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Nation & World
Isms stalk the land, but David Brooks hasn’t lost hope
New York Times columnist David Brooks touched on tribalism, community, and more in a discussion at the Ash Center.
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Nation & World
Turning protest into policy
Tired of waiting for change, a group of articulate high school students who survived the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., have taken the reins from adults to push for more gun safety regulations to prevent another mass shooting. A Harvard lecturer suggests what the movement may need next.
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Arts & Culture
Retracing Du Bois’ missteps
Radcliffe fellow Chad Williams is working on a book about what he considers one of W.E.B. Du Bois’ greatest missteps: “The Black Man and the Wounded World,” an unfinished history of the African-American experience during World War I.
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Arts & Culture
Decoding languages in the lab
Linguistics lab applies scientific methods to studying and understanding how people communicate.
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Campus & Community
Homeschooled en route to Harvard
Profiles of three students who were homeschooled before coming to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Harvard rolls out program to protect pedestrians and cyclists
To protect pedestrians and cyclists, Harvard will soon require side guards be installed on large trucks that are on campus.
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Health
Electronic health records don’t cut administrative costs
A new study finds electronic health record systems doesn’t reduce costs for bill processing, leaving primary care services with an average $100,000 tab per provider.
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Campus & Community
Towns, Juzang guide men’s basketball past Brown, 65-58
Harvard men’s basketball tallied a 65-58 victory over the Brown on Friday at Lavietes Pavilion. With Friday’s win, the Crimson remain in a tie for first place in the Ivy League standings.
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Nation & World
The Cold War’s endless ripples
A Harvard professor’s new book sees the Cold War as a much longer confrontation, dating to the 1890s and affecting many more countries than usually thought.
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Science & Tech
Study of radiation exposure in human gut offers hope
First study of radiation exposure in human gut with Wyss Institute’s organ-on-a-chip device offers hope for better protective drugs for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy.
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Campus & Community
Solange Knowles is Harvard Foundation Artist of Year
Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, and visual artist Solange Knowles has been named the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.
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Campus & Community
‘Am I black or am I white?’
Anthony Peterson dismantled society’s false narrative about race while sharing his own story during an FAS Diversity Dialogue discussion.
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Campus & Community
Biggest gift to Divinity School
With a $25 million gift from Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband James R. Swartz ’64, Harvard Divinity School’s Andover Hall will undergo a renewal, its first since construction more than 100 years ago.
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Arts & Culture
How Viet Thanh Nguyen found his voice
Onetime Radcliffe fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen shared the story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” during a return visit.
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Arts & Culture
Remembering a jazz great
Some of the biggest names in jazz will convene for this weekend’s festival in honor of the pianist and composer.
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Science & Tech
Seeding startups
For advanced technologies across the University, a new entrepreneur-in-residence program launched by Harvard Office of Technology Development might offer a crucial bridge to commercial development.
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Health
Fighting the flu at less than full strength
Panelists focused on gaps in vaccination in a Harvard Chan School discussion on the flu.
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Science & Tech
Still richer, smarter, greener, healthier, happier — but at a cost?
Economist Edward Glaeser says the global spread of urbanization can elevate humankind, but in his edX course he warns that we need creative thinking to ward off the drawbacks of high-density living.
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Health
Your building might be making you sick. Joe Allen can help.
On his first day at Harvard Chan School, Joe Allen was challenged by one of his bosses to do world-changing research. He’s been on working on it ever since.
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Arts & Culture
Casting new light on ancient epics
The exhibition “From Stone to Silicone” — the only exhibit of its kind in North America — features striking silicone replicas of millennia-old reliefs that preserve the history of present-day Iraq.
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Campus & Community
Record 42,742 apply to College Class of ’22
A record 42,742 students applied for admission to Harvard’s Class of 2022, breaking last year’s record of 39,506 for the current freshman class.
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Nation & World
Musician to filmmaker to Native American historian
Philip Deloria has joined Harvard’s history department as the School’s first tenured Native American professor.
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Health
When love and science double date
They suggest that couples share goals and aspirations, stay curious about each other, and, for pity’s sake, go out once in a while.
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Arts & Culture
A radical archive arrives at Harvard
Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library has acquired the papers of famed activist Angela Davis.
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Campus & Community
Trusted voice among leaders in higher education
Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.
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Campus & Community
Praise, optimism in reaction to Bacow choice
Members of the Harvard community weighed in with their thoughts Monday on the selection of former Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow as Harvard’s next leader.
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Nation & World
A complicated problem, made worse by politics
The inaugural Mahindras Humanities Center conference on “Migration and the Humanities” tackled different facets of the many population movements now crisscrossing the globe.
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Campus & Community
John Harvard’s Charlestown
After a recent snowfall, we explored the neighborhood of the University’s namesake and spoke with historian Rosemary Kverek of Charlestown and Cambridge Historical Commission Director Charles Sullivan.
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Campus & Community
Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press
Larry Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president
Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1.
