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Campus & Community
A renewed focus on slavery
On Thursday, Harvard’s President Larry Bacow announced the creation of Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, an interdisciplinary initiative that will build on the University’s earlier undertakings. Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin will lead the new effort.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry in motion
Prolific writer, scholar, and cultural organizer Eve L. Ewing is focused on community-based arts and culture projects in her city of Chicago.
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Arts & Culture
Music everywhere
Scientists at Harvard published a study on music as a cultural product, which examines what features of song tend to be shared across societies.
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Health
A gateway to eating disorders
Young women’s use of diet pills, laxatives for weight control linked with later eating disorder diagnosis.
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Nation & World
Science of success
Harvard University doctoral candidate Kayla Davis is combating a STEM crisis in Oklahoma through an online educational resource.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Daniel Agbiboa
Daniel Agbiboa sees free and restricted movement as integral to the development of political, economic, and social systems. His work makes connections between these intersections in West Africa.
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Campus & Community
The season of the soul
Gone are the warm, carefree days of summer; the cool, crisp air of a new season brings with it winds of change, and fall has arrived.
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Nation & World
Cryptocurrency and national insecurity
In a simulation, North Korea has just tested a missile that will soon be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continental U.S. The move took Washington by surprise as the project was likely funded via a new Chinese digital currency.
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Nation & World
Home improvements
Harvard College student Jason Lam spent the summer after high school promoting affordable housing in his home state of New Jersey, and ended up finding a career path.
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Health
A push to aid healthy aging
The National Academy of Medicine is mounting a Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge that seeks to boost innovation on healthier aging.
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Campus & Community
Big impact of microaggressions
Harvard’s Diversity Dialogue examines mental health and its intersection with ethnicity and the fallout of the daily “thousand little cuts.”
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Science & Tech
Chinese botanists hit trail with Arboretum
Chinese botanists collect seeds during their inaugural expedition in the Appalachian Mountains with members of the Arnold Arboretum.
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Science & Tech
Where we get our sense of direction
Using virtual reality experiments, Harvard neuroscientists have decoded how fruit fly brains integrate visual cues for navigation. Study also sheds light on a form of short-term memory known as unsupervised learning.
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Nation & World
Need for a ‘remodeling’ of democracy, capitalism
With populism’s rise and the U.S. retreat, Poland’s former President Lech Walesa comes out of semi-retirement to urge the U.S. to retake its leadership post and to pass the torch to the next generation of activists.
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Arts & Culture
C.A.S.T.ing call
Harvard College student Karalyn Joseph is combining her passion for theater and her love of community to nurture performers of all abilities.
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Science & Tech
The archaeology of plaque (yes, plaque)
Christina Warinner says ancient dental plaque offers insights into diets, disease, dairying, and women’s roles of the period.
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Arts & Culture
Melting pot of American cuisine
A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.
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Campus & Community
An insider’s guide to the life academic
In a new course offered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, newbies learn the ropes of grad school and how to navigate the world of academia.
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Nation & World
Young voters found more pragmatic than progressive
Harvard Institute of Politics national youth poll finds important divides emerging between general election and Democratic primary voters on ending private insurance, electoral college reform, and gun control.
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Science & Tech
Learning from the land
Harvard University doctoral candidate Jordan Kennedy studies the engineering marvels that beavers create in her home state of Montana.
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Arts & Culture
To control women, fertility, and nature itself
“Love in a Mist (and the Politics of Fertility),” the fall exhibit at the Graduate School of Design, examines ways culture seeks to control women and nature.
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Nation & World
Taking your kid’s sport too seriously
Richard Weissbourd, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, discusses the problem of angry parents in sports and possible solutions.
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Nation & World
Spatial awareness
Harvard University professor Daniel D’Oca is helping St. Louis residents become the city’s best asset for fighting inequality.
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Nation & World
Where the new day begins
Harvard University graduate student Kristin Oberiano is writing a history of Guam inclusive of all who call it home.
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Science & Tech
Predicting sudden cardiac death
Researchers have determined that genetic testing could identify those at risk for cardiac death prior to any symptoms.
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Science & Tech
Building connections
Harvard University doctoral candidate Andy Cohen survived getting stuck in a blizzard, and is a better engineer because of it.
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Campus & Community
Authors of their own stories
Dan Lobo ’14, founder of Harvard College First Generation Student Union — now known as Harvard Primus, and Alejandra Iglesias ’21, president of Primus, discuss the first-gen Red Book.
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Science & Tech
New laser paves way for better imaging, communications
Harvard researchers have developed a totally new type of laser that can reach terahertz frequencies offering short-range, high-bandwidth wireless communications, very-high-resolution radar, and spectroscopy.
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Science & Tech
Physics, real and fictional
A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.
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Science & Tech
A second look at evolution
Researchers find clues to evolution in the intricate mammalian vertebral column.
