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Campus & Community
Breaking ground with new degree
Juan Reynoso will be the second Harvard student to have completed a new joint Master in Public Health/Master in Urban Planning degree program.
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Campus & Community
Erin McDermott named athletic director
Erin McDermott has been named the John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard announced today.
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Work & Economy
Real-time data to address real-time problems
A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.
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Health
Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle
Wilderness medicine fellows were among those whose attention has been turned homeward, where they’re pitching in to fight COVID-19 in the ER.
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Health
Intel from an outpatient COVID-19 clinic
A new report by researchers examines the mostly overlooked, yet important, category of patients — those with symptoms concerning enough to seek care, yet not serious enough to need hospital treatment.
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Health
Healthy dose of religion
New research from the Harvard Chan School found that people who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning.
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Campus & Community
Adding it all up
Akshaya Annapragada, who will graduate with an A.B. in applied mathematics and an S.M. in engineering sciences-bioengineering, with a secondary in global health and health policy at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, arrived at Harvard eager to develop better medical tools.
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Campus & Community
Colson Whitehead ’91 wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Novelist Colson Whitehead joins William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington as the fourth to garner the Pulitzer Prize for fiction award twice.
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Campus & Community
Helping to feed the community
Harvard University Dining Services has emptied its freezers and storerooms to provide food to area nonprofit grocery programs.
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Campus & Community
Five faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.
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Arts & Culture
Why so many of us are watching films like ‘Outbreak’
A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.
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Health
At the center of the outbreak
Researcher Katharine Robb details how housing policies affect social and health crises, like the current pandemic.
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Arts & Culture
WHRB keeps classical connections
In the time of COVID-19, Harvard student radio station pays tribute to canceled concerts.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: David Joselit
David Joselit joined the department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies this semester as a professor of visual studies.
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Health
Social distance makes the heart grow lonelier
Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.
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Nation & World
Is rural America solidly red? Not exactly, Harvard scholars say
Harvard political scientists traveled to four swing states in the past three years to take the political temperature in conservative counties.
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Campus & Community
A time of need and a desire to help
COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss
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Health
Brothers create screening tool for refugee populations
Brothers Hassaan Ebrahim, a student at Harvard Kennedy School, and Senan, a third-year Harvard Medical School student, founded Hikma Health, a nonprofit that builds software for organizations providing health care to refugee populations.
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Campus & Community
Two named to lead Overseers
Martin Chávez and Beth Karlan to occupy senior posts on Harvard University’s Board of Overseers for the 2020–21 academic year.
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Work & Economy
And the survey says, ‘keep it closed’
A majority of people in the U.S. want to continue physical distancing measures, even as the federal government and some state governors are pushing to reopen the economy, according to a new national survey.
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Campus & Community
Life at a distance
How Harvard faculty and staff continue to adapt to social distancing as they stay the course.
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Health
Tracking the coronavirus through crowdsourcing
How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
From patient to front lines
Meet Katie Klatt — pediatric intensive care unit nurse, M.P.H. student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and recovered COVID-19 patient.
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Health
A day in the life of an ER doc
Urgent-care physician Anita Chary has turned her attention to treating those suffering from COVID-19 in recent weeks.
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Nation & World
Setting school priorities: Care for children, families first
In the second episode of Education Now, a new initiative by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, host Richard Weissbourd talks to Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, and Anu Ebbe, principal of Shorewood Hills Elementary School in Madison, Wis.
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Campus & Community
Respected teacher and administrator Richard M. Hunt dies at 93
Richard McMasters Hunt, a faculty member in social studies for 42 years and University Marshal for two decades, died on April 10 at the age of 93.
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Science & Tech
Water beast
New paper argues the Spinosaurus was aquatic, and powered by predatory tail.
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Science & Tech
CRISPR-based technology spots COVID-19
The CRISPR-based molecular diagnostics chip’s capacity ranges from detecting a single type of virus in more than 1,000 samples at a time to searching a small number of samples for more than 160 different viruses, including the COVID-19 virus.
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Work & Economy
Melissa Dell wins 2020 Clark Medal
Harvard economist Melissa Dell has received the 2020 John Bates Clark Medal. The annual award, administered by the American Economic Association, honors an “American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.”
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Campus & Community
Studying COVID-19 in real time
How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.
