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Campus & Community
At Extension School, a sustainable program grows
As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, the Harvard Extension School’s Sustainability Program has grown in exponential increments.
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Arts & Culture
From the Everglades to Tribeca
Harvard junior Lance Oppenheim will premiere his latest documentary, “The Happiest Guy in the World,” at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Campus & Community
Eleven faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 213 new members, including 11 Harvard faculty.
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Science & Tech
Global power for global powers
Liu Zhenya, chairman of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization, gave a talk titled “The Art of Energy Revolution” at Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
President’s Innovation Challenge names finalists
Fifteen finalists have been selected in the President’s Innovation Challenge, which tackles real-world issues. Winners will be named May 2.
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Campus & Community
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named Class Day speaker
Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was selected to be Harvard College’s Class Day speaker as part of the University’s 367th Commencement Week celebration. The May 23 event will be streamed live online.
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Work & Economy
The ‘understanding deficit’ between China, U.S.
During an address at Harvard Law School, China’s ambassador to this country, Cui Tiankai, said that misperceptions and misunderstandings are the roadblocks to better U.S.-China relations.
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Arts & Culture
Getting the record straight
The Italian actor and director who was one of the first women to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault criticized the “simplification” of her story by New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow. During a talk at Harvard Hall, Asia Argento also called for women to unite to end sexual harassment and assault.
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Nation & World
Globe team tells story behind race in Boston stories
Reporters from The Boston Globe visited the Kennedy School to talk about their seven-part series on race relations in the region.
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Arts & Culture
A museum guide who hopes the group — and the art — talk back
Marshall Scholar Elizabeth Keto ’18 is looking forward to a career as a curator, with a focus on inclusivity.
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Science & Tech
Developing micron-sized magnetic resonance
Harvard scientists have developed a system that uses nitrogen-vacancy centers — atomic-scale impurities in diamonds — to read the nuclear magnetic resonance signals produced by samples as small as a single cell — and they did it on a shoestring budget using a 53-year-old, donated electromagnet.
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Science & Tech
Applied mathematicians in Namibia
What can termites teach us about designing green buildings? As it turns out, a lot.
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Nation & World
Urging a response to ‘deaths of despair’
Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton and University College London epidemiologist Michael Marmot spoke at Harvard on the dangers and drivers of inequality.
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Health
With mindfulness, life’s in the moment
Rooted in Buddhism, mindfulness meditation has developed a prominent perch in the self-help movement. Its popularity has been fueled by research that indicates mindfulness often reduces stress and promotes emotional well-being.
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Health
Biology without borders
To increase scientific understanding of biological systems, Harvard is launching an interdisciplinary research effort called the Quantitative Biology Initiative, with support from University President Drew Faust and Dean Michael D. Smith.
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Campus & Community
The weight of the ‘eights’ on her shoulders
What she lacks in size she makes up for in volume as leader of the heavyweight varsity rowers.
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Science & Tech
A decade on, a goal met; now, next targets
The University-wide Sustainability Celebration marked more than a decade of the Harvard community’s collective achievements in holistically addressing sustainability to build a healthier campus community less dependent on fossil fuels.
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Nation & World
U.S. needs to back opioid talk with stronger action, former governors say
Ex-governors from Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Vermont traded ideas for fighting the U.S. opioid epidemic during a Harvard forum.
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Health
Let me compliment you, sort of
If you’d like to boost your status and get colleagues at work to like you, be aware that offering a backhanded compliment will undermine both of those goals, a Harvard Business School working paper concludes.
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Campus & Community
Bringing a dying language back to life
Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux worked with 30 Vassal Lane Upper School seventh-graders, teaching them the origin of the Gullah language as part of Harvard’s Project Teach program.
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Arts & Culture
A shape-shifting design for Radcliffe Yard
Radcliffe competition awards two Design School students funds to create public art in a garden on Brattle Street.
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Nation & World
The new rules of covering sex assault
Journalists covering sexual misconduct charges and the #MeToo movement stop to reflect on the seismic impact the Harvey Weinstein scandal has had on the wider culture and on the profession, and consider what more needs to be done.
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Science & Tech
How fast can we run?
Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman offers evolutionary perspective on Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile, today’s marathoners.
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Nation & World
A message from the pope in the life of a saint
The canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was killed by a death squad while celebrating Mass in 1980, reflects Pope Francis’ focus on “those who are in need.”
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Campus & Community
Progress on faculty diversity
Harvard’s faculty is more diverse than ever, with women making up 30 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty and minorities making up 23 percent.
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Nation & World
Harvard student project to aid refugees
A Harvard student project won an award in Paris for its design of a mobile hygiene unit to aid refugees.
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Nation & World
The women’s view
“Who Belongs: Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century,” Radcliffe’s annual gender conference, touched on topics as varied as the hijab and the history of citizenship in America.
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Science & Tech
Ph.D. with ADHD brings can-do focus to science, life
Diagnosed with ADHD, Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Kotler uses clinical and genetic studies to reinterpret how humans think.
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Science & Tech
Two atoms combined in dipolar molecule
Harvard Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kang-Kuen Ni and colleagues have combined two atoms for the first time into what researchers call a dipolar molecule.
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Arts & Culture
The artist and her evolution
Photographer Rosamond Purcell will be at the MCZ on Thursday to talk about the museum’s role in her evolution as an artist.
