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Campus & Community
Rubén Blades (finally!) receives Harvard Arts Medal
Acclaimed salsa singer and composer Rubén Blades, LL.M. ’85, also known as the “Poet of Salsa,” was awarded the 2022 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.
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Health
Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s found well before diagnosis
A new study shows the impact of early amyloid-β and tau protein accumulation on disrupting brain connections important for memory. These disrupted connections were present even before signs of cognitive impairment were observed.
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Campus & Community
Packing four years into three
Swimming star Felicia Pasadyn graduates early with highest student-athlete GPA at NCAA Championships.
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Health
Skull channels shown to protect brain from infection
Researchers have found that “brain water” can exit through tiny channels to reach the skull’s bone marrow, which can detect infection or injury.
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Campus & Community
One lie leads to another until we tell the truth
Harvard Radcliffe Institute held a daylong conference, “Telling the Truth About All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond,” on Friday.
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Science & Tech
Representation making difference
Three physics Rhodes Scholars reflect on ways female mentorship helped them, importance of paying it forward.
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Campus & Community
16 elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Sixteen Harvard faculty are among the 261 American Academy of Arts & Sciences newly elected members, the academy announced Thursday.
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Campus & Community
Working to help homeless in less-welcoming land
Harvard Kennedy School grad Alena Vachnová has been using her passion and skills for ending homelessness to help the Ukrainian refugees who have sought safety in her home city of Kosice, Slovakia.
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Nation & World
Scrutinizing narratives behind nation’s monuments
History of Art and Architecture Professors Sarah Lewis and Joseph Koerner have joined forces for a new class called “Monuments,” which aims to prompt critical conversations about the public works of remembrance.
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Health
Subvariants cause for alarm, hybrid immunity hard to beat
Harvard scientists give their read on recent COVID data from the U.S. and South Africa.
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Campus & Community
Mayor Michelle Wu named Class Day speaker
Historic Boston leader selected for being “defender of equity, inclusion, opportunity.”
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Campus & Community
Drum roll: Arts First returns live
Annual festival of campus creativity to feature theater, dance, music, spoken word, interactive art over four days.
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Campus & Community
Dual message of slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, and now University must act
University leadership accepts recommendations of report with $100 million pledge.
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Campus & Community
Risk rewarded
Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.
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Campus & Community
Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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Campus & Community
Lewis, Ong named Carnegie Fellows
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Jonathan Corpus Ong were named Andrew Carnegie Fellows today.
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Campus & Community
Victory of perseverance, vision over more than decade of challenges
Being able to rebound when life throws up obstacles is nothing new for undergraduate Kimberly Woo, whose road to graduation has been filled with challenges.
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Campus & Community
Harvard to transition to voluntary COVID testing
Coronavirus Advisory Group cites low campus rates of severe illness, hospitalizations, and a shift in pandemic phase.
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Nation & World
How war in Ukraine is reshaping global order
Douglas Lute, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2013 to 2017, discusses how the conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order.
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Nation & World
Power of photography
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist gave the Houghton Library’s Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.
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Science & Tech
Way forward on climate change
The panel of experts looked at success and failures since the first Earth Day in 1970.
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Campus & Community
More than just another brick in a wall
The student creators of a new public art installation in Harvard Yard believe their work can drive change.
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Health
Snapshot of pandemic’s mental health impact on children
Psychiatric epidemiologist warns crisis too recent for conclusive results but shares some surprising, troubling early indications.
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Science & Tech
Relocating farmland to cut carbon emissions amid warming world
Reimagined world map of agriculture could turn back clock 20 years on carbon emissions.
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Science & Tech
6 things to know about Earth
Andrew Knoll, Harvard’s Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and author of the recent popular science book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters,” shares six facts about the Earth.
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Health
It may be increasingly legal, but it doesn’t mean cannabis is safe
Neuroscientist says the jury’s still out on effects on neurodevelopment of fetuses, teens.
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Campus & Community
How consequential life grew from dying heart
For soon-to-be Harvard graduate, his medical career is personal, and a way to give back to a system that saved his life.
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Campus & Community
Four to be honored with Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Avarita L. Hanson ’75, William F. Lee ’72, Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, and Tom Reardon ’68 will receive the 2022 Harvard Medal.
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Health
In Alzheimer’s victims, somatic mutations are both more and different
A new study by Harvard-affiliated researchers finds that patients with Alzheimer’s disease have both more and different somatic mutations — alterations in DNA — in their brain cells than people without Alzheimer’s disease.
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Nation & World
Learning how to talk about divisive issues
Harvard students share their experiences as fellows in the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership program at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
