Featured series 
All articles
-
Health
The ongoing tragedy of lead in our lives
The water crisis in Flint, Mich., has been a recent focal point, but the issue of lead pollution is both global and pervasive. Harvard conference focuses on the ongoing tragedy of lead in our lives.
-
Nation & World
One election winner: the pollsters
It’s debatable whether the midterm elections delivered a demonstrably better night for Democrats than Republicans. But it was inarguably a big win for pollsters, says FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver at Harvard’s Political Analytics Conference.
-
Campus & Community
Playing The Game, both past and present
Photo gallery of scenes from the 135th playing of The Game, Harvard-Yale football at Fenway Park.
-
Science & Tech
Critical collections
Harvard researchers contribute to the preservation of museum specimens, marking the collections’ importance in a special journal released Nov. 19.
-
Nation & World
Back to Myanmar with fresh insights
Yee Htun, a Myanmar native who immigrated to Canada as a refugee and returned to work as a human rights lawyer in her native country, now teaches human rights advocacy at Harvard Law School.
-
Arts & Culture
Funny, creepy, or both?
“The Laughing Room,” brainchild of Harvard metaLab researcher Jonny Sun, uses an algorithm to turn library visitors into performers.
-
Science & Tech
Something weird this way comes
A paper by Harvard researchers wonders whether the interstellar object known as “‘Oumuamua” is a visitor from an alien civilization.
-
Campus & Community
The thrill of winning a Rhodes
Two Harvard undergraduates, Jin Park and Brittany Ellis, are among the 32 American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars on Saturday. They will begin their studies at the University of Oxford next October.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard beats Yale 45-27
In the 135th playing of The Game, the Harvard football team (6-4, 4-3 Ivy) bested the Yale Bulldogs (5-5, 3-4 Ivy) in a commanding 45-27 victory at the historic Fenway Park today. Harvard’s victory in the colosseum of champions snaps Yale’s two-game winning streak in The Game.
-
Science & Tech
Fish teeth mark periods of evolution
Based on close examination of thousands of fossilized fish teeth, a Harvard researcher found that, while the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs did lead to the extinction of some fish species, it also set the stage for two periods of rapid evolution among marine life.
-
Science & Tech
Bees on the brink
Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees’ behavior, Harvard researchers showed that, following exposure to a commonly used class of pesticides, bees spent less time nursing larvae and were less social than other bees.
-
Nation & World
U.S. and Russia, behind the curtains
A high-level intelligence group gathered at Harvard Kennedy School to analyze current relations between the U.S. and Russia, and gauge future goals of each.
-
Health
Good fat vs. bad fat vs. high carb vs. low carb
Nutrition researchers with widely varying views on dietary guidelines for fats and carbohydrates offered a model for transcending the diet wars, with both sides agreeing on overall diet quality.
-
Campus & Community
Warning: Warming ahead
An art installation at Harvard’s Science Center Plaza aims to spread information about global warming, and prompt discussions of how to combat it.
-
Health
Strong Harvard support for Nobel-winning efforts against sexual violence
Denis Mukwege and activist Nadia Murad received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to combat sexual violence. Harvard Health Initiative Director Michael VanRooyen applauded the news.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard’s long history at Fenway
In advance of The Game with Yale Saturday, here’s a look at Harvard’s long history at Fenway Park (beyond football).
-
Arts & Culture
The nature of sounds
Composer David Rothenberg ’84 will bring the sounds of outdoors inside for a demonstration and discussion that features his unique ability to perform with nature.
-
Nation & World
Sotomayor: Judges should pull together
Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor comes to Harvard Law School to talk to students, suggests that judges cooperate more.
-
Arts & Culture
An artist of the avant-garde and the everyday
A whimsical artist’s work is being celebrated in the exhibit “Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.
-
Nation & World
Opioid crisis shadows rural America
A Harvard Chan School panel reacted to a report that lists the opioid crisis and the economy as top concerns for Americans in rural areas.
-
Health
Getting leaders ‘out of the basement’
The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, prepares leaders for disasters that they probably will encounter.
-
Campus & Community
Presto: From ballpark to gridiron
A look inside the process of turning Fenway Park from a baseball temple to a football stadium for the annual Harvard-Yale game.
-
Science & Tech
Harvard’s quantum leap
By pairing quantum science exploration with solution-driven quantum engineering the new Harvard Quantum Initiative, aims to raise the bar across higher education, industry, and government research to progress quantum science and engineering and educate the future workforce.
-
Arts & Culture
Forum plots a ‘Pathway’ to careers in music or entertainment
Panelists at the Office of Career Services’ Music & Entertainment Pathways forum said the best way to a career in music or entertainment may well be networking.
-
Health
Some lessons feel like a root canal, and that’s just fine
Harvard dental students’ hands-on learning provides an affordable option for patients who might otherwise skip dental care.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
