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Nation & World
What’s next for the Mormon Church?
Harvard Divinity School Professor David Holland examines the legacy of Thomas S. Monson, the recently deceased president of the Mormon Church.
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Campus & Community
The objects of their reflection
Whether it’s an Indonesian spell book or a light bulb from the 1880s, the Harvard library’s holdings have charmed students and illuminated their research.
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Campus & Community
Bol to step down as vice provost
Peter K. Bol will step down at the end of the summer as Harvard’s vice provost for advances in learning to return to the faulty and to his teaching and research on China’s history.
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Campus & Community
Time, nature shape Harvard Yard
Landscape designer contrasts photos of Harvard Yard from before its 1990s restoration with photos taken from the same perspective today.
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Science & Tech
Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point
Harvard researchers have created the next generation of flat lenses, developing a “metalens” that can focus all the colors of the spectrum at the same time. The new design opens up the field for wearable optic devices.
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Science & Tech
Study uncovers botanical bias
Climate change studies that rely on herbarium collections need to account for biases in the data, new research says.
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Nation & World
The women’s revolt: Why now, and where to
The women’s revolt against sexual harassment and abuse: why now, and where to.
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Nation & World
Tax on university endowments passes
Harvard President Drew Faust said that the tax bill represents an unprecedented attack on the tax-exempt status of nonprofits and charities because it taxes, for the first time, income for such an institution’s core mission — in this case, education.
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Science & Tech
Improved image of supermassive black hole
Improved image allows astronomers to follow filament much closer to the galaxy’s central black hole.
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Campus & Community
The human element: Remembering Calestous Juma
: Calestous Juma, 64, who died Dec. 15 after a long illness, was a professor of the practice of international development at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project.
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Campus & Community
Professor Paola Arlotta awarded George Ledlie Prize
Developmental neurobiologist Paola Arlotta has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Gazette’s top stories of 2017
Milestones, innovation, analysis, and inspiration from the University and beyond. We look back at some reader favorites.
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Health
Mapping brain lesions for clues to criminal behavior
Harvard researchers worked with colleagues to map brain lesions in 17 patients who exhibited criminal behavior after — but not before — the lesions appeared.
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Campus & Community
Here they came a-caroling
Holiday spirit fills renewed Memorial Church, as services raise $10,000 for crisis center.
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Nation & World
A renewed Harvard-Cuba connection
Representatives from Harvard University traveled to Havana last weekend to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education. The agreement signals renewed commitment between Harvard’s 12 Schools and the ministry to support faculty and student research and study in Cuba.
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Health
Researchers work to fill gaps in Chinese health care
Harvard researchers are collaborating with government officials in China on an experiment aimed at improving quality of care at hospitals in some of the country’s poorer regions.
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Science & Tech
How tall trees move sugars
A nine-member team of scientists, mostly from Harvard, has discovered that the hydraulic resistance to moving sugar-rich sap downward from the leaves of tall trees does not increase with the length of the tree as much as would be expected.
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Health
Discerning bird
To look at him, Griffin doesn’t seem like he’d be smarter than your typical 4-year-old — he’s a bird, after all. But the African grey parrot can easily outperform young children on certain tests, including one that measures understanding of volume.
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Science & Tech
Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami go live
For the first time, researchers have enabled the design of complex single-stranded DNA and RNA origami that can autonomously fold into diverse, stable, user-defined structures, with the potential for precision drug delivery.
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Campus & Community
Farewell, Harvard’s grand diplomat
University Marshal Jackie O’Neill is retiring after a 40-year career at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Deaf dancer feels the beat
Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter leads a master class that provides lessons in movement and inclusion.
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Arts & Culture
Modern opera with an old soul
Pianist-composer Matt Aucoin ’12 is now co-artistic director of the American Modern Opera Company, set for Harvard performances Dec. 15-18.
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Campus & Community
Title IX report released
Harvard University’s Title IX Office and the Office for Dispute Resolution released their 2016-2017 joint annual report today, highlighting the growth in University-wide educational outreach initiatives on Title IX policies and services.
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Campus & Community
College accepts 964 early-admission applicants for Class of 2022
Notifications were sent Monday to the 6,630 students who applied for early admission to the College under the Early Action program.
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Campus & Community
Study spaces call to students
From Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room to the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard, photos show Harvard’s most popular study spaces
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Arts & Culture
Bringing out the edge in Austen’s wit
Playwright Kate Hamill’s adaptation of “Sense & Sensibility,” at the A.R.T. through Jan. 14, accentuates Jane Austen’s gift for comedy.
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Campus & Community
Pride in education, and family
First-generation Harvard graduate Yesenia Ortiz is working in nonprofits in part to help struggling families overcome obstacles like those her parents faced.
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Campus & Community
Harvard professor among 3 to receive up to $70M for Alzheimer’s research
A Harvard professor is among those slated to receive $70 million in NIH funding over five years to launch the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium, which will accelerate and expand the disease’s therapeutic research.
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Science & Tech
Feast for the mind
The General Education course “Ancient Lives” connects undergrads with the earliest civilizations.
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Arts & Culture
The need to talk about race
Lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson delivered the Tanner Lecture on Human Values, announcing the opening of a memorial to victims of lynching and a museum on the legacy of slavery next April.
