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Health
A silent epidemic
Early data from peer-reviewed studies suggest that one-third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients of all ages, and two-thirds of those with severe disease, show signs of delirium.
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Arts & Culture
After America reopens, a healthy roadmap for theater
In collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Repertory Theater is working on how it and other theaters can re-emerge in the wake of the current health crisis, uniting the community through great art while keeping audiences, performers, and theater staffers safe. It’s called “The Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience…
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Nation & World
Mental health in Africa amid pandemic
As cases of coronavirus surge in Africa, the challenges experienced elsewhere are compounded by social factors and a shortage of caregivers.
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Health
A five-layered defense for workplace reopening
Joseph Allen laid out how existing building safety guidelines might be adapted to make workplaces safer in the age of COVID.
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Arts & Culture
After America reopens, a healthy roadmap for theater
In collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Repertory Theater is working on how it and other theaters can re-emerge in the wake of the current health crisis, uniting the community through great art while keeping audiences, performers, and theater staffers safe. It’s called “The Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience…
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Campus & Community
Harvard launches emergency grant program for Allston-Brighton
Harvard has launched a new grant program that will provide emergency funding to nonprofit organizations responding to COVID-19-related community needs serving the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston.
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Campus & Community
Finding creative ways to maintain campus bonds remotely
Campus friend groups remain close, even if not geographically. So they’ve had to make adjustments to keep in touch.
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Campus & Community
From taking notes in the classroom to helping the front lines
Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Campus & Community
New members of the American Academy Arts & Sciences announced
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members, which include 15 members of Harvard faculty and staff.
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Campus & Community
New dean for School of Dental Medicine
William V. Giannobile, an alumnus of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has been named its new dean. An expert in periodontics and oral medicine, Giannobile succeeds Bruce Donoff, who stepped down from the post in 2019 after 28 years.
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Campus & Community
History at your fingertips
The first Harvard Library-wide crowdsourcing transcription project is seeking volunteers to help transcribe the handwritten materials from the University’s 18th-century North America Collection.
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Nation & World
How and why the Supreme Court made climate-change history
Richard Lazarus discusses his new book, which tells the story of a 2007 landmark environmental case.
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Campus & Community
Dancing with myself
Virtual workout classes help the community stay connected and healthy while social distancing.
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Nation & World
What scares you most about climate change?
Harvard faculty talk about their concerns and fears about climate change as the world commemorates Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
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Nation & World
No ‘silver lining’ for the climate
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, law professor reflects on the state of U.S. climate change regulation and the impacts of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Why the Arboretum remains open
Director William “Ned” Friedman explains the rationale for keeping the Arboretum open during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Want us to invest? Or to keep our investment? Get greener
John Campbell discusses Harvard’s new plan to have its endowment reflect net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.
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Health
Breakthrough to halt premature aging of cells
Potential drug treatments are being developed for telomere diseases, in which cells age prematurely.
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Arts & Culture
Spirituality, social justice, and climate change meet at the crossroads
Dan McKanan of Harvard Divinity School discusses the ways in which spirituality interacts with climate change and how religious organizations have ensured environmentalism includes social justice.
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Campus & Community
President’s Innovation Challenge taps students’ ingenuity
Harvard Innovation Labs announced the 2020 President’s Innovation Challenge finalists who will be awarded a total of $510,000 at a virtual ceremony in May.
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Work & Economy
Sustainability in Big Sky Country
Owners of ranch and nursery since the 1970s talk about the interdependence of financial and environmental viability.
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Campus & Community
Extracurriculars for an online campus
Socialize Remotely allows students, faculty, and staff to continue attending a range of extracurricular activities, and to connect.
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Campus & Community
Harvard endowment to go greenhouse gas-neutral by 2050
In an announcement Tuesday, Harvard signaled its expanding commitment to attacking climate change with a dramatic new pledge to drastically reduce emissions in its investment portfolio so Harvard’s endowment can achieve “net-zero” emissions by 2050.
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Nation & World
Global problem, local solutions
The Arctic Initiative, a joint project of the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will use local expertise for a wide array of potential policy solutions.
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Campus & Community
New committee to advise Bacow on sustainability goals
Members of the new Presidential Committee on Sustainability discuss why it is so important to act now to address climate change, the committee’s role in developing collaborative and innovative projects, and how community members can get involved.
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Nation & World
The culture of Earth Day
As Earth Day turns 50, Harvard examines how it brought environmentalism into everyday life.
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Science & Tech
In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries
So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.
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Campus & Community
If Harvard were to reopen today, who should be allowed to return?
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel led a campuswide audience in a Zoom event, “Harvard Live: Pandemic Ethics.”
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Nation & World
How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement
Denis Hayes remembers how he dropped out of Harvard Kennedy School in 1970 to help pull together a novel idea: a nationwide rally called Earth Day.
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Health
Feeling more anxious and stressed? You’re not alone
Uncertainty, unemployment, and ill health are combining to feed a rise in concern about America’s mental health as people shelter from the coronavirus and each other, a Harvard Chan School psychiatric epidemiologist said Thursday.
