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Arts & Culture
Leafing through Glass Flowers
A new photo book on Harvard’s Glass Flowers collection will focus on the details that make the models so lifelike.
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Science & Tech
Should landlords have to share what’s been bugging them?
It might seem crazy for landlords to tell potential tenants about past bedbug infestations, but Alison Hill believes it will pay off in the long run. In a study, Hill found that while landlords would see a modest drop in rental income in the short term, they would make that money back in a handful…
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Work & Economy
Making it big behind the scenes
Harvard Law School students who want careers in entertainment get to do hands-on legal counseling through the Entertainment Law Clinic and the Recording Artists Project.
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Work & Economy
Swimming toward a biotech startup
Harvard researchers get advice from big fish on how to make their projects a biotech reality at the Guppy Tank event sponsored by Harvard’s Office of Technology Development and LabCentral in Cambridge.
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Health
Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’
Research into extending humanity’s healthy lifespan has been progressing rapidly in recent years. In February, a group of aging and longevity scientists founded a nonprofit to foster the work and serve as a resource for governments and businesses looking to understand the potentially far-reaching implications of a population that lives significantly longer, healthier lives.
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Health
Study identifies gene regions associated with sleep duration
Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Exeter Medical School have identified another 76 gene regions associated with sleep duration. Their findings may underpin future investigations into disordered sleep and understanding individual set points for how much is enough.
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Nation & World
Dealing with disaster
As part of the class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction,” students took part in a role-playing game that had them play the parts of the government and citizens of the island of Montserrat, as well as a group of scientists monitoring the island’s volcano.
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Science & Tech
A step closer to tissue-engineered kidneys
The Wyss Institute and Roche Innovation Center Basel in Switzerland have teamed up to create 3-D bioprinted proximal tubules beside functioning blood vessel compartments, closely mimicking the kidney’s blood-filtration system that removes waste products while returning “good” molecules, such as glucose and amino acids, back into the bloodstream.
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Arts & Culture
The beauty of the book in all its forms
For last semester’s seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern got about a dozen first-year students in a room and had them examine some of the rarest and oldest volumes at Houghton Library, Harvard’s rich and vast repository of art, culture, history and much, much more.
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Nation & World
‘They’re representing individuals who are in need’
The Gazette follows students working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a student-run legal services organization that helps students practice law in the real world, as they represent young immigrants and help them start new lives in their new country.
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Nation & World
Rebooting the land of opportunity
Harvard Professor Raj Chetty says big data suggests some ways to counter the slipping U.S. standard of living.
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Campus & Community
Sidney Verba dies at 86
Colleagues reflect on the legacy of Sidney Verba, an influential political scientist who taught at Harvard for 35 years.
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Campus & Community
Tracy K. Smith elected chief marshal
U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94 has been elected by her classmates to serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard’s 368th Commencement on May 30.
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Campus & Community
Living legacies
In observation of Women’s History Month, the Arnold Arboretum is presenting a seminar March 9 honoring six notable 20th-century New England women in horticulture.
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Nation & World
A plea to support DACA
Jin Park ’18, a DACA recipient and Rhodes scholar, testified before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday about the “impossible position” he and others like him are now in if they leave the U.S. to study or work as a result of termination of protections.
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Campus & Community
Science fare
To highlight the range of research being done in Harvard’s science labs, we recently visited students doing hands-on work in fields from quantum science to biology to chemical engineering.
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Campus & Community
Pramod Chandra, 85
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 5, 2019, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Pramod Chandra, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, 1980-2003, was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Inclusive dancing
The disabilities that have made Kerry Thompson, Ed.M. ’08, different are the ones that have set her apart.
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Arts & Culture
Researching and writing history
Min Jin Lee, the best-selling author of “Pachinko,” is working on the third work in her Korean diaspora trilogy during her Radcliffe fellowship. Lee’s book explores how Koreans value education.
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Health
Dying in childbirth on rise in U.S.
Harvard panel discusses doubling of maternal mortality rates in U.S. caused by inadequate hospital facilities, lack of access, insurance gaps, and systemic racism.
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Science & Tech
‘Siri, who provided your voice?’
The daylong conference “Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication” at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study explored body communication and included talks on perfumes, tattoos, sign language, dance, and fashion.
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Science & Tech
Following conflict, a turn to the divine
Working with a team of international researchers, Harvard scientists gathered survey data in several locations around the globe and found that, following the trauma of seeing a friend or loved one killed or injured during conflict, many became more religious.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s pulse on inclusion and belonging
Harvard University is piloting an unprecedented University-wide survey to measure progress toward inclusion and belonging for all faculty, staff, students, and other members of the Harvard community.
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Work & Economy
Film shows how doctors can make a difference
Documentary Night in Klarman Hall kicked off with a panel discussion on a clip from “Bending the Arc,” a film about Partners In Health, the NGO founded in 1987 by Harvard Medical School students Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim and social justice and health-care advocate Ophelia Dahl.
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Work & Economy
High tech is watching you
In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” HBS Professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff outlines her belief that surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy — and the ways she says society can fight back.
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Arts & Culture
At Art Museums, a new Kara Walker work
Two years ago, the Harvard Art Museums purchased “U.S.A. Idioms,” a massive collage and drawing by the contemporary artist Kara Walker, who first rocked the art world in 1994 with silhouettes that evoked the horrors of slavery and its lasting impact. The work is now on display along with a few of Walker’s other pieces.
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Health
Ending HIV transmission by 2030
Eradicating the remaining pockets of HIV transmission in the U.S. by 2030 will be a challenge for the Trump administration, and depend on local cooperation in reaching high-risk groups with surveillance, prevention, and treatment, according to Harvard HIV/AIDS researcher Max Essex.
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Arts & Culture
What a (spirited) drag
A live drag performance and extensive transformation accompanied a deep conference discussion at Radcliffe of gender and identity.
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Science & Tech
Mining the mysteries of DNA
Science authors David Quammen and Carl Zimmer both have recent books showing that DNA is not only passed down from our ancestors but can also come from viruses, siblings, and even our children.
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Health
Harnessing nature to beat cancer
Every year, more than 18 million people around the world are told, “You have cancer.” In the U.S., nearly half of all men and more than one-third of women will…
