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Arts & Culture
A playful turn for libraries
A new initiative is underway to use gaming and crowdsourcing to speed the massive task of transcribing documents, at Harvard and around the world.
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Health
Dance that adapts to disabilities
A Graduate School of Education alumna brings her family history into the dance studio as she teaches children with disabilities the art of movement and the rewards they can reap.
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Nation & World
Nuclear nervousness
Analysts at Harvard Kennedy School discuss North Korea’s latest nuclear test and the political implications it presents not only for neighboring powers like China and Russia, but for the rest of the world.
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Health
Oral contraceptives don’t increase risk of birth defects
Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects, according to a new study by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark.
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Science & Tech
New destination for space-faring civilizations?
Globular star clusters date back almost to the birth of the Milky Way, and according to new research, they also could be extraordinarily good places to look for space-faring civilizations.
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Health
Closer to detecting when and why blood clots form
A research team at the Wyss Institute has developed a novel microfluidic device in which blood flows through a lifelike network of small “vessels.” Using automated pressure sensors and a proprietary algorithm, the data acquired is analyzed in real time and precisely predicts when a certain blood sample will obstruct the blood vessel network.
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Campus & Community
Divinity School’s Helmut Koester dies at 89
Helmut Koester, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, died on Jan. 1 at age 89.
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Health
Strength in movement
Scientists gave little thought to the neurological effects of dance until relatively recently, when researchers began to investigate the complex mental coordination that dance requires.
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Science & Tech
Did famine worsen the Black Death?
New European ice-core data provides a view of the difficult times that led up to and may have worsened the Black Death.
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Campus & Community
Immersing themselves in marine biology
Local high school students looked at life in the deep sea as they explored the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s “Marine Life” exhibit. The visit was part of Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s Marine Science Internship Program.
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Health
When one twin gets cancer, other faces higher risk
A large new study of twins has found that a person whose twin is diagnosed with cancer stands an increased risk of also developing a form of cancer.
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Science & Tech
Artificial pancreas system aimed at type 1 diabetes mellitus
The University of Virginia School of Medicine and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed an artificial pancreas system designed to help regulate blood sugar levels of individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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Nation & World
Fighting for disarmament
Disarmament expert Bonnier Docherty talks about cluster bombs, incendiary and explosive weapons, which are widely used in modern warfare, the threats they pose to civilians, and why countries should restrict their use.
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Nation & World
‘The story of us’
By animating our minds, a sprawling HarvardX MOOC seeks to democratize science.
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Science & Tech
Study of African trees goes public
A postdoctoral fellow has launched a citizen-science project that aims to digitize thousands of pages of detailed observations on the life cycles of African trees.
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Arts & Culture
Long hours for big dreams
Learning how to connect with your audience, young or old, is a key tenet at the A.R.T. Institute, where careers in acting, dramaturgy, and voice training take shape.
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Campus & Community
Professors recognized for exceptional teaching in science
Jene Golovchenko and John Johnson are the 2015 winners of the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.
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Campus & Community
The best stories of 2015
A look back at some of the Gazette’s best stories of 2015.
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Arts & Culture
Time to turn the page
A look at notable work by Harvard authors in 2015 wouldn’t be complete without their own best reads of the year.
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Nation & World
Soccer under siege
Matt Andrews, an associate professor of public policy at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, discusses the ongoing corruption scandal under now-disgraced FIFA President Sepp Blatter, and how to begin to clean up the sport.
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Nation & World
Muslims wonder what’s ahead
As rhetoric against Muslims rises across the nation, members of the Harvard community increasingly are pondering how to safeguard and support the rights of all.
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Health
COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body
A multicomponent, microfluidic small airway-on-a-chip model provides new opportunities to study human lung inflammatory disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, and to test preclinical drug candidates outside the human body.
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Science & Tech
When the ‘sharing economy’ doesn’t
Some Airbnb hosts discriminate on the basis of race, suggests a study by researchers at Harvard Business School.
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Health
Researchers help cells forget who they are
Scientists identify a molecular key that helps cells maintain identity and prevents the conversion of adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells — a process that would require a cell to “forget” its identity before assuming a new one.
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Science & Tech
Paris deal a step toward better health, experts say
Panelists in a Harvard Chan School forum examined how the Paris climate agreement might affect human health.
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Arts & Culture
Happy to be puzzled
For the English Department’s Gwen Urdang-Brown, crossword puzzles have always been a family affair. The first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World newspaper on Dec. 21, 1913. (Dec. 21 is now recognized as Crossword Puzzle Day.)
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Arts & Culture
Harvard professor brought first Christmas tree to New England
Charles Follen (1796-1840), 10-year Harvard professor, is remembered for bringing holiday tradition from Germany
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Campus & Community
Through a glass, brightly
The constellations of stained-glass windows that grace Memorial Hall create a magical feeling above the building’s halls as they transform the space into a veritable museum of American stained glass, with a variety of designers, manufacturers, and techniques on display.
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Nation & World
An Rx for the T
Ash Center senior research fellow Charles Chieppo weighs in on how to begin to fix the troubled MBTA, and assesses the reforms thus far.
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Arts & Culture
An enduring Christmas groove
Vince Guaraldi’s quintessential holiday soundtrack, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” made an indelible mark on many, including Harvard Law School faculty assistant Brad Conner.
