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Campus & Community
A plaque recalls aid in escaping from Nazis
Harvard re-installs plaque honoring students from the late 1930s who started a scholarship that helped 16 European refugees flee Nazi persecution and study at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Armchair travels with a purpose
Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D.
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Campus & Community
Schuyler Bailar races toward his authentic self
Schuyler Bailar ’19 is the first openly transgender swimmer in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a member of the Harvard men’s swimming team.
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Campus & Community
Mentors make the difference
Over seven years, Professor of Education Roberto Gonzales interviewed thousands of undocumented young people who qualified for deferred action from deportation under DACA, and found that for high achievers among them, community and family mentors made the difference.
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Campus & Community
‘No longer a guest, no longer an outsider, no longer a spectator’
At a naturalization ceremony at the Harvard Kennedy School, 43 men and women became American citizens.
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Nation & World
Amid India elections, Harvard study aligns data with constituencies
A team at the Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis has remapped a trove of health and wellness data to align it with political districts in India, to help voters in the world’s largest democracy better decide how to vote in the six-week election.
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Campus & Community
Tired of winning? Not a chance
In the past five years, the women’s squash team has racked up five straight national championships, four Ivy League titles, and three individual national championships, all while maintaining a 65-match unbeaten streak.
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Health
Pharma-to-doc marketing a vulnerability in opioid fight
A University of Michigan-Harvard University summit brought experts from the two universities as well as outside organizations to consider ways to address the opioid epidemic.
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Nation & World
Bacow stresses educational, civic partnerships
Harvard President Larry Bacow met with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego ’04 and city manager Ed Zuercher during a trip to Phoenix to discuss the partnership between Harvard and the city that began in 2017, as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. He also visited Houston.
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Campus & Community
Songwriter carries more than one tune
Nima Samimi, recipient of a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, is a jack of all trades and a master of at least a few, including academics, music, and social justice.
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Nation & World
Intelligence matters
Former intelligence officers, lawmakers, national security analysts, and top journalists discussed some of the ethical and moral issues in intelligence work and looked at the current challenges facing those in the field during a conference this week hosted by the Intelligence Project, a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the…
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Arts & Culture
‘Pride and Prejudice’ coming to Arnold Arboretum
In June, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will host an Actors’ Shakespeare Project production of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” adapted by Kate Hamill, in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden.
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Campus & Community
A long road, well chronicled
Denise-Marie Ordway, with a large family and impressive resumé, excels as Nieman Fellow, HGSE master’s candidate
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Health
Mini-gut reaction
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have created miniature, simplified versions of the intestine in vitro to explore how the gut lining and microbiome respond to gluten in both healthy and celiac patients.
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Campus & Community
Strong yield for the Class of 2023
Nearly 83 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2023 have chosen to matriculate at Harvard College. Here’s their demographic breakdown.
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Campus & Community
James Allan Davis, 86
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late James Allan Davis, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Davis devoted himself to building empirical foundations for social science, especially in survey and public opinion research.
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Campus & Community
Patrick Thaddeus, 84
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Patrick Thaddeus, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Thaddeus was a founder of and long-time leader in the field of astrochemistry
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Nation & World
Women lead Rwanda’s renaissance
A quarter-century after genocide killed as many as a million Rwandans, the country’s women are leading its renaissance.
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Health
Improving cell therapy for diabetes
A team of researchers led by Harvard University scientists has improved the laboratory process of converting stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells from 30 percent to 80 percent.
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Campus & Community
5 named Harvard College Professors
Dean Claudine Gay named five members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the newest Harvard College Professors.
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Campus & Community
Student employees honored
Eleanor Lieberman ’19 won this year’s Harvard Student Employee of the Year award, but all 24 nominees were honored at an event on April 18.
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Campus & Community
Crimson EMS in action
A student-run emergency medical services organization at Harvard, Crimson CMS facilitates the training, certification, and volunteer service of EMTs.
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Health
Dietary link found to drug-resistant breast cancer
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have linked a common dietary element to breast cancer drug resistance, raising the prospect of a new way to attack a major cause of breast cancer death.
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Campus & Community
Step, sing, and dance in time
The Harvard community came out to join in the 2019 Arts Festival with live music and dance performances, arts and crafts, theater, and more.
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Campus & Community
10 faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Ten Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Two Harvard scientists also received awards from the NAS.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing art to the people it depicts
The rapper and record producer Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz, and his wife, Alicia Keys, own the largest private collection of Gordon Parks’ photographs in the world. They’re sharing it at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, and that’s just the beginning.
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Science & Tech
Learning why cancer drugs work (or don’t)
Assistant Professor Brian Liau of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department has answered the question of why some new drugs for acute myeloid leukemia don’t work by combining CRISPR gene editing with small-molecule inhibitor treatments in a technique he calls CRISPR-suppressor scanning.
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Science & Tech
The evolution of flightless birds
Based on an analysis of the genomes of more than a dozen flightless birds, including an extinct moa, a team led by Harvard researchers found that while different species show wide variety in the protein-coding portions of their genomes, they appear to turn to the same regulatory pathways when evolving flight loss.
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Nation & World
‘We can do our part to stop the destruction’
In advance of a conference on climate change and Amazonia on May 7‒8 at Harvard, the Gazette interviewed Davi Kopenawa, an indigenous leader who is known as “Brazil’s Dalai Lama of the Rainforest.”
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Arts & Culture
Tracy K. Smith ’94 accepts Harvard Arts Medal
Poet laureate Tracy K. Smith wins the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal at a ceremony Thursday in Agassiz Theater, kicking off Arts First weekend.
