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Campus & Community
Presidential Public Service Fellowship has broad reach
In its eighth year, Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship offered both undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to give back to communities, agencies, and nonprofits.
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Arts & Culture
How Tut became Tut
Christina Riggs of the University of East Anglia previewed her forthcoming book, “Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive,” in a Harvard lecture.
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Arts & Culture
The life and legacy of Gore Vidal
Author Gore Vidal left his papers and library to the University. The fruits of that gift, combined with an earlier gift of a portion of his papers in 2001, have been meticulously cataloged and archived at Houghton Library.
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Science & Tech
Filtering liquids with liquids
Liquid-gated membranes filter nanoclay particles out of water with twofold higher efficiency and nearly threefold longer time to foul, and reduce the pressure required for filtration over conventional membranes.
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Science & Tech
Turning tide on greenhouse gases
Emissions from power plants and heavy industry, rather than spewing into the atmosphere, could be captured and chemically transformed from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into industrial fuels or chemicals thanks to a system developed by Harvard researchers.
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Campus & Community
Nuclear submarine expert turns to Law School
It was in the spring of 2017, just before Eve Howe’s stint with the Navy was ending, when she decided to go to law school. “I’d always imagined using whatever degree or knowledge I had to help people in some way,” she said.
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Nation & World
Post-election outlook: Little cooperation
Democratic and Republican strategists came together at Harvard Kennedy School to unpack the midterm election results. In their wake, the panelists agreed that political cooperation may get even rarer in the next two years.
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Health
A gift to turn medical discoveries into treatments
A pledge for $200 million to Harvard Medical School will support translation of medical research into treatments and cures.
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Science & Tech
Seeing cell membranes in new light
Harvard’s Adam Cohen is the lead author of a new study that challenges conventional theories about the fluid nature of cell membranes and how they react to tension.
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Campus & Community
Nicolaas Bloembergen, 97
Nicolaas Bloembergen was universally acknowledged for his seminal contributions to the fundamental physics requisite to magnetic resonance imaging.
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Science & Tech
Correcting a lack of cooperation
While some social networks have been shown to intrinsically lead to cooperation, others been shown to not only lead to a breakdown in cooperation, but produce outright spite.
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Campus & Community
Wood recognized with Planck-Humboldt Medal
Harvard engineer and roboticist Robert Wood is honored with the newly created Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his role and accomplishments in the field of soft robotics.
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Nation & World
And the winner is: Who you think it is
Harvard faculty discuss the results of the midterm election and what they portend for governing the nation over the next two years and for the run-up to the presidential election in 2020.
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Campus & Community
Mourning Devah Pager
An academic ‘force of nature,’ Harvard sociologist Devah Pager is remembered for her trailblazing scholarship, extraordinary mentorship.
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Campus & Community
Student pens manifesto on menstruation
Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto’s nonprofit distributes menstrual products to women in need, and her new book offers a strategy for more openness.
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Science & Tech
Changing temperatures boost U.S. corn yield — for now
Increased production of corn in the U.S. has been credited largely to advances in farming technology, but new research shows that changing temperatures play a significant role in crop yield.
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Campus & Community
Great War left an enduring legacy across Harvard
Over the next several weeks, Memorial Church will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I in a series of performances featuring the music and composers of the era.
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Nation & World
Memo to America: Not everyone wants to be like you
Professor Stephen M. Walt’s new book, “The Hell of Good Intentions,” is a critique of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.
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Nation & World
Raising the profile of animal law to match the stakes
Scholars in Harvard Law’s animal law program are working to show the human side of wildlife protections.
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Nation & World
Attorney appears confident admissions case ruling will favor Harvard
Attorney William F. Lee ’72 stood outside Boston’s Moakley U.S. Courthouse Friday and appeared confident a federal judge will rule that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian Americans in its admission practices.
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Health
States hold the power on health care, experts say
A Harvard Chan School forum discussed the stakes for U.S. health care in the midterm elections, including the prospect of Medicaid expansion.
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Nation & World
The election just ahead
Here’s a close-up look at three areas where efforts are well along to understand and safeguard Tuesday’s important election.
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Health
Cellular atlas of brain region leads to discoveries
Harvard scientists have created a first-of-its-kind cellular atlas of an important region in the brains of mice. Using a cutting-edge imaging technology, researchers pinpointed where the cells were located and their various functions.
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Work & Economy
Lessons of the last financial crisis
The last global financial crisis was just beginning when Niall Ferguson published his seminal book “The Ascent of Money” in 2008. He came to the Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday to warn that history could repeat itself.
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Science & Tech
Is anybody out there?
SETI astronomer Jill Tarter was among the speakers at this year’s Radcliffe science symposium, “The Undiscovered.”
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Nation & World
Brazil at the crossroads
Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, sat down with the Gazette to talk about the election of far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, and its impact in Latin America.
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Arts & Culture
As a backdrop for the movies, it’s a natural
Columbia Pictures transforms Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum into a Paris park as it films the American classic “Little Women.”
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Nation & World
‘We are not looking as good as we did a few years ago’
Mahzarin Banaji speaks with the Gazette about the roots of prejudice, about public perceptions that it is more acceptable today, and about the relationship of traditional biases to political divisions.
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Campus & Community
Seven recognized for high-risk, high-reward research
Seven Harvard scientists are among the 89 researchers selected to receive grants through the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which funds innovative research designed to address major challenges in biomedical science.
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Arts & Culture
Bringing ‘Coco’ to campus
Harvard’s Office for the Arts will welcome producer Darla Anderson and cultural consultant Marcela Davison Aviles for a conversation about their work on the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Coco.”
