Featured series 
All articles
-
Nation & World
A historic summit, with uncertain outcome
John Park, director of the Belfer Center’s Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the prospects for lasting peace between South Korea and North Korea following the historic announcement of their intent to sign a peace treaty to end the Korean War.
-
Health
Five healthy habits to live by
A new Harvard study has found that by following five healthy lifestyle habits during adulthood, your life expectancy may increase by a decade or more.
-
Nation & World
Debating markets and morals in Moscow
About 1,500 Russian students recently packed a historic building adjacent to the Kremlin for a lecture and public discussion led by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel on ethics, markets, and democracy.
-
Arts & Culture
Vision for ‘Underground Railroad’ brought out the best in Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead ’91 was honored with the 2018 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.
-
Science & Tech
Choosing partners or rivals
A new study shows that in repeated interactions winning strategies involve either partners or rivals, but only partnership allows for cooperation.
-
Nation & World
A sense of direction for Africa
The Kennedy School brought together three voices of leadership in Africa to talk about the continent’s past and future.
-
Arts & Culture
Changing his script to embrace the moments
Obstacles turned into stepping stones before Casey Khang Moore ’18 found new roles to explore at Harvard.
-
Campus & Community
Gates recalls Harvard past, sees problem-solving future
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates dropped by Harvard to tour SEAS labs and talk with students about making the most of their time here.
-
Science & Tech
From one, many
Harvard research teams systematically profiled every cell in developing zebrafish and frog embryos to establish a roadmap revealing how one cell builds an entire organism.
-
Campus & Community
A lasting legacy, now on view
The University unveiled a portrait of the late S. Allen Counter, founder of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
-
Campus & Community
Brown-Nagin named Radcliffe dean
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a leading historian on law and society as well as an authority on constitutional and education law and policy, has been named dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
-
Arts & Culture
Arts First expands into Allston
Arts First, the annual Harvard spring festival that begins Thursday, will make its debut on the other side of the river with concerts, exhibitions, and a historic work of theater.
-
Health
For new medicines, turn to pioneers
A new study shows that scientific research driven by curiosity is “the best route to the generation of powerful new medicines.”
-
Science & Tech
Natural barcodes enable better cell tracking
A group of Harvard researchers has developed a new genetic-analysis technique that harnesses “natural barcodes” to create what happens to cells when they are exposed to any kind of experimental condition, enabling large pools of cells from multiple people to be analyzed for personalized medicine.
-
Nation & World
Absorbing a tragic silence
A Harvard conference on Afro-Brazilian issues will honor the memory of activist Marielle Franco, who was gunned down last month in Rio.
-
Campus & Community
From Visitas participant to chronicler
Another Visitas prompts a Harvard undergraduate to gauge just how far she has come in a year.
-
Health
Exercise may help make heart younger
In a new study performed in mice, Harvard researchers found that exercise stimulates the heart to make new muscle cells, both under normal conditions and after a heart attack.
-
Nation & World
Black Lives Matter: A next chapter
Four years after Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Mo., young people of color are still dying. Still, as a panel discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum noted, a movement has grown at the same time.
-
Health
Progress and challenge on Alzheimer’s
Harvard epidemiologist Albert Hofman said most Alzheimer’s cases are likely related to non-genetic causes, particularly vascular health, which explains decreased incidence of the disease in recent years.
-
Work & Economy
Vulnerability as a tool for strong leadership
Motivational speaker Mike Robbins joins the FAS Diversity Dialogue series and discusses how to bring your authentic self into the workplace, and why it’s important to.
-
Campus & Community
How college rocked my world
The Transcript Project aims “to recognize the curiosity-driven intellectual journey that college is meant to be,” according to Dean Robin Kelsey.
-
Science & Tech
Cells like we’ve never seen them before
“This is the miracle of being able to see what we have never been able to see before,” said Harvard Medical School professor and study co-author Tomas Kirchhausen.
-
Nation & World
Guideposts toward gender equality
Harvard conference on gender inequality probes possible ways to encourage maternal and parental leave.
-
Arts & Culture
Documents of freedom
The exhibit featured the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and a handwritten note from Frederick Douglass.
-
Arts & Culture
When the genius is also a symbol of hate, where does that leave us?
Author and New Yorker music critic Alex Ross ’90 spoke at Harvard on his work in progress, “Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music.”
-
Health
Through the lens of black health
Tania Fabo’s ambition is to bridge the gap between biomedical research in the laboratory and public health efforts to reduce health inequalities among minorities.
-
Campus & Community
Space to learn
Harvard postdoc Or Graur finds success in the launch of Science Research Mentoring Program, which provides 10 local high school students a year of space research, working with a “real-life” scientist.
-
Health
Harvard’s immersion in neuroscience
In a Q&A session, Harvard Provost Alan Garber talks about the recent “Faculty Symposium: Insights in Neuroscience,” hosted by his office and the Life Sciences Steering Group, about science broadly at Harvard, and the growing interdependence among all scientific disciplines.
-
Campus & Community
A new director
Pierre Berastaín Ojeda has been appointed director of Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response.
-
Health
Research sheds light on how parents operate
In a new study, Harvard researchers describe how separate pools of neurons control individual aspects of parenting behavior in mice.
