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Science & Tech
A platform for stable quantum computing, a playground for exotic physics
Harvard researchers have demonstrated the first material that can have both strongly correlated electron interactions and topological properties. The discovery both paves the way for more stable quantum computing and creates an entirely new platform to explore exotic physics.
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Health
Psychology’s new openness to religion
A McLean psychologist has pioneered a program that aims to bring together two key emotional forces at work in patients’ lives: spirituality and counseling.
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Health
More than a watchdog
A study in mice shows the nervous system not only detects the presence of Salmonella in the gut but actively stops the organism from infecting the body by shutting the cellular gates that allow bacteria to invade the intestine and spread beyond it.
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Nation & World
Can this union be saved?
In a country more fractured than ever, Harvard Professor Danielle Allen, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, and writer Adam Serwer discuss what it will take to bring our democracy back together.
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Work & Economy
Hidden costs of emotional labor
Is a smiling flight attendant performing emotional labor? How about the harried mom baking cupcakes for a kindergarten class, or your friend who’s always ready to listen and dispense advice?…
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Campus & Community
Peter Rogers, 80
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Peter Philip Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Rogers contributed broadly to the science of water management.
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Campus & Community
Howard Scott Hibbett, 98
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Howard Scott Hibbett, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Japanese Literature, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Hibbett was one of the great translators of Japanese literature.
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Campus & Community
Drag history comes to Harvard
Drag performer Joey Arias’ archive arrives at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service set for Richard E. Kronauer
Richard E. Kronauer, 94, the Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, passed away in Tucson, Ariz., on Oct. 18, 2019.
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Campus & Community
Unionized students go on strike
Recently unionized Harvard student workers went on strike Tuesday, refusing to grade papers, supervise exams, or conduct research unrelated to their academic programs.
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Arts & Culture
Keeping home close after you leave it
Exhibit explores themes of immigration, home, and belonging with art.
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Campus & Community
A 40-year road
Minoo Ghoreishi, a single mother of two, earned her bachelor’s degree in government after 40 years from the Harvard Extension School.
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Campus & Community
Women in IT gain ground at Harvard
With its initial success in 2018, the Harvard Women in Technology + Allies Mentoring Program is welcoming its second class of mentors and mentees.
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Arts & Culture
Come to the cabaret
“Truth Hurts: A Transformational Cabaret,” designed and performed by Harvard students in Theater, Dance & Media, embraces the anything-goes form in a dramatic satire of campus life.
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Campus & Community
What is an American?
Harvard Ed School grad gave her students a project. They turned it into a national conversation.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Martin Surbeck
A new member of the faculty of the Department of Human and Evolutionary Biology, Martin Surbeck runs one of the few bonobo research sites in the world.
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Health
Inflammatory processes may play role in ALS
Accumulating evidence suggests that inflammatory processes may play a role in the initiation and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Arts & Culture
Angela Davis in black and white and gray
A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar
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Arts & Culture
Sing me Ishmael
Dave Malloy, who turned “War and Peace” into Tony Award-winning musical, takes on “Moby-Dick.”
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Arts & Culture
Hip-hop steps up
In Aysha Upchurch’s new course, “Hip Hop Dance: Exploring the Groove and the Movement Beneath and Beyond the Beat,” students learn the histories behind some of their favorite moves.
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Campus & Community
The turkeys of Harvard
Like many communities around the state, Harvard has a burgeoning wild turkey population.
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Campus & Community
Notes of gratitude, gifts of charity
More than 200 Harvard employees wrote over 4,000 notes of appreciation to colleagues while also making donations to the local shelter.
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Campus & Community
9 Harvard researchers named AAAS Fellows
Nine Harvard researchers named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for work ranging from studying neuromuscular control in mammals to the development of vaccine strategies to work in international law.
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Campus & Community
Dishing on Thanksgiving
Harvard students talk about their Thanksgiving plans and for what they’ll give thanks.
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Health
CAGEs lock up fats to treat obesity
Harvard researchers have found an orally administered liquid salt — choline and geranate — that can reduce the absorption of fats from food with no discernable side effects in rats, lowering total body weight by about 12 percent.
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Science & Tech
Speeding cell, gene therapy development
Innovative public-private partnership led by Harvard and MIT aims to bolster state’s role as a leading region globally for life sciences.
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Arts & Culture
Speak, memory
At the Radcliffe Institute, Alaskan Inupiaq poet and Harvard alum Joan Naviyuk Kane keeps her language and culture alive through her art and her family.
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Campus & Community
7 Harvard seniors named Rhodes Scholars
Seven Harvard undergraduates were named Rhodes Scholars. Two other seniors were awarded Mitchell Scholarships.
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Nation & World
Breaking the barrier
Rebecca Scofield is writing a more complete history of the American West that includes the rich tradition of gay rodeos
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Arts & Culture
Unearthing buried history
Harvard University professor Matt Liebmann is an archaeologist who has spent decades alongside the people of Jemez Pueblo, using science to give fresh life to tribal stories.
