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  • Campus & Community

    A summer of helping

    Harvard College first-year Ezra Feder spends his summer doing public service through Artists For Humanity, a nonprofit that provides employment in art and design to lower-income teens in the city.

    Harvard first year student standing in front of student artwork on wall.
  • Science & Tech

    Astronomy Lab sees the light — and wants everyone else to, too

    Accessibility devices at the lab use sound to allow the visually impaired to envision the stars

    Astronomy lab manager showing braille in the astronomy lab
  • Science & Tech

    Uncovering how cells become organs

    Tiny sensors are embedded into stretchable, integrated mesh that grows with the developing tissue, allowing scientists to track how cells grow into organs.

    Contraction of cyborg human cardiac organoid
  • Work & Economy

    Bond rate shift may suggest recession

    An inverted bond yield curve often has been a harbinger of recession, though the odds of one are still only 1 in 3 for this year, Harvard analyst says.

    New York Stock Exchange trader on the floor.
  • Campus & Community

    First phase of Bartlett Station opens

    Harvard President Larry Bacow joined Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Massachusetts State Rep. Chynah Tyler, Boston City Councilor Kim Janey, and others cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Bartlett Station, mixed-use development in Roxbury.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Spice Girls of Henry VIII

    “Six,” the hit British musical bound for A.R.T., recasts the six wives of Henry VIII as girl-power pop stars.

    Performers from the musical "Six"
  • Campus & Community

    Summer explorers

    For the fourth year, Harvard’s Summer Explorations helped local students stay sharp over the school break while learning in free weeklong workshops at the Ed Portal in Allston.

    Luke Scanlon acts like an airplane during the American Repertory Theater workshop.
  • Campus & Community

    Pulling disabilities out of the shadows

    An interview with Nikita Andersson and Miso Kwak, master’s students at the Graduate School of Education, who launched the first student publication on disability last spring.

    Miso Kwak.
  • Arts & Culture

    Photography without a camera

    Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

    Matt Saunders
  • Science & Tech

    A red oak live tweets climate change

    Tree in Harvard Forest outfitted with sensors, cameras, and other digital equipment sends out on-the-ground coverage.

    Tree branches with blue birds
  • Health

    Probiotic hydrogels heal gut wounds that other treatments can’t reach

    Harvard researchers have developed hydrogels that can be produced from bacterial cultures and applied to intestinal surfaces for faster wound healing.

    Microscopic image of bacterial hydrogel at work.
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard recommits $20M to create local affordable housing

    Greater Boston is facing a housing crisis that is hitting lower-income and working-class residents particularly hard. To combat the crisis, Harvard University is recommitting $20 million toward local affordable housing.

    Children walking by a house
  • Health

    At the corner of med and tech

    Undergraduate Michael Chen, who created an extraordinary program to help treat TB, also works with a student program to treat ordinary patients.

    Michael Chen.
  • Work & Economy

    The story of how you came to buy that car

    HBS branding expert Jill Avery on the stories that marketers create to get today’s consumers to buy

    Jill Avery holds a toy car and a bottle of Snapple.
  • Campus & Community

    Passing the barre

    A photo gallery captures the hard work leading up to Harvard Ballet Company’s recent performance.

    Feet of a dancer in the “B-Plus” position.
  • Campus & Community

    Planting herself in the right career

    Recently, Harvard Law School grad Nisha Vora released her debut cookbook, “The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook,” which builds on her success as a chronicler of vegan recipes and photos on her popular site, Rainbow Plant Life. 

  • Science & Tech

    Predicting the strength of earthquakes

    Scientists will be able to predict earthquake magnitudes earlier thanks to new research by Marine Denolle, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard.

    Professor and students looking at earthquake chart.
  • Science & Tech

    Mercury levels in fish are on the rise

    A new study concludes that while the regulation of mercury emissions have successfully reduced methylmercury levels in fish, spiking temperatures are driving those levels back up and will play a major role in the methylmercury levels of marine life in the future.

    Fish swimming in ocean
  • Nation & World

    Want to stop mass shootings?

    In the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the Gazette spoke with David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.” Hemenway has spent much of…

    Woman mourns at memorial
  • Campus & Community

    Remembering Anne Monius, 54

    Anne E. Monius, professor of South Asian religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away Aug. 3, at the age of 54. An Oct. 11 memorial gathering will be held at Loeb House.

    Professor Anne Monius
  • Health

    What fuels prejudice?

    A postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Psychology Professor Matt Nock,Brian O’Shea is the lead author of a study that suggests racial tension may stem not from different groups being exposed to each other, but fear of a different sort of exposure — exposure to infectious diseases. The study is described in a July…

    Brian O'Shea
  • Campus & Community

    Funding promising scientists

    Associate Professor of Physics Cora Dvorkin and Associate Professor of Computer Science Stratos Idreos will each receive at least $150,000 a year for the next five years through the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program.

    Matter in space
  • Nation & World

    Given support and a choice, families move to where children do best

    A collaboration between Harvard’s Opportunity Insights and public housing agencies in Washington state found that giving support and advice about housing options to families with housing choice vouchers led to significantly more of them moving to areas where children have higher recorded rates of upward mobility.

    Child on swing
  • Nation & World

    Digging up the past

    Harvard archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann sat down with the Gazette to talk about his research, how his field has reckoned with the past, and how both influence his teaching.

    Matt Liebmann
  • Health

    CBD rollout shines light on Wild West of supplements

    A marijuana derivative called cannabidiol, or CBD, has begun making its way into supplements and even into foods, a use that runs afoul of an FDA designation of the compound as a prescription drug. A Harvard Medical School associate professor says CBD’s tangled legal status may provide an opportunity not only to clear up its…

    Pieter Cohen sitting in front of a laptop
  • Arts & Culture

    Research and everyday life

    Harvard students are keeping busy with summer research projects across multiple disciplines.

    student in a red dress in the library
  • Arts & Culture

    Connecting with a masterpiece

    A small installation on view through November will feature one of the museums’ recent Rembrandt acquisitions, “Four Studies of Male Heads.”

    Four Studies of Male Heads,
  • Science & Tech

    Giving teachers a DNA refresher

    Mansi Srivastava’s lab worked with middle school teachers in an education workshop on DNA and evolution.

    teachers participating in a workshop
  • Nation & World

    No visible bruises

    Rachel Louise Snyder spoke with Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer and director of the Gender Violence Program at Harvard Law School, about her book “No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Abuse Can Kill Us.”

    broken glass
  • Science & Tech

    The Mesoamerican attraction to magnetism

    Led by Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Roger Fu, a team of researchers has shown that the makers of ancient Mesoamerican statues found in Guatemala intentionally carved the figures to place the magnetic areas over the navel or right temple — suggesting not only that they were familiar with the concept of magnetism,…