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Science & Tech
Protecting P-town
Architect and GSD Professor Scott Cohen discusses his studio course that considered how architects could help his beloved Provincetown, Mass., address the prospect of rising seas due to climate change while still retaining its quirky magic.
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Health
Sparking a national debate
Environmental protection is not a goal to achieve but a task to be undertaken by one generation and handed to the next, Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, told the Gazette in an Earth Day interview.
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Science & Tech
Rocketwoman
Fifty years ago this summer, Neil Armstrong took his “giant leap for mankind” on the moon. In his wake hundreds of others have flown into space, including Ellen Ochoa, a four-time shuttle astronaut who stepped down as director of the Johnson Space Center in 2018 and is currently a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy…
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Science & Tech
Clearing the way for cleaner air in China
Researchers have analyzed technical and economic viability for China to move toward carbon-negative electric power generation and found that China can do so in an economically competitive way.
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Nation & World
In the crosshairs of an academic crackdown
Sociologist Amy Austin Holmes, an associate professor at the American Unviersity in Cairo and a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center, thought her research was “safe” — until she was labeled an operative by Egypt’s authoritarian regime.
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Nation & World
Parsing the Mueller report
Hours after the release of the Mueller report, the Gazette asks Harvard professor and former prosecutor Alex Whiting what it all means.
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Campus & Community
New student survey asks about sexual assault and misconduct
Harvard launches its first new survey on sexual misconduct in four years and expects different answers in light of the “Me Too” movement.
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Science & Tech
Before the Big Bang
Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.
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Campus & Community
At WHRB, Harvard student turns on radio and tunes in listeners
Henna Hundal ’19 works as interviewer on her own radio show on Harvard’s WHRB, bringing the larger world to her listening audience.
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Campus & Community
Bridge to a new life
Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.
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Health
Calculating genetic risk for obesity
A “polygenic score” for obesity, a quantitative tool that predicts an individual’s inherited risk for becoming overweight, may identify an opportunity for early intervention.
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Health
Seeing brain activity in ‘almost real time’
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, King’s College London, and other institutions have developed a technique for measuring brain activity that’s 60 times faster than traditional fMRI.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Jesse McCarthy
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
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Campus & Community
‘Everyone is a teacher’
Students present 30 projects at inaugural Education Innovation Showcase at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
New dean for Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting, former dean of architecture at Rice University, returns to Harvard, where she taught early in her career, as dean of the Graduate School of Design.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the Challenge
Twenty would-be companies in four categories have been named finalists in the President’s Innovation Challenge, an annual “call to action, innovation, and entrepreneurship” at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Flowing together
Harvard community members who’ve taken Gaga dance courses have found the technique helps them let go of external pressures and focus their energy inward, achieving self-care and healing.
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Campus & Community
12 faculty honored for ‘compelling achievements’
Twelve Harvard faculty are among the more than 200 individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Nation & World
Raising successful kids
A Q&A with Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard, about his new book on how to raise successful children based on interviews with highly accomplished young people and their parents.
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Arts & Culture
Stuck in the middle with you
Neurology Professor Julian Fisher explores Massachusetts to tell stories of middle-class Americans through photography.
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Campus & Community
Two from Harvard win prestigious fellowship
Harvard students Noah Golowich and Alex Atanasov have been selected to receive the prestigious Hertz Fellowship, joining 199 previous Harvard students who have received the honor since 1964.
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Health
As the end nears, who’s in control?
Advocates and opponents of medical-aid-in-dying laws, also called physician-assisted death, gathered at Harvard Medical School for a two-day conference organized by the HMS Center for Bioethics.
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Science & Tech
Identifying exotic properties
Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.
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Science & Tech
Laying some groundwork for environmental protection
The Wyss Institute has developed a sheet pile driving robot, Romu, that works in uneven terrain to build metal walls that can act as dams, retaining walls, or building foundations.
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Health
Weighing in on workplace wellness programs
In the first major multisite randomized controlled trial of workplace wellness programs, researchers found that while they may help people change certain behaviors, they do little to improve overall health or lower health care spending.
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Nation & World
Pros at the con
Psychologist Maria Konnikova ’05, who studies the workings of con artists, talks about what underlies some recent pop culture scams and why we’re so fascinated by stories about them.
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Arts & Culture
Picturing vision and justice
A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”
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Health
Detecting DNA defects
A new algorithm designed by HMS scientists can be incorporated into standard genetic tests to successfully identify patients harboring a tumor-fueling DNA repair defect found in multiple cancers treatable with existing drugs.
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Campus & Community
Rising to the challenge
MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.
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Campus & Community
A healthy twofer
Harvard’s new Sustainable Healthful Food Standards, announced today, will challenge University food service to increase healthy options while also considering how the food is produced, taking into account sustainability, pesticide and fertilizer use, food-workers’ conditions, and animal welfare.
