Featured series 
All articles
-
Nation & World
A supremely jolly affair
Six Supreme Court justices, five current and one retired, took part in an amiable public conversation at Sanders Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of Harvard Law School.
-
Nation & World
Experts hope cities rise to the occasion
A Harvard panel on the future of cities examined challenges in planning and sustainability.
-
Nation & World
‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health
The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.
-
Arts & Culture
Honoring Mexican discovery
A Harvard delegation traveled to Mexico to take part in the inaugural talk of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series.
-
Health
Invisible world comes to light
Harvard Museum of Natural History brings art and science together as two Harvard scientists capture the “invisible,” and stunningly beautiful, life force that is everywhere: microbes.
-
Health
Bees, social and solitary
Harvard study reveals underlying genetic basis for halictid bee communication and social behavior.
-
Nation & World
Improving education globally
Fernando Reimers’ new book, “One Student at a Time,” follows graduates from the Graduate School of Education’s International Policy Program and analyzes the impact they make, the challenges they face, and the lessons they learn and teach as they try to improve educational opportunity around the world.
-
Arts & Culture
The queen of Halloween
Harvard Music Department administrator Lesley Bannatyne’s other life is as a Halloween expert. She has written five books on the topic, including a children’s work.
-
Science & Tech
The selfie’s gone, but the damage is done
New HBS research examines whether we are less inhibited when posting on temporary social media and how others perceive the posts.
-
Campus & Community
Looking back, but thinking ahead
Executive Vice President Katie Lapp and Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Hollister take a look at the 2017 fiscal year.
-
Nation & World
Detours, some fraught, on path to global citizenship
Harvard scholars participated in a Tom Ashbrook-moderated panel on global citizenship as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard.
-
Health
A step forward in DNA base editing
Scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute have developed a new class of DNA base editor that can repair the type of mutations that account for half of human disease-associated point mutations. These single-letter mutations are associated with disorders ranging from genetic blindness to sickle-cell anemia to metabolic disorders to cystic fibrosis.
-
Campus & Community
From the islands to the bayous
A Harvard grad student’s research on Canary Island descendants in the U.S. grows into a photo exhibit and book.
-
Work & Economy
Try hard, find God, get rich
The prosperity gospel, a strain of Christian belief that that links faith, positive thinking, and material wealth, is finding a foothold in American politics with the rise of President Trump, according to panelists at a Kennedy School forum.
-
Campus & Community
How the mom-and-pop can compete in a changed marketplace
HBS teachers draw on 30 years of industry data at a Harvard Ed portal talk aimed at helping small business owners develop strategies to compete in a changed marketplace.
-
Arts & Culture
Festive start to Worldwide Week
The Harvard Graduate Council kicked off Worldwide Week with the inaugural International Festival, featuring music and dance by multicultural student groups.
-
Arts & Culture
Eden as a storyteller’s paradise
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.”
-
Campus & Community
And the award goes to Elton
Elton John, AIDS activist and award-winning musician, has been named the Harvard Foundation’s humanitarian of the year, and will speak at a Nov. 6 ceremony.
-
Nation & World
Bob Schieffer sees information overload
Veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer returns to Harvard to discuss the Trump administration and how the technological changes reshaping the news business are also reshaping our ability to process information.
-
Campus & Community
Students helping students
Harvard Library’s Peer Research Fellow program assists students with research questions, taking them way beyond the basics.
-
Work & Economy
Golden age for team players
Workers with strong social skills are increasingly valuable to employers, according to a new analysis by Harvard education economist.
-
Campus & Community
Where urban needs, Harvard solutions meet
The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston helps build a bridge between the area and the academy.
-
Arts & Culture
Life stories keep him turning (and sniffing) the page
A profile of Luke Kelly ’19, a history concentrator whose work at Houghton Library has nurtured his award-winning passion for books.
-
Work & Economy
Scholars home in on U.S. inequality
A new Harvard initiative focused on inequality in the U.S. includes a postdoctoral fellowship to begin in the 2018-19 academic year.
-
Nation & World
Normalizing white nationalist hate
Panel examines the white nationalist movement’s rise to prominence, discusses ways to weaken it.
-
Campus & Community
NIH makes $8.5M investment in promising projects
Eight Harvard scientists will receive nearly $8.5 million in funding through the National Institutes of Health’s High Risk, High Reward program to support research.
-
Campus & Community
‘Call of Service’ award recognizes Nihad Awad
Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), will deliver the keynote and receive an award at Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award.
-
Health
Heading off the post-antibiotic age
Antibiotic resistance has the potential to take millions of lives by 2050 if nothing is done to address the problem, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Harvard Business School.
-
Arts & Culture
‘The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu’
At the Center for Government and International Studies, a small exhibit captures the life and work of an artist influenced by Harvard, by a range of cultural forces, and by the postwar art movements swirling in Europe and New York City in the 1950s and ’60s.
-
Arts & Culture
The not lost generation
Oula Alrifai, A.M. ’19, and her brother, Mouhanad Al-Rifay, are releasing “Tomorrow’s Children,” a documentary about Syrian child refugees trying to survive in Turkey.
