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Science & Tech
Veteran wants to improve the quality of life for amputees
Cameron Waites served in Iraq as an Army medic/health care specialist from 2004 to 2008. At 34, he is a student at Harvard Medical School where he hopes to discover solutions to problems that plague his fellow veterans.
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Arts & Culture
Spawn of Bosch
This year marks five centuries since the death of Hieronymus Bosch. Harvard Art Museums is paying tribute to the Dutch artist with the exhibit, “Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print.”
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Health
Politics biggest threat to malaria effort
America’s top malaria official said that everyday politics presents one of the biggest threats against progress to eliminate the worldwide killer.
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Health
Discovering predictor for fatal infection in preterm babies
Katherine Gregory, a nurse scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, searched for an answer to the mystery of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a sometimes fatal infectious disease of the newborn gut affecting preterm infants.
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Science & Tech
Long-ago freeze carries into the present
Harvard researchers contributed to a study identifying a 124-year freeze running from the sixth century into the seventh, with widely disruptive effects.
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Nation & World
Women, overshadowed
New research finds that female economists are not being fully credited for their contributions when they co-author papers with men, which may explain the significant tenure disparity between men and women in the field.
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Nation & World
Death of a judicial giant
Harvard reacts to the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: Education’s the one key that rules them all
When inequality is baked into public educational systems from kindergarten through the 12th grade, it usually extends through other aspects of life later, Harvard analysts say.
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Arts & Culture
Conan: Explore, learn, take risks
Conan O’Brien spoke with President Drew Faust about how his humanities education made him one of TV’s most successful comedians.
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Campus & Community
Lacking a loo no longer
Cambridge opens a stand-alone, year-round public toilet for Harvard Square
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Science & Tech
No rest for the graying
With the elderly beginning to outnumber the young around the world, workers, employers, and policymakers are rethinking retirement — what work we do, when to stop, and how to spend our later years.
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Nation & World
A religion course for the Internet age
A HarvardX MOOC explains world religions through their scripture.
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Science & Tech
Love in the crosshairs
A panel of marriage counselors and negotiators tells an audience of Harvard Law students how to use negotiation skills in their romantic relationships.
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Arts & Culture
Adventures of the heart
Visiting Professor Verena Andermatt Conley talks about her first venture into romance writing, “Cree.”
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Health
Watching sensory information translate into behavior
A state-of-the-art microscope built by Harvard researchers will allow scientists to capture 3-D images of all the neural activity in the brains of tiny, transparent C. elegans worms as they crawl.
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Campus & Community
The student perspective
During semester break, a Harvard freshman tells urban middle schoolers to dream big when applying to college.
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Nation & World
Keeping up the fight
An educator and award-winning author, Beekan Erena is on a mission to highlight the plight of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic majority in Ethiopia, who have struggled for years for political and economic equality.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 10
On Feb. 10 the members of the Faculty Council voted to approve proposed legislation regarding the General Education Program.
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Nation & World
His eye on I-teams
The movie “Spotlight” shows investigative reporting at the heart of journalism’s charge, says editor who led child abuse probe.
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Arts & Culture
Turns of narrative
An interview with novelist Claire Messud launches a new series in which Harvard writers discuss how their stories take shape.
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Campus & Community
House renewal benefits from Hutchins Family Challenge
In 2012, the Hutchins Family Foundation created a fundraising challenge for House renewal. The challenge has been completed with more than $50 million from 40 generous gifts.
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Health
Added caution on pregnancy and alcohol
The Gazette spoke with Michael Charness, chief of staff for the Harvard-affiliated VA Boston Healthcare System, about the CDC’s recommendations to sexually active woman of childbearing age: either use birth control or don’t drink.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Undergraduate House libraries
Each of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential Houses has a library, and despite their rich histories and outward grandeur, these are intimate spaces. Students spend long stretches clicking away on laptops…
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Arts & Culture
Artfully at rest
A selection of Mount Auburn Cemetery’s evocative funerary sculptures and monuments is the subject of a new book by Meg Winslow and Harvard’s Melissa Banta.
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Campus & Community
A record high for applications
Applications for admission to Harvard College are up 4.6 percent this year, with 39,044 students applying to the Class of 2020.
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.
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Arts & Culture
In his own works
A new exhibit at Houghton Library marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
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Science & Tech
Today’s farming practices can cool temps
In a surprising finding that runs counter to most climate change research, Harvard scientists examining temperature records have shown that, in regions with the most intense farming, peak summer temperatures have declined over the decades.
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Campus & Community
Harvard biologist is first woman to lead HHMI
Erin O’Shea, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Nation & World
A question of citizenship
Two legal scholars debated whether U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, is a “natural born citizen” according to the Constitution, and thus eligible to serve as president.
