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Science & Tech
The shape-shifting of things to come
What would it take to transform a flat sheet into a human face? How would the sheet need to grow and shrink to form eyes that are concave, a nose…
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Campus & Community
Mary Margaret Steedly, 71
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Mary Margaret Steedly, Professor of Anthropology, was placed upon the records. Professor Steedly was one of the great ethnographers of Indonesia.
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Campus & Community
Nicolau Sevcenko, 61
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 1, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Nicolau Sevcenko, professor of romance languages and literatures, was placed upon the records. Professor Sevcenko was one of Brazil’s foremost urban and cultural historians.
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Science & Tech
First video of viruses assembling
For the first time, Harvard researchers have captured images of individual viruses forming, offering a real-time view into the kinetics of viral assembly.
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Campus & Community
Promising projects
Sixteen Harvard scientists are among the 93 researchers who have been selected to receive grants through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward program, which funds innovative research designed to address major challenges in biomedical science.
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Health
You are what you eat — and how you cook it
Scientists have recently discovered that different diets — say, high-fat versus low-fat, or plant-based versus animal-based — can rapidly and reproducibly alter the composition and activity of the gut microbiome, where differences in the composition and activity can affect everything from metabolism to immunity to behavior.
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Nation & World
Judge upholds Harvard’s admissions policy
Federal Judge Allison D. Burroughs found in favor of Harvard in a ruling that upheld its practice of considering race as one among many factors when reviewing applications to the College.
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Arts & Culture
The soul of a jazz man
In “The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” nearly 80 photographs large and small document Stewart’s fascination with capturing the country’s signature art form — one rooted in improvisation — on film.
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Nation & World
A new hunt for Jimmy Hoffa
Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith digs into the greatest unsolved crime in modern American history, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, to see if he can clear a man he believes has been falsely accused of driving Hoffa to his killers.
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Work & Economy
Michael Fabiano wears many hats
Michael Fabiano wears many hats. Here, he talks about the need for continuing education in our ever-changing media environment, as well as the AP’s strategy vis-à-vis “fake news.”
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Health
Omega-3 fish oil rises to top in analysis of studies
Harvard study finds that greater cardiovascular benefits may be achieved at higher doses of omega-3 fish oil supplementation.
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Campus & Community
From Mass. Ave. to ‘Sesame Street’
An interview with Joe Blatt, senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, on the long and lasting partnership between Harvard and Sesame Street, the acclaimed children’s television program, on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
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Arts & Culture
Love stinks
In an excerpt from the essay “Museum of Broken Hearts,” Leslie Jamison, a 2004 Harvard grad, explores love, loss, and renewal through the relics of her relationships past.
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Arts & Culture
Thinking like a magician
In his 2019–2020 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities, Joshua Jay offers listeners a look at techniques involving perception, attention, and surprise that he insists have practical applications well beyond the realm of magic.
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Science & Tech
Innovating an innovation
HubWeek fall festival takes place Oct. 1‒3 in Boston’s Seaport District.
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Nation & World
A Platonic ideal of a news website
Adam Moss, now a fall fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, launches an eight-week workshop for students to consider the current business realities of political journalism and develop an ideal of a financially viable news site that delivers what readers want and need.
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Arts & Culture
Creative research at heart of ArtLab
The ArtLab, Harvard’s newest Allston lab, open its doors for some creative research.
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Campus & Community
Good cop, nice cop
Depending on whom you ask, the most photographed Harvard institution is either the John Harvard Statue, Massachusetts Hall, or Harvard University Police Department Officer Charles Marren. “I might be more…
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Nation & World
To free every child
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi will visit the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to take part in panel discussion and a screening of “The Price of Free,” a documentary about his life and his mission to fight against child labor and trafficking.
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Work & Economy
New interactive website helps chart paths for economic growth
Harvard Kennedy School researchers launch interactive online tool to aid planners in identifying economic growth strategies.
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Nation & World
On the road to impeachment?
Harvard faculty react to the opening of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump by the House of Representatives and discuss what it may mean for the country.
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Arts & Culture
Using art to inspire action
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Climate Creatives are using art and design to create an event to help people see the urgent need to act on climate change.
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Campus & Community
Dean of continuing education set to retire
Huntington D. Lambert, dean of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, to retire at the end of this year.
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Nation & World
Change is collective
Sarah Lockridge-Steckel is co-founder and CEO of The Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides pathways to opportunities for young adults through partnerships with education institutions and employers in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Mitrovica awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Jerry X. Mitrovica, the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, was awarded a “genius grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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Arts & Culture
Judging a book
Clint Smith is a writer and teacher whose collection of poetry, “Counting Descent,” was published in 2016. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation exploring how people sentenced as juveniles to life without parole make meaning of education while incarcerated.
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Science & Tech
Ending ‘dead zones’
Harvard scientists are teaming up with sustainability officers and landscaping experts to test a new fertilizer that won’t wash into water supplies.
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Science & Tech
Up close and personal with neuronal networks
Researchers from Harvard University have developed an electronic chip that can perform high-sensitivity intracellular recording from thousands of connected neurons simultaneously, allowing them to identify hundreds of synaptic connections.
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Campus & Community
Why Harvard football still matters
Continuity, heritage, and ritual are central to the enduring magnetism and mystique of Harvard football.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions
Harvard signs Cool Food Pledge, vows to cut food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.
