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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.
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Health
The love lives of fruit flies
Harvard study reveals how the neurobiology of fruit fly courtship can help illuminate understanding of human disorders of motivation.
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Arts & Culture
Radical, playful, plugged in
“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.
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Health
The unsavory side of sugar
“Epidemiologic, Physiologic, and Policy Considerations of the Sugar Epidemic” brought health and science experts together at Harvard Medical School to discuss sugar’s effects on health and public policy.
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Science & Tech
Mining Facebook data for science
An organization co-created by Harvard scientists is set to release a massive trove of Facebook data, strictly for research purposes.
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Nation & World
Military, veterans study at Harvard
The Warrior-Scholar Project at Harvard aims to ease military veterans’ transition to college life.
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Campus & Community
New library website provides digital front door to Harvard resources
The newly redesigned Harvard Library website puts users first, with features that make it easy to discover and use its services, tools, and collections.
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Science & Tech
Game-changing game changes
Games that can change based on players’ actions help Harvard’s Martin Nowak and his fellow researchers to understand the evolution of cooperation.
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Campus & Community
The Harvard-Yenching Library, by the numbers
With 1.4 million volumes in more than a dozen languages, the Harvard-Yenching Library is the largest academic library for East Asian studies in the Western world.
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Campus & Community
Questions, answers with Harvard’s Muslim chaplain
In a Q&A session, Harvard’s Muslim chaplain, Khalil Abdur-Rashid, explains what he’s found here, and where he’d like to focus his ministry next.
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Campus & Community
New chief of staff
Patti Bellinger has been named chief of staff and strategic adviser to Harvard President Larry Bacow.
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Arts & Culture
For Marilynne Robinson, literary explorer, gifts of language reward journey
A Q&A with Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Gilead” trilogy and Iowa Writers’ Workshop emeritus.
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Science & Tech
Personality pressure
Harvard researchers demonstrated a link between individual variation in risk-taking behavior and survival of animals in changing environments.
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Science & Tech
150 years later, her star is still rising
At Harvard College Observatory in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henrietta Swan Leavitt developed a powerful new tool for estimating the distances of stars and galaxies.
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Health
Five habits that make for a fit family
A new Harvard study finds that children are 75 percent less likely to become obese when their mothers followed five healthy habits as compared with children whose mothers did not follow any such habit.
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Campus & Community
New Griffin Director of Financial Aid
Jake Kaufmann ’93 will replace Sally Donahue as the Griffin Director of Financial Aid on July 16. Donahue is retiring after 36 years at Harvard.
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Nation & World
A full-time job fighting hate
The ADL’s Evan Bernstein believes hate can be countered with a better understanding of the connected world in which we live.
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Science & Tech
Swimming robo roach makes a splash
Harvard’s Ambulatory Microrobot explores new surfaces.
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Arts & Culture
Declaration of authenticity
Researchers, including Harvard’s Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, have learned much more about a Colonial-era copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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Campus & Community
For President Faust, a festive farewell
In a final, festive farewell, Harvard President Drew Faust said goodbye to her position as the University’s top administrator.
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Nation & World
Harvard ramps up focus on Europe
A new academic program at the Kennedy School trains resources on an old and sometimes forgotten friend to the United States: Europe.
