection
A new study shows that people who survive serious COVID-19 infections have long-lasting immune responses against the virus.
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Health
COVID-19 and cancer
Study represents the most comprehensive scientific survey to date about the interrelationship between COVID-19 and cancer.
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Health
International forum cites strong government response as key in battle against COVID
The international forum “Global Perspectives on COVID-19,” co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School, cited the importance of strong, coordinated government response as a key to stopping the novel coronavirus’ spread.
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Campus & Community
Pulled to the polls
The Harvard Votes Challenge has recruited more than 150 affiliates to work the polls as part of its partnership with the Safe Elections Network and Power to the Polls. The Gazette spoke to a handful of students and staff about why they decided to get involved.
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Campus & Community
John Tate, 94
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 6, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late John Torrence Tate, Jr., Perkins Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Tate was a world leader in number theory.
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Campus & Community
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, 81
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 6, 2020, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Coelho was a scholar of Portuguese and…