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Nation & World
Get your head in the game
NBA coach Steve Kerr visits the Kennedy School to talk both sports and personal politics.
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Arts & Culture
Girl with the golden arm
In this excerpt from Gish Jen’s satiric new novel, a star pitcher struggles against the police state in a riven, dystopian America.
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Science & Tech
Hidden hearing loss revealed
Harvard researchers have found two biomarkers that may help explain why a person with normal hearing struggles to follow conversations in noisy environments.
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Work & Economy
House of cards
A new report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies breaks down in a series of charts how it has become harder than ever for middle-income Americans to afford rent.
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Campus & Community
Authors’ aerie
A photo gallery captures authors at work in the new home of Harvard’s creative writing program atop Lamont Library.
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Campus & Community
After the whirl of starting college, a time to regroup
First-year retreat encourages reflection on values and goals and offers tools for wellness and mindfulness — and a chance to meet people and have fun.
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Science & Tech
Jeté into an ionic bond
Ph.D. student Frederick Moss brings together the incongruous worlds of science and art.
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Campus & Community
A shot at the Super Bowl
Former Harvard player Kyle Juszczyk will be on the field Sunday when the San Francisco 49ers face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV.
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Health
What we know — and don’t know — about the coronavirus outbreak
As the number of coronavirus cases rapidly grows, the Gazette spoke with Professor of Epidemiology Marc Lipsitch, an expert in the spread of infectious disease and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.
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Arts & Culture
Hot fun in the wintertime
A selection of theater, music, and art events in Boston this winter.
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Science & Tech
Translating black holes to the public — in 25 languages
Harvard’s educational mission is bringing the universe’s strangest creation to the world, as short videos about black holes have been seen by millions.
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Science & Tech
Life’s Frankenstein monster beginnings
The evolution of the first building blocks on Earth may have been messier than previously thought, likening it to the mishmash creation of Frankenstein’s monster.
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Nation & World
A flight from homophobia
Neal Hovelmeier, a gay teacher fired from his job in a Zimbabwean school who is now a Radcliffe Fellow and Harvard Scholar at Risk, is working on a play informed by his experience and a curriculum based on intolerance.
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Nation & World
Australian wildfires will claim victims even after they’re out
Long-term exposure to the smoke-filled air hanging over much of the country could lead to many premature deaths in Australia.
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Science & Tech
Next generation of organ-on-chip has arrived
Multiple human organ chips that quantitatively predict drug pharmacokinetics may offer better, accelerated drug testing
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Nation & World
Nonviolence in mass uprisings
Harvard researchers develop interactive map that provides detail about mass uprisings around the world.
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Nation & World
How America went astray
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn return to Kristof’s rural Oregon hometown to find the roots of white working-class anger
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Campus & Community
Harvard Housing establishes new rents for 2020-21
Harvard University Housing (HUH) manages approximately 3,000 apartments, offering a broad choice of locations, unit types, amenities, and sizes to meet the individual budgets and housing needs of eligible Harvard…
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Health
Disinfecting your hands with ‘magic’
Harvard researchers have devised what they hope is a better way to disinfect hands, using tiny aerosolized nanodroplets of water and nontoxic disinfectants that not only leave hands sterile, but use so little water the hands stay dry.
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Work & Economy
Driving is more expensive than you think
Harvard study says Massachusetts car economy costs $64 billion, and more than half of that comes from public.
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Campus & Community
When the trees become the teacher
The Arnold Arboretum became a hands-on classroom for high school students learning about climate change.
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Nation & World
High court press
Harvard men’s basketball team got a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court.
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Work & Economy
Why U.S. labor laws need to be revamped
An interview with Harvard Law Professor Benjamin Sachs and Lecturer Sharon Block, who co-wrote the report “Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy,” calling for a reform in American labor law.
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Arts & Culture
How voices shaped Gloria Steinem
New A.R.T. play, “Gloria: A Life,” explores Steinem’s past and feminism today through talking circles.
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Science & Tech
Feel like kids, spouse, work giving you gray hair? They may be
Harvard scientists have found evidence to support long-standing anecdotes that stress turns hair gray.
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Nation & World
What makes for a moral foreign policy?
In his book, “Do Morals Matter?,” Joseph S. Nye Jr. rates every U.S. president from FDR to Trump on the ethics of their foreign policy decisions.
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Arts & Culture
Sundance in the spotlight
When the Sundance Film Festival begins, Harvard’s artistic talent will be well represented by Shirley Chen ’22 and Lance Oppenheim ’19.
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Science & Tech
Finding new land-management lessons in old ways
A new study overturns long-held beliefs about the role humans played in shaping the landscape pre- and post- European colonization.
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Nation & World
Flight from reason
In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.
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Arts & Culture
Hitchcock’s silent side
For the next month the Harvard Film Archive will showcase Alfred Hitchcock’s early works, a set of nine films on loan from the British Film Institute, which restored and rereleased the 35 millimeter prints in 2014.
