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  • Science & Tech

    Think different, act more

    Hal Harvey, the CEO of Energy Innovation, a San Francisco–based energy and environmental policy firm, encouraged an audience at Harvard to get involved in about innovative ways to address climate change.

    Hal Harvey gives climate talk.
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard ponders its symbols and spaces

    Harvard College has announced creation of Working Group on Symbols and Spaces of Engagement at Harvard College, fulfilling one of the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Professor Ali Asani will lead the group, which will examine how well the University is fulfilling its mission to make every student feel like…

    Ali Asani.
  • Work & Economy

    How to navigate the gender landscape at work

    Stephanie Huckel, senior global program manager of diversity and inclusion at IGT, offered insight and advice during a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dialogue titled “Achieving Greater Workplace Equity for LGBTQ Employees.”

    Stephanie Huckel
  • Campus & Community

    A studio to re-create reality

    Harvard College senior Connor Doyle manages the coolest and least-known high-tech playground on campus: the Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality studio at the Harvard Innovation Lab in Allston.

    Connor Doyle.
  • Campus & Community

    A ‘Meet the Scholar’ lineup

    Harvard Graduate Commons Program celebrates its 10th anniversary with a special speaker series, including former Massachusetts Port Authority CEO Thomas Glynn and political activist and social critic Cornel West.

    Smith Campus Center
  • Arts & Culture

    Lost and found

    On view at the Carpenter Center, “Liz Magor: Blowout” explores the meaning of objects we’ve discarded.

    "Pet Co.," from "Liz Magor: Blowout."
  • Science & Tech

    More than a courier

    Now research suggests that a nerve cells’ axons may be making decisions on their own, challenging the dogma that the nucleus and cell body are the control centers of the neuron.

    neurone string
  • Health

    Drop and give me 40

    Harvard researchers have found that the number of pushups middle-aged men can do may be a useful, no-cost tool to help clinicians assess cardiovascular disease risk during routine examinations.

    Man doing pushups
  • Nation & World

    Final arguments in admissions suit

    Harvard defended its admissions policies in U.S. District Court in Boston in a final hearing as part of a lawsuit that could change the landscape for higher education.

  • Nation & World

    The endless struggle over racism

    Pervasive racism and hate requires a response that addresses it at various levels, from politics to public safety to schools, experts at a Harvard Chan School forum said.

    Maureen Costello, Director of Teaching Tolerance and Member of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Senior Leadership Team; Dipayan Ghosh, Pozen Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; David Williams, Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Oren Segal, Director, Center on Extremism, Anti-Defamation League; moderator Philip Martin, Senior Investigative Reporter, WGBH News
  • Nation & World

    A spirited defense of NATO as bulwark

    As NATO approaches its 70th anniversary, a new report from Harvard Kennedy School affiliates says the stalwart military alliance is in “crisis,” facing challenges from outside and within like never before.

    President Trump making a face
  • Health

    Finding our genomic clockwork

    Harvard researchers have discovered that a novel biomarker of aging in rDNA can accurately determine an individual’s chronological and biological age. The biomarker opens new opportunities for monitoring responses to interventions and lifestyle choices.

    Illustration of man's shadow forming hands on a clock.
  • Campus & Community

    Unwinding and connecting at WinterFest

    Harvard’s WinterFest gives students and others a time and place to chill out and warm up.

    a student playing shuffleboard
  • Health

    Platelet ‘decoys’ outsmart both clots and cancer

    A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and several collaborating institutions has created a drug-free, reversible antiplatelet therapy that uses deactivated “decoy” platelets to reduce the risk of blood clots and potentially prevent cancer metastasis.

  • Arts & Culture

    A writer’s journey

    Ruben Reyes Jr.’s path as a writer led him to found Palabritas, a Latinx literary magazine that provides a supportive space for new and experienced writers

    Ruben Reyes stands on the Weeks Bridge.
  • Nation & World

    Understanding Venezuela’s collapse

    Harvard Kennedy’s School’s Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development and professor of the practice of economic development, discusses deteriorating conditions in Venezuela.

    Protesters fill streets of Caracas,
  • Science & Tech

    Termites shape and are shaped by their mounds

    Researchers investigate how centimeter-sized termites, without architects, engineers or foremen, can build complex, long-standing, meter-sized structures all over the world.

  • Campus & Community

    Matchmaker, make me a match

    The Gazette talked to founders of three matchmaking companies that cater to a driven, cultured, well-traveled clientele: Ivy League graduates who have achieved success in their careers and are looking for life partners.

  • Campus & Community

    New leader for Harvard Library

    Martha Whitehead, Queen’s University’s vice provost and librarian, has been named to lead Harvard Library beginning in June.

    Martha Whitehead
  • Campus & Community

    Government Department’s climate survey finds satisfaction varies

    The Harvard Government Department’s Committee on Climate Change, formed last March in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, has released its climate survey report.

  • Health

    Interaction between immune factors can trigger cancer

    Harvard researchers found that interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation, setting the stage for the development of skin cancer associated with chronic dermatitis and colorectal cancer in patients with colitis.

    Cancer cells in mouse
  • Health

    Engineered mini-kidneys come of age

    By exposing stem cell-derived kidney organoids to fluidic shear stress, A team of Harvard researchers has significantly expanded the organoids’ vascular networks and improved the maturation of kidney compartments.

    Culturing kidney organoids
  • Campus & Community

    Two elected to Harvard Corporation

    Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected to become members of the Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their roles on July 1.

  • Campus & Community

    Milo Ventimiglia is feted (and roasted)

    Veteran actor Milo Ventimiglia gets a campus tour and a pudding pot as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year.

    r Milo Ventimiglia kisses his pudding pot, flanked by Hasty Theatrical members Ryan Kapur '20 and Elle Shaheen '21.
  • Campus & Community

    Embracing motion and stillness

    Harvard staff photographer Rose Lincoln finds moments of motion and stillness, giving you a reason to pause.

    Visitors walk the path from Memorial Church toward Widener Library.
  • Science & Tech

    Rapid evolution, illustrated

    A study in which mice were released into outdoor enclosures to track how light- and dark-colored specimens survived confirms that mice survive better in similarly colored habitats, providing insights into evolution.

  • Nation & World

    A ‘Prisoner’ story

    Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow, and his Iranian wife, journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a fall 2016 Shorenstein Fellow, talk about their experiences as prisoners of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

  • Nation & World

    President Bacow defends higher ed

    Giving a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in D.C., Harvard President Larry Bacow reaffirmed his support for colleges and universities and his belief that they can help change the world, despite fears Americans are increasingly questioning the value of a college degree.

    Harvard President Larry Bacow
  • Work & Economy

    Big Tech’s power growing at runaway speed

    Harvard Kennedy School experts offer views on why the U.S. government continues to grapple with the power of technology and its impact on democracy.