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Science & Tech
TESS to search the sky for new worlds
Following NASA’s launch of TESS, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will provide follow-up observations of the satellite’s targets.
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Health
Keeping the genetic code clean
Researchers have taken the first step toward removing unwanted cells by converting the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-engineering system into a genome-surveillance tool that removes newly occurring disease-associated mutations.
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Arts & Culture
A farewell to arms, a hello to Harvard
Richard Martinez III has gone from Army barracks to Hurlbut Hall, bringing with him maturity and desire to be a role model for Mexican-Americans.
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Campus & Community
Report issued on inclusion, belonging
Harvard’s Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging issued its final report, a compilation of eight recommendations and a framework of “four goals and four tools” meant as a blueprint for advancing Harvard’s practices and culture of inclusion and belonging. President Drew Faust announced a series of initiatives to advance this work.
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Campus & Community
A Harvard to make Du Bois nod yes
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has issued its final report. The Gazette spoke with John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and new senior adviser and strategist to the president charged with implementing its recommendations.
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Health
E-cigarettes’ usefulness for quitting smoking uncertain
A new study examines the uncertainty of whether e-cigarettes can help smokers quit and the urgent need for randomized, controlled trials.
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Nation & World
‘Care of Souls’ provides answers to nation’s ‘soul sickness’
Harvard Divinity School Ministry Innovation Fellows diagnose what ails America’s soul and suggest a course of healing in their study “Care of Souls.”
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Science & Tech
Microbes by the mile
Exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History shows the beauty and utility of microbes.
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Campus & Community
Helping Native Americans help themselves
Students who take “Native Americans in the 21st Century” leave the classroom to visit communities in Indian country to help them build healthier communities and reduce disparities in education, health, and economics.
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Campus & Community
Behind the numbers, a deep personal dimension to financial aid
Stories from Haley Catherine Curtin ’18 and other Harvard students illuminate the personal dimension of financial aid.
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Health
The problems with LGBTQ health care
A significant number of LGBTQ patients experience stigma and discrimination not just in their everyday lives, but in the health care system, a problem that can be addressed by increased awareness by physicians and other providers who treat them.
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Nation & World
The pressures on academic freedom
Academic freedom is an important pillar of open societies, but at a Harvard forum, two panelists worried that aspects of it are being targeted both globally and in the U.S.
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Health
Sex differences influence organ transplant rejection rate
A new study indicates that data on transplant rejection rates have been correlated with specific patterns of donor and recipient sex in several types of transplanted organs, including kidneys and hearts.
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Nation & World
On the web, privacy in peril
Innocent victim or background contributor? Facebook now faces questions from authorities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean after news reports in The Guardian and The New York Times this…
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Science & Tech
Novel cancer treatment gets major boost
The Wyss Institute and Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced Novartis will have access to commercially develop their therapeutic, biomaterial-based cancer vaccine technology.
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Campus & Community
Extending themselves for half a century
Two of the original members of the Harvard Extension Alumni Association look back on the School and the association to which they have given 50 years — and received much in return.
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Campus & Community
The Kerner Report on race, 50 years on
An interview with Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report, which concluded in 1968 that “the nation was moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.”
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Health
We’re in the dark on dietary supplements. She’s working to change that.
A Harvard epidemiologist is working on two trials aimed at providing some clarity on the effects of dietary supplements.
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Campus & Community
New faculty deans for Leverett House
Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana has announced the appointment of Professor Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras as the faculty deans for Leverett House.
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Nation & World
Parkland students: The violence must stop here
At Harvard, they explain their dedication to reducing gun deaths, and their devotion to keep pushing.
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Campus & Community
Battling stereotypes of Native Americans
A profile of Tristan Ahtone, a 2017‒2018 Nieman Fellow and a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma. He’s the fourth Native American Nieman Fellow since the organization was founded in 1938.
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Health
Pulling our punches in opioid fight
Shelly F. Greenfield of McLean Hospital provides a recap of a Boston summit aimed at generating ideas for attacking the opioid epidemic.
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Science & Tech
Drawing inspiration from plants, animals to restore skin tissue
Harvard researchers have developed new wound dressings that dramatically accelerate healing and improve tissue regeneration.
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Science & Tech
A role for cyanide in recipe for life
New Harvard findings show that a mixture of cyanide and copper, when irradiated with UV light, could have helped form the building blocks of life on early Earth.
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Campus & Community
FAS Dean Smith to step down
Michael D. Smith, Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will step down from his leadership of Harvard’s largest School to return full-time to teaching.
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Campus & Community
Date set for Bacow inauguration
The inauguration of Harvard’s 29th president, Lawrence S. Bacow, will take place on Oct. 5.
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Arts & Culture
A storyteller partial to sand
Experiences in Russia, Montana, and at Harvard converge in freshman Dasha Bough’s sand art.
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Health
Giving kids a running start
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers tested the impact of a before-school exercise program on kids’ emotional and physical health.
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Campus & Community
Enterprise Research Campus plan approved
The Boston Planning and Development Agency board has approved Harvard’s initial regulatory document for an Enterprise Research Campus, located near the new Allston home of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Science & Tech
Startup points toward minimally invasive heart repair
Harvard has established a licensing agreement with HoliStick Medical to allow commercial development of a specialized catheter device that can repair holes in the heart, or tissue defects in other organs, using deployable soft structures.
