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Campus & Community
Reach Every Reader targets early literacy crisis
With a $30 million grant from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative will launch Reach Every Reader, which combines cutting-edge education and neuroscience research to help end the childhood literacy crisis.
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Campus & Community
Harvard evolves and grows, but maintains core mission
Your Harvard series takes President Drew Faust to San Francisco.
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Arts & Culture
Inspired by Cairo
Jonathan Guyer is writing a book about the surge of boundary-pushing graphic novels and cartoons in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Arts & Culture
A melding of humanities, sciences
In his latest book, entomologist E.O. Wilson urges the next generation of great minds to evolve and explore the symmetry between the natural sciences and the humanities.
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Nation & World
One win against weapons could fuel another
The successful effort to ban landmines could be a blueprint for a campaign against nuclear arms, Harvard Law School panel says.
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Arts & Culture
Solange visits as Harvard Foundation’s artist of year
The Harvard Foundation honored Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Solange Knowles as 2018 Artist of the Year in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.
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Science & Tech
A power boost for mobile technologies
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences doctoral student Simon Chaput developed the crucial low-power electronics needed for haptic technology, known for its high energy demands.
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Science & Tech
Personal cancer vaccines show promise
Researchers have found that an injectable scaffold that incorporates tumor-specific peptides can be personalized, stimulating a patient’s immune system to destroy his or her unique cancer tumors.
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Nation & World
Prison education at Harvard
Harvard is hosting a conference on prison education, bringing to campus for the first time formerly incarcerated students and activists.
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Science & Tech
Transforming the ‘coastal squeeze’ from climate change
One certainty about America’s coasts is that they will change in the coming decades as sea levels rise. Visiting Professor Steven Handel said landscape design, married with knowledge of native plants, can ensure that both human and natural needs are met.
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Science & Tech
A new view of the moon
Harvard grad student Simon Lock is the lead author of a study that challenges conventional wisdom on how the moon formed.
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Health
When disease strikes, gender matters
Experts in Harvard Chan School discussion call for more sensitivity to differences between men and women in study and treatment of disease.
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Nation & World
A rise in hate, a need to respond
There are echoes from U.S. history in recent political and cultural animosity toward minorities and immigrants, Harvard Kennedy School panelists say.
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Health
Hip replacement needed a ‘light bulb moment.’ Getting there was painful.
In his new book, “Vanishing Bone,” Harvard surgeon William Harris described setbacks on the path to breakthrough collaboration that corrected a major problem in hip replacement surgery.
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Arts & Culture
Honored or not, these films won critic’s heart
Ahead of the Academy Awards, David Edelstein ’81 talks up his favorite films of the past year.
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Nation & World
Stirrings of a new nuclear arms race
The Department of Defense’s new review of U.S. nuclear policy and capabilities calls for an end to decades of disarmament efforts and a return to superpower arms race, not just with Russia but China. The added dimension of cyber warfare further complicates matters.
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Arts & Culture
The topic is race, onstage and afterward
Poet Claudia Rankine’s new play places a conversation about race center stage and encourages audiences to continue to engage with the discussion after the curtain falls.
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Campus & Community
Inclusion is the key
Harvard College’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which includes the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, finds new home in renovated space inside Grays Hall.
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Nation & World
Probing the past and future of #MeToo
The long history behind the #MeToo movement and its future impact were the focus of a discussion with Harvard scholars at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Arts & Culture
A turning point in memory
A panel at the Graduate School of Design discussed historical monuments, and new ways to create them.
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Science & Tech
For this flower, it’s ready, set, launch
Harvard researchers used high-speed video to not only quantify how fast the filaments in mountain laurel flowers move, but how they target likely pollinators.
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Science & Tech
An exosuit tailored to fit
Based on an algorithm, researchers can quickly direct the exosuit when and where to deliver its assistive force to improve hip extension.
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Nation & World
Goodbye James Bond, hello big data
A former chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service says technology and China’s rise are among the greatest national-security challenges facing the West.
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Campus & Community
Charles Slichter, longtime Corporation member, dies at 94
Charles Pence Slichter ’45-’46, A.M. ’47, Ph.D. ’49, an internationally known physicist who won the National Medal of Science in 2007 and served on the Harvard Corporation for a quarter-century, died on Feb. 19. He was 94.
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Arts & Culture
Visions pursued through darkest shadows
“Inventur — Art in Germany, 1943‒55,” at the Harvard Art Museums through June 3, features work that has drawn scant attention in the United States.
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Campus & Community
Lewis named Harvard Commencement speaker
U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights leader who has represented Georgia’s 5th District for more than 30 years, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 367th Commencement on May 24.
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Science & Tech
James McCarthy recognized for climate change insights
Tyler Prize winner James McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, remains optimistic that climate change is a solvable problem.
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Arts & Culture
Wielding data against doom and gloom
In his 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that despite common assumptions, violence has dropped dramatically from biblical times…
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Science & Tech
Black hole blasts may transform ‘mini-Neptunes’ into rocky worlds
Researchers believe outbursts by a nearby supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way have transformed Neptune-like planets into rocky planets.
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Work & Economy
The quest to win over Amazon
Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta discusses Amazon’s unusual sweepstakes competition to find a new location for its second headquarters, dubbed “Amazon HQ2.”
