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Science & Tech
Global helium shortage slams brakes at Harvard labs
Latest helium shortage is impacting scientific research, equipment, and progress of grad students.
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Nation & World
Mass shootings reignite youth gun control push
Parkland survivor Jaclyn Corin ’23 says her March for Our Lives group demands federal curbs at June 11 protests in D.C., hundreds of cities, towns.
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Campus & Community
Larry Bacow, University’s 29th president, to step down next June
The 29th president of Harvard University announced that he will depart on June 30, 2023.
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Health
Optimism lengthens life, study finds
Women who reported a positive outlook were likelier to live past 90, regardless of race or ethnicity.
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Campus & Community
9 months in, University CIO sees security, new tech advances ahead
Harvard Vice President and CIO Klara Jelinkova talks about the digital pivot Harvard had to make during the pandemic, lessons learned from it, and the growing threat of cybercrime.
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Campus & Community
A new day of celebration
Harvard graduates from around the world return to campus for Harvard Alumni Day.
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Health
Fight, flight, or freeze: how our bodies respond to doomscrolling
Experts examine how our bodies respond to doomscrolling.
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Health
New tool models evolution of opioid crisis
To help combat the opioid crisis, researchers have developed a tool, known as SOURCE, which taps national data on opioids to track stages of use and misuse, including use initiation, treatment, relapse, and death by overdose.
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Health
Poverty linked to worse outcomes in pediatric cancer
Race, ethnicity, poverty linked to worse outcomes in children treated for high-risk neuroblastoma, according to new study.
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Health
Longevity starts when we’re young
A new study shows that health and habits as children and teens affect not only health as adults, but lifespan.
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Arts & Culture
Finding fresh perspectives in ‘1776’
The American Repertory Theater’s “1776” gives actors in this cross-gendered, racially diverse revival a way to mine complexities of race, slavery, and humanity.
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Nation & World
Some light in distance for major curbs to gun violence
A Harvard public health expert in gun safety thinks the U.S. will eventually become safer from gun-related violence, but he also sees a long, difficult road to get there.
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Nation & World
Taken out of context
In a peer-reviewed piece published in the journal Science, scholars from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab created a roadmap to help researchers take greater care when writing biological definitions and classifications of sex, mindful of how their language may be used in the public arena.
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Nation & World
New breed of American leader
Book excerpt from “Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made” by David Gergen.
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Campus & Community
Many happy returns
In-person Commencement gives Classes of ’20 and ’21 a chance to reconnect, joyfully, and reflect on years of friendship, growth .
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Campus & Community
Triple the joy
Festive rites and poignant moments as Classes of 2022, 2021, and 2020 gather to mark milestone.
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Campus & Community
A call to public service
The Classes of 2020 and 2021 finally got their day under the trees of Tercentenary Theatre Sunday morning.
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Campus & Community
Time of ‘democracy in crisis’
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund leader urges steps to rescue democracy.
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Campus & Community
Ardern’s forceful reminder: Democracies can die
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers warning on erosion of trust in her Commencement address, urging social media reforms and calling on individuals to reject tribalism.
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Campus & Community
Embracing the moment
Parents, friends, and scores of proud graduates gather to celebrate hard-earned Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Seven alumni elected to the Board of Overseers
Seven alumni have been elected as new members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and six as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 8,870 degrees
At the ceremony honoring the Class of 2022, the University awarded a total of 8,870 degrees and certificates.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to award seven honorary degrees
During today’s Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard will recognize seven with an honorary degree.
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Campus & Community
Pursuit of joy starts with truth, Wu tells graduates
Class Day speaker Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, urged the class of 2022 to hold fast to Harvard’s founding motto “veritas,” or truth.
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Campus & Community
Newly minted military officers warned of global threats to democracy
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Mark Milley swears in Harvard ROTC cadets, midshipmen.
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Campus & Community
Finding hurdles, stepping up
Emerging from two years of strict COVID-19 policies, Harvard welcomed back all in-person classes and on-campus activities. A timeline marks the highlights of the 2021-22 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Bacow urges seniors to embrace the unexpected
On Tuesday, Harvard seniors filed into Tercentenary Theatre to attend the Baccalaureate ceremony, which had been canceled for the past two years due to COVID.
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Campus & Community
Skocpol tells PBK students: World of trouble awaits you. Fight to fix it.
The 230th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises were held Tuesday at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
United by lockdown, divided by ‘Seinfeld’
For Harvard student Phiroze Parasnis and his family, isolated in Mumbai, time spent together made up for lost time.
