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Campus & Community
Laila Ali hasn’t stopped fighting
Interview with ex-boxer Laila Ali, set to give the keynote address at a Radcliffe conference on gender in sports.
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Campus & Community
Getting the word out on learning from experience — and failure
Professor Ronald Heifetz uses experiential teaching methods like student case analysis — in which students develop and collaboratively analyze cases drawn from their own work experiences of failure — to promote deeper engagement and stronger retention of leadership concepts.
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Campus & Community
Harvard names Title IX officer
Harvard has named a new Title IX officer, as well as a director for the Office for the Dispute Resolution.
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Arts & Culture
‘Baggage’ claims Gish Jen
At a lunchtime talk at Harvard Law School, writer Gish Jen discussed her latest book, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” making the case for the sociological and cultural patterns that influence many aspects of identity.
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Campus & Community
Toward a more welcoming campus
Students, academic personnel, and staff from across Harvard will have an opportunity during an Afternoon of Engagement on Inclusion and Belonging to contribute their ideas on how to make the campus a more welcoming place for people from all backgrounds.
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Science & Tech
‘Make it new’ isn’t for everyone
New Harvard research examines the gap between stories we like to tell and stories we like to hear.
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Arts & Culture
Trumpeting women in jazz
Some inroads finally may be happening for women in jazz, which traditionally has been a man’s musical world.
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Campus & Community
Remembering Mary Maples Dunn
Mary Maples Dunn, a historian and advocate for women’s education who presided over Radcliffe during its merger with Harvard, died on March 19 at age 85.
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Nation & World
Prescription crackdown called crucial in opioid fight
Former Vermont governor and others discussed possible strategies against the U.S. opioid epidemic in a conversation at the JFK Jr. Forum.
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Health
Mimicking life in a chemical soup
An Origins of Life researcher has created a chemical system that mimics early cell behavior.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College admits 2,056 to Class of ’21
Today, 2,056 applicants were invited to join Harvard College’s Class of 2021.
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Science & Tech
Bringing values, not just facts, to climate fight
Professor Naomi Oreskes wants scientists to make a stronger case for action on climate change.
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Nation & World
The puzzle in politics and polling
Don’t blame data analytics for Trump’s unexpected victory, Nate Silver says, blame political reporting’s conventional wisdom.
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Nation & World
On Russia, watch the ball
Although the news spotlight is shining on questions about possible collusion between Russia and President Trump’s campaign organization, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen cautions against making that issue the key focus of national attention.
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Science & Tech
Where cooperation thrives
Harvard scientists helped develop an algorithm for predicting whether a social structure is likely to favor cooperation.
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Campus & Community
‘Innovative’ teaching is recognized
Professors Elena Kramer and Martin Nowak have been named the recipients of the 2016 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.
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Nation & World
A deeper sense of Muslim Africa
Professor Ousmane Kane of the Divinity School discusses the roots of Islam in Africa.
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Health
Solving the mystery of the Arctic’s green ice
Researchers have found that due to warming temperatures, phytoplankton can now grow under Arctic sea ice, dramatically changing the ecology.
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Campus & Community
Ash Carter to head Belfer Center
Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, has been named to head the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and lead a new initiative on technology and global affairs. He succeeds Graham Allison, who will continue to teach at the School.
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Campus & Community
Data science for a new era
In a Q&A session, the co-directors of the emerging Harvard Data Science Initiative discuss a new era in cooperation.
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Science & Tech
Harvard launches data science initiative
Harvard launches sweeping data science initiative, and names Francesca Dominici and David Parkes as co-directors.
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Nation & World
Saying no to the Dakota Access Pipeline
Foes of the Dakota Access Pipeline under land owned by the Standing Rock Sioux explain their opposition and cite the lessons learned during their protests.
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Nation & World
Fake news is giving reality a run for its money
Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow moderated a Berkman Klein forum titled “Fake News, Concrete Responses: At the Nexus of Law, Technology, and Social Narratives.”
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Campus & Community
From the ‘Fruit Belt’ to the lab
A Harvard senior bound for medical school explains how financial aid made Harvard possible, and opened doors to her future.
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Nation & World
For the rural right, the key’s what ‘feels true’
Noted sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild discussed her research into the emotional life of “red state” conservatives and the “deep story” that informs their worldview.
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Health
Why weeping willows bend and poison ivy doesn’t
A mathematical framework can explain how a plant stem’s “sense of self” contributes to its growth upward or downward.
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Arts & Culture
Emily Dickinson, on the screen
Terence Davies, director of the new Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” talks with The Gazette about his challenges in making movies, his artistic kinship with Dickinson, and what drew him to her deeply internal, isolated life.
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Campus & Community
Uncovering Harvard Square’s past
A restoration at Clover restaurant in Harvard Square saved previously hidden, glass-covered, tiled school pennants from a century ago.
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Campus & Community
Harvard men’s hockey team reaches Frozen Four
Harvard men’s hockey defeated both Quinnipiac (3 goals by Sean Malone ‘17) and then Cornell (2 goals by Ryan Donato ’19) by identical 4-1 scores to win the ECAC Tournament at Lake Placid, N.Y., this past weekend.
