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Arts & Culture
LGBTQ Film Series lets ‘Baby Daddy’ creator do the talking
Actor Alec Mapa’s most recent project, “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” will be shown on Sept. 14 at 114 Mt. Auburn St. as part of Harvard’s LGBTQ Film Series.
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Arts & Culture
Words aimed at action
Author Terry Tempest Williams is the guest speaker at the Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center, a new initiative convened by Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey and history Professor Ian J. Miller.
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Campus & Community
At HUBweek, ideas for living
With a wide array of events at the intersection of science, technology, arts, and ethics, HUBweek returns to Boston for a second year. Harvard, one of HUBweek’s founders, will host 14 of the 115 events.
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Campus & Community
Youngsters find learning never slows down at the Ed Portal
As part of the first-ever Summer Explorations program at the Harvard Ed Portal, students enriched their learning experience. The program helps halt summer learning loss, which many experts say is a key step in closing the achievement gap.
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Campus & Community
OpenScholar: A Harvard invention
OpenScholar is a Harvard invention that is helping researchers at home and around the world.
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Nation & World
From captivity to classroom
Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned for 543 days by Iranian authorities before the U.S. government negotiated his release in January in tandem with the Iran nuclear deal, joins the 79th class of Nieman Fellows this fall. His wife, Yeganeh, is a Shorenstein fellow.
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Science & Tech
What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030
“Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030” is the first product of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100).
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Nation & World
Examining U.S.-Mexico ties in the age of Trump
Harvard’s expert in Latin America, Davíd Carrasco, spoke with the Gazette about Mexico, which has taken center stage in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, and the long relationship between the two neighboring countries.
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Science & Tech
Asteroid mission will carry student X-ray experiment
At 7:05 p.m. (EDT) today, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Among that spacecraft’s five instruments is a student experiment that will use X-rays to help determine Bennu’s surface composition.
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Campus & Community
New Harvard fellowship puts public service in spotlight
The College’s new Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship will create paths to meaningful public service opportunities in Boston City Hall.
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Health
A cinematic approach to drug resistance
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have built a giant petri dish to visually demonstrate how bacteria move as they become immune to drugs.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the challenge
Four Harvard students were among the finishers of the famed Leadville Trail 100 Run, a 100-mile race through the mountains of Colorado.
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Arts & Culture
Smith gives voice to broken promise
Anna Deavere Smith is back at the American Repertory Theater with a one-woman show aimed at failures in the U.S. education system.
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Nation & World
Celebrating the Pulitzers at 100
Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward says the work of the watchdog press is “never sufficient.”
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Health
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease passes key preclinical test
A precision-engineered gene therapy virus, inserted into blood stem cells that are then transplanted, markedly reduced sickle-induced red-cell damage in mice with sickle cell disease, researchers from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Health
From leaf to itch
Harvard researchers have riddled the role of a molecule key to eruption of the torturous blisters as well as an antibody that interrupts the inflammatory response, opening the way to potential relief for careless hikers.
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Campus & Community
Artful balance
Profile of George Li as part of a new series on the impact of humanities studies in and out of the classroom.
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Campus & Community
Lending his eye to the visions of others
The Carpenter Center’s Robb Moss devoted some of his summer to helping fellow filmmakers realize their dreams.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Aug. 31
On August 31 the Faculty Council welcomed new members, reviewed history and policies, elected subcommittees for 2016–2017, and discussed the work of the Council in the new academic year.
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Nation & World
Behind Brazil’s leadership crisis
Frances Hagopian, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer in Government, spoke with the Gazette about the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil.
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Campus & Community
In lives of others, a compass for his own
After working as a research economist, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez applied to Harvard Law School, where he found his calling.
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Campus & Community
With two years to go, campaign’s impact expands
Now past the halfway mark, The Harvard Campaign’s impact expands as foundational goals remain its driving force.
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Campus & Community
On becoming a man: Transgender in the workplace
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ summer Diversity Dialogue, “Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace,” gave voice to the transition and how to make it come together.
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Nation & World
From military policy to reality
Over summer, a Harvard ROTC cadet traded a Pentagon office for Slovak training exercises.
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Campus & Community
Faith in the counsel of history
At the opening Morning Prayers of the academic term, President Drew Faust outlined her hopes for the future by turning her eye to the past and calling on her listeners to do the same.
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Campus & Community
Welcoming the Class of 2020
Harvard President Drew Faust welcomed the College’s new crop of undergraduates during Freshman Convocation on Tuesday, urging them to embrace Veritas, with an eye toward inclusion and diversity, a goal of discovery, an openness to change, and a readiness to question assumptions and take chances.
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Campus & Community
Seeing the sites
Wearing sun hats and armed with selfie sticks, iPhones, and video cameras, tourists from all over the world visit Harvard Square and Harvard University each summer. Giant tour buses idle…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Divinity School examines its 200-year history
A special exhibit to mark Harvard Divinity School’s bicentennial year, “Faces of Divinity: Envisioning Inclusion for 200 Years,” tells the story of the School since its founding in 1816.
