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Nation & World
Larry Wilmore on the election
In the end, comedian Larry Wilmore said in delivering the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, Americans elected the president they wanted.
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Health
Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders
Startup Magenta Therapeutics licenses technologies from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital that could help transform treatment.
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Science & Tech
What’s next for climate change policy
Harvard environmental experts looking ahead to a Trump administration see trouble for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and U.S. international climate action, but add that the nation’s environmental protection regulatory framework would be difficult to dismantle, and there may be hope for new approaches to addressing environmental ills.
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Campus & Community
Stuck between two lives
Alfredo Garcia, an undocumented student at Harvard Divinity School, is pursuing a master’s in theological studies. He also works to help undocumented youths pursue higher education, and advocates for immigration reform.
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Arts & Culture
‘Disappearing’ Chilean art
New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.
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Campus & Community
Embracing varieties of religious experience
An interview with Dean David Hempton to mark the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
Danielle Allen named University Professor
Danielle Allen has been named a University Professor. The political theorist and classicist has been recognized for her scholarly work on justice and citizenship.
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Science & Tech
Human health risks from hydroelectric projects
Harvard researchers found 90 percent of new or proposed hydroelectric power plants will increase the concentration of toxic methylmercury in the food web near indigenous communities in Canada.
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Health
‘DNA is not destiny’
A new study examines whether lifestyle changes can offset genetic risk of heart disease.
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Campus & Community
The career afterlife
Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative fellows find new ways to explore life after one career ends and they move into the social sector.
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Nation & World
Fear among some immigrants
New pressures are expected on undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
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Arts & Culture
Centuries of honor and prestige
A new library exhibit will explore the 350-year-old relationship between the U.S. military and Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Diversifying the arts
Harvard alumni, faculty describe efforts on and off campus to diversify the arts.
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Campus & Community
Siyani Chambers: Back on point
Siyani Chambers was looking forward to finishing his senior year as starting point guard for the men’s basketball team until an injury took him off the court and off campus for a year. Now he’s back.
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Campus & Community
Harvard ROTC: Soldiers and Scholars
Photos from Harvard ROTC’s 100th birthday show the intersection of service and academics through time.
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Campus & Community
Life Lab builds on cross-disciplinary approach
The opening of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab in Allston marks the newest addition to the Innovations Labs cluster, which fosters the cross-disciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.
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Nation & World
For President Trump, the road ahead
Noted faculty across Harvard weigh in on the election of Donald Trump and what his presidency is likely to mean for the economy, presidential politics, and more.
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Arts & Culture
Dancing because they can
College seniors opt to have fun, be themselves, and leave comfort zones through their participation in the Expressions Dance Company.
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Campus & Community
Lessons of self-care, while caring for others
Cheryl A. Giles, the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling, has been counseling and educating young people for more than 30 years.
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Campus & Community
Election Day at Harvard
After a bruising election, voters at Harvard cast their ballots and settled in to watch the results.
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Arts & Culture
When America tuned into the radio
The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments’ Special Exhibition Gallery takes visitors back to the golden age of radio.
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Health
Creating a smoking machine
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed an instrument that smokes cigarettes like a human, and delivers whole smoke to the air space of microfluidic human airway chips. The machine may enable new insights into how nonsmokers and COPD patients respond to smoke.
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Science & Tech
Fleeing climate change
The Gazette interviewed Robin Bronen, a human rights attorney and a senior research scientist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, on climate change displacement.
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Campus & Community
Harvard women, front and center
First Harvard Women’s Weekend focuses on what’s been gained, and what’s still to achieve.
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Arts & Culture
The sweep of jazz history
Pianist and composer Randy Weston visits campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation names Scientist of the Year
Nobel laureate Takaaki Kajita will be honored as the 2016 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
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Campus & Community
Nobel winner, times two
Just days after Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, received the Nobel Prize in economics, the Harvard Gazette sat down with him and Adams University Professor Eric Maskin, who won the prize in 2007, to look back on their distinguished careers.
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Nation & World
Woe to the losers
A new study co-authored by a Harvard Kennedy School researcher sees deep sorrow ahead for those on the wrong side of the election.
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Arts & Culture
Centuries later, long walk home
Harvard physicist John Huth took some time off from chasing subatomic particles in Geneva to trace his ancestors’ Alpine trek through persecution back to the valleys they called home.
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Campus & Community
Professor has Ed Portal audience vote on legalization of marijuana
A Harvard professor asked an Ed Portal audience to vote on Question 4, which would legalize and create a commission to regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, after they reviewed three very different viewpoints on the topic.
