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Science & Tech
Feeling the impact of fracking
As a fellow at Radcliffe, environmental historian Conevery Bolton Valencius is investigating connections between fracking and earthquakes.
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Health
RNA errors linked to ALS and dementia
A new Harvard Medical School study shows how malfunctioning RNA may lead to ALS and a form of dementia.
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Campus & Community
A decade of leadership
Harvard President Drew Faust announced that she will step down as president on June 30, 2018. The Gazette looks back on some memorable moments from the last 10 years.
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Campus & Community
Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, has announced that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
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Science & Tech
For IT Summit, a focus on innovation
The annual Harvard IT Summit at Sanders Theatre brought together professionals, key partners, and faculty for a day of programming and sessions to explore technology innovations and best practices in higher education.
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Science & Tech
Scholars greet Paris exit as multifaceted mistake
Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.
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Science & Tech
A house that produces energy
Harvard’s Ali Malkawi explains his efforts to create a house will be transformed into an energy-efficient headquarters and lab space for the Graduate School of Design’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities.
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Campus & Community
New springboard for tech leadership
Harvard Business School and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have announced a joint master’s program aimed at shaping leadership in tech.
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Science & Tech
From drinking straws to robots
Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, scientists George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of walking, using drinking straws, and inflatable tubing. The team was even able to create a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the water’s surface.
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Campus & Community
Inquiring minds rewarded
Ideas in language, health, and astronomy are winners in this year’s Star Family Challenge, a grant that funds high-risk, high-reward research.
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Campus & Community
Eighth-grade ingenuity
Eighth-graders from upper schools across Cambridge brought their science projects to campus as part of the seventh annual Science and Engineering Showcase.
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Campus & Community
A nation shocked, haunted, changed
Harvard President Drew Faust explored the country’s history of mourning in a conversation at the September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.
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Nation & World
What Comey’s testimony means
Retired judge and Harvard lecturer Nancy Gertner weighs in on legal issues surrounding former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony about President Trump.
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Science & Tech
Midwest summer storms threaten ozone, study warns
Summer storms in the central U.S. create the same chemical reactions damaging ozone in the Arctic, warns a Harvard study calling for a closer look at the region’s UV radiation risk.
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Work & Economy
Teaching Uber instead of HBS students
Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei takes leave from classroom to reform the workplace culture at Uber.
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Science & Tech
Will business fill the Paris void?
Q&A with HBS Professor George Serafeim on the response among corporate leaders to the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement.
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Campus & Community
Celebrating Harvard Heroes
Sixty Harvard Heroes, exceptional employees from across the University, on Monday basked in the applause of hundreds of colleagues, friends, and family members who gathered to recognize their achievements.
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Arts & Culture
A record of ruins, before the war
From 1993 to 1999, historian Frank Kidner traveled to Syria to document and study the the country’s classical ruins, taking over 9,000 photographs of the architecture, topography, and people.
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Nation & World
Diplomacy in a changing world
At a time when American commitments to major global institutions and agreements are a hot issue around the world, the Harvard Marshall Forum celebrated the legacy of one of America’s greatest humanitarian outreach efforts: the Marshall Plan, $13 billion in U.S. aid to a faltering Western Europe after World War II.
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Nation & World
For Supreme Court justices, faith in law
In Harvard visit, Supreme Court Associate Justices Gorsuch, Breyer emphasized their deep faith in the rule and primacy of law.
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Arts & Culture
Skip the fake, snag the masterpiece
Harvard curator Edouard Kopp launched a workshop to illuminate the tricky terrain of the fine art market.
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Arts & Culture
Tef Poe and friends ‘break bread’ at Ed Portal
More than 100 people attended a free performance by 10 hip-hop and soul artists, featuring a full rendition of Warren Center Fellow Tef Poe’s latest album, “Black Julian.”
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Health
Tackling childhood obesity with a text message
Two interventions that link clinical care with community resources helped improve key health measures in overweight or obese children at the outset of a study, as reported in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Campus & Community
30 years of the Safra Center
At Harvard’s Safra Center, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, a student intern learns about ethics, and the evolving issues that surround them.
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Campus & Community
Teens discover exciting side of science
A group of Cambridge Rindge and Latin students recently completed a marine biology internship that placed them in labs of local universities, including Harvard.
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Health
Nudging families away from fruit juice
Harvard-affiliated diabetes specialists are calling for fruit juice to be cut from the federal WIC supplemental nutrition program for low-income families.
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Science & Tech
New robotic exosuit could push the limits of human performance
Harvard researchers have demonstrated that a tethered soft exosuit can bring those dreams of high performance closer to reality.
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Nation & World
The troubling U.S.-China face-off
In a new book, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Graham Allison looks at how the power struggle between Athens and Sparta in classical Greece offers important insights into the looming complexities as China’s meteoric rise threatens to displace the U.S. as the dominant world power.
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Campus & Community
John Manning to lead Harvard Law School
John Manning, the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law and deputy dean at Harvard Law School, an eminent public-law scholar with expertise in statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law, will become the School’s next dean on July 1.
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Arts & Culture
Images of Harlem, then and now
Dawoud Bey’s photographs of the keystone, changing neighborhood of Harlem are part of a new Cooper Gallery exhibit.
