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Nation & World
Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson
Symposium celebrates career of William Julius Wilson.
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Science & Tech
A precise chemical fingerprint of the Amazon
A group of researchers are using a drone-based chemical monitoring system to track the health of the Amazon in the face of global climate change and human-caused deforestation and burning.
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Science & Tech
Playing our song
Samuel Mehr has long been interested in questions of what music is, how music works, and why music exists. To help find the answers, he’s created the Music Lab, an online, citizen-science project aimed at understanding not just how the human mind interprets music, but why music is a virtually ubiquitous feature of human societies.
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Campus & Community
A flip of the switch to mitigate climate change
The Arnold Arboretum and the city of Boston celebrated the nearly complete Weld Hill Solar Project at today’s “switch-throwing” ceremony.
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Nation & World
Humanizing global problems
Samantha Power says the desire to make positive change springs from understanding our connections as people.
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Science & Tech
A silly-sounding prize for some serious science
Harvard-trained researchers win Golden Goose Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Campus & Community
Lending veterans a hand
Harvard has increased efforts in recent years to recruit veterans, working with the Defense Department and conducting outreach via community college centers for former members of the military.
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Campus & Community
Gen Ed shopping spree
Students popped in and out of classrooms, labs, and lecture halls in the first days of the semester, hunting for just the right Gen Ed class — the one that…
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Arts & Culture
Uncommon coinage
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi recently retired after almost two decades as the museums’ first curator of ancient coins. During her tenure she helped bring roughly 2,000 other coins to Harvard, small-scale works of art adorned with mythical creatures, ancient architecture, biblical references, important persons, and poignant dates.
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Science & Tech
An umbrella to combat warming
Harvard’s Keutsch Research Group is working on a controversial idea that might someday be our best hope against climate change: stratospheric aerosol injection.
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Campus & Community
Emma Dench on helping graduate students succeed
During her first full year as the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emma Dench has been focused on connecting students from around the University to GSAS, and helping them connect with her.
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Campus & Community
‘The first superhero that I ever came to know’
Incoming Harvard medical and dental students talk about the people who helped them most.
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Science & Tech
A ‘Goldilocks zone’ for planet size
Researchers have redefined the lower size limit for planets to maintain surface liquid water for long periods of time, extending the so-called habitable zone for small, low-gravity planets.
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Nation & World
Like a fish out of a war zone
An excerpt from “The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir” by Samantha Power.
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Arts & Culture
Fall into art
A sampling of the season’s best in local music, theater, and visual arts.
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Campus & Community
Hometown girl makes good by making hometown better
Roslindale native Kate Swain Smith is the fourth student to become a fellow since the Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship program debuted in 2016.
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Arts & Culture
Five lessons from Toni Morrison
Harvard Divinity School pays tribute to the late Toni Morrison during its convocation.
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Campus & Community
Presenting the new Lowell House
The two-year renovation preserved historical character and added a few 21st-century upgrades.
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Science & Tech
A SWIFTer way to build organs
A new technique called SWIFT (sacrificial writing into functional tissue) ultimately may be used therapeutically to repair and replace human organs with lab-grown versions containing patients’ own cells.
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Campus & Community
How I wrote my Harvard essay
Late nights. Discarded drafts. That one great idea. Harvard first-years reflect on the agony and the ecstasy of writing their admissions essay.
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Campus & Community
When a sigh isn’t just a sigh
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, the spoof of the Nobel Prize that honors obscure science research, is set for Sept. 12 at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Black hole project nets Breakthrough Prize
The nearly 350 astronomers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates who worked for more than a decade to capture the first-ever image of a black hole have been named the recipients of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Campus & Community
Two receive Roslyn Abramson Award
Ya-Chieh Hsu and Durba Mitra receive Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in teaching undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
New director named for University Health Services
Professor and physician Giang T. Nguyen, head of student health services at Penn, viewed as a champion of diversity and inclusion.
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Campus & Community
Recipe for a new Gen Ed course
Harvard’s new Gen Ed courses tackle subjects from racial justice and philosophy to music and engineering.
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Health
PTSD linked to increased risk of ovarian cancer
A new study finds that women who have greater numbers of PTSD symptoms are at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.
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Science & Tech
Lessons in learning
Study shows students in ‘active learning’ classrooms learn more than they think
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Campus & Community
Growing connections
For her Service Starts with Summer project, South Carolina native Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’23 spent six weeks working on a farm, revamping the educational Seed to Table curriculum that serves elementary and middle-school students.
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Campus & Community
Big statue on campus
Whether you’re standing at the Harvard Statue in the morning, noon, or evening, the scene is almost always the same: Crowds of five, 10, or 50 converge to take a photo with the statue. For some, the statue is the embodiment of the University. For others a photo with it is just a box to…
