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Campus & Community
Business School’s Anand named vice provost for advances in learning
Harvard Business School’s Bharat Anand will shift to University-wide role overseeing innovation efforts, succeeding Peter Bol as vice provost for advances in learning.
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Campus & Community
Standing with Harvard in admissions case
Students, alumni, higher education leaders and others join amicus briefs supporting Harvard in the face of a lawsuit that alleges discrimination in admissions
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Campus & Community
Remembering — and rereading — Stanley Cavell
Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell, who died in June at age 91, was remembered by former students and colleagues as an extraordinary writer and teacher.
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Campus & Community
Ziblatt receives Wilson Foundation Award
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has been chosen as the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, a top accolade in political science, for his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.”
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Arts & Culture
Religious education through new eyes
A “life-changing” method of teaching religious studies learned at Harvard Divinity School’s Religious Literacy Project is now helping high school students view world faiths with new eyes.
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Campus & Community
Poverty and past failures provide lessons in giving back
Wendell Adjetey, a postdoc fellow at the Weatherhead Center, is paying it forward with a foundation that helps the most marginalized peoples of the African Great Lakes region get an education.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s GSD selects architects for proposed expansion
The proposed expansion of Harvard Graduate School of Design will include new space to be integrated into the heart of the School’s existing structure.
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Science & Tech
Solving the problem of the calculus whiz
New Harvard research challenges conventional wisdom on what it takes to excel in calculus.
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Science & Tech
The scope of TESS
Harvard astronomer David Latham explains his role as science program director for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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Campus & Community
Spirit of inquiry
Harvard Medical School’s Benyam Kinde, Ph.D. ’16, M.D., ’18, led investigations that uncovered a novel role of the MECP2 protein — which when mutated leads to the devastating neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome — in regulating gene expression in the developing brain.
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Campus & Community
Former Overseer, HBS alum C.D. Spangler dies at 86
Harvard Business School alumnus and former member of Harvard’s Board of Overseer C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, M.B.A. ’56, died July 22 at his home in Charlotte, N.C. He was 86 years old.
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Campus & Community
Praise for Gay as a scholar and a leader
Scholars and staff welcomed the appointment of Claudine Gay as the new Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Bulgarian-born computer science student finds her niche
Maria Zlatkova shares the challenges of coming to Harvard from Bulgaria and discovering an amazing support system in a group of computer science majors.
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Health
Death is universal, but sometimes murky
A Q&A with ethicist Robert Truog to mark the 50-year anniversary of a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on brain death.
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Science & Tech
Deep into the wild
Researchers used “deep learning” to identify images captured by motion-sensing cameras.
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Science & Tech
The Amazon as engine of diverse life
Researchers believe that many of the plants and animals that call Latin America home may have their roots in the Amazon region.
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Campus & Community
Claudine Gay named FAS dean
Claudine Gay will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow announced.
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Nation & World
President Bacow goes to Washington
During one of his first public events as the University’s 29th leader, Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow signaled he will be a steadfast advocate for public service and higher education.
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Nation & World
Mayoral initiative heads for year two
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which is housed at the Ash Center, is a collaboration among Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Now entering its second year, the program helps mayors govern more creatively and effectively.
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Campus & Community
Hodan Osman learns to ask new questions
Child of Somali nomads, Harvard Kennedy School’s Hodan Osman, M.C./M.P.A. Mason Fellow, finds she is “passionate about state-building.”
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Health
Opioid prescribing hotspots uncovered
A study shows that congressional districts in the Southeastern U.S., Appalachia, and the rural West have some of the highest opioid prescribing rates, while those near urban centers, including D.C., New York, and Boston, have some of the lowest.
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Nation & World
Are there holes in the Constitution?
Legal and political analysts across Harvard discuss some of the constitutional questions raised by the Trump administration’s actions, and the possible scope of a president’s power.
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Science & Tech
‘Aliens’ of the deep captured
A new device developed by Harvard researchers safely traps delicate sea creatures inside a folding polyhedral enclosure and lets them go without harm using a novel, origami-inspired design.
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Campus & Community
Ruiz found support at Medical School
The eldest of three children in a Mexican-American family in Texas, Jessica Ruiz, M.D. ’18, was one of only 14 members of the Class of 2018 who received the M.D. degree with Honors in a Special Field (magna cum laude).
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Campus & Community
Red all about it
Harvard and crimson are synonymous. But all over campus, brighter shades of red abound, too.
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Health
Hitchhiking his way to better drug delivery
Researchers set out to develop a system that could help prevent nanoparticles from being cleared from the blood before they get to their target tissues. Called the “hitchhiking method,” and it’s found to work in human lungs, where a full 41 percent of the nanoparticles introduced into blood were deposited into the lung.
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Arts & Culture
Alienation proves fertile state of mind for Lauren Groff
The Gazette spoke with fiction writer and Radcliffe fellow Lauren Groff about subversive prose, mothers and children, and crafting a vivid sense of place.
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Health
Seeking new momentum in malaria fight
Harvard Business School hosted a weeklong leadership workshop supporting global efforts to eradicate malaria.
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Health
Sensory disorders hold key to neurologic treatments
The Bertarelli Foundation is redoubling its investment in Harvard Medical School’s research on sensory disorders.
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Science & Tech
Easing the way for students to ‘do’ science
Robert Lue, principal investigator for the development of an online learning platform called LabXchange, aims to provide a virtual laboratory experience and social community for biology students.
